If you do vocalize text don't worry, as even I can't fully stop it. Just try your hardest to surpress all verbal thought. |
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Okay here is the task, stop thinking verbally and start thinking visually. You have to do this task starting from now and end midnight on sunday, this sunday not next sunday. So two days of only thinking visually, can you do it. Note: I think most i.e. all the people on this forum won't last a day. |
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Last edited by wendylove; 07-13-2007 at 06:02 PM.
If you do vocalize text don't worry, as even I can't fully stop it. Just try your hardest to surpress all verbal thought. |
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I just tried and thought to myself "Well this isn't so hard". |
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Last edited by wendylove; 07-13-2007 at 07:18 PM.
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Thanks Merlock I would look up more for conceptual thought |
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Last edited by wendylove; 07-13-2007 at 08:43 PM.
Actually, it isn't impossible to use conceptual thought consciously. It's just very, very, very tough. But it can be trained like anything else. You do it half-consciously every time you drop into deep thought: while solving maths in your head, remembering a memory from long ago in silence to yourself for a short moment, etc. |
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Ah, good old conceptual thought.. Still haven't given up trying to get ppl to understand I see XD |
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This task is something I have been doing for a few years now. It's very relaxing and fun. Plus, it's fun to empty your mind of all thought and completely enjoy the moment you are in right now. Time is short, and sometimes it can slip past you, without you even noticing. |
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I used to think in speech, especially in puberty... I was learning two languages, so I got kind of used to thinking in them (as well as my natural language) |
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Last edited by Kromoh; 07-14-2007 at 04:44 AM.
Saying quantum physics explains cognitive processes is just like saying geology explains jurisprudence.
um... if I hadn't noticed... lol |
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It's impossible to read without verbalising it. There's a difference between reading text and thinking visually. An example of me thinking visually would be I imagine making myself a sandwich. You can't do that with language and text as they are dependent on the other. This flow diagram represents what I'm saying. Eg. you can't get to text from images without using a language. you see? |
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Ignorant bliss is an oxymoron; but so is miserable truth.
um.. now you've reversed it.. No, numbers are not visual. But the square is... |
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doesn't it say mental images? |
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Last edited by nerve; 07-30-2007 at 10:02 PM.
Ignorant bliss is an oxymoron; but so is miserable truth.
Really? You're synethesia? Thats awesome =D Does it ever seem to get in the way? Well.. I guess you can't realy compare to what it would be like without it.. |
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it doesn't get in the way, i didn't even know about it for a long time. (actually on the contrary i think it helps me remember some things). a friend of mine was talking about it in an IM conversation and i realized i "see" a different colour for every letter and number. i don't actually see it, i just know it. at first i thought i was the type that saw colours for music, because i noticed once that i saw a different colour for certain songs. that was when i listened to CDs in a CD player (oldschool, haha). but i figured out it was the track number and not the music. |
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Ignorant bliss is an oxymoron; but so is miserable truth.
Honestly this is why I first became interested in acid. I had studied synethesia and thought it extremely fascinating, especially if you could train your mind to use it in ways in which it became more than a disorder as psychologists describe it and more of a genetic improvement. I then heard that acid induced similar conditions to synethesia in your brain and it was my new favorite drug. Of course I have no way of knowing how similar it actually is. |
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What he does is conceptional thought. |
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