Poll of the Day > Do you have an inner monologue voice?

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/inner-monologue-experience-science-1.5486969

I do. I didn't know that not everyone does.

If you don't, how do you think? What is it like?

I do and I talk to myself. There was this guy named John who used to give me shit for it. Helps me to think outloud while ordering tasks in my head at work in the old days. Personally, I think lots of others are robot npc sims that don't understand anything outside their programming. Sucks to be them.

It's also good for speech practice to physically mouth the words ans thoughts to attune them in your head and a mitigation against anxiety whether autonomic or not.

I talk to myself too. I wonder if my self esteem would be better with no inner monologue

I do have an internal monologue. You know what I can't do? Visualize. If you tell me to picture a red circle. I just can't do it. I know what a red circle looks like but if I close my eyes and try to picture a red circle I just can't.

papercup posted...

I do have an internal monologue. You know what I can't do? Visualize. If you tell me to picture a red circle. I just can't do it. I know what a red circle looks like but if I close my eyes and try to picture a red circle I just can't.

See, I can do both. I just learned that some people can do one or the other, both or neither this year

I used to have a partial photographic memory but I lost it around 10th grade. Remember this vocabulary books we used to have in school? I could see them while taking the tests. I just have to close my eyes and I'd see portions of it in my head.

I'd kill to know how to cultivate that ability. I always figured artists had it or something similar in order to draw the way they do.

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I think with a lot of internal sentences, but many of them probably trail off and don't get finished. I don't internally talk through every little thing I do; I could get up from my chair right now without saying anything internally about it, for instance.

OmegaM posted...

I think with a lot of internal sentences, but many of them probably trail off and don't get finished. I don't internally talk through every little thing I do; I could get up from my chair right now without saying anything internally about it, for instance.

Yes, that's not what internal monologue is. It isn't constant narration of your own movements.

Yeah mine sounds like Mel Blanc

I think I have a very small one. I dont really talk to myself or read in my own voice naturally, but sometimes I find it easier to remember something if I make myself ask myself? Like if I dont know where I left my keys, Ill make myself ask where did I last see my keys and then Ill answer myself maybe in the kitchen? I used the bottle opener keychain a while ago. I dont know why thats better than just remembering outright, but ehh brains are weird.

I really really suck at picturing things in my head though. I always thought people, teachers, media, etc. were just being flowery when they say that reading a book is like a movie playing in your head. But Ive spoken to people who thats like a real thing for? Like they can see the book playing out? That does not happen to me at all. About the only thing I can picture are the still faces of my immediate family, from 15ish years ago.

papercup posted...

I do have an internal monologue. You know what I can't do? Visualize. If you tell me to picture a red circle. I just can't do it. I know what a red circle looks like but if I close my eyes and try to picture a red circle I just can't.

At my old job we had a client like this, it was my first exposure to someone who couldnt visualize stuff. Really sweet lady, we had to make sure there were pictures for everything because if we tried to have her imagine something it just wasnt happening.

It still kind of fascinates me because I didnt ever think of that as something that some people wouldnt be able to do because it just comes naturally to me. I wonder how common it is?

I do and it's going like 99% of the time, I can also visualize decently but that's not a constant. I just wonder how people that don't do either process stuff.

I read the article (to actually provide an on topic answer) and I guess I do have an inner monologue. Similarly to visualizing, I always just kind of assumed everyone had one.

ChaoticKnuckles posted...

I read the article (to actually provide an on topic answer) and I guess I do have an inner monologue. Similarly to visualizing, I always just kind of assumed everyone had one.

I also assumed everyone had one.

Not only do I talk to myself, but I sing, do character voices, and make jokes to myself, too. I swear I'm not insane. I work alone and I suppose I've developed this habit to keep my mind occupied.

Grendel_Prime posted...

Not only do I talk to myself, but I sing, do character voices, and make jokes to myself, too. I swear I'm not insane. I work alone and I suppose I've developed this habit to keep my mind occupied.

Definitely not insanity lol

mine pretty much never shuts up, gibberish sometimes if I'm not thinking but notice it.

MrMelodramatic posted...

I really really suck at picturing things in my head though. I always thought people, teachers, media, etc. were just being flowery when they say that reading a book is like a movie playing in your head. But Ive spoken to people who thats like a real thing for? Like they can see the book playing out? That does not happen to me at all.

I can visualize things as I am reading, yeah. As I've gotten older I've even kind of consciously made a point of trying to imagine the senses of a scene being described.

