SleezyBigSlim
Banned
I talk to myself in my mind in my own voice so I voted no
Do you have an inner monologue?
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LeaveMyHairLineAlone
Superstar
It is! A friend of mine told exactly this to his psychiatrist and got diagnosed
I think the difference between having an internal voice and schizophrenia is that your internal voice is usually voiced by yourself and you’re cognizant that you’re currently thinking in your head, while schizophrenic people have voices talking at them that they can’t decipher as their own thoughts
MischievousMonkey
Gor bu dëgër
No and I'm glad. Ofc I think before I speak. I just don't have another man narrating what I'm thinking or doing 
That must be hell. I
"Oh, there's a red light! Better stop!"
"My toe is itching"
"This tee-shirt is green. This table is white. This room is well lit."
maddening. The concepts and the thoughts just form in my brain without the need to say them. It's like seeing.
That must be hell. I"Oh, there's a red light! Better stop!"
"My toe is itching"
"This tee-shirt is green. This table is white. This room is well lit."
maddening. The concepts and the thoughts just form in my brain without the need to say them. It's like seeing.
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MischievousMonkey
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Some describe the absence of speaking voice in our head as a mild form of aphantasia (which would the best form to have imo) but I don't think that's judicious. Based on what you said, you can "imagine" voices and sounds if you want to, right? Same thing for me.Wait, wtf are you guys describing? I can hear a voice or I suppose a faint imitation of my own voice if I decide to pause and focus on it but it doesn't come out of nowhere and talk to me at random. Are you guys okay?
It's just that our default setting doesn't have our voice consistently spelling out our thoughts in our head. And honestly that sounds like a blessing
I’m saying.
How do you literally not have thoughts? Like every single thing has to be spoken. I don’t understand that at all.
Like when you were a kid and the teacher called on you to answer a question, did you stand up and run through the possible answers out loud? Or think quietly and then give your answer? Because I imagine your teacher would be like
if you always ran through possible answers out loud lolWell then wouldn’t you fall into the same group?No and I'm glad. Ofc I think before I speak. I just don't have another man narrating what I'm thinking or doing
"Oh, there's a red light! Better stop!"
"My toe is itching"
"This tee-shirt is green. This table is white. This room is well lit."
I think we are debating people who have the ability to think/visualize without opening their mouths VS people who literally have to say every thought out loud (so other people hear their thoughts).
You said you think before you speak. They’re saying there are other people who basically speak before they “speak”. Whatever you are thinking before you speak, is what someone else is saying out loud in an attempt to formulate their final thought.
Sounds like your body and consciousness haven’t quite separated yet, but you’re getting there.
You could probably travel, if you try.
I tend to agree.
Only because I have been around someone who doesn’t have an inner monologue and you realize that they have to say
EVERY
SINGLE
THING.
It is absolutely maddening.
If anyone remembers the TRANSFORMER movies— the woman who plays Shia LeBouf’s mom. THAT is someone who doesn’t have an inner dialogue! And that is how annoying it can be to be around someone like that.
thefloorislava
All Star
If you are quizzing the types of people that specifically go onto online forums to engage in discussion you are going to get a bias in the answers. A lot of people actually don’t have inner monologues and it makes a fukk ton of sense when it you compare peoples ability to reflect and plan for the long term. There’s a lot of things that we take for granted that are foreign to others and, vice versa.
You said a word right there.
I didn’t even make that connection. Whew.