No internal monologue here nostr:note1hpljllan9vmmvf307xqnrx3l43e3h4xrz66g8pdcpveud9x8jktszcye2g
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wtf 🥶
The people who have to narrate their lives and talk to themselves in their heads think we’re the weird ones 😹
Having a voice in my head would drive me insane. Like stfu
Lucky. I can't shut it off.
Might be a factor as why I have 0 anxiety pretty much all the time 🤔
I feel like a voice would increase anxiety.
Its very peaceful without
Not to sound weird, but at Riga, when you are staring, are you processing or doing a checklist in your head (right before you go on stage)
Me, I am analyzing everyone in the room, their movements, their facial expressions, their energy, their interactions...like non-stop, makes me super over stimulated.
You mentioned you were autistic. So I am curious what is going on in your brain in a room like that main room.
If this is not too weird, I love watching body language videos, and I am curious what or how you are processing.
I don’t analyze people at all in groups, the way my brain works ignores all forms of body language and cues like that if its more than one person.
The room and people didn’t really exist to me in that moment. I was mostly running a script of what I rehearsed based on cues from the slide notes.
I did try to land a joke about texting your ex but didn’t land at all, that was a brief moment where I was reminded the crowd exists 😅
Thank you. I just presented your nostriga video talk to my ten year old nephew, highlighting people who have inner dialogues vs those who don't .... we both have what I would call the butterfly effect of thoughts, where a thought takes a run and starts branching vs where your video you are staying on script. I also noted how your body language looks as if you are doing the same, reading a script with your body as you are presenting. Your body language is almost like a type writer. I noted that to myself during your speech, and it was nice to see it wasn't nerves but rather you going back and forth on your own personal script, like code.
Interesting.
Ha ha, same. Keeps me awake at night. And my inner voice doesn't like me very much, so I'm happiest trying to suppress it; doing something focused, like coding or hiking, or reading a book, so that it's busy with the read-aloud and doesn't start complaining at me.
It’s not really "a" voice, it’s yours. And since you told it to STFU maybe it’s why you can’t hear it. 🤔
And yet you code.
Code is a set of patterns and structures, so it's more visio-spatial than audial.
The problem arises more when trying to memorize words, like in a poem, or during introspection. Also, planning steps and thinking through scenarios is more difficult. People without an inner monologue are less prone to depression and despair because no inner monolog also means no negative self-talk.
I have a really advanced inner monolog, so I tend to do project planning and testing.
I said the thing about depression to my wife today. While I don't struggle with self doubt at this stage of my life, I did for years. The inner voice was definitely a problem then. I had to teach myself to force the negative voices out and focus on actually accomplishing things. Once I did that, those particular conversations stopped.
So when you are hungry, you don't say "I'm hungry, i'm going to eat" in your head? 😅
Keep telling yourself that 😂
lol this comment 😅
Strangely enough, while I do a fair bit of external monologueing I don’t really have an internal one either. I just think thoughts abstractly but not usually in like full sentences or something, if that’s what it is.. is that normal?
Only like when reading I think it occurs
then who am i talking to??
Same here, I rarely think in words at all…
Only when mentally rehearsing a text or verbal statement I’m ‘writing’…
here neither, what I have is a dialogue
Yup. Using words while thinking is so frustratingly slow
I'm internally reading every single one of these comments. Even while I type I can hear myself. It pauses when I pause.
Now that I'm thinking about it, it also repeats everything I hear.
Yes... It's exhausting. I prefer the quiet of the garden.
must be nice and quiet in there.
What is your experience? Color? Sounds? Just quiet? I'm super curious...
I'd naievly relate it to how some individuls don't hear in their dreams, they just see in images. The specific type of processing doesn't matter, so long as the resulting behavior is compatible.
The brain is so amazing.
I know a lot of engineers and artists with no internal monolog because they think it pictures.
just nothing… like when i’m thinking of coding architecture. Theres not really words for that, just something abstract thats hard to describe.
sounds dreamy.
i have to create this silence with headphones and wordless ambient music.
Fascinating. I know the feeling but it’s not normal for me. Takes really getting into a flow state and sometimes even then the flow state has narration of sorts.
When I’m thinking of software architecture and code I’m actually often talking (even out loud) to myself.
Wtf is this for real. I mean i know i’m weird but I though that was normal
How????