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Do You Prefer Words or Pictures ?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Not just on Fab but life in general.

Do you see and feel the world mostly in visual terms or do you 'write' thoughts in your head and express them best in text ?

And which works best in different contexts?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think in pictures and can have a huge blond spot for words. I'm that person who describes a thing perfectly but can't name it.

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By *oirinMarkusCouple
over a year ago

West Midlands and West London

Words, for everything. I don't even like listening to audio books x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My favourite book is The Hungry Caterpillar, so as you may have surmised I’m very much a wordsmith, my lexicon is extensive.

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By *emorefridaCouple
over a year ago

La la land

Words even though I'm dyslexic. If I'm jotting my thoughts it tends to be spider diagrams. And definitely one for reading books over TV

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

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Pictures definitely. I'm clearly not one for words, can't stand the things. Why have the dull tapestry of language when you can just look at a picture?

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By *affron40Woman
over a year ago

manchester

I love words and how they can evoke crazy imagery. I see the world in a bizarre collection of images created from words. When I try and explain what a sentence has just created I often sound absolutely barking. But it makes me chuckle and I love it.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Pictures definitely. I'm clearly not one for words, can't stand the things. Why have the dull tapestry of language when you can just look at a picture? "

Sorry Meli, did you say something ? Was looking at the new avatar.

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By *irtydevil666Man
over a year ago

bristol

Has to be pictures...a picture is worth a 1000 words....

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"My favourite book is The Hungry Caterpillar, so as you may have surmised I’m very much a wordsmith, my lexicon is extensive. "

Hmmmm, must be some excellent puns in The Hungry Caterpillar then.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I think in pictures and can have a huge blond spot for words. I'm that person who describes a thing perfectly but can't name it. "
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I've got a blond spot for a few people on Fab

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love words, but i am a very visual person

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By *eatrice BadinageWoman
over a year ago

In a Sparkly Dress

Definitely words especially soft tones with descriptive words coming through my headphones late at night

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

I'm a radio person .. just started listening to podcasts

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

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"Pictures definitely. I'm clearly not one for words, can't stand the things. Why have the dull tapestry of language when you can just look at a picture?

Sorry Meli, did you say something ? Was looking at the new avatar. "

Aww Leo you little flirt.

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By *tue555Man
over a year ago

Passed Beyond Reach

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By *tue555Man
over a year ago

Passed Beyond Reach

Words always pictures tell you nothing- words tell you sooo much more and not just those that are written, how they are written and who, especially in couples profiles and forum posts. Just because they write mr or mrs doesn't make it so you know who actually wrote them

Just importantly words that are not written.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I am very much into words. They can take you places you’ve only every dreamed of. Describe things that pictures never can.

They carry power, passion, desires, promises and yet they can destroy as well as create.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

As part of my extensive prep for this thread I discoverd:

The brain processes visual images 60,000 times faster than text

90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual.

And of course humans evolved our visual abilities long before we used words in a coherent way.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I am very much into words. They can take you places you’ve only every dreamed of. Describe things that pictures never can.

They carry power, passion, desires, promises and yet they can destroy as well as create. "

I always enjoy your use of words as a thread maker and poster.

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By *ormorantMan
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

Old Japanese proverb

You read - you forget

You see - you remember

And not entirely relevant to the thread but to make it complete

You do - you understand.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Definitely words. I'd much rather read over watching television and I can't listen to audio books.

Even when it comes to erotica, I get far more aroused from reading erotic fiction over watching porn.

Mrs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Old Japanese proverb

You read - you forget

You see - you remember

And not entirely relevant to the thread but to make it complete

You do - you understand.

"
that's why I don't understand women ...

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By *uenevereWoman
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

I need both in my world.

I'm very visual and picture routes and places in my head, but prefer a book to a film and love interesting words.

I remember/learn best by doing something and writing it down. I also love lists

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As someone on the autism spectrum words a very difficult for me, I much prefer pictures, that’s how I think, in pictures.

When I do the grocery shopping I don’t write a list, I just look at the fridge and cupboard then when I’m in the shop I consult the pictures in my head.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I am very much into words. They can take you places you’ve only every dreamed of. Describe things that pictures never can.

They carry power, passion, desires, promises and yet they can destroy as well as create.

I always enjoy your use of words as a thread maker and poster. "

Thank you

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Old Japanese proverb

You read - you forget

You see - you remember

And not entirely relevant to the thread but to make it complete

You do - you understand.

"

I like that but couldn't agree with the first one- my memory is full of words, quotes, jokes, facts, poetry, etc. Much more so than images I think.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"As someone on the autism spectrum words a very difficult for me, I much prefer pictures, that’s how I think, in pictures.

