Silent Thoughts

[Sunnybayes]

Hello all,

I am curious as to what people's inner thoughts are like.

In myself I have observed that I have different types of thoughts depending on my situation/mood.

How loud are your thoughts in your mind?

When I am in a highly introvert state, I find that my thoughts are more of faint whispers, incomplete phrases, if I vocalized my thoughts at all. I rely heavily on my internal feeling to guide thinking, knowing the general content of the thinking depending on the feeling that they cause internally.

As I am writing this, the vocalized thoughts are highly pronounced and loud.

When I am thinking about something highly abstract and concentrating intently, and trying to solve something really fast, and not really exactly sure what I'm trying to accomplish (like I just telling my subconcious mind to figure it out for itself), but only have a general direction, I find that my eyes move back and forth at different speeds, perhaps kinda like the REM state of sleeping, and then sometimes just glancing occasionally. Kind of like if you ask someone a hard question and they go "uhhh...." and then glance around the room as their mind searches for the answer.

With each eye movement, I feel like another faint vocalized thought fires off, with a mix of a slight visual image, with an internal feeling, (perhaps like intuition), perhaps like I am just directing the army of my subconcious mind with signals, instead of having each individual "thought" of the army "report" to me by vocalizing itself to me. Instead I just "feel" the thought.

Does anyone else have a similar experience or am I just a complete weirdo?

[Akashic_Librarian]

I feel my thoughts. I just KNOW them. Instead of them being verbalized i just feeeeeeeeeeel them. Its hard to explain.

[Sunnybayes]

Originally Posted by Akashic_Librarian

I feel my thoughts. I just KNOW them. Instead of them being verbalized i just feeeeeeeeeeel them. Its hard to explain.

How do you know what to think then?

[RT Wolf]

There are generally three kinds of people: People who rely most on their visual sense, their auditory sense or their kinesthetic sense (feelers). While there are dominant types, usually its a mix of different things. I'm an auditory/visual person, mostly, so my thoughts are pictures or actually vocalized words.

[Sunnybayes]

I suppose people want to follow the conversation here instead:
Monologues in your brain?

[Shamou]

Originally Posted by Akashic_Librarian

I feel my thoughts. I just KNOW them. Instead of them being verbalized i just feeeeeeeeeeel them. Its hard to explain.

You could be said to be conceptualizing... it is a non verbal communication that can be translated into words when you feel the need too... and, you are right when you say that... "you just feel them..." just like when you are thinking about a pretty girl... you don't actually see her... but you "sense" her...

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[BanditFlyer]

What an interesting thread! I've often heard that I think differently from other people, and if you read enough of my posts, I think you'll see why.

[help4me]

Originally Posted by BanditFlyer

What an interesting thread! I've often heard that I think differently from other people, and if you read enough of my posts, I think you'll see why.

Yep... you do. But that's a good thing You and I have many many many great conversations.



I myself... I see my thoughts ... I think in pictuers. That allows me...imo... to think about more at once, and then I can "zoom" in on bits and pieces and get more detailed in my thinking.

[Shamou]

Originally Posted by help4me

I myself... I see my thoughts ... I think in pictuers.

I know you to be a brilliant thinker (even if most of it is spent in trying to re-invent the wheel )... but, what on earth is a "pictuers"...???

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[uberinquisitive]

80% of the time, I think in extremely vivid images, mixed with intense emotions, and sometimes complete with soundtrack. Like, on that TV show "Scrubs" when the main character has his inner monologue. It can be really fun, but also really exhausting.

I can honestly say I've NEVER been bored in my life.

[Shamou]

Originally Posted by uberinquisitive

I can honestly say I've NEVER been bored in my life.

And I can honestly say that I don't believe you...

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[help4me]

Originally Posted by Shamou

I know you to be a brilliant thinker (even if most of it is spent in trying to re-invent the wheel )... but, what on earth is a "pictuers"...???

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LOL.... ahhhh cher ami.... how I love your banter and that you catch my typos that should read pictures.... i.e. images

I have missed our chats greatly. And I will always be trying to reinvent the wheel You love it that I do