Do you think in words or movies?

From a poster on another forum.

I read the above post on a different site. Most people on that site said that they could not even comprehend thinking in a 'movie like' way.
What does the HF think?
Just wondering who how you think. Do you think in words, still pictures, movie scenes or anything else?

 

I am sure there are many of you on here who think in binary.

 

It depends, I'm mostly a creature of instinct. But the few thoughts I do have are expressed in all of those, sometimes also smells or tastes.

For instance, when I looked at your post and read that you were from Tasmania, I immediately pictured this guy.

 

i think in words for the most part.

 

I don't understand... I always think in both "movies" and words. There is an internal narrative that goes with the images. Unless you're an individual who does not have language, due to something like autism or traumatic brain injury, I would think it would be very difficult to think without words.

 

I do much of my thinking on a nonverbal level, I wouldn't say most, but a significant amount of plans I have are processed by my brain without language attached.

When I think of dinner I understand my hunger without the words ever appearing, and think of dinner completely in pictures and tastes and smells, and the words associated with those foods are an afterthought, often never appearing consciously.

 

My thoughts are more like concepts and scenarios that sort of flash as completed bits for many things. Very complex issues are broken apart by word/emotion and some other processes that I can't explain.

 

I think in vaginas and nipples

 

WOW! hozzat work when you're shopping for cereal or pasta salad or donuts???

 

I relate a good deal of life to song lyrics.

 

:smilielol5:

 

easy

milky ...creamy....and glazed

 

yeah, it's pretty much all of the above for me. including vaginas and nipples.

 

I try not to think at all.... That way I don't need to get involved with threads like this.

 

venn diagrams. and stranger squiggles of lines and colors, shapes and textures.

 

There's a bunch of screaming voices in my head so I guess that's words.

 

Like any other man. You send him to the grocery store for cereal and he comes back with beer and pop tarts. Too much nipple on the brain.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS5haYUQiF0"]Studying with W.A.D.D. - YouTube

 

It may be because I'm a student of English and film and theater and so on, but I definitely understand thinking in movie scenes AND words. The movie scenes most of the time are what I'd do in certain scenarios because I'm very self-centered...sometimes it even gets in the way of living because I'm too busy daydreaming...and sometimes I'll wake up and there will be words streaming through my head. It's a really cool feeling when those word correspond with the dream I was just having.