Useualy i can't give an answer to these types of questions. However today i managed to realise that i think in neither. I think in feelings.

This is a bit hard to explain but, for example, when i'm hungry i don't think to myself "Oh, i'm hungry." or i don't picture myself getting something to eat. I sort of get the feeling that i am hungry and i should probably eat something.

Can anyone else understand this, and if so do you think it is a better/worse/nodif way of thinking?

I think in pictures. Sometimes when i am working on something i get to be creative with i think in pictures. When i see stuff i need to be done i can see in my mind almost like a movie how i can get it done. Paper work and stuff like that is different but i can envision the paper filled out, or the essay completed. I asked people i work with if they were told to draw a triangle if they would just know how to draw it without really thinking, or would a picture of a triangle come through theres minds beforehand, i'm the only one. I'm not sure if its any better then the other "way" of thinking, but i've made some really cool stuff from just pictures from my mind and i much rather enjoy it.

Interesting question!

I guess I do both. If I'm trying to come up with something that's physically creative -- an art project, furniture arrangement, organizational system -- I think in pictures. But as a writer, I probably also think in words more often than the average joe. (Plus all those replayed/preplayed conversations in my head are made of words...;-)

I guess you could say it's pictures -- with captions.

Do you think in pictures or words????

I think in feelings.


There are three "learning styles" visual (seeing things in your head, pictures), auditory (hearing, thinking in words) and kensic<----can't spell learning by (feeling or movement by doing, touching tactile scenses)

More than likely you are a kensic learner you learn by using scense of touch and or movement....people withthis style usually describe things in feeling words, while visual describe things in visual, auditory describe things in scense of hearing or sound....

I believe I would have been a visual learner execpt ironically I have dyslexia that affects my visual processing. I have access to all three I can learn by either means. Like stated by fiji4me above I can have pictures with captions but I also have feelings along side!!!!!!!

I visualize more often than the rest but I also do alot of fixing of stuff so my employment choice at present may be why!!!!

Are certain activities easier to do if you are better at different ones? And would it be possible to train your brain to be better at the different ways, as if they where skills to be learnt instead of natural abilities?

I don't think in words unless I'm talking out loud to myself....which usually means I am trying to get organized...which usually means I'm not taking my meds.

I've been explained to by a friend that ADD people think in context rather than words. I know this is true for me. I also think this is the reason we have such a time putting things in order.

When I write I put thoughts, visualizations, and feelings into words before they are put onto paper, which is something that comes pretty naturally to me. We have to eventually transfer our way of thinking into words in order to communicate effectively, but I often don't really know what I have written until I go back over to edit it. An most times I don't know exactly what has come out of my mouth until I go home and review my day. In other words :D...there is no real plan when I write or talk and that is why I am so willy nilly. :) I think this is due to what you are suggesting....that ADDers process our world differently from the ordinary.

You can do a forum search on contextual thinking and read more about this. It's very interesting.

It's taken me a while, but I like this way of thinking and think it is better for me. I haven't always felt this way though. You have to look for the good and focus on the positive.

In case I haven't met you yet, welcome :)

~gourmet~

A MIXED-UP 3D SENSORY CARTOON



Pictures..
Words...
Action...
Senses(smells,touch,sounds,sights,tastes).

Karen:)

.....I asked people i work with if they were told to draw a triangle if they would just know how to draw it without really thinking, or would a picture of a triangle come through theres minds beforehand, i'm the only one.....

They are probably thinking spatiailly (abstract) (so quickly that the thinking isn't obvious). Thinking visually (concrete) tends to be slower and percepted easier.

WOW! Never realized it,but,yeah,I think in pictures.thanx!

And would it be possible to train your brain to be better at the different ways, as if they where skills to be learnt instead of natural abilities?


Personally I think we have natural tendicies toward one style of learning. I also believe many can use more than one method and probably do so without realizing it. Weather or not trying alternitve ways as opposed to natural ones could be possible but unless this is done purly for the sake of creiousity I would first determine if the present system really needs any change. If it is working for you then I see no reason to change it unless of coarse you simply want to see if you can!!!!!!!

I have never in my life thought words. Actions at times, but mostly pictures. Which usually only stay in my head for about 5 seconds at a time xD

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I think in pictures. When someone used the "think of a triangle" example, the first thing that came into my mind was a piece of paper with a triangle.

When I think of things I have to do, I visualize myself actually doing the task. For example, I work with computer network equipment. If I have to install a piece of hardware, I will see the location I need to install it in and also myself installing it and then testing it.

I don't think either way. I honestly believe my life would be much happier if everything were a musical. :D

I think in song. Every emotion I feel makes me think of a song and I want to break out singing. Every moment of everyday there is a song in my head. I think that we would have a much brighter experiance here on earth if everyone just played by my rules and broke out in song and dance every 5 minutes. :p

well i usaully think in pictures and patterns

I am mostly a kentic learner. I have had to train myself in the "working" world to be able to train people in different ways.
Verbal, visual, and by doing.
That is a task in itself. But for people to really learn from you, you have to at least try to meet them at thier level, even if it's for part of the learning process.
Just my 2cents...
Hope

this is family and iam home yeah :p

I just stopped thinking!:D
Actually i've always thought in pictures.

Does that make weird:rolleyes: :D

I am more kinesthetic than auditory or visual. I use those, but I think more clearly by doing not just hearing something or seeing it. To truly understand something, I have to trudge my way thru the molasses in my brain to really LEARN it.

One thing I have learned helps me "exercise" my brain's ability to "see" and "hear" is by listening to books on cassette, and working hard to visualize the action I hear in my imagination.

Weather or not trying alternitve ways as opposed to natural ones could be possible but unless this is done purly for the sake of creiousity I would first determine if the present system really needs any change.

Well...... okay...... maybe there are other reasons besides ceurosity to see if one can learn different methods of learning!!!!!


I am mostly a kentic learner. I have had to train myself in the "working" world to be able to train people in different ways.
Verbal, visual, and by doing.


This could definantly be one I hadn't thought of!!!!!

I think in pictures too. When trying to remember something it's like instant replay, then again the tapes are always getting lost. I'm a touchy feely, gotta do it kind of learner I'm not sure if there's a connection but when I forget how to do it I always go back to to the "video" of me learning it.

THen I also think in colors and feelings and everything has it's own soundtrack. Very hard to win an arguement when you're too busy trying to translate colors and feelings in to words tha the other person can understand. Sometimes I just wish I could dump my thoughts on the other person and say "Now do you get it!?"

I think in pictures for:

Driving Directions. I need to have landmarks and such. IF I don't then I get lost with the words cause they don't go through my lovely brain fast enough and I get confused! :)

Doing my work. I like to think about the stacks of paper gone, the way my desk looks when it's all cleaned off...what I need to do in a list on my mind...but not a word list.. kinda hard to explain.

Durning school picture thinking was the only way I could understand what the heck I was doing!

I think with feelings for:

When I'm thinking about someone I have a gut feeling that comes with everyone that I think about

When I need or want something or someone...I have a strong feeling and I go along with whatever that is good or bad

I'm a very passionate person about a lot of things and that along with my stubborn will gets my "thinking feelings" into trouble sometimes!! :)

The whole Triangle thing....I picture drawing it with my fingers in my mind as I'm reading it....

Sometimes I just wish I could dump my thoughts on the other person and say "Now do you get it!?"


This would make comminucation soooo much easier