Thread: Tell me how your mind works

I always have some song stuck in my head, normally just the same part plays over and over in my head. I also try to find patterns in EVERYTHING that I see.

Originally Posted by Taosaur

Noooooooooo not the dancer! Trust me, we've all seen it.

Why not? She has a great rack even for a CGI chick...

Originally Posted by Goldney

The way I imagine how my mind works is as a puzzle with the edges solved (that being base knowledge such as: things fall down, not up) and every time I learn something new it fills in towards the centre slightly. Not only that but also the new piece interconnects with other pieces (eg. things fall down due to gravity). Being able to link ideas is brilliant, it makes learning so much easier and more fun to remember. It also means that when I don't know an answer to a question I can occasionally use previous knowledge to work out the answer without necessarily remembering the "correct" method.

Sounds the same as what I described as my "holographic" thinking.

Guys please don't tell me I'm the only person here who thinks like a computer program visually :embarassed:

Sometimes when I wake up in the morning I find it easy to merge melodies of certain songs, so that they easily transition from one into another.

Also occasionally I have spontaneous memories that surface. I really don't know how there related to what I'm thinking about. It's probably just how my neurons are wired.

Originally Posted by Mysteryhunter

My interpretation of the dancer is clockwise most of the time in my perception as a viewer:
However I able to switch that direction on demand.

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I tend to be rightsided in my use of the brain/

i see it both ways, the direction switches about every fifteen seconds for me....its odd.

I tend to think visually. I sometimes used to think using an HUD: if I was keeping track of something, I would visualise a crosshair and make it follow the "target" as far as possible. If I couldn't see something in the distance very well, I tried to "zoom in" on it using a pop-up window (I'm sure I got a bit farfetched with that though.)

I now tend to think less with the HUD though.

Another interesting thing is what I visualise when I hear sounds or music; I can visualise "pulses" and shapes that change with how the sound sounds. I love how the mind works.

Since there is infinite space within my mind I think... well infinitely well.
My mind revolves around geometry (which is infinite) and dimension (also infinite) I tend to see things perspectively from a existential basis, like what is the over all function of things within the absence of time and linear measurement. To me all things exist simultaneously quite the quandary to figure out or explain.
I also think very philosophically in terms of axioms and axiomatic concepts or irreducible primary's.

Try this for starters.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness

My mind is too lazy to work. Get a job, bum!

On a more serious note, my mind relies on observance. Everywhere I go I am constantly analysing my location, the people around me, the things around me, the forests, flowers, and clouds around me, and so on. I like to think behind things, mentally explore the phases to how they got here, how they became the way they were. For instance, I'll be looking at a building, and I'll think of all the people who are working in that building at that moment, and then I'll think of the people who came up with the idea for the building, which started off in some other building as nothing more than simple blueprints surrounded by architects and engineers. Or I'll look at a tree, and imagine from the trees perspective how life had changed over the last two hundred years it's been steadily growing.

So myself, I am always watching and learning. Still exploring.

I'm immortal. Does that tell you anything?

Auditory, analytical, symbolical/associative, theoretical

Originally Posted by Seismosaur

Guys please don't tell me I'm the only person here who thinks like a computer program visually :embarassed:

Originally Posted by •Neko•

I tend to think visually. I sometimes used to think using an HUD: if I was keeping track of something, I would visualise a crosshair and make it follow the "target" as far as possible. If I couldn't see something in the distance very well, I tried to "zoom in" on it using a pop-up window (I'm sure I got a bit farfetched with that though.)

I now tend to think less with the HUD though.

Another interesting thing is what I visualise when I hear sounds or music; I can visualise "pulses" and shapes that change with how the sound sounds. I love how the mind works.

Woah, are you two able to actually see those things? Like, actual vision?
I mean, when I imagine something, I don't actually see anything, I just sort of 'know how it would look like'.
Do you actually see it, infront of you? If so, what happens when you don't focus on it, or if you just look away for some time? And how do you do it? D:

I think in Schemas. Quickly recognizing paterns, analysing data, namimg them, giving them defenition, associating and organizing them with other Schemas and store them by type.

