I, personally,
try to have sexual fantasies every chance I get.
But then I’m getting old.
To be specific, I always think in words which I imagine addressing to someone. I have tried to analyse the pattern by which I choose people in my thoughts to speak to before. For example, I often think as if I’m speaking to this guy who was my housemates boyfriend but who I only met a handful of times. I have no idea why, in my mind, I imagine myself speaking to him so often. I almost never imagine myself speaking to my lifelong partner, however.
I tend to visualize the corresponding reactions of people to what I am saying too, unless I am imagining that I am typing on message board, which I often do too.
This describes my situation almost exactly. The conversations between myself and myself are the most interesting. One of my, “Selves,” is very intelligent and the other is quite stupid, unfortunately, the stupid one really kicks ass at debating.
Ummmm… What are those?
I can think sounds, remembering a song or when I’m writing songs thinking what each note would sound like. I can remember what things smell like, taste like, and of course look like. Anything I can remember I can also synthesize as thoughts, I’m pretty sure. When it’s taste or smell it isn’t overwhelming or inescapable like real smells and tastes, it’s more like "yeah, that’s what that tastes/tasted like.
When I think things with words, it’s mostly all words. Like if I’m thinking of something to say there are words (not images of words like on a page, just word sounds, morphemes and the like) in my mind. But if I’m thinking of actions, like flipping a switch or petting the cat, there are no words. Swells of emotions like “aww dis mothafucka is SO CUTE” are commonplace.
My thinking comes in many different forms and often at the same time. I don’t know how to describe it. Last night, I was thinking music and fitting a harmony line to the melody line. In the meantime, my background thoughts were still running and available to me–my what-ifs, what-to-do’s–memories, and so on–all of which were a part of my overall thinking process. Some were in color–or were colors.
Of course, once one starts thinking about something specific, the background thoughts recede. But then, I start thinking about how I’m thinking–metacognition–so my thoughts become at least three layered. This makes it difficult for me to respond to posts about thinking.
Sounds like one of those rare instances where fantasy actually matches social and political reality.
Are you sure you don’t have adult ADD, LIzbeth?
I, of course, jest from the position of experience. My mind tends to try to do several things at once: multitask: which I’ve heard you women are far better at. It’s why I like writing, or any other art form; it gives me way of reigning in the chaos, of figuring out what it is I actually think.
What’s been interesting me lately, Lizbeth, is the way the mind works in the linear manner of a stream of consciousness, yet manages to work with seemingly 3 dimensional cognitive constructions such as cognitive maps. And by cognitive maps, I also mean the intellectual constructs and systems we come up with as the intellectually and creatively curious.
Through a linear process of thinking, we manage to create things we can approach from any angle –like a sculpture or rhizomatic network.
? : how cool is that
:-"
Tends to depend, at my best it’s so fast that I don’t need words, the answer is just there. Often such times are intriguing, especially when they relate the cosmological constant to space kittens and cheese that is slightly off and the square root of marmite.
In short creative endeavours no matter how nonsensical seem to come very easily to mind, without having to think too hard or have something either verbal or purely conceptual in mind, but higher functions such as knowing the meaning of the location of the 7 seas, or the principle of least resistance, to a chemical compound that is diverse and mixed among many compounds, that comes in words.
Usually from examples (preferably from and applied to to real-life situations). My thoughts tend to stay grounded in the world.
I think I think in mostly images… for a long time I had a hard time communicating my ideas, it has taken me time to learn to also think in words… what about you lizabethrose, i would imagine you think mostly in words?
To be frank most of them imagine like giving lecture , and punchlines in front of big names . usually men do lot like this. If you have watched action movie trailer
you can understand their way of imagination.
one man
“Me the Hitler , Me the Gandhi…
Me the Jesus , Me the Krishna…
I am the one who hold each and every aspect of masculine mind set .”
Imagination can happen two ways one is voice and other is image . wait a second , what about words we see instead of images ?
It is image too.
eg:- Imagine ten pencils , chance of imagining all ten pencils placed together is possible, but what when some one imagines words like ‘ten pencils’ in particular font and size.
well it is image too, image which holds words.
Hey ,What about taste? you can remember a taste right ?
what about smell, don’t you imagine the smell of plastic burning , still feel like coughing
or imagining somthing disgusting smell (not image) and feel like vomiting …
Can someone imagine chill ,and feel the cold. Is it possible???
Actually, quantum, when I’m flowing intellectually, I tend to imagine myself in an interview. It’s the only way I have of evaluating where I’m at as far as my thoughts and ideas and is the equivalent of the activities I engaged in when creating music, poetry, fiction, and art. Unlike those other mediums, thought (the process of playing with ideas) doesn’t provide as concrete a means of working towards realization.
And I know it’s egotistical. I, myself, have noted that interviews tend to be a matter of watching an individual do a lot of patting themselves on the back. But then that is the dynamic of interview: it’s there to promote –that is unless it’s done with the purpose of the interviewer of drawing the interviewee out such as the Couric/Palin or Frost/Nixon interview.
Furthermore, as Lacan points out, we’re all about the fictions we create to maintain the illusion of wholeness, the ego, which starts with seeing ourselves in the mirror for the first time. But with the intellectually and creatively curious, that tendency is accelerated. We, by our very nature, want to create superior fictions. We probably wouldn’t be here if we didn’t.
So as far as the phallogocentrism you bring up concerning trailers for action movies, women probably fair no better than men. Once a woman enters this game, she is no less phallic, egotistical, or narcissistic than any man on here.
However, there is a difference. And please don’t think me perverse as I explain this, that is since it has to do with sex. Human males, even when they’re attractive, tend to be physically awkward and ungainly. It takes a homosexual to be attracted to such a male. Female humans, on the other hand, tend to be physically beautiful even to homosexual males. Just look at the way homosexual artists portray them. On top of that, because of the dynamic of sex, the fact that a male wakes up with his shit looking at him and saying “if the opportunity arises, you will take it” and the female treats sex like a question of what wardrobe she’ll wear that day, leaves the male at a decided disadvantage. (It comes down to the fact that males can put out millions of sperm while the female always has one egg.) Therefore, males always feel like they have to rule the world while females can just bide their time. This is why, at parties, it will tend to be the males that are talking about politics while females are talking about what is right in front of their noses: what such and such is doing.
Ironically, this gives women an advantage in the arts. Men, while trying to rule the world, are prone to pretense. They’re always reaching beyond the reach of their resources. They’re always courting sentimentality to the extent that they’re trying to elicit responses that they often fail to justify. The upswing for them, though, is that, because of their ambition, when they do hit, they hit in very big ways.
Women, on the other hand, tend to keep things close to their noses. While males try to deal with the big issues of saving society in direct ways, females try to save society by just being sensual females. While males talk about the big social issues, females tend to talk about what the male in their life is doing to them.
But they both try to seduce. And because of that, they are equally phallic, narcissistic, and egotistical.
Anyway:
love ya, man!
(gotta roll to
whatever.