How do you think?

This is a very interesting thread. I think mainly in words. Images do pop into my mind if I’m thinking about people or places but I find it difficult to deliberately summon up an image. I’m hopeless at art etc.

I think both visually and verbally. I cannot work out how you could only do one of them.

Witzend

I definitely think in words - the only subjects I was ever really good at were languages -but I’ve often put that down to the fact that I’m utterly useless at art, whereas people who are good at it ‘see’ things in their heads much more than I do, and are able to transfer their inner visions on to paper.

Absolutely the same for me!

This is so interesting.

I don’t know which one I do, I’ve never noticed if I do one or the other consistently.

I do know I don’t think of myself as ‘I’ . It’s always ‘you’. Example you should get up and have a shower. What does that mean? Should I be worried I’m a psychopath or something?

Hope there’s a lot more answers.

My dyslexic GD (12) thinks in images. That is why she struggles with words like 'the'. No appropriate image.

I definitely think in words and I spell long words in my head a lot. The heat has made me forgetful well that’s what I’m blaming it on or DD2 is not clearly giving me my schedule for school holiday childcare😂

I think visually all the time-before I go shopping-for example I plan the route visually. Imagine washing the floor beforehand.
However, there is a downside,once I have imagined the task I feel that the job is done,do I really have to do it in reality?
Ugh, too tedious. This is especially true when imagining a walk.
Anyone else think like this?

I think visually and verbally, don't most people? If I think of a person or a place a vague mental image comes to mind or if I am talking or writing then I think in words.

I was a late reader and it took me a very long time to relate the marks on a page to actual words in my head and I still think verbally in terms of the sounds of the words rather than an image of the written word..

You might be interested in googling Gardiner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences. He describes how we think in different ways, possibly with a dominance.

I definitely think in words - the only subjects I was ever really good at were languages -but I’ve often put that down to the fact that I’m utterly useless at art, whereas people who are good at it ‘see’ things in their heads much more than I do, and are able to transfer their inner visions on to paper.