Thread: Thinking Outloud

It's only 10:22 in the morning otherwise, I would have a few beers & then I can pull off what you are talking about.

I'll bet if you do this from time to time it would really make you aware of how many things that go through your head.!?!
Or should I say some of us

Kind of like tracing back your thoughts to the beginning of a conversation and you realize that you had went over 20 topics

its not hard for me realy, even though i dont often have alot on mind. only when something i coded or w.e in battlefield doesnt work and i start tlaking to myself outloud trieing to figure out what it is

stuff in my brain.... nope never heard of it, so it'll be esay for me... dahhhhh must eat brains..... whoops... you didn't hear that did you

sounds like fun but i already have this horrible trait of saying whats on my mind and it tends ot get me in trouble.....so i can't try it out.....
sry.
(hmm not trait, habit)did i spell that right?...i'm having an interesting day.

Originally posted by yayotters
its not hard for me realy, even though i dont often have alot on mind. only when something i coded or w.e in battlefield doesnt work and i start tlaking to myself outloud trieing to figure out what it is

i often think out loud when something i code has a bug i can't find. I go through each thing it can be out loud for some reason, a weird habit.

when i said "thinking outloud" i mean more that just saying what ur thinking. lol
I also meant saying exactly what ur feeling, what actions ur want to do etc. Its kinda wierd to do because u never really think too much about what u are going to do next all the time.

I was just outside trying it and i was just like "Feeling cold, need to lite my cig, lighting it, oh its quite warm, wind is annoying me etc" but then u also do speak ur thoughts as well so, "should i go in and blah blah blah etc" lol

I think you're taking it for granted that people can voice what they're thinking like this ... some find it harder than others.
I've tried it before, and the reason I think I found it hard is because the part of my brain that is responsible for voicing things is being used for two things at once

It's a good exercise

I do an exercize called free-writing which is basically the same thing just not spoken. The thing I find most difficult about it though is that my mind moves much too quickly for my lips/fingers to possibly keep up. I can never get entire ideas out or down on paper before my mind moves on, so what I will do often is leave ideas unfinished on the paper. As long as it is complete in my head then the byproduct of it in reality need not be. I do the same thing with the dream journal I keep by my bed though sometimes it causes me trouble when the shorthand version doesn't remap those synapses.

Oh yeah... and another thing I often try as just a mental exercize is to see how long I can keep my thought processes going without thinking in words. Because in all actuality we were all once non speaking individuals that had thoughts, so I find it somewhat surprising how many of my own thoughts are actually words and sentences now that I have become literate. Words were invented for the purpose of sharing an idea with another, so if the original idea in unadulterated by being put into words then it remains a pure thought that hasn't been formatted for transmission, making it more easily understood my its creator, the thinker. If that makes any sense at all... it has kind of gotten a little garbled by being put into words .

Mickeys_Elbow, About you first paragraph - like brainstorm writing?

Originally posted by Mickeys_Elbow
Oh yeah... and another thing I often try as just a mental exercize is to see how long I can keep my thought processes going without thinking in words. Because in all actuality we were all once non speaking individuals that had thoughts, so I find it somewhat surprising how many of my own thoughts are actually words and sentences now that I have become literate. Words were invented for the purpose of sharing an idea with another, so if the original idea in unadulterated by being put into words then it remains a pure thought that hasn't been formatted for transmission, making it more easily understood my its creator, the thinker. If that makes any sense at all... it has kind of gotten a little garbled by being put into words

Holy cow That IS hard.
I now have to keep trying it because I can't seem to do it for more than 10 seconds
Cool Idea
It might stimulate visual perception