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Miscellaneous => General Chat => Topic started by: BP on March 18, 2009, 01:00:44 AM
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Mine are generally complete sentences accompanied by visuals. Or if I'm thinking of something I've seen before, visuals accompanied by complete sentences. But smells and flavors seem more effective at digging up memories for me.
That is why I've given up on trying to decide on what I think started the universe. The complete sentences make it tedious and I don't honestly care. But I don't want some crappy hyper-religio-flame wars. Talk about your brain's inner workings.
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My thought process cannot stay inside my head. It often ends up getting spoken, though this is common with Aspergers.
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I tend to talk to myself a lot, often rehearsing conversations that I never end up having. My thoughts always seem to work best when I can say them out loud in well-composed sentences. I can tell that they definitely work faster than that, but it never seems concrete enough until I at least whisper them. There's a lot of repetition, of course.
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After I speak, I often whisper what I said aloud to make sure it's what I wanted to say. A little out of order, no?
Like Bird Person, I usually think in complete sentences. Whether visuals accompany them and how coherent they are can depend on the circumstances.
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My thoughts look like a Hieronymus Bosch painting. ...Well, that's more like my dreams. As for my thoughts, it's usually a montage-esque series of rapid images and memories when I'm thinking with conviction and a series of related, distracting musings when I'm bored. Full sentences can happen, but usually only when I'm going to bed and have little else to do.
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I never really think in my head without talking to myself. I think I think a little bit like Rain Man.
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This thread is an ocean, I'm the beach, and the waves are facepalms.
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Oh, so TEM thinks in Internet clichés.
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Violent, with lots of disturbing sexual elements.
lol but srsly tho, when it's passive thoughts that come and go, it's normally fragments of ideas, images, and/or songs, usually repeated a few times.
When it's intentional thoughts, it's almost always in complete sentences.
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My thoughts literally look like movie clips or animated sequences. I'm really prone to zoning out as a result of this.
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You don't wanna know.
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My brain is a grassy field (similar to the Windows background), and my thoughts are clouds in the blue sky. Depending on the thought, the cloud will be darker (like a rain cloud) or lighter (like fog.. kinda).
If it's an idea or something I want to do later, then there is a picture in the cloud (kind of like in the first two Mario Party games' instuctional screens), along with a word or sentence telling me to remember this thought.
Other times, my thoughts seem to come out of me like rain (I also have Asperger's), and if I get to talking, there is no stopping me. :)
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My thoughts are random and crazy and never really straightforward. Usually, when not making quick decisions, my mind works something like a discussion panel with various fictional characters representing parts of myself and having different opinions on how to go about things, and these things are most often not very important things. I remember a few months ago having a mental arguement between Gomez(an original character of mine, representing my wisdom and kindness), Yotsuba(from Yotsuba&!, representing my childish naivety[sp?]), Toph Bei Fong(from Avatar: The Last Airbender, representing my brashness and somewhat lack-of-subtlety), Dimentio(representing my, erm, darker side of myself) and me(representing... me) on how best to raise Cookie, a Chao I had at the time on Sonic Adventure 2. Gomez said I should take it to the kindergarten classroom so it would have a more fleshed-out personality, Yotsuba wanted to give it adorable animals, Toph wanted to take the tough love approach(which those of us who've had experience with Chao know doesn't work all that well), Dimentio just wanted me to shove a bunch of Dark Fruit down its throat and call it a day... and I just wanted them all to leave because they were NOT HELPING. Dimentio won.
... Yeah, I know I'm crazy.
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I wish my thoughts involved Yotsuba arguing with other fictional characters from stuff I like.
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Yeah, my thoughts are usually strings of words "spoken" way faster than would ever be actually possible, with some pictures of whatever it was I was thinking about. Also colors are pretty big in my thoughts, especially when experiencing or remembering sounds, because I have a touch of synaesthesia.
When I was a kid, my thoughts had much more weird-yet-standardized imagery. For instance, when I was looking for something, a picture of that specific item buried in small brown grains of something would appear in my mind, like a cross section of the ground where the item was buried or something. That eventually stopped, and I'm probably glad.
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Holy crap, GiftedGirl's back.
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Cogito ergo sum.
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An interesting thread!
I always keep a running commentary in my head, speaking about events and to myself. Sometimes I make witty comments that cause me to smirk for no clear reason to others. Since I like to do multiple things with as great an efficiency as possible, I tend to think in graphs and tables, but I also tend to visualize images or shapes in three dimensions according to relevance and interest. For instance, when I play as a Medic in Team Fortress 2, I organize players by their defensive potential for me, how fast it takes to fill their HP, and how likely they are to mow down the enemy should I Ubercharge/Kritzcharge them. This organization looks like several tables at various distances to me, further away being less important, and closer being more important. Similarly, threats take shape as images closer or farther away from me. Spies are a image constantly hovering at my peripheral vision, and snipers are an image that moves closer and farther, based on the amount of sniper kills I observe in the termination log.
