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How do you think?


Margaret

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I was just wondering how people experience thinking. For me, thinking is exactly like talking, only silent. This has an impact when writing as I have no picture whatsoever of my characters or any of the settings. It also means that things like the battle scenes in Harry Potter make little sense to me and I tend to just skim them and wait for Dumbledore to sum up the important parts.

So just wondering how it works for other people.

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beyond the rain

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This is a really thought (no pun intended) provoking topic! When I think about plots and reading I tend to visualise. The image/scene unfolds in my head, and I can imagine how people would sound and what they'd say - but I can't hear them. I don't do that with everything, sometimes it is just like talking, silently. 

Visualising my thought process really helps my plotting and helps me if I ever want to try and be descriptive. 
When I'm stressed and I'm thinking it's just a lot of noise at once, like my brain can't stop and focus it's like I'm in a busy room and I have to listen to every conversation at once. Very stressful :P

 

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batsam

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This is something I've thought about quite a lot (tehe)

I remember that when I was a kid my mind was always going a mile a minute, probably in a similar speech-like way that you said. I'm not sure if or to what extent I visualized. I distinctly remember wondering how anyone could ever not be thinking anything.

This is notable to me, because the way that my brain works now is very different. Adolescent trauma and months of dissociating does things to your brain for reals.

For about the last decade my thought process has been much more fragmented, and I spend a lot of time doing what childhood me would consider not thinking about anything. Often my mind feels pretty vacant if I'm not focused on processing something (and tbf, most sensory processing is an intense task for me)  I can sometimes have some speech-esque thinking, but normally just very small phrases at a time that I can't connect into more complicated ideas. If I try going on to a new "sentence" I'll most often forget what I had a moment before. The most frequent speech like thinking I do is anxiety driven repeated phrases like "no, no, no no..." or "I need to get out"x100.

Weirdly, I have a long term recurring phrase that seems to come out of nowhere when I'm doing routine tasks that I think may be a self criticism of me overusing this sentence in writing: "She sighed and _" Right now I can't remember if there is something that always goes in the blank or if that changes.

Because I think this way, I often don't know what I'm going to say until I say it (or I had an Important Though and I'm doing my best to say it even though I only remember part of it). I tend to interrupt people to get my thought spoken before I lose it, which I almost certainly will if I'm listening to someone talk (sometimes I raise my hand to feel slightly less rude and say the thing over and over in my mind, so I'm really being rude and not listening anyway). Writing things down or talking through them out loud is super important to me to work through thoughts and feelings. I have lots of very long conversations with mirrors, and I prefer to convey important things in writing, even though in person emotional connection is very significant for me.

As I mentioned, I'm not sure if I visualized as a kid, but I very rarely do now, which makes sense to me as a response to trauma if it wasn't always the case. Not visualizing makes reading certain stories very difficult for me, and is also reflected in my writing. Writing dialogue comes much more naturally to me than description, and the description that I do write is generally very motivated by emotion, and I often forget to include basic descriptive things that readers want to know, like what people look like.

This has been an introduction to my brain!

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sibilant

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3 hours ago, Dojh167 said:

Writing dialogue comes much more naturally to me than description, and the description that I do write is generally very motivated by emotion, and I often forget to include basic descriptive things that readers want to know, like what people look like.

I just want to say that I don’t particularlt care what people look like and that emotion-based description is 500x better! 

I’m sort of the complete opposite, haha. It’s really rare that I have a very clear vision of a scene (but if I do, then that scene is super duper easy to write). My style of thinking is probably best described as a web, which basically means that one thought will branch off into several other thoughts which then connect to other thoughts stemming from another, distinct thought. This makes it easier to imagine interpersonal connections between characters but really hard to get a more complete view of a story—which is possibly why I have lots of difficulty coming up with a plot but always have tons of headcanons.

So far, the discussion has been limited to writing but I just wanted to comment that my style of thinking makes me good at academics because I’m always making connections but a terrible conversationalist because my mind is always jumping all over the place, with little reason haha. I’m wondering if you guys have similar reflections on other traits that result from your style of thinking! 

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Phoenix Potioneer

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Wow, very interesting blog Margaret!

Ever since I was a little kid, I've visualized a lot. I would start out playing with my dolls, envisioning their environment and thinking what they were saying (I never said it out loud) and, sometimes when I got really into it, I would find myself just lying on the carpet picturing the scene, not even holding the dolls anymore. That would entertain me for hours. I'm very visual, and when some of you said "I have trouble visioning things" that honestly amazes me. Daydreaming for me is visualization of scenes.

