
Originally Posted by
Radio
I feel like this is a bit abstract so any attempt at describing my thought-process will be equivalent to grasping smoke with bare hands. Or alternatively come off pretentious as hell.
I think in words in that there's a constant verbal monologue in my head but maybe it's that way for everyone else, too. Often I have this... "feeling" that I understand something but I have no idea how to describe it in words, like I implicitly know what it means but I don't know how or even what it means. It's kind of like being ticklish in the nose but not being able to sneeze (if that makes sense). I don't know if I think in images, I often think in something like a 3D landscape (something something spatial synesthesia) but I don't know if I can qualify those as images; when I think of the word "image", I think physical objects, whereas whatever imagery I have in my mind is devoid of any physical detail. It's just very basic, elementary, almost mechanical connections, sort of these structural outlines, of and between things.
That's not to say I don't visualize details at all, but when I do it's involuntary, kind of like a process independent of conscious intervention. If I try to focus on individual details, the shapes and forms start to distort, blur, and/or get muddled.