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But is everything you think through your inner monologue?

Deleted Account 1y ago

Not necessarily cause eyes 👀 or even vibrations or … atomic energy etc

I genuinely cannot get my brain to shut the fuck up. I don't really get mental images. It's pretty much just all words with me.

That sounds very exhausting. Do you want your brain to be quiet sometimes?

And other senses, touch, taste or smell? Can you envision them, by lack of a better word?

I'm actually pretty noise-sensitive (It's kind of a weird thing for a DJ to have.), and I do need quiet from time to time. I really do value silence.

I can envision things, I guess, but it's all word associated I actually have a hard time seeing pictures in my head. So for instance, just to test this, I sat down and tried to envision an apple and had a really hard time bringing the picture to fruition in my head. I had to describe it using words and didn't really get a picture in my mind. But I can remember what an apple is like when I think of the words like round, juicy, crispy, sweet with a hint of tart.

Another fun fact is that when I close my eyes the only things that I see are continuous swirling colors. That's the only pictures I really see when I close my eyes and try to think of things.

Oh that is wild, so completely different.

If I'm home alone, I always put some music on. Not loud, as background. Without it feels uncomfortable. Too quiet.

As for picturing an apple, if I close my eyes, I can see the apple, with it's shades of color. I can see how it looks in sunlight with a shadow, or illuminated by a flashlight in a dark room. I can pick it up, rotate it, pull the stem out bu twisting it and take an imaginary bite. However, I can't really put thoughts into the taste or smell though, other than the basic sweet/sour. I can imagine the texture of the bite, somewhat.

Man, humans are trippy. 😅 Yeah, I genuinely cannot do the visualization thing the way that you're describing it. That's pretty cool.

I put on background noise occasionally like music or an audiobook or podcast if I'm working or cooking but a lot of times I find myself just sitting in the quiet.

. 1y ago

You may find some benefit from a zazen meditation practice.

I've never really been too keen on meditation but I'll look that up.

. 1y ago

Neither was I, however a simple practice has done wonders for releasing the stress, anxiety or "attatchment" to repetitive thought patterns.

I simply sit

cross my legs

cup hands in lap

lightly close eyes to just seeing a blur

breath in through nose out mouth

focus on breath in and out

i count the number 1 over and over as a mantra in my mind

then watch your mind flow to other things and back to 1

don't fight thoughts, observe them as if you are just watching a movie

you will then be able to let thoughts that become repetitive in your mind go and not get stuck on negativity for example

I like to repeat " i am not my thoughts" when i wake up

Catty_McCatface 1y ago

It is true, I have this, the constant inner dialogue and discussion. I can also remember smells, what someone’s voice sounds like and tastes. I can “see” all this in my head awake or in the dream scape.

Bearetta left 1y ago

I've heard about this. Experienced silence only with some drugs. For me, who has inner dialogs, it's something from outer space😅

Funny thing is, drugs didn't do much for me. At least, not weed. Other people around me said that it relaxed them, which puzzled me as I was already relaxed. It had more subtle vision related effects.

Bearetta left 1y ago

This sounds awesome. I need stuff to relax all the bears inside. But how do you manage with like shopping? You go by a list, you don't plan and cook in your head while shopping?

I absolutely need a list, but have outsourced making that list to my partner. Without the list I would forget at least 1 or 2 items.

I find it really difficult up to the point of stress inducing to think of stuff to cook, especially if it would be multiple days.

We have a food delivery service that delivers fresh ingredients for several meals once a week. That's my rescue.

I'm not an intuitive cook, I have to follow a recipe. But slowly getting better, more intuitive, after years of cooking.

Bearetta left 1y ago

This is really interesting difference. I forget stuff too, but because I'm unorganized and noise in my head is too much, several patterns at once. So if you listen to the music, what are your thoughts at the moment?

I can have several streams of "inner monologue" at any give time. For instance, I can have both a song playing in my head (which is almost always, unless I'm listening to actual music) and working through thoughts that does seem like a conversation between my inquisitive self, and my "need to know things so it can make a difference in reality" self.

This is why I'm so often listening to podcasts or music, because it settles that. Both touching grass and smoking grass can turn those thoughts down a little too.

But I have to admit, it doesn't really bother me, and I even kind of like it. I think it stems from being a generally introverted only child who loved going into the woods to read books as a kid.

I can't imagine what not having that inner dialogue would be like. Seems quiet.

Interesting topic. Worth a zap.

I guess I'm somewhere in the middle of a continuous unstoppable stream and complete silence. My resting state, when not actively engaged in something, and no stress impact would be no inner monologue though.

Having a constant radio playing is one I haven't heard before, excuse the pun, very interesting. I wonder what would happen if one would have a constant visual stream, or taste/touch stream. If that would impact the ability to function more.

Maybe that's more into the ADHD/ADD region.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx4xU-8yWUo

Yeah, constant visuals would be crippling lol. I wish I had a constant radio station, that would be a little more interesting. Instead it's usually the same song for hours on a loop until some phrase triggers the memory of the lyrics of a different song, then that one plays until replaced. For instance, I started some laundry a couple hours ago and this is what's been in my head since then:

Ash that's funny. So it seems you're very susceptible to ear worms, you only need a bit of a song to have to stuck in your head. Is it actually with the music, or only the lyrics?

I know the effect, but it's rare for me. And then it's more the music, not the lyrics. But I pay more attention, or feel more of the music and less of the lyrics of songs anyways.

I'm with you actually in being more of a melody than lyric person. It can definitely be the music too. If my wife is flicking through her instagram on her phone looking for cat videos and I hear a melody line that reminds me of a song that I'm more familiar with, it will ear worm it's way in. Although, thinking about it, I do value lyrics a lot, but more when I'm actively listening to music... meaning I stop everything else and want to just enjoy an album or something.

That's another interesting topic on its own... the balance between favoring the music or lyrics/meaning of songs.

My inner dialogue will be talking about this post all day.

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