FIVE MODES OF THOUGHT

摘要

Since the 1970s, Russell Hurlburt of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has been beeping people six times a day to write down their thoughts, and following that up with interviews. His work suggests five basic modes of thinking: INNER SPEAKING Hearing words in your own voice INNER SEEING Seeing a visual image in your mind's eye FEELING Any strong emotion SENSORY AWARENESS A sensory signal that overwhelms all else. Can be imagined, e.g. thinking of something soft UNSYMBOLISED THINKING A concept unattached to any mental words or images Often, these thought modes are mixed up, as in this example: "Emma is cleaning up her kitchen... she had picked up a glass f mm her counter and had noticed two vases of mostly dead flowers... she's putting the glass upside down into the dishwasher; the seeing the glass and surrounding glasses and the trying to get it to fit are part of her experience... she innerly hears the crunchess of dead flowers (as if she has picked up some fallen rose petals) [(Imagined) sensory awareness]... Simultaneously she innerly sees the two vases of flowers and the countertop with the dead petals [Inner seeing]. This imaginary seeing is In color and detail... She has a sense that the cleaning up of the flowers can wait the sense of can wait is somehow present without words or symbols [unsymbolised thinking]".