Completing a thought before putting it in words?

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So, I have no clue if this is what it's like for most people, but I'm guessing it probably is normal, just more of a curiosity. So anyways, whenever I have a thought, there's two stages to it. I think the thought almost instantaneously, but then there's a considerable length of time between that and me actually putting the thought into a sentence. Like my thought is fully formed, and fully understand the thought, but the thought isn't in words (I don't know how else to put it), then there is more time between the thought formation and it being in words. Is this what it's like for everyone, or is it just me?

busterwasmycat · Answer

My brain does do stuff in the background while the foreground is doing stuff, too, and I think that is sort of what you are saying.  My thinking involves more than just the words that my brain uses to express them, although that is what results (words).  Mostly, the link is so fast that I do not see that there is background work happening before the words come to mind.  Sometimes, I have to search for the word or words to express what I want.  Hard to describe what that is like (the mind is "blank" of words yet is working), but I think what you are describing is the same sort of thing.

Completing a thought before putting it in words?

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