Do you think in ' Words ' ?

I always think in words. Always. I'm constantly thinking too, so I tend to miss a lot of what people say, such as a teacher in class. I simply notice that they are talking all of a sudden, and try to pretend like I was paying attention. I think about things totally unrelated to the situation too, it's weird. I hardly ever think about what's going on at the moment, but I must solve dozens of problems a day just thinking about it. I think I might be some kind of genius, but not the normal kind.

Also, how do deaf people read? When I read I hear the words in my head, but if you were born deaf, you could not do this. How do they "sound it out" to learn when they are young? This really confuses me.

I think in words and images.. Sometimes I think as though talking to myself or someone else, but other times there is no talking its more like a dream of sorts..

Never really thought about it until this thread though. When reading... it depends on how into what I'm reading as to whether I "hear" the words or play it out like a movie....

Is that weird? lol

Originally Posted by: Fret spiderthis is sorta realted to the topic so i thought i would put it in. was wonderin if any of u guys think numbers have colours.

i know this sounds od but i have met many people who say like 1 is black 2 is blue 3 is green or watever. when they visualise the numbers they are that colour.

i dunno about u but i dont have this at all. i think all the numbers are black. i guess that meens somethin but i dont know wat.

Yes! It's not so strong now that I've grown up a little bit and lost a lot of my imagination, but when I was just starting school, all the numbers had very distinct colours. I also had colours picked out for the days of the week and the months. All I can remember out of the whole lot is that August was red and September was green.

I'm glad you brought that up, I thought I was insane.

I'm like that with guitar scales. They don't have sound colours, but the patterns and stuff for some reason are burned into my head with colour.

Am is green
Bm is blue
Cm is orange
Dm is red
Em is white
Fm is Red and White
Gm is Green and white

Hmm....weird how these connections are naturally made.

Continuing that line of thought...yes, there are some (relatively few) that have a bleeding of their senses so to speak. I saw a whole show on this on the Science channel, which also covered the real Rain Man. As mentioned, some people associate colors with numbers, but they also told of a guy who tastes words. He's a bartender no less, and certain words and names trigger the sensation of tasting different flavors. And there are others who do "see" sounds, like music. Particular notes of a scale trigger the same colors all the time, so like an Eb will be brown, or whatever. Wicked stuff.

Originally Posted by: zreynoldspI forget his name, but he's also considered autistic.

what a coincidence, so am i!


/not joking about artistic for autistic
//asperger's syndrome

Originally Posted by: Jolly McJollysonI'm not sure about that, but I HAVE heard people with perfect pitch talk about the "color" of sound. They're being figurative, though.

i don't see in color but i definately see in shapes....whenever i'm listening to music, i can see it in the form of multiple plateaus shifting in and around each other.

seeing in shapes also helps that guitar is basically shapes...so maybe that's where that developed from...dunno. i see triads in the triangular shapes that they form on guitar...which really defeated the whole piano sheet thing that they would do in ear training class since i already had a method of seeing my music in my head.