Author Topic: What are your thoughts like? (Read 6611 times)

BP · « **on:** March 18, 2009, 01:00:44 AM »

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.

World 6 Retainer · « **Reply #1 on:** March 18, 2009, 01:19:03 AM »

My thought process cannot stay inside my head. It often ends up getting spoken, though this is common with Aspergers.

CrossEyed7 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 18, 2009, 03:01:48 AM »

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.

Turtlekid1 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 18, 2009, 06:39:20 AM »

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.

ShadowBrain · « **Reply #4 on:** March 18, 2009, 07:22:36 AM »

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.

Rao · « **Reply #5 on:** March 18, 2009, 10:50:51 AM »

I never really think in my head without talking to myself. I think I think a little bit like Rain Man.

TEM · « **Reply #6 on:** March 18, 2009, 11:08:05 AM »

This thread is an ocean, I'm the beach, and the waves are facepalms.

Rao · « **Reply #7 on:** March 18, 2009, 11:33:52 AM »

Oh, so TEM thinks in Internet clichés.

Glorb · « **Reply #8 on:** March 18, 2009, 01:38:53 PM »

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.

The Chef · « **Reply #9 on:** March 18, 2009, 03:56:21 PM »

My thoughts literally look like movie clips or animated sequences. I'm really prone to zoning out as a result of this.

Kojinka · « **Reply #10 on:** March 18, 2009, 04:20:39 PM »

You don't wanna know.

Toad · « **Reply #11 on:** March 18, 2009, 04:35:42 PM »

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. :)

GiftedGirl · « **Reply #12 on:** March 19, 2009, 07:58:37 PM »

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.

WarpRattler · « **Reply #13 on:** March 19, 2009, 08:10:15 PM »

I wish my thoughts involved Yotsuba arguing with other fictional characters from stuff I like.

Chupperson Weird · « **Reply #14 on:** March 19, 2009, 09:22:51 PM »

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.