Kyle 🌱

I've always thought this was so interesting. I think in sentences and though I know not everybody does, I find it impossible to imagine how non-verbal thought works.

I genuinely have full conversations with myself in my head. I’d get so bored if I didn’t have an internal monologue.

SOME PEOPLE DONT HAVE A VOICE IN THEIR HEAD?????(

I used to be an ESL teacher, and I’ve seen this play out a whole lotta ways. I remember one class was talking about which language they think in, and one guy yells out “y’all think in words??!!”

my thoughts are def the abstract ones. if they contain words, it's more or less just fragments & not complete sentences until they're coming out. i think it's why i stumble over my words so often, stutter, always 5 levels ahead of whatever I'm actually saying, rambling, etc

Same. For me it’s easier to write than speak. And i often don’t really know what I’m thinking until i write it.

A friend of mine has no mental images at all. It's called antaphantasia and for years he thought when people said, "picture in your mind..." that it was just a metaphor. We spent hours comparing memory, dreams, and other brain-related experiences.

also have antaphantasia, i thought it was a metaphor for the longest time as well. wasn't until i read a book when i was younger where they were explaining "mental images" when i was like oh this is REAL?