I can't speak to that. I guess that might be owing to how visual my thinking is, I perceive verbal thinkers as reading a book in their mind, which I only now realize is a terrible metaphor.
One maybe a stupid question. If your thinking is visual, wouldn't you have to close your eyes to be able to think? Or how can you still see? Is it like augmented reality?
Actually since I think, I think by hearing a continous record of text, when I do that, it does make it hard to listen to people. I have to attune that record exactly to what people are saying and it is something I have had challenges doing my whole life. Then I have to fight, put effort in, to be able to keep it on track. I prefer watching films with same language subtitles for that reason. Then I read the subtitles and doing that my thought track is somehow in sync. But it is impossible to keep the thought track in sync with realtime voice. I could only repeat it out of sync.
If people had subtitles, on top of their heads as they were talking I could pay attention much better in social situations.
> If your thinking is visual, wouldn't you have to close your eyes to be able to think?
When I think verbally, I don't have to use ear plugs to think. Though very noisy environments make it harder. When I think visually, I don't have to close my eyes to think. But visually noisy environments make it harder. I guess that's (part of) why people sometimes stare off into space when deep in thought?
> One maybe a stupid question. If your thinking is visual, wouldn't you have to close your eyes to be able to think?
Kinda like multiple monitors on a computer. It's possible to see both at once. I do often do my best sleeping in bed at night with my eyes closed however.
But with multiple monitors you have to look at one at a time, and if you do that you won't see the others? So if you are focusing on a visual thought shouldn't you be unable to see the real world? Or you are kind of zoomed out far enough that you do, but then you are seeing it side by side with real world?
But still then are one of those things more blurry depending on where you focus exactly?
It is fascinating to try and understand it. It doesn't feel like I can relate to it at all or see how it is possible.
