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What does a thought sound like?
#21692942 - 05/17/15 11:46 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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I'd say like a cave. What say you?
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It sounds like nickels dropping onto concrete
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Re: What does a thought sound like? [Re: ModestMouse]
#21692963 - 05/17/15 11:50 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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I had no idea that my thoughts were alive enough to make sounds that are alive enough to like things.
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Re: What does a thought sound like? [Re: mindbodysoul]
#21693025 - 05/18/15 12:11 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Thoughts sound EXACTLY what colors look like.
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Re: What does a thought sound like? [Re: Sheekle] 1
#21693054 - 05/18/15 12:19 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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i think i thought that too once that might have been now, i'm not sure
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Re: What does a thought sound like? [Re: mindbodysoul]
#21693062 - 05/18/15 12:23 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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depends,
bad thoughts sound like someone screaming really loud into ur ears,
good thoughts sound like leaves blowing in the wind
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While thinking over the question, I came up with one of my own that I find more perplexing.
What goes through an animal's brain while it's thinking? They obviously think, they're capable of solving problems. Every bit of problem solving I do involves words. I googled it, I got "they think in concepts" but that doesn't really explain it to me.
For instance if it's all just memory based, then how is that information stored? All of my memories (and more specifically recalling those memories) involve language at some point or another. Now obviously some animals know some words. You tell a dog to sit a hundred times and give him a treat each time he does, they learn what sit means. But what of the animals who never come into contact with humans. They still learn things. Fire is bad. Messing with certain other animals is painful, etc.
In what form, is the information in their head telling them biting into that porcupine is a bad idea because of what happened the last time, taking?
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Re: What does a thought sound like? [Re: ModestMouse]
#21693131 - 05/18/15 12:42 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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ModestMouse said: It sounds like nickels dropping onto concrete
I actually really like this one. 
I imagine thoughts as a buzzing, like a hive of bees.
Awesome thought experiment OP
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Depends who hears it.
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Re: What does a thought sound like? [Re: Shroomslip]
#21693138 - 05/18/15 12:44 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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I think my dog is secretly fluent in English. She surprises me sometimes. She responds appropriately to what I say to her 95% of the time, even if I'm just talking to her rather than giving commands.
But I've wondered that same thing before, and got the same answer you did upon further research. I decided that because I think in language, its impossible for me to truly understand how something can "think in concepts, not language."
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Re: What does a thought sound like? [Re: TopPmz]
#21693165 - 05/18/15 12:58 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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TopPmz said: I think my dog is secretly fluent in English. She surprises me sometimes. She responds appropriately to what I say to her 95% of the time, even if I'm just talking to her rather than giving commands.
But I've wondered that same thing before, and got the same answer you did upon further research. I decided that because I think in language, its impossible for me to truly understand how something can "think in concepts, not language."
I came to the same conclusion but I'd still like to understand it. But after thinking about it (lol) I'm guessing I just won't be able to understand since thinking in language is so far ingrained into me.
This thread also made me realize something else. There is no voice when I think. There's no distinct sound to it which I find odd. If I think about what someone else said, I can hear it in their voice, if I recall something I said once, I can hear it in my voice, I can recall random ambient sounds, but if it's a completely unique thought that I've never heard anyone say, it lacks any and all distinction.
Which makes me wonder. If telepaths were real, and I have no way to distinguish my thoughts, how would I ever know that my thoughts were my own? For all I know half, or even all of what I'm thinking as I type this up is someone else inside my head planting these thoughts. Maybe that entire last line was deliberately implanted by them to fuck with me and rub it in my face that they're in my head and I can't do anything about it. So glad I'm not tripping while sitting here thinking about this shit.
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Edited by Shroomslip (05/18/15 12:58 AM)
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Re: What does a thought sound like? [Re: Shroomslip]
#21693326 - 05/18/15 02:54 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: What does a thought sound like? [Re: Angel_Above]
#21693478 - 05/18/15 05:36 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Angel_Above said: Depends who hears it.
This is true but my thoughts would sound like me going through my blessings and problems in life. How to do things right tomorrow. I guess my thoughts would be verbal,including all the sounds I hear in the background while thinking.
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Re: What does a thought sound like? [Re: Sheekle]
#21693485 - 05/18/15 05:45 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Sheekle said: Thoughts sound EXACTLY what colors look like.
For some reason, reading this sentence made me uncomfortable
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Thoughts sound like light bulbs and those watery dream sounds in cartoons when characters drift off into thought or sleep.
But maybe different thoughts have different sounds/vibrations. Happy thoughts seem like they'd be a light static buzzing, dark angry thoughts would be like grinding gears or scratchiness.
