In some intelligence test, there was a question 'Do you see an image of a word when you are asked to spell it out?'as a way to indicate if you're a visual thinker. I went to try and noticed that there was at least a visual area triggered when thinking of a word. I tried a few, and cracked up when I realised how I was telling myself, think of something! And then thinking that same thing, which in turn led to tricking myself into thinking of a penis. Then I thought, think of something nice. I saw nothing; Think of fear. I saw a person in a gutter; Success, an artist performing; Regret, my mother; Hope, this girl I'm after; Something nice-looking, red light slurs; Hate, my former best friend... This stuff is interesting. I distinguish three kinds of thought flashes here: 1. Thoughts that feel as if something forced you to think them 2. Thoughts that you hope will pop up (which is self-fulfilling) 3. Actually random Is this an genuine way to access your core values? Or maybe just your currently biased values? Can your own values be biased? Sorry, I need to sleep now, and I am almost sure I wont find time to elaborate on this and do more thinking on it. But who knows.
