Do you sometime think in clear, abstract, wordless, imageless, concepts?

United States
February 12, 2007 10:06pm CST
This happens to me a lot and was wondering to whom else it happens. And what kind of experiences and or ideas have you had?
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• United States
13 Feb 07
most of my thoughts are in images.. but from time to time i just know things.. i define those moments as psychic insights or gut instincts, and i think it falls right in line with the type of 'thoughts' you are asking about here
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• United States
13 Feb 07
Perhaps you are right. But, then I have always differentiated between my thoughts and imaginings, and insights and instincts they still seem different. I don't know now I have to go ponder this.
• United States
13 Feb 07
let me know what u come up with :)
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@wahmbuddy (391)
• Canada
13 Feb 07
If you truly watch. All thoughts are in images, you may attach words to them but as the thought starts it is an image. This what I learned from a Bob Proctor thing a few months back and since then I have been watching. I always think the image first.
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• Canada
14 Feb 07
that's really interesting. I'll have to pay closer attention and see what I come up with - lol.
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• United States
13 Feb 07
hhhhmmm.....I see what you are saying yet I can not agree with this. Many times I have something I have come to call a sub-thought. It starts as an impulse nothing more, then it becomes a feeling almost emotional but not the same emotion we feel when we react to something, then there is this sense of knowing something and no image that I can see (I have tried to no end to find the image and can not.), then if I want to understand the knowing my mind proceeds to associate it with a concept and that concept usually has some abstract visual associated (I have drawn many Salvador Dali like pictures based off this first conceptual image.), the concept proceeds then to get various concrete images and words associated with it, but if I don't care to understand it I can simply act upon it or let it go and all I have is that knowing. A wordless image-less knowing. Sometimes I get what I call intuition too, which also has no word or image. It comes as what I can only describe as a flash of insight. With meditation I have learned that I can actually silence my thoughts for prolonged periods and there by increase the number of these happenings because somehow structured thought actually distracts us from this unstructured experience. At least this is my experience as I understand it. Perhaps thought the image is there and I somehow miss it....
@Tetchie (2932)
• Australia
14 Feb 07
Fascinating topic. Experientially I can feel thoughts drop in. Of course it takes awhile to stop thoughts to see and feel this. When I meditate for long periods my thoughts are as if I was the most creative person in the world. I know I'm not supposed to be thinking, but lets face it - some days are good, some days are bad. So on the 'bad' days the thoughts are so awesome. On a more mundane level, ie without the use of meditation but due to a state of involution I get inspired thoughts. I can't call them abstract because there is so much sense to them. But they are not the usual thoughts which are humdrum. These inspired thoughts begin imageless, there is a knowingness to what is thought. And when I speak from this knowingness it can be on a subject I'm not savvy with usually, but a clear knowing. These layers above the head, which experientially I feel thoughts are from can contain limitless thoughts. And when putting awareness there, thoughts are so fast. The concept of the light bulb going off above ones head is interesting when you can feel where thoughts are coming from.
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