There is a 6th one as well, three dimensional (You'll often see it with dyslexics). ''The scientific word for 3D thinking is spatial visualization. Spatial visualization is the ability to rotate, maneuver, and disassemble two and three-dimensional objects in your head'' I can't speak for other dyslexics but my thoughts almost look like a video game, it's not pictures, its moving and I can walk though it. I have no idea if that makes sense but yeah guess it's a nice consolation prize haha.

Wow, I never knew there were so many ways to think. I’m a lot of 1 and 2 simultaneously but I can do 6 as well I think. It’s like I can hold the object in my hands in my brain and turn it, not like walk through. I’ve done all of them though. Pictures are more like videos depending on what I’m picturing. And I can daydream really intensely where it’s like a dream but I’m awake. My husband calls it Laurenland, but that could also just me being in my brain and paying 0 attention to my actual surroundings. I always assumed everyone must think the way I think, conceited of me I guess.

I wanna hang out with you! I'm very similar. Some people wonder why I have a superb sound system and beautiful playing/ sounding guitars and they rarely see me listening to music or playing music...it's because most of the time I have random and complex music that I hear in my brain that it creates all on its own and it almost is always there. Same with internal dialog. I have a very noisy brain.

How do people figure things out if they can't so that? My mind is a rich playground full of sights, sounds, and colors, it seems; much like when I dream, but I'm fully awake and in control. I think in HD video I guess, lol.

I got a monologue with pictures, kinda like a book

I'm a combination of 1 & 2. Sometimes I "know" what I'm going to think before I think it, if that makes any sense. Kinda like if you see something perched precariously and you know it's going to fall and then it does. So I get the abstract version followed by the monologue.

I guess I am interview. I always play out situations in my head. And try to explain them to someone.

What's it called if you have thoughts on top of other thoughts on top of other thoughts and they're all running at the same time in different tangents and none of them are really proper thoughts

I have this, too! Physical exercise helps settle this stuff down but if I get too tired and can’t rest it ramps up a lot.

Awww yesss, running does it for me. Not for knees though.

Chaos. Welcome to my world.

Emo Sloth: I don’t know what it’s called but I find that something going on in the background (ex a TV show I know and don’t have to watch) seems to distract part of my brain and let’s me sort out what I need to focus on. Idk if that makes sense at all. I will say if you can understand all those overlap thoughts it just sounds like your brain is really active. Like your thoughts go too quickly to fully see but you get it. If you can’t understand it, maybe disorganized thinking?

Emo sloth: that's called exhausting...

metacognition

Bro im like all of them besides 1

Interesting. I'm a 2 on those criteria.

Oh wow, I didn’t realize #5 was a thing other people did too, that’s really interesting Dunedin :)

Fascinating. I experience all of these.

I’m a combo of 2 and 4

I'm usually 5 or 2 unless I'm reading or "puzzling" (planning, solving, building, etc. ie, working out how something works) in which case it's 1 with a large helping of 6 mentioned in another comment.

I'm 1 with a fair bit of 5

I’m 1, 4, and 6

2and 3can be really frustrating if you deal with anxiety

Intrusive thoughts?

I’m diagnosed with ocd ya

I have that also. I can't mentally recall any of my senses. Just a total blank all the time.

Apparently they don't... I'm looking at a coworker now that has said at least 5 statements today that are stupid and offensive

That's why I just don't talk unless I'm super comfortable.

Lauren, reading all your comments - I am very similar to you with the 3D and disorganized thinking, literally everything you have said I'm like yes yes yes. Thoughts are like being in a room full of people and hearing every convo at the same damn time, looking at all the outfits, smelling everything and then being able to process it all simultaneously, but that then makes it incredibly difficult to concentrate on the task at hand. I've never heard of emo sloth but will go look it up, but yeah I HAVE to have music or the TV on when working otherwise I just cannot concentrate. Silence is my mortal enemy when it comes to productivity. It's easier if it's loud outside, cause if it's not outside then it's loud in my head.

Hello brain buddy!! ☺️ yes, silence doesn’t work for me at all! Lol! Emo sloth was a person’s screen name, I was commenting back to him.

For 3 years my bf and I had a tune stuck in our head and could NOT figure out what it was from. We'd sing it just to irritate the other. One Xmas eve I was in the kitchen baking, and I heard it! I rushed into the living room where we'd been watching a christmas story and there it was, Ralphie fighting that rascal Black Bart. Lol 😆 I laughed and laughed and now I'm almost sad we know what it's from lmao

😁 lol. I understood the joke but I’m fascinated by how everyone thinks so differently. I didn’t realize that.

I get periods of silence, usually punctuated by music, strange commentary (gaysexual, etc), and more music. Honestly it's mostly music. I just can't choose what music it is which is sad (although I can summon uptown funk at will which is nice)

YES music all the time. i used to make beats and i can sing so my brain is pretty musically oriented

God damn. Idk how you're alive. Mine is always either confusing commentary or music.

Well it comes down to a mix of I don't know what I'm missing and constantly having music or tv on to get rid of the silence.

I wish it was that easy lol

Sadly yes :c... wait You have mor than 2?!?!