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Re: What does a thought sound like? [Re: Shroomslip]
#21693763 - 05/18/15 09:02 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Shroomslip said:
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TopPmz said: I think my dog is secretly fluent in English. She surprises me sometimes. She responds appropriately to what I say to her 95% of the time, even if I'm just talking to her rather than giving commands.
But I've wondered that same thing before, and got the same answer you did upon further research. I decided that because I think in language, its impossible for me to truly understand how something can "think in concepts, not language."
I came to the same conclusion but I'd still like to understand it. But after thinking about it (lol) I'm guessing I just won't be able to understand since thinking in language is so far ingrained into me.
This thread also made me realize something else. There is no voice when I think. There's no distinct sound to it which I find odd. If I think about what someone else said, I can hear it in their voice, if I recall something I said once, I can hear it in my voice, I can recall random ambient sounds, but if it's a completely unique thought that I've never heard anyone say, it lacks any and all distinction.
Which makes me wonder. If telepaths were real, and I have no way to distinguish my thoughts, how would I ever know that my thoughts were my own? For all I know half, or even all of what I'm thinking as I type this up is someone else inside my head planting these thoughts. Maybe that entire last line was deliberately implanted by them to fuck with me and rub it in my face that they're in my head and I can't do anything about it. So glad I'm not tripping while sitting here thinking about this shit.
Haha, that shits deep man. I see what you're saying. While I wouldn't say my thoughts have a distinctive voice, I'd wager that I could tell the difference between the "sound" of my thoughts versus others. "So glad I'm not tripping while sitting here thinking about this shit." Haha, I agree with ya there.
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Re: What does a thought sound like? [Re: TopPmz]
#21693797 - 05/18/15 09:15 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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"pfffffftt"
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Re: What does a thought sound like? [Re: Mr.PhilCybin]
#21694069 - 05/18/15 11:02 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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My thoughts sound exactly like my voice but only I can hear it. Unless I'm thinking/remembering and image which are silent.
I had a friend who was completely fluent in both Spanish and English. She once told me that she thinks in Spanish (her first language). Until that point I never considered how I'd think if I didn't know a language.
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Re: What does a thought sound like? [Re: grower182]
#21694121 - 05/18/15 11:14 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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But does it sound like your voice as you hear it, or your true voice?
I know like, a few words in several languages. I'm not fluent in any, except English and profanity though. I can't imagine thinking in another language.
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Re: What does a thought sound like? [Re: Psy Baba]
#21694133 - 05/18/15 11:17 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Psy Baba said:
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ModestMouse said: It sounds like nickels dropping onto concrete
I actually really like this one. 
I imagine thoughts as a buzzing, like a hive of bees.
Awesome thought experiment OP
Yeah same here, but quieter. More like a hiss. Like a small air leak or a fan or motor in the distance.
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I can't relate these buzzing and jingling sounds to the sound of a thought. Are you guys like, considering what the reaction in your brain sounds like whenever a thought occurs?
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Re: What does a thought sound like? [Re: TopPmz]
#21694200 - 05/18/15 11:37 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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I can have it so there are no words going on but that quiet high-pitch high-frequency noise is always there. It doesn't seem like like tinnitus, which is something I get once in a while also, because when I focus in on these hums I feel like they are more part of my consciousness. The hums can either morph into coherent thoughts or I can interpret them as such, where tinnitus is just a ringing in my ears. I'm not actually "hearing" anything either it is just some sensation that is hard to pin down, so you compare it to what you know.
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a thought sounds like the gentle raining down of neurotransmitter molecules onto receptor sites.
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Re: What does a thought sound like? [Re: Asante]
#21694272 - 05/18/15 11:56 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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A single pluck from some string instrument, or sometimes a low droning sound for when you get all up in that head.
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Re: What does a thought sound like? [Re: Turtletotem]
#21694296 - 05/18/15 12:06 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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they sound like
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Re: What does a thought sound like? [Re: Asante]
#21694330 - 05/18/15 12:18 PM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Asante said: a thought sounds like the gentle raining down of neurotransmitter molecules onto receptor sites.
Like the gentle burble of a creek in a forest
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moonrockmushy said: I can have it so there are no words going on but that quiet high-pitch high-frequency noise is always there. It doesn't seem like like tinnitus, which is something I get once in a while also, because when I focus in on these hums I feel like they are more part of my consciousness. The hums can either morph into coherent thoughts or I can interpret them as such, where tinnitus is just a ringing in my ears. I'm not actually "hearing" anything either it is just some sensation that is hard to pin down, so you compare it to what you know.
Good explanation.
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