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> > Not everyone does this. > Yes, you do need to be literate. At some level, I suppose. But there's a lot of thought that occurs without words, and the conve
by imagist 10y ago
> > Not everyone does this.
> Yes, you do need to be literate.
At some level, I suppose. But there's a lot of thought that occurs without words, and the conversion into words when I'm writing or speaking happens so late in the process that is indistinguishable from the act of writing or speaking.
> But if you are, and you think, what do you hear?
If I hear anything at all, it's more like music than words. But usually, what I see in my mind's eye is more relevant than what I hear.
It actually took me a very long time to figure out that when people say "internal monologue" they aren't speaking metaphorically. It's not something I've ever experienced.
> And what did you just write, if not your thoughts?
It's more of a description of the relevant parts of my thoughts than my actual thoughts. Words feel like a crappy copy of thoughts to me.
- ooqr 10y agoWhen one speaks of visual thinking, one does not mean literal pictures either though, right? For me, when tackling a programming problem for example, I may see a data structure or some piece of architecture as a graph, without really seeing the pictorial representation of that graph that I'd draw on a paper. There's no scaling or positional geometry to speak of; merely connections. Was just wondering if this is similar to what others mean.
- imagist 10y agoYeah, that's representative of my experience. It feels visual, but not exactly in the same way as drawing to communicate--I just "know" what the parts mean instead of them being shaped in some meaningful way.