That being said, I don't visualize all the time. Not everything needs it. When doing math, for instance, I don't visualize. When thinking about this blog, I didn't visualize. I suppose whenever I don't visualize a thought (like a scene) a form it into words instead, like what I'm doing with this sentence right now. But it's definitely not conscious and I didn't realize I did that until right now.

When I'm alone (like in a house by myself, driving by myself, etc.) I say pretty much every thought that crosses my mind out loud. After a little bit I don't even consciously do it, it just happens. Whatever I happen to be thinking just spills from my lips. Usually it's things I have to remember, chores I have to do, or reflecting on general daily annoyances.

So, in summary, my thinking process is: primarily visualization, but just thinking the words if visualization isn't necessary.

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just.a.willow.tree

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Sometimes I feel like I'm not thinking at all, honestly. There are so many times when I'm staring into space, and my mind is just completely and utterly blank. I feel this a lot any time I'm communicating with someone, actually; it's like the images in my mind just shut off and I just sort of...talk to people without really thinking? :P Whenever I'm typing something (like now, or while I'm texting), I'll always be reading the words aloud in my head, but other than that, I really don't think words in my head, because I think my brain's decided that's too much work.

For the longest time, any time I've had to force myself to think in words, it's always had a bit of disconnect from my brain to the rest of my body lol. Whenever I think an idea, or a phrase, or something, I've gotten into the habit of just typing it out on my arm, or my leg, or whatever happens to be there, so that it can at least solidify into my muscle memory for a little bit before I forget. Because I know it'll disappear just like that, because my brain just doesn't like...thinking. :P

But yeah. I think in images, when I'm not overly exhausted or talking to other people. Like, I tried just now to make my brain think in words, and it was actually exhausting. :P 

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Guest Tanda

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It also means that things like the battle scenes in Harry Potter make little sense to me and I tend to just skim them and wait for Dumbledore to sum up the important parts.

So just wondering how it works for other people.

Recently, some articles from the newspaper gave me hints for writting James Potter I, his emotion, his thinking way, etc.

Human's history is repeating of barbaric acts. Good old culture and traditional customs or morals could be lost instantly after conquest. I'd like to write this chaos in my OF, Moribito fandom or HP fandom.

 

Of course, friendship, family love or the other elements are universal themes to write. When my Muse whispers, they visits my stories. 

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dirigibleplums

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this is such an interesting topic! i've never really thought about it before, but i guess i'm most similar to @forever_dreaming with the way my brain works. i'm a big visualiser so many of my plot ideas consist of disconnected scenes i've daydreamed or dreamt up and then knitted together with my writing. whenever i write, i can sort of see what's going on in my mind's eye. it's always rather vivid and snatches of imagery here and there, but it's definitely visual

i don't think i'm ever not thinking. i can have a number of trains of thoughts in my head at any one time. like honestly right now, i'm thinking about writing this, but i'm also remembering the images in my head from when i was writing ice baby and i'm also getting messages about two friends of mine who aren't really on good terms so i'm thinking about that whole mess and my sister just asked me to get her a green tea so i'm aware that i need to wrap this up and grab her one lol (+ other stuff) :P

it sounds exhausting and it does mean i get lost in my head and unnecessarily attached to my characters and fics, but i prefer it to the alternative. not to get all deep and sad on you all, but having an empty mind just takes me back to the peak of my depression and that's something that i'd rather avoid. so yes, visual thinker with a whole web of thoughts for me :)

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Aphoride

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Ooh this is such a fascinating blog! :) It's so cool to see and hear how other people think :D 

I'm rarely not thinking and most of my thinking is visualised in some way - or, if not, then I 'hear' words inside my own head, as though I'm saying them, almost as though I'm talking to someone but I'm not. Under pressure, like in exams, I drift between one and the other, depending on how much time I have to think - the longer, the more I visualise it; the shorter, the more it's 'heard'. But I can visualise words, in different colours and types or handwriting, especially when I'm working out what a character might say - I either, then, see them say it, in the scene where they're saying it, or see the words scroll past in my head. Different fonts/styles/handwriting come up when it's a different character or I'm in a different mood or a different place. So much of my thinking though is visual, especially involving writing: whether it's words connecting to words, ideas and phrases leading to others, or complete visualisations of scenes. I don't know if anyone else does this but I can focus in on particular details; like, normally, the 'scene' has the two/three people in it and their surroundings, but I can shift focus in the same scene to the trees/furniture/clothes/hair/etc. to see detail; or, conversely, I can pull back to see landscapes/wider scenery and, like, my brain just fills that all in instinctively. If I'm reading anything fiction, I instantly visualise. Poetry is a bit different; it's more abstract visualisation for me and the visualisation only comes in bits when I read history books/non-fiction texts. 

