View Poll Results: Do you think primarily in words?

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  • Yes, my thoughts take the form of stream-of-consciousness flow of words.

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  • No, my thoughts rarely take the form of words.

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    I was speaking to an ILE about exactly this several weeks ago, but he seemed to have no idea what I was on about...

    When you talk about bodily sensations, for me it includes these physical sensations projected outwards spatially too. I still feel their motion, texture, weight, volume, etc. as if it is occurring inside. Like phantom limbs. If I want to problem solve I'll move these about. It feels similar to a lot of my synaesthetic responses. It's probably redundant to point out my preferred learning style is kinaesthetic.

    If I am very highly stressed then I do begin to think in words. There's a disconnect, so words appear to pop out.

    I don't feel like it has affected my ability to verbalize my thoughts at all, but of course I can capture their immediacy/completeness more easily by other means (sound, dance, tactile art, blah blah). By "immediacy" though I am now talking about qualia. And there lies the challenge much art is built upon. You cannot absolutely communicate your subjective experience to another. Ever.

    If you want to journal you don't have to use words. If you regularly document something in any other mode of creative expression it will still bear later analysis.
    Last edited by squirreltual; 12-05-2012 at 09:55 PM. Reason: i don't think in words

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