When I do the grocery shopping I don’t write a list, I just look at the fridge and cupboard then when I’m in the shop I consult the pictures in my head. "

I wonder if many people now do the same with their phones ? Photograph what they need to remember and use it as an external memory.

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By *tue555Man
over a year ago

Passed Beyond Reach


"As part of my extensive prep for this thread I discoverd:

The brain processes visual images 60,000 times faster than text

90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual.

And of course humans evolved our visual abilities long before we used words in a coherent way."

Are pictures not a form of words or language, that tell a story from cave paintings hieroglyphics, to movies

If you see picture of naked woman on the bed what does that tell you? What could words tell you?

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By *igmaMan
over a year ago

Yorkshire

You quite engrossed in Carl Jung at the mo Leo?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"As part of my extensive prep for this thread I discoverd:

The brain processes visual images 60,000 times faster than text

90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual.

And of course humans evolved our visual abilities long before we used words in a coherent way.

Are pictures not a form of words or language, that tell a story from cave paintings hieroglyphics, to movies

If you see picture of naked woman on the bed what does that tell you? What could words tell you?"

Absolutely they're a form of language, and our earliest form of self expression as you say. The written word is a very recent development in human history.

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

Words can take me off to another world, open my mind and let my imagination come to life where you can almost hear, see and sometimes feel what has been written.

Photos have their place though as can transport me to places (mostly nature) that I can only imagine visiting or capturing a set moment in time, which invokes fond memories.

So simply both

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By *ex HolesMan
over a year ago

Up North

Tit pics for the win

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

Do you see and feel the world mostly in visual terms or do you 'write' thoughts in your head and express them best in text ?

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I'd say my thoughts are often best left in my head......

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"You quite engrossed in Carl Jung at the mo Leo?"

Wow, I just Googled 'Jung, Words and Images' and this thread is a total coincidence after the other one, although I'm sure he'd say there are no coincidences in the sub-conscious.

I'm a sceptic around psychoanalysis but I have enjoyed his writing as much as I can understand it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Words …I like to imagine the pictures in my mind

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By *igtatsMan
over a year ago

gravesend

I love reading but I can’t learn without seeing so pics for me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Definitely words...

With words you create your own pictures

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By *igmaMan
over a year ago

Yorkshire


"You quite engrossed in Carl Jung at the mo Leo?

Wow, I just Googled 'Jung, Words and Images' and this thread is a total coincidence after the other one, although I'm sure he'd say there are no coincidences in the sub-conscious.

I'm a sceptic around psychoanalysis but I have enjoyed his writing as much as I can understand it."

Synchronicity!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Words can take me off to another world, open my mind and let my imagination come to life where you can almost hear, see and sometimes feel what has been written.

Photos have their place though as can transport me to places (mostly nature) that I can only imagine visiting or capturing a set moment in time, which invokes fond memories.

So simply both "

That is very evocative writing, I wish it could be illustrated with one of your photos !

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By *oirinMarkusCouple
over a year ago

West Midlands and West London


"As someone on the autism spectrum words a very difficult for me, I much prefer pictures, that’s how I think, in pictures.

When I do the grocery shopping I don’t write a list, I just look at the fridge and cupboard then when I’m in the shop I consult the pictures in my head. "

Very interesting, I am some degree of autistic and I always have the list. It's online and shared between my partner and I. Otherwise I can't remember as my head has pictures of my fridge being full and empty, I've seen it too often and have discarded the most recent picture!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I need both; a picture paints a thousand words, but a thousand words can paint one hell of a picture.

oh, and GIF's, loves a good GIF

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"You quite engrossed in Carl Jung at the mo Leo?

Wow, I just Googled 'Jung, Words and Images' and this thread is a total coincidence after the other one, although I'm sure he'd say there are no coincidences in the sub-conscious.

I'm a sceptic around psychoanalysis but I have enjoyed his writing as much as I can understand it.

Synchronicity! "

Mind slightly blown now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"As someone on the autism spectrum words a very difficult for me, I much prefer pictures, that’s how I think, in pictures.

When I do the grocery shopping I don’t write a list, I just look at the fridge and cupboard then when I’m in the shop I consult the pictures in my head.

I wonder if many people now do the same with their phones ? Photograph what they need to remember and use it as an external memory."

Probably, I do that at work when dismantling things and at home when I’m working on the bike

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By *igmaMan
over a year ago

Yorkshire


"You quite engrossed in Carl Jung at the mo Leo?

Wow, I just Googled 'Jung, Words and Images' and this thread is a total coincidence after the other one, although I'm sure he'd say there are no coincidences in the sub-conscious.

I'm a sceptic around psychoanalysis but I have enjoyed his writing as much as I can understand it.

