Do you have an inner monologue? (conversion in your head)
[honest answer for ⚡ or reposts]
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sometimes narrator, often dissenter, occasional champion, but mostly a sarastic shit talker.
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It never stops.
Of course! couple of times a day. Not just inner, I discuss with myself speaking things out while I cook for example. It helps me sorting my thoughts.
a couple times a day? not constantly?
All the time
All the time 😆
we all do
Oh we all most certainly don't. Crazy right? https://www.iflscience.com/people-with-no-internal-monologue-explain-what-its-like-in-their-head-57739
if thought isn’t an “internal monolgouge” then i want no part in this semantic game
(I didn't click his link yet so I'm just replying to your comment with assumptions.)
dialogue/monologue is semantic but I'm talking about unspoken conversations. I talk to myself constantly and many people don't know what I mean and I'm trying to an idea of how many people do or don't.
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I have an inner monologue, but it's often less words and more charts, numbers, shapes and pictures. 😂
For example, if I'm thinking about a project I need to work on, I'm visualizing all the steps that need to be accomplished, and how I will go about working on them (as well as visualizing mistakes I might make a long the way and working out alternative approaches that have a better chance of success).
It's not so much a conversation as playing out mental animations of everything in my life in an an attempt to discover where faults may occur and to try to discover the correct path.
It's a whirlwind, it never stops, and I'd never want it to. My churning thoughts are my dearest companions in life. 💜
yes full on all the time, I can't stop the monologue or inner voice ever.
No, I never talk to myself when i think.
Lol… i just read all of the people’s answers, maybe i am a weirdo
It’s actually a fascinating thing to think about. Everyone assumes we all think the same way, but I dated this amazing writer and we discussed this a few times. She was truly mortified that my brain is like on a tv show where there is a narrator.
This conv was 20years ago and I still think about often.
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**is she asking us now because she wants a response from the inner monologue or is this now confirmation that I actually do carry on these conversations without having previously known that I did**
……..SHHH!!
**wait?! Who said that?**
I actually record myself addressing me/myself/&I and later on I watch it!
Constantly! Sometimes more than one. I usually describe my brain as being like a browser with multiple tabs open.
It can be bad, like a tab that keeps popping up when you are trying to focus on something else. It can also be brilliant, like when a tab is working in the background quietly processing information, and then suddenly you have an insight or idea you didnt even know you were working on.
But the internal monologue is always there!
Oh without a doubt. Conversations and sometimes duels.
Most of inner monologue is pure ego, you have to breakthrough and do things outside and return with results. Don't believe your own bullshit
It's almost unbearably loud when I'm working with my hands or doing mundane tasks. I even struggle to read a book sometimes, the chatter is so loud. I can read a whole chapter while the monologue drones on, and I won't have a clue what I've just read.
yes, very active and introspective
Yes I work mostly by myself a physical job I would guess 90-95% or the things I "say" never pass through my lips..... and sometimes I also talk out loud to myself but nowhere near as often.
Recently came across this topic cause I read that upwards of 50+% of people don’t. Shocked the hell out of me, but it’s called Anendophasia.
Complete shower thought but it made me wonder if schizophrenia wasn’t just someones inner dialogue starting to talk them and it freaked them out.
Also made me wonder if meditative gurus don’t have inner dialogue making it sooo much easier to attain the quiet mind.
Yep, and outloud too sometimes.
Ppl are often asking if I'm speaking to them, but no just me, again.
Yes I do 🙇🏻♂️
always
yes but it isn't a conversation
our true self (human heart) only speaks when the garbage we intellectualize ourselves to be is forgotten
i don't like to quote but thus is apt
"to study the self is to forget the self" — Dōgen
in other words when we stop conceptualising like in the OP's graphic, the king / queen is on the throne — now stop conceptualizing my reply and find yourself
(I could quote Dōgen again here 🤣)
bespoke: the garbage we intellectualize is also our True Self
Wait, so not everyone has this? 🤨