When I was a kid, though, this didn't help, really - I'd get stuck in dreams/nightmares where everything seemed so real and like it was actually happening to me where I felt I couldn't get out for whatever reason. A recurring one was being trapped inside a box which was getting smaller and bigger randomly and all I could hear/see was white with a black speck in it (me, I think?) and my own voice echoing, louder and louder, saying 'hello'. It also means I can literally terrify myself into not sleeping, haha, which is a really inconvenient trick to be able to do - but as I've got older, I've got better about dealing with that. 

I jump all over with thoughts, as well, like I think most other people in this thread said. I can literally go from the middle of one train of thought to another and pick up the previous one afterwards :P It's why so much of my fic-related notes/plans/etc. are in my head; they just sit there and I can riffle through them and pick them up again almost at any point ( saying this, I've lost a few before though, so I do have to be careful with that, especially if I'm tired... #rip :P

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Margaret

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9 minutes ago, Aphoride said:

Ooh this is such a fascinating blog! :) It's so cool to see and hear how other people think :D 

I'm rarely not thinking and most of my thinking is visualised in some way - or, if not, then I 'hear' words inside my own head, as though I'm saying them, almost as though I'm talking to someone but I'm not. Under pressure, like in exams, I drift between one and the other, depending on how much time I have to think - the longer, the more I visualise it; the shorter, the more it's 'heard'. But I can visualise words, in different colours and types or handwriting, especially when I'm working out what a character might say - I either, then, see them say it, in the scene where they're saying it, or see the words scroll past in my head. Different fonts/styles/handwriting come up when it's a different character or I'm in a different mood or a different place. So much of my thinking though is visual, especially involving writing: whether it's words connecting to words, ideas and phrases leading to others, or complete visualisations of scenes. I don't know if anyone else does this but I can focus in on particular details; like, normally, the 'scene' has the two/three people in it and their surroundings, but I can shift focus in the same scene to the trees/furniture/clothes/hair/etc. to see detail; or, conversely, I can pull back to see landscapes/wider scenery and, like, my brain just fills that all in instinctively. If I'm reading anything fiction, I instantly visualise. Poetry is a bit different; it's more abstract visualisation for me and the visualisation only comes in bits when I read history books/non-fiction texts. ) 

That's really interesting. I can't visualise really at all. Sometimes if I really concentrate and close my eyes, I might get a vague picture, like if I try to picture my sister's house, I get a vague sense of it, but that's all. I only fairly recently (like in the last 5 or 10 years, in my late 20s or 30s) realised that people did have pictures of things in their head's. I always assumed thinking was just silent talking for everyone.

I also hear words inside my head as if I am speaking to somebody - that is what my thoughts always are. And for me, this includes clarifications and rephrasing to make things clearer. I don't know why I do that, since I know what I mean. It's just exactly like talking to somebody. I even occasionally whisper or mutter part of it (very occasionally, thankfully) in the same way one might be whispering and occasionally say a thing louder than intended.

I am really interested at the thought of picturing different fonts and handwriting. Considering I usually can't even picture something I see regularly (once had a delivery driver ask the colour of my house and had to step outside to check), it is hard to imagine that.

Pretty sure I am aphantasic: Aphantasia (All Audiences). (Not convinced about the fat man part. I can't picture him physically but I can still imagine how he would feel.

I am also really interested in those of you who have said there are times you aren't thinking of anything. I've tried that sometimes for the laugh but then I start thinking, "OK, mustn't think of anything. Am I thinking of anything? Am I sure my mind is completely blank?", which kinda disrupts it.

Dojh167, sorry to hear about your trauma in your adolescence.

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just.a.willow.tree

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21 minutes ago, Margaret said:

I am also really interested in those of you who have said there are times you aren't thinking of anything. I've tried that sometimes for the laugh but then I start thinking, "OK, mustn't think of anything. Am I thinking of anything? Am I sure my mind is completely blank?", which kinda disrupts it.

