Abstract Thought

Abstract Thought is a location in Inside Out inside mind. It is a highly dangerous room which, when active, extracts a simplified, abstract concept from anything put inside it, following a 4-step process. The first step is fragmentation, as the object is transformed into a set of geometric Picasso-like shapes. Then follows deconstruction, where all pieces constituting the object detach. Following this, it becomes two-dimensional, and finally, it becomes figurative.

Joy, Sadness and Bing Bong entered Abstract Thought when the latter claimed it was a shortcut. Soon after they are in, two Mind Workers arrive to analyze the concept of "loneliness". However, as they see that there seems to be something inside the room already, they activate it to clean it up beforehand. The two Emotions and Bing Bong are suddenly taken through the extraction process, becoming progressively simplified in shape. They succeed nevertheless to escape before being they are completely deconstructed.