What's going on in that head of yours?

While working at a conference last week we had quite a bit of down time. Too much time + nothing to do = time for some great sweating of small stuff!! ( Yes, we were selling Math curriculum. ) One of the conversations led to an interesting discovery. Not everyone thinks the way I do . Yes, I know this isn't any surprise. However, I am not talking about it in the usual sense. The conversation was about what is actually going on in a persons mind while listening to someone speak. As I listen there are pictures like a little movie going on in my head just behind my forehead. We delved into this further with some of the people visiting our booth found some see written words instead of pictures and other do not "see" anything. Is this interesting?! Especially in my mind where I am looking at them seeing words running across their forehead like a digital reader board or more interesting the blank mind. So now I am really curious!!! Who sees movies?? Who sees words?? Who sees nothing and what exactly is happening when you see nothing??? Is there anyone who has an even different experience??

Having a brain which processes this way causes me a lot of trouble. Often the "movie" translates the conversation literally. That's probably why I enjoy slang phrases so much. Old stand-bys like " I love it better than a hog loves his waller" is a great one to pop onto my minds movie screen out of the blue. Other times the "movie" runs ahead of the conversation. On occasion the movie gets "stuck" after something really funny happens and I can't stop seeing it or laughing inappropriately. I found a way to help maneuver around this the other day. Kathy was practicing a speech she is delivering in a couple weeks. She had forgotten her glasses so was wearing 2 pairs.. Must have been one for distance and another further down on her nose for close-up. It looked so funny I bursted out laughing. Consequently she removed one of the pairs. However, my mind continued to see the home made bifocals. In an attempt to control my laughter I pictured snakes during her talk. I have no idea what was in her talk but at least I didn't continue to interrupt her with laughter. No one else on the support team seemed to have this "problem" or thought it was all that funny in the first place. The question I have is did the others on the support team not have "movie brains" or did they just have more self control?

I would so love your take on this. Hope you will have time out of your busy day of thinking about things that are really important and post a comment.