My way of thinking is quite similar to that of the Guest (Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 1:03 pm )
I am also an emotional visual thinker. For a girl, I am exceptionally good at spatial thinking. Still I have a limited imagination. I see the general picture... I can zoom in, I can peak around corners, I can see the expressions on the faces of people, I can zoom in on the face and hear the person breathe but when I really look at it, there are no details. I could never draw it. There is a face with a very distinct expression but no lips, nose, eyebrows. But the expression is so strong, that I could almost read her thoughts.
The visualizing is fun with molecules (my favourite image), because I can hear the electrons whooshing by when I get close enough. All the pictures have some emotion attached to them. I feel the emotion before I get a chance to even think about it. Many things don't even need words to be understandable to me, the picture is enough to remind me of everything about it.
Bad side of all this: exceptionally bad memory. I can't describe people, can't remember their names, don't know many birthdays (not even close friends). Studying is hard. I have to visualize and deeply understand everything to remember. Nothing to visualize when studying history (names, places, dates, years... awful). I can only memorize things by hearing them many times (PS! Poor boyfriend... I sometimes make him read Latin out loud over and over and over again.
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