[UA] Re: Thought and language

[Ville Halonen]

James Palmer wrote:
>Now, the thing that unnerves me is the way that if I remember something I experienced as a child, all my contemporaries, whether six or eleven or fifteen, look like adults in my head.  I have a suspicion that most of our memories are in fact memories of memories of memories; reworkings within ourselves of our own stories.

Funny. I see several of my early childhood memories from an external point of view, like through a camera. Funny that I've never before thought of making a story out of it.

As for remembering in images or words, on my part it depends on the mood. My intellectual capabilities and writing are better when I'm thinking in words, and I'm also more rational and maybe "colder" then. I've been in the image mode all day now, and just can't seem to do anything – but, if I went outside (too much to ask in this town), it would probably be easier to communicate with people, without all kinds of complicated thoughts running around my brain preventing the social skills from surfacing. I recall to have had my most serious depressions during image-thinking moods. Not sure though.

I've never been able to figure out what constitutes these moods that usually last for at least a day.

-V
Dr. Mindbender


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