I have been thinking lately if I can do some of my thinking ,including praying, in images.Of course the assumption here is that thinking actually takes place in language.In order to test this out I have tried to break the thoughts midway to check whether I have been using language ,whether it is my mothertongue or the English lanuage.Some use of the language no doubt is there but it is mostly where conceptual thinking takes place.While praying I have been trying to re-enact the temple scenario as though it is a dream I am recalling on the next day.Thinking or leading up to thinking can always be accomplished by re-enacting a past experience and through a chronological recall of the past experience especially the major events or signposts.But this is not thinking in images in the strict sense of the term because images are essentially representational and a recall of the chain of events may not necessarily mean thinking in images.
By images we mean a series of mental pictures which need not have common thread running among them but those we think up representing the reality through the use of analogy or language symbols highly suggestive of the underlying thought processes.Thought is accomplished through complex linkages between disparate representationalities ,all the while with focuss on the process of leading up to the central thought. Images further the complex thought progression through a recall of the sensory experiences associated with the central thought
