Psychologist says only 30-50% of people have an internal monologue

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If this is true, that would mean anywhere from 50-70% of people are walking around with absolutely nothing going on in their heads.

Do You Have An Inner Monologue? Let’s Find Out - VALLEY Magazine

Hello there! Did you just hear that in your head? If so, this means you have an internal monologue or “inner voice” — a common phenomenon that “causes you to ‘hear’ yourself talk in your head without actually speaking or forming sounds,” according to Healthline. Psychology professor Russell...

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"Psychology professor Russell Hurlburt estimates 30 to 50 percent of people have an inner monologue narrating their thoughts throughout the day. But if you don’t have one, Hurlburt, who teaches at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, says not to worry."

 

[Morethan1]

That can't possibly be true

 

[Uachet]

I've seen some videos about people who lack one, and it made me wonder how the hell is that possible. I understand why it is hard for those of us who do to believe though, since an internal monologue is as natural to us as sleeping, eating, & crapping.

 

[TEH]

These are not melanated people …

 

[Elim Garak]

This sounds like bullshyt.

 

[Geek Nasty]

Didn't read but I saw an article from a few months back, these people are better at conversation probably because they don't need to "preprocess" what they're going to say.

 

[Majestyx]

2nd thread made in here on this. first one dropped like 6 mos ago. i know a lot of dumbasses with no impulse control and just be doing shyt. so this isnt farfetched to me. some people, on a level, are just worker bee head asses.

 

[Fanservice]

Be an npc brehs

 

[David_TheMan]

There is no way you can scientifically make this declaration.

 

[re'up]

I think everyone does, but it's just different values/thoughts/priorities

I'm constantly thinking, whether I am analyzing my own life/work, a book I am reading, or searching for memories from 15 years ago, or lost in even more obscure thoughts, a massacre I read about in a village in rural Mexico, senior level Justice Department palace intrigue,

so, it would be harder for me to be fully present always, but I really try. I think a lot of people are focused more on what's right in front of them, which can sometimes come off to me, like dumb or simple, which isn't entirely fair, our minds are just working differently.

to take this a point further, take something like dancing, in the right circumstances, dancing with a woman I am really attracted to, will 100% work for me, on a stimulus level, but just like the random urge to dance or roll into a club and start making "nightclub small talk" with people, the things I have in my head about 10X more interesting than that.

 

[Complexion]

Be an npc brehs

What if the opposite was true and the ones with internal dialogue are actually the NPCs?

Makes sense if you consider the nature of scripted responses/routines etc whereas being "empty minded" is the state pretty much all spiritual traditions aspire toward...

 

[ignorethis]

These are not melanated people …

Thecoli

 

[Elim Garak]

What if the opposite was true and the ones with internal dialogue are actually the NPCs?

Be a sociopath brehs.

 

[TEH]

Thecoli

Why would you think that …

I’ve never met a black person who didn’t have one … but maybe it’s just me and the people I know ….

 

[JamesJabdi]

The hell is internal monologue? like a voice over in your head narrating your life to a random viewer in another galaxy? on some house of cards shyt?

Does it also mean that those with internal monologue sometimes turn to the unseen camera to speak to the audience