But I also think I'm cobbling some of it together based on previous expectations.

For example, reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? after having watched Blade Runner, I basically invented my visualization based on that. It's been so long since I've read it, so I don't remember if the scenery was quite as vivid as that, or if Blade Runner's visuals were invented to fit the general vibe of a dystopian future, but I do distinctly remember not having to work hard to jump to thinking of Blade Runner.

This is iffy for me since Lord of the Rings, while I can imagine it based on the films, I also have a pretty vivid version of how the characters and scenery looks that differs greatly from them.

It's pretty fun actually, because sometimes when reading a book that has a film adaptation my mind decides not to want to "cast" the characters the same way as there in the film, but sometimes I can't get away from associating an actor with a role.

I can give my inner monologue a voice, but typically it's just vacuous words.

all the time. It has very dry humor and very much a cynic. And sarcastic.

I also am really good at remembering voices, and having full conversations in my head using the peoples voices

As soon as I think about how I'm thinking, I think differently, so I'm not sure where I fall. I think I do both at different times, but the majority of the time I'm seeing thoughts and thought talking about them.

It feels so hard to comprehend what others are thinking. Whenever I hear this conversation I feel like we are all just really bad at telling others how we think and that we all think the same but can't express it.

Jen0125 posted...

I talk to myself too. I wonder if my self esteem would be better with no inner monologue

Maybe, maybe not, I just end up picturing ways things can make me feel bad rather than talking about them.

i hear voices but Im not sure if theyre an inner monologue or something outside of myself only I can hear

I talk to myself constantly while I'm not engaging with others, its almost always explaining things to an specific person.

Jen0125 posted...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/inner-monologue-experience-science-1.5486969

I do. I didn't know that not everyone does.

If you don't, how do you think? What is it like?

Everyone has one.

blackhrt posted...

Everyone has one.

According to whom

It tells me to play vidya games as much as possible. I'm sure all people have the same inner voice

Sometimes if you're stressed out at work and overwhelmed all day you'll get racing thoughts and start hearing voices from earlier on repeat. Happened to me once and scared the shit out of me because it wouldn't stop. Finally did, but I had never heard that kinda thing before.

Sunnys inner monologue told him to make a topic that got him suspended in less than 20 minutes lmao

Cacciato posted...

Sunnys inner monologue told him to make a topic that got him suspended in less than 20 minutes lmao

I keep missing his meltdowns

Cacciato posted...

Sunnys inner monologue told him to make a topic that got him suspended in less than 20 minutes lmao

I was just about to vote yes and post in that topic. Why was it modded?

Who doesn't report crime? I call the cops like 4 times a week

Mensis posted...

I keep missing his meltdowns

I was surprised it got taken down so quick. I didnt mark it cus I knew it was end spectacularly.

Vidyagamelover posted...

I was just about to vote yes and post in that topic. Why was it modded?

Who doesn't report crime? I call the cops like 4 times a week

Because it was him obsessing over Jen and her ex boyfriend again.

I blocked him. What was it about?

Oh. Why? What did he say now? That's so weird.

Jen0125 posted...

I blocked him. What was it about?

Oh. Why? What did he say now? That's so weird.

Some poll asking if youd report the person who sexually assaulted you hypothetically or some shit. I asked if he was drunk already since its only 9pm. Topic got deleted about 10 minutes later.

Cacciato posted...

Some poll asking if youd report the person who sexually assaulted you hypothetically or some shit. I asked if he was drunk already since its only 9pm. Topic got deleted about 10 minutes later.

I wonder what his wife thought of the message she received.

Jen0125 posted...

I wonder what his wife thought of the message she received.

Literally was gonna be the next thing I asked him, which was why I was kinda bummed it got deleted lol

Only when reading things. The rest of the time my thought process stops at connecting different concepts and I'm not concerned about formatting unless I have to convey them to someone else.

People who don't have an active inner monologue can teach themselves to

I actally tried to do the opposite. To train myself to think in notions and build off of them before I've identified what they were.

Mine's not so much a inner monologue as a series of screams my would-be inner voice is trying to talk over.

ya, some people don't have inner monologues just like some people can't visualize things in their imagination (aphantasia)

Vidyagamelover posted...

I was just about to vote yes and post in that topic. Why was it modded?

Who doesn't report crime? I call the cops like 4 times a week

I don't live in an extreme crime ridden area.