Haha, yeah, this not-thinking thing is something I can't do intentionally. :P It just feels like there's a blanket over my mind. I don't quite know how to explain it. I have a very slow-moving brain :P 

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sibilant

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15 hours ago, dirigibleplums said:

not to get all deep and sad on you all, but having an empty mind just takes me back to the peak of my depression and that's something that i'd rather avoid. so yes, visual thinker with a whole web of thoughts for me :)

I relate to this so hard. I find that if I’m not thinking about anything, my mind feels clouded with this sort of stifling sadness, which is usually why I try to actively think about anything at all. 

11 hours ago, Aphoride said:

I jump all over with thoughts, as well, like I think most other people in this thread said. I can literally go from the middle of one train of thought to another and pick up the previous one afterwards :P It's why so much of my fic-related notes/plans/etc. are in my head; they just sit there and I can riffle through them and pick them up again almost at any point ( saying this, I've lost a few before though, so I do have to be careful with that, especially if I'm tired... #rip :P

I relate to this so much too! My friends know that I am prone to switching topics so fast it’ll give you whiplash hahaha. Usually there’s some connection, albeit very very loose. The only person who can possibly follow my train of thought is probably my sister haha. 

I’m super curious about how much your style of thinking changes with age. Do kids have inherently more hyperactive brains? (....what do kids even think about?? Hahaha). 

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dreamshadow

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This is a really interesting question! And I love reading everyone's answers. 

I think my brain functions the most like Aph's - I visualize a lot, particularly when I'm reading or trying to write something. I'll get an idea for a scene in my head, and I'll watch it unfold. It's not really detailed; like, I can't write verbatim what I see in my head, but I get the general gist of how things are playing out, and it's really useful.  But then, for dialogue scenes, I can usually hear it as a voice in my head.  It's like a lot of different voices in my head at once, sometimes, which can get overwhelming. 

When I'm at work, or doing something that's not creative, it's like a stream of consciousness, another voice I hear in my head, like I'm speaking out loud, but I'm not. Occasionally, if I'm alone (or sometimes when I'm not) and really frustrated, I'll mutter these thoughts out loud, but I try not to do that too often :P It's basically very loud in my head all the time, but I've gotten rather used to it. 

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Margaret

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8 hours ago, forever_dreaming said:

 

I’m super curious about how much your style of thinking changes with age. Do kids have inherently more hyperactive brains? (....what do kids even think about?? Hahaha). 

I'm not all that sure mine has changed all that much (though of course memory does distort things so it is possible I'm remembering my childhood thoughts in light of how I think now). I probably thought more about my stories when I was a child. I was almost constantly making something up and believed that playing meant using your toys to act out your stories. I used to watch kids in the school playground when we were 4-6, trying to figure out the plots of some of their games. 

I also thought about the books I was reading and complained about problematic elements. And of course I thought about school and according to my mum, used to flick to the end of my schoolbooks and worry that I couldn't do the questions there yet.

When I was little, I used to refer to thinking as "talking on my brain" which pretty much describes how I think fairly well.

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dirigibleplums

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i just realised i can hear voices too! that sounds weird out of context lmao but if i'm writing or reading something, i'm usually sounding it out in my head with an actual voice and differing tones and so on. 

6 hours ago, dreamgazer220 said:

But then, for dialogue scenes, I can usually hear it as a voice in my head.

i also hear dialogue in my head like this too! so if i'm writing a scene that has a lot of dialogue, i'll sort of get the full picture. i'll visualise the scene, how they're naturally positioned in my mind and sort of 'hear' how the characters are delivering their words, and then try to articulate it as best as they can. again, i can get a little caught up in it. i remember once i was waiting for the bathroom so was thinking of an argument i was planning to write later and i got so worked up that my sister seemed so concerned when she saw me just because it all translated to my face as well :P:D

8 hours ago, forever_dreaming said:

I find that if I’m not thinking about anything, my mind feels clouded with this sort of stifling sadness, which is usually why I try to actively think about anything at all. 

exactly! there's this sort of fogginess that comes with not thinking and i really don't like how it makes me feel :/

but i genuinely think i can't switch off now. i tried these headphones once that were supposed to get you to relax in a really cool way. what they did was feed you the sound of a seaside and the sound of the weather was dependent on how much you were thinking according to the sensors. so i'd try to think about nothing in particular and would briefly hear seagulls, but then i'd be aware of my breathing or something and the next thing i know i can hear a storm :P needless to say, i wasn't v successful, but it was a cool experience

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Guest Rumpelstiltskin

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I am an extremely visual thinker. Instead of a monologue, I usually think in terms of 'situations'. It might stem from my over-active imagination as a child that I've refused to let go as I swung into adulthood, but I need to establish a visual in my head.

