I wonder how fast our thought processes are. I should explain. It seems like before my thoughts are words like an internal monologue, they begin as more of an inexpressible feeling. Before I have the thought "I want to eat some toast", my brain seems to go through a few steps. First my brain recognizes that my stomach is empty and I should fix it. Then I remember that have bread and a toaster. Before the idea of toast is in my head, my thought feels like "I'm hungry? I have a solution for that *wink wink nudge nudge*". Like an inside joke among friends, or an innuendo, a message is passed without directly stating what is being expressed. Perhaps a couple of nanoseconds after that my brain processes this suggestive feeling into English words. I should create a temporary term for this. For now, this will be referred to as "raw thought".

I have probably confused a lot of people reading this journal. I do apologize for my lack of clarity. It is difficult to describe something with a defining nature is inexpressible. But hopefully we are all aware of the idea of "on the tip of my tongue". You know that moment when you have a thought or an answer that you want to say, but just cannot do so. You feel the idea is in your head, but you cannot put this idea into words. That idea or feeling stuck in your head are the "raw thoughts" of which I speak. It is basically what "gut feelings" are.

I can only speak for myself, but these raw thoughts occur for every expressible thought I have. It feels like I have every thought twice; first as a raw thought, then the same thought translated into English words that are narrated in my head as an inner monologue.

If I have not properly explained the idea of "raw thought" by now, I do not think it is worth pursuing further. I wish to return to the idea I had originally. I was wondering how fast the brain moves from forming a raw thought to turning that thought into words. When I am writing, my mind spends a lot of time in this state of thought translating. Of course the speed of this translation varies. Most of the time it seems to happen almost instantly while on rare occasions it takes a minute or two when we have it "on the tip of the tongue".

If you wish for an answer to this question or a way to find one, I am sorry to disappoint you. I have neither of those. I do not even have evidence to support my claim of the existence of raw thoughts. This is simply an idle thought that I wish to pass onto you. The tricky part was putting this thought into words.