"What is Thinking Like, for YOU?"

I think it's probably indicative of my slight infatuation with the lady that I feel a bit silly about having pulled the title question off of Annie Lennox's blog. (Oh, dear...)

But I thought it was an interesting question. How do thoughts form in your head? Not the biochemical process stuff, and synapses firing and all that stuff (which I totally don't understand), more like...

Okay, you know how some people dream with total sensory perception - colour, texture, taste, smell, sound, everything? And other people dream in black and white, or they dream in colour and sound, but they don't get texture, taste or smell? Or they dream in sound, but they don't have sight at all?

Are waking thoughts the same way?

I mean, most of my thinky-thinking comes in the form of conversations. That is, I have imaginary conversations with People I Like (whether they're people I know or not is quite a different story) and this is how a train of thought develops. (Maybe it was all the discussion groups in Humanities, or something... I dunno...) But I've always found it's easier to understand something if I can talk it out/through with someone else -- even if that someone else is either (A) fictional, or (B) so unknown to me that they may as well be fictional for all that my idea of them is accurate. (I have imagined conversations with minor celebrities, okay? So shoot me. ;-)


I've been known to try and draw my thoughts - badly, and often as rambling, half-constructed flow-charts. A visual version of a tangent, basically - to try and sort them out. But it's never quite as good as writing them down. Because writing is, in a way, a conversation (I think Ursula Le Guin said that. It wouldn't surprise me if she did, anyway).


I think that's why I like live journal so much. Because it's like having a conversation, even when it feels more like I'm just sending words out into the void (throwing seeds into the mist and not knowing where they'll land, so to speak). There's bound to be someone hearing on the other end, if not listening, right? (I promise this is not me fishing for comments. Seriously).

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Oh, gods, it's 6:45 and I'm yawning already. I think I'll be in bed by 7pm.

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Question for you (and now I *am* fishing for comments): What do you think of when you think of the term "awakening"? Suggestions? Thoughts? Themes? I'm ideas-hunting. :-)

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Also: The luggage has been picked up, and is now the hell out of my house. Hurrah! :-D

Additionally: I have this pillow - possibly from Thailand, I don't remember - that my grandmother gave me. It's in the shape of a lion. Sort of. (Very stylized). Anyway, it's been falling apart quite badly for the past year or so, and I finally sat down (yesterday evening) and fixed the darn thing.So the lion is no-longer losing his tail. Hurrah. :-)

We are slated to get a new door at 1pm on Friday, so hopefully that will go well (and hopefully the guy will be able to use our current door-hardware -- otherwise it's going to cost us buckets of money that we've technically got, but would *really* rather not spend). So that should be good.

I am seriously ready to drop. This can't be good.

Time to go to bed, I think. :-)

- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)