0n (18 Sep 03) STEVE KEMP wrote to CINDY HAGLUND...

CH> SK>  I don't think in words. ;)

CH> What do you think in then, Steve? Numbers perhaps? Music?

 SK> Well, that was a bit of a stretch. For I certainly DO have times when
 SK> I think in words. But I don't always, or even most of the time.

 I'm glad you didn't say numbers. I'd get a headache. Physicists are
 said to 'think in  numbers' Highly developed left brain dominance.

 There's a email 'quiz' going around. You are to glance at a picture
of a plate of what I think are coffee beans and find the guys face.
I found it right off the bat. If you find it instantly like this your
right brain is more developed. If it takes oh I think two minutes or
so (I forgot the numbers), you're more to the left brain. Longer than
that well you've got a problem.

There's a good joke I'd like to find about how different mind sets
would deal with a given problem. The artist would do this such and
such a thing, lawyer (we all know), the priest this... the doctor that..
and the engineer? AH he'd want to make it as complicated as possible of
course. Maybe do a search on engineer jokes...

 SK> I may think in words when a punk rocker with a pink Mohawk walks by:
 SK> "Jeez, what was HE thinking?". ;)

   "Lettin' them hair-dresser wannabes at my head pays my next hit."
 ..................

 SK> But in everyday things I usually don't think in words, for that would
 SK> be a slow thought process. I think instantly (obviously
 SK> subconsciously)
 SK> when I have to evade a bike rider that darts in front of me when I am
 SK> driving, for instance. And I don't think in words when I check a melon
 SK> at the grocery. And when I see a beautiful flower I don't think in
 SK> words.

  Feelings?
           
 SK> I CERTAINLY don't dream in words. I dream in images.

Our memories are stored as 'pictures'. Words are 'images' too but unless
you stare at them long enough as in memorizing them, they don't 'take'
well into the form of dream images. When I'm trying to recall the
author's name of a book for example. I can Picture the cover of the
book but the words on the book cover are kinda vague.
                         
 SK> In short, I can't answer your question except that I don't think in
 SK> words...most of the time.

 Images then? Both?

 Cindy


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