<p>When you remember things, or when you are reading a story, or when you are thinking about an idea, which of the following best approximates how you experience your thought process?</p>
<p>1) Visual perception: you think in images. When someone says, "dog," you see a dog. When you remember, you remember in vivid images. </p>
<p>2) Linguistic perception: you think in words and letters, written or spoken. When someone says "dog," you see the letters D-O-G, or something similar. Your memories are occasionally visual, but your narration of them is just as important as the image accompanying it. </p>
<p>3) Abstract perception: you think in ideas. For example, "dog" does not cause you to think of a dog's image or the letters composing the word, but rather the 'sense' of what "dog" means. Your memories are difficult to trace and organize linearly, and though you can call up images, you're constructing them actively from how you know things would have looked.</p>
<p>Linguistic perception, I’d say. I usually think in words and numbers, rarely in images, unless I’m deliberately trying to imagine a place in my memory. I guess that makes me left brain dominant. What about you, JimboSteve?</p>
<p>Visual mostly, mixed with a good portion of abstract. Very little linguistic, unless trying to recall words printed on a page (which is probably more a visual effort than a linguistic one!)</p>
<p>I can’t really differentiate between abstract and visual within my own mind…I see my memories in pictures, I think in pictures, but I also think very conceptually. So maybe a bit of both…</p>
<p>I extremely abstract to the point I have trouble with memory and I have to do it in weird way. I take one memory and will look at and create 500 million scenarios. I can make up stories for hours and not even realize it.</p>