Add a handful of hormones, instinct or other biological triggers and that how my Mind works

i see it as infinite space slowly creating more and redefining everything around me constantly with every new experience.visual......don't know what the other words mean...

"How the mind works" by: Steven Pinker. Pretty good read.

Originally Posted by ray

i see it both ways, the direction switches about every fifteen seconds for me....its odd.

The picture starts out clockwise, but when I start looking at something, like a picture, it switches. Maybe you switch from looking at it like a picture to looking at it like a mind test. IDK, just a thought.

Originally Posted by Maeni

Woah, are you two able to actually see those things? Like, actual vision?
I mean, when I imagine something, I don't actually see anything, I just sort of 'know how it would look like'.
Do you actually see it, infront of you? If so, what happens when you don't focus on it, or if you just look away for some time? And how do you do it? D:

I can't really seem them, it's just visualisation. And I can't really zoom in; I just theorise what it might look like.

Useless, I know.

Originally Posted by Maeni

Woah, are you two able to actually see those things? Like, actual vision?
I mean, when I imagine something, I don't actually see anything, I just sort of 'know how it would look like'.
Do you actually see it, infront of you? If so, what happens when you don't focus on it, or if you just look away for some time? And how do you do it? D:

The realism can be pretty intense but usually it's almost like a mirage.

And also: What Neko said.

Oh well, but it's cool still.

Maybe useless, but still fun to do ;P

Yea, as long as you don't forget it's there or don't get distracted by it.

My mind is insanely visual. I analyse things a lot, unless I am peed off. I think very deeply which annoys my gullible elders and I have fantasies so vivid I couls write novels out of them. I also have synaesthesia and I see numbers and letters as colours as well as sounds as colours, shapes and textures. I didn't realise I had it up until a few years ago because it's more automatic than breathing. But that doesn't influence my life at all, not even my taste in music. It's just kind of THERE, and doesn't do much. It certainly does not give me super memory and math skills as in some others. I was also diagnosed with aspergers syndrome but as soon as I entered my teens it kind of died; I don't see any of the symptoms any more.

Patterns, visual, audio digital.

Usually constant motion till lately.

It doesn't. Not really.

Seriously, my brain as an astounding difficulty dealing with all things logical and obvious - therefore I generally suck at sciences.
On the other hand, I have quite a good memory for sound and can visualize things pretty good.
I also have this thing of turning sound into image. Sometimes I hear a noise and this object of a particular shape, color and texture pops into my head. Intricate melodies will produce landscapes or action scenes out of nowhere (all very cinematic), and I will often find myself describing sounds with visual adjectivs. I could actually draw the voice of my favourite singer!


ClouD - What does audio digital mean?

I'm subject to frequent episodes of waking lucidity, very similar to realizing lucidity in a dream, where all concepts and ideation fall away and the world is just there, naked and present in vivid detail. It happens pretty often on the train, but I thought to write this post because last night while watching a movie (National Treasure: Book of Secrets) and drinking some beers, total awareness of the moment just flooded me, including awareness of my intoxication and the information coming at me and the whole civilization supporting the experience and the underlying causal patterns, and I just kept doing what I was doing, watching the movie, with this awareness surging and subsiding in waves for half an hour or so.

But yeah, that's a pretty significant element of how my mind works since '01 or so. I spent most of '01 in a kind of self-imposed retreat, meditating a lot in a cave-like studio apartment, eating very little and sleeping on no fixed schedule, working something like three days every two weeks (tho not that regular). Summer of '01 was just a string of mystical experiences bleeding together, until I was steeped in a kind of extreme awareness of unity--that All is One--that paralyzed me, eliminating all preference and motivation.

I suppressed that awareness for a while, and with the help of my friends got into a more stable situation where I was able to take up a more casual meditation and gradually digest the experience. Ever since then, interdependence manifests quite forcefully on a regular basis, though without the original paralyzing effect.