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If you have not images, how can you think?

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I was 7 years old when I realized I did not have visual imagery and forgot about it.
30 years later, I mentioned it to a student, and she was shocked.  “How can you think?”
That started an ongoing search.
How do I think?  It is like talking to someone or giving a lecture.  Some people listen rather than talk.  And others see pictures.  Or so I am told.

Here is a test of auditory imagery.  When a song runs through your head, who is doing the singing?

 

 

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on April 28, 2021

The only relation to any song stuck in my head and the actual song is language – the fact that they both consist of the same words. Yet, it has no volume, tone, or pitch!

If you would like to join a relevant discussion that we’ll be getting traffic from social media when we share it, I actually just posted it – Do you have a mind’s voice?