I mean, sometimes at first, I might think, "What if Bob fought a giant frog?" Then I get bombarded with those fraction of a second, quick-succession questions, "Well what did he fight with? What color is the frog? How big is the Frog? Who the heck is Bob? Why is this Bob fighting this Frog?" And the next thing I know I'm fantasizing in great detail about a great green frog (he looks just like a bullfrog, in case you're wondering) sparing Bob, the owner of a local sweet shop. While the frog is using his sticky, darting tongue, Bob is using giant candy canes that he sells in his shop. They're just large and sticky enough to become a menace to the frog when he slurps one back to his mouth, only to have wind up with it stuck to his head.

I'll stop, because that's insane, but that's the general idea of how I think. Only, those words don't really exist -- they're all flashes of moving images. Very short scenes that thread together into a mini-movie. This is why I think outlining works best for me because it's the first step in writing actual words (besides dialogue). But when I do think of people interacting and dialogue, I generally already know exactly what they look like and what their voice sounds like. I don't piece together the finer details (ie: he has brown hair, he has an upturned nose, etc.) -- 'he' just kind of appears as a whole entity, usually somewhat faded and lacking pieces that come into existence the more I see 'him'. 

While I'm reading (and enjoying what I'm reading), the words fall away. I don't know if that makes sense. I don't see words after a little while -- they just kind of get replaced by images. Does that make sense? So instead of hearing myself reading the narration back to myself (which is usually what happens for the first couple paragraphs), they get replaced by a visualization and instead of "seeing" words on the page (which, of course I can still SEE the words, but I guess I don't realize it?) I just see the scenes -- I feel the environment, see the characters (and the way the breeze teases character x's hair) and hear the sound of their voice when they speak (at least what I've imagined, anyway).

And outside of writing, in example, if I have to remember to ask my husband to pick up bread on his way home from work, instead of saying that in my head, usually I'll imagine a conversation with my husband where I ask him (for example, I imagine that I'm standing in the kitchen doing dishes and he'll walk in from the other room when he's decided that he might like a snack and, while he's opening the cupboards to figure out what he wants, we have the dialogue).

So, I might be crazy. But that's okay, I already knew that. 

 

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sibilant

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@Rumpelstiltskin that is exactly how I think when I’m writing! Most of my stories start out with a single “What if” or a small idea or even just a specific line, and it just sort of spirals from there. Sometimes I wonder where I get those ensuing ideas from and I do think it’s sort of a result of that web style of thinking. That just means that I’m able to trace connections stemming from a single idea to a multitude of other ideas and then somehow weave them together to form a coherent thought. 

@Margaret When I was little, I also referred to thinking as “talking in my head”! Do you know those little figures for the emotions in Inside Out? I used to think that there was a little person in my head, and all my thoughts were its dialogue. I really don’t know what I thought about hahaha. Nowadays, I usually find myself sitting, staring into space and just thinking... I can’t imagine myself having these  discussions with myself when I was a little kid. 

@dirigibleplums I think I know about the headphones you’re talking about (or something similar, at least!). I think that’s sort of like those mindfulness apps that try to force out thoughts with music. Those never work for me because I just start thinking about the music instead hahaha. 

I had two additional thoughts about this (while I was staring into space thinking hahaha)! 

My web style of thinking makes reading poetry pretty easy because once I notice anything that seems significant about the poem, no matter how little it is, I can start drawing connections and similarities to other aspects of the poem. Poetry explication is all about being observant and being able to connect multiple observations together to form a logical conclusion about the meaning of the poem. A web style of thinking just naturally lends itself to that sort of work. 

Con: I find it super hard to multitask? Like, I can’t listen to music and write at the same time because I’ll start writing about the lyrics then (or start writing the lyrics themselves hahaha). Does anyone else have this problem? 

