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Mind

Revealed: What your thoughts look like and how they compare to others’

We finally have a grasp on the many different ways of thinking and how your inner mindscape affects your experience of reality

By Kate Douglas

19 July 2023

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Paweł Jońca

WITH hindsight, it is clear this has been puzzling me for years. It started with the realisation that I don’t always see things the way others do. Then I began to wonder what was going on inside other people’s minds. I don’t mean what they are thinking, but how they are thinking. What form does their stream of consciousness take – and could it be entirely different from mine?

Thinking about thinking is hard. Sure, you may have heard of inner voice and inner vision: there was that buzz about people who don’t have any internal monologue, and huge interest in …

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