Also, when advising myself, I tend to think in the second person, sometimes referring to myself as 'we.' I tend to not like referring to myself as 'we,' but it sneaks in there occasionally.
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My thoughts are, at times, so complex that I can hardly express them verbally. I have a pretty vivid imagination which has it's pros and cons. In my thoughts, I often rehearse what I'm going to say/write to people just to make sure that it's accurate, comical, or sincere. I also tend to daydream a lot. This causes me to get sidetracked from what I was initially doing. Like right now, as I type this, I'm imagining a white letter M being squished and stretched from left to right in a black background ...anyway, those are my thoughts. Oh yeah, sometimes my mind tends to wander to deep and solemn places. And occasionally, it wanders to bright and amusing (sometimes too amusing) places as well. Ok, that's enough.
The door to my mind is officially closed.
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Occasionally I get the intro the Weapons of Mass Distortion stuck in my head, looping on and on forever.
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Awesome and complex topic idea!
I think pretty much the same way I converse, but much faster (or about the same as my reading speed, but I dunno) and with much less holding back. I'll even pause with "uh"s and "um"s, or change thoughts midthought (like midsentence). I think I use more run-on sentences when thinking. When I'm reading something, I'll pause to mentally "say" a comment, often with an actual facial expression—kind of like, "Wait, what?" with a confused look. I even add lots of interjecting thoughts between thoughts, as you'll see by my extensive use of parentheses.
Depending on my frame of mind, my thoughts range from very coherent (most often while I'm typing/writing), to a random, incoherent jumble in which I struggle to convert it into something others would understand. (The latter clause was a half-decent example; it still sounds awkward to me.) Sometimes my thoughts are complete sentences, other times fragments. Even if each sentence of thoughts is coherent, I struggle organizing them into paragraphs while writing. Coupled with perfectionism, all of these reasons explain why it takes me so long to write anything.
I don't often talk to myself, even in my head. Whenever I do, it's usually passive exclamations, such as, "That was stupid," or "Shoot!" Sometimes it's in the first person (and typically those are short commands or something like "I'm gonna be late!" or "I wonder if..."). If I ever think to myself in the second person, it's rare. I don't think I ever think to myself in the third person. (Interestingly and ironically, I often dream about myself in the third person.) I pretty much never talk to myself out loud. That seems really weird to me. The instances I do are when I'm trying to quickly ingrain something in my mind (memorization) or when I'm counting—especially when there are lots of distractions around me.
Oftentimes I mentally rehearse things before I say them or write them down, typically to help me remember something and to organize them into something coherent. Unfortunately a lot of the time these thoughts never get around to actually being expressed. Sometimes thoughts suddenly rush to me (like an epiphany), and I need to express them before I forget. This is usually my process when I write poetry (which doesn't happen often), but I tend to do the same thing when I wake up after a dream, but am still lying there with my eyes closed. After sorting out the dream in my head, I quickly have to write it down (or tell someone) or I'll quickly forget it, only remembering random bits and pieces, if anything.
At times, if a thought enters my head which I don't like, I'll close my eyes and ever-so-slightly shake my head (as in, barely visible) to clear the thought from my mind, kind of like erasing on an Etch-a-Sketch. Other times I'll actually "correct" my thoughts, much like going, "No, wait..."
Other times my thoughts aren't actually words at all, but rather feelings or emotions. Sometimes feelings are accompanied by thoughts such as, "Ooh, this is pretty," or "Eww!" or "Wow," but not always. Since it's very hard for me to say something (other than "uh huh") while thinking something else (with words), if I'm speaking and my thoughts are different, they'll just be feelings or intuition instead. One example is if I'm singing to a song I particularly love, I'm speaking the lyrics (and therefore thinking them), but I'm also thinking, "I love this song," without the words actually formulating in my mind, so it's actually just a feeling/emotion, if that makes sense. Another emotion-thought I get is after I say something particularly clever. I don't deliberately think the words, "That was clever!" but it's implied by the feelings. Or perhaps everything I've said about emotion-thoughts is inaccurate; maybe I do think the actual words, but it happens so quickly I'm unaware of it.
All in all, though, even though I think in words a LOT, most of the time my thoughts are visual images, like video clips or photographs. Usually they're kind of blurry, rather than crisp. Sometimes VERY blurry. Sometimes other senses trigger verbal or visual thoughts, and vice versa.
Now if you want to get into the process of what my dreams are like, that's a whole different story. Or maybe an expanded story. That would make a cool topic, actually.
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My forehead is starting to get raw.
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Before anyone asks, I appointed an evil wizard to curse TEM so that he must keep checking on this thread. I'm a jerk.
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My thoughts are wordy, and overly complex sometimes. And I often have thoughts questioning how I know the words in my thoughts when I don't actually hear them. That bothers me. I also over analyze words. More recently, I've been applying tarot cards and such to everything. I blame Persona 3. Also, my thoughts tend to shut down when I encounter something somewhat difficult. This is why I'm so bad at school. If I don't understand something, I just can't operate.