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sunshine_locks

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this is such a cool topic!!! it's so fun to see how other people think and it kinda really puts how i think out there haha,,, 

i think the first thing to know is that i've got severe maladaptive daydreaming. i'm always thinking about stuff i need to do, how i'm gonna write that one scene in that story i'm writing (i literally visualize myself typing away on a word doc), creating scenarios where i'm with a talk show host so i can vENT, etc. i'm always thinking, and it's hard to find myself in a situation where i'm... not thinking. i do it while i walk, i do it while i do work, while i'm doing nothing, etc. i think one of the biggest reasons why i have a low attention span is because i think too much!! but on the other hand, if i'm really into something, my thinking can actually help me speed up the process to whatever i'm doing!! when i read books, i tend to find ones that don't really stimulate my brain to have a correlation with books i don't like, hence why i really like the action scenes in the harry potter series! because during the action scenes, i have very specific images of what they look like, their surroundings, their voice, etc. 

i also find that when my brain is stimulated, i have to be listening to fast-paced music, or on the other hand, fast-paced music helps me think. (i'm almost always listening to music!) slower paced music is not my favorite kind of music unless... unless... i'm not actually sure. there are only very specific scenarios in which i will listen to slower paced music.

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On 6/16/2018 at 8:34 AM, forever_dreaming said:

My web style of thinking makes reading poetry pretty easy because once I notice anything that seems significant about the poem, no matter how little it is, I can start drawing connections and similarities to other aspects of the poem. Poetry explication is all about being observant and being able to connect multiple observations together to form a logical conclusion about the meaning of the poem. A web style of thinking just naturally lends itself to that sort of work. 

 

YES! Though I'll admit, sometimes I go overboard and the spiderweb starts spiraling out of control and I start finding metaphors and symbols and analogies in everything, and abstract meaning in those things I had already found abstract meaning in (so, abstracts of abstracts?? :P ). 

On 6/16/2018 at 8:34 AM, forever_dreaming said:

Con: I find it super hard to multitask? Like, I can’t listen to music and write at the same time because I’ll start writing about the lyrics then (or start writing the lyrics themselves hahaha). Does anyone else have this problem? 

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On 6/16/2018 at 7:47 PM, sunshine_locks said:

i also find that when my brain is stimulated, i have to be listening to fast-paced music, or on the other hand, fast-paced music helps me think. (i'm almost always listening to music!) slower paced music is not my favorite kind of music unless... unless... i'm not actually sure. there are only very specific scenarios in which i will listen to slower paced music.

I love listening to music while I'm PLOTTING. If I find a song (or songs) that replicates a mood I'm going for, I'll listen to it (them) on repeat for hours . However, when I get down to actually WRITING, I find it extremely hard to concentrate on anything but writing, and music usually becomes this annoying background noise that I have to eliminate. 

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Ineke

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This is such an interesting concept...

 

I have no idea how to explain how I think! I usually am always thinking about something, but that's also because I'm a dweller and keep replaying stuff in my head that went on that day (or days before that) because I have a lot of trouble with letting things go, if that makes sense. Other than that, I can also very much worry about whatever is coming, or what's going on or how I need to articulate things, so in that case, I suppose I'm more of a thinker in terms of dialogue - but the sound of the voice in my head is generally always the same, and never changes.

 

That being said, however. When it comes to writing - I have to have music in the background as a form of noice, or even when I work, really, because I find that's when I'm able to concentrate best. I don't get distracted by lyrics or anything (unless it happens to be a Dutch song, but that doesn't happen often because the only songs in my playlist that are Dutch, are musical related), so that never does matter much. When I write, however, I can never do dialogue. I can see where they must stand (though never how they look like, unless a detail might be very much important to a scene, but even then I need to go back), but more in terms of where they stand? But even that is vague. I'm lousy at picturing things (even when I need to remodel my house - I cannot visualise how colours would look. Someone really needs to make a picture for me to see how it would look because I'd have no idea otherwise and it can really send me in emotional panic mode when people keep asking if I can see how it'd look), and I tend to think more in emotions if that makes sense? My strength truly lies there, in getting thoughts and feelings across, and even sometimes setting a scene with a vague idea, but when it comes to facial expressions or anything, it just goes by me. Same with reading. I read so fast I never pause to visualise it, seeing it more happen in rapid, blurry succession, never once stopping to think how they might look - even if it's mentioned, but that can also make fighting scenes really confusing for me to read (hello end of hunger games series. I literally had to go back and re-read stuff in order to understand what on earth happened).

 

So... I guess... is that I think in a way that always focusses more on the emotions than on anything else? If that makes sense? I have no clue how to make sense of my thoughts... But I am always thinking about something, that's a given anyway.

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