Synchronicity!

Mind slightly blown now. "

You can mull that one over

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"You quite engrossed in Carl Jung at the mo Leo?

Wow, I just Googled 'Jung, Words and Images' and this thread is a total coincidence after the other one, although I'm sure he'd say there are no coincidences in the sub-conscious.

I'm a sceptic around psychoanalysis but I have enjoyed his writing as much as I can understand it.

Synchronicity!

Mind slightly blown now. "

Look up Freud too about the subconscious

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Usually pictures especially if they are of Naked men Mr Blooms

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Usually pictures especially if they are of Naked men Mr Blooms "

Welcome back Ms Dreamy, never change

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I love reading but I can’t learn without seeing so pics for me "

It's the learning which matters, not the method.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Both. One day I'm going to respond to a thread and not sit on the fence!

I'm visual in a lot of ways. I see days and months as colours and such. I can describe feelings best with metaphors as it takes ages if I try to articulate. But street and road names don't stick in my head, I have to visualise stuff such as that to know my way.

But I love language and words. Good question OP!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Words …I like to imagine the pictures in my mind "

There's a myth that men are more aroused by images and women by words but the research says it's about equal.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Usually pictures especially if they are of Naked men Mr Blooms

Welcome back Ms Dreamy, never change "

Will never change Mr Blooms, now get your kit off and get in my inbox

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

Words allow you to build your own pictures, as the mind fills in gaps that aren't written.

I find with some discworld films, I am disappointed. The characters and settings, aren't as good as the the pictures I formed, by reading the books.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I prefer words. They can evoke far more emotion than most pictures. This is funny because I’m actually a photographer.

But you really can’t beat a good wordsmith

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Words allow you to build your own pictures, as the mind fills in gaps that aren't written.

I find with some discworld films, I am disappointed. The characters and settings, aren't as good as the the pictures I formed, by reading the books."

I imagine this is common with fantasy and sci fi literature, the imagination of a great writer surpasses any special effect.

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By *otSoPoshWoman
over a year ago

In a ball gown because that's how we roll in N. Devon

I have no overall preference, but enjoy both at different times and for different reasons.

I always enjoy a book rather than a film, but I enjoy a picture and the subsequent images it can create in my head.

I'm definitely a visual imaginer. I think in words but imagine in pictures, still and moving.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I have no overall preference, but enjoy both at different times and for different reasons.

I always enjoy a book rather than a film, but I enjoy a picture and the subsequent images it can create in my head.

I'm definitely a visual imaginer. I think in words but imagine in pictures, still and moving."

I think you've certainly added to Fab's collective visual enjoyment today Posh !

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By *indergirlWoman
over a year ago

somewhere, someplace

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By *indergirlWoman
over a year ago

somewhere, someplace

Both for me, I'm a very visual person, but I love the written word just as much, picturing my own image of what's written

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By *otSoPoshWoman
over a year ago

In a ball gown because that's how we roll in N. Devon


"I have no overall preference, but enjoy both at different times and for different reasons.

I always enjoy a book rather than a film, but I enjoy a picture and the subsequent images it can create in my head.

I'm definitely a visual imaginer. I think in words but imagine in pictures, still and moving.

I think you've certainly added to Fab's collective visual enjoyment today Posh ! "

Oh dear me.... you saw that?

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By *urplechesterCouple
over a year ago

chester

I’m dyslexic and have a big issue with words and numbers. Every word has to be turned into a visual in my head before I can understand it! So 100% imagery here! Miss pc

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I have no overall preference, but enjoy both at different times and for different reasons.

I always enjoy a book rather than a film, but I enjoy a picture and the subsequent images it can create in my head.

I'm definitely a visual imaginer. I think in words but imagine in pictures, still and moving.

I think you've certainly added to Fab's collective visual enjoyment today Posh !

Oh dear me.... you saw that? "

I ermmm...'heard' about it

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Both for me, I'm a very visual person, but I love the written word just as much, picturing my own image of what's written"

That's a great way to put it, turning words into our own visuals as we go.

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By *luebell888Woman
over a year ago

Glasgowish

Pictures speak a thousand words.

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By *quaman87Man
over a year ago

colchester

I think words and pics for me.

Only words and letting the imagination run wild as good as it sounds, can lead to disappointment as reality is never what you imagined

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Both. One day I'm going to respond to a thread and not sit on the fence!

I'm visual in a lot of ways. I see days and months as colours and such. I can describe feelings best with metaphors as it takes ages if I try to articulate. But street and road names don't stick in my head, I have to visualise stuff such as that to know my way.

But I love language and words. Good question OP!!"

Thanks and 'both' is not fence sitting ! I think a visual-based memory is very common, even if we love words in other contexts.

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