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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/mvea on 2024-05-15 10:17:06+00:00.
The guy in my head is my best friend and the biggest asshole ever.
I have several voices in my head and they never shut the fuck up! 😩
I’m almost the exact opposite. I hear everything when I think. I don’t picture 99.9% of my thoughts. I think in sounds. Not all thoughts are languages, but all thoughts are sounds. Even the very very few I have pictured. The thoughts in languages are numerous at a time and constant, as though forever lightning in bottle. I love it. It sounds kind of like the matrix looks.
are you capable of visualizing things? some time ago i learned that most people apparently can literally see things they picture in their head, which is something i’m only barely capable of doing if i close my eyes and relax.
Like i can summon the image of a basic shape and make it rotate at a consistent speed, that’s it. But then when i’m extremely relaxed and almost about to fall asleep, or when i’m dreaming, i literally just see my imagination as if i’m looking at the real world.
However what i can do is “visualize” extremely well with the sense of proprioception (the thing that lets you know where your hands are in relation to the rest of your body), so i can rotate objects in my headspace and walk through physical spaces. I can’t see anything in there, but i’m fully aware of the shape of things and i simply remember what colour things are.
The best I can describe it is almost always no, I hear spaces, objects, colors, etc. I can think on all my senses pretty easily except vision. I world make in ‘sound’ and awareness. I don’t explain it well, and I do have pretty good spacial and situational awareness. I just don’t think in vision.
A great ‘reset button’ for me is to be in a small room that is totally as dark as I can get it. Can’t see my hand in front of my face after 45min dark. After a while in that space my mind will make up slashes of color. It feels like my brain running a test pattern for my eyes.
My own inner monologue is a mix of movie and voice, I often see the real life/animated equivalent of what thought/idea is trending within my monologue. Years after a thought experiment on the concept of creating a Tulpa, that artificial inner presence still exists. It tends to influence the monologue direction for at least a few hours at a time; then it fades from my awareness for weeks or months at a time.
I have both an inner voice and strong imagery. I cannot imagine any other way. I assume that people on the opposite end would see my mind as massive chaos though.
I have that, too, I think. And I see my mind as massive chaos.
I feel like if I had an inner voice I’d get super annoyed at it.
Oh I assure you, you would. Try going to sleep with that mf’r just yapping.
You know what, I can’t roll the R and neither can my inner voice and I hate it for that. I have a speech impairment in my freaking inner voice.
Mine refers to me in an annoying childhood nickname :(
Wot a cunt
It always confused me when people ask me in what language I think in (in response to me speaking multiple languages and being good at none). That always sounded akin to asking me if the tuna sandwich I’m holding already has its bachelor’s degree.
I always thought only mentally ill people (schizophrenic) have inner voice(s) that is until I learned it is a common thing of course.
Sounds peaceful. Mine goes like mad sometimes, it’s even woken me from sleep.
That’s also not normal
No I know
How does this work? Like you sometimes can’t control your inner voice, it just says things do you on its own accord?
For me it’s like there’s another me inside my head who just talks at random. I can usually control it, or maybe it controls me, or maybe it is me, or just a part of me. I think a lot of who I am as a person consists of the words bouncing around in my head and my relationship with them at any given time.
When I read stuff, my inner dialog reads it back to me, you don’t get that? Like in the movies when a someone is writing or reading a letter.
I see images when I read ,like in movies’ I see a theatre, someone reading a letter I see old man reading a letter on a xix century chair with a gray beard and cigarette and focused gaze
I guess I may like books more than average person. I feel like if reading was accompanied by inner monologue it would be slower instead of just direct words to images so to say but at the same time I often lose details when reading or don’t remember them at all considering the action feels like a movie in the head
I have to read professional books or physics slightly different and often twice same thing but I guess that’s normal when the topic is more complex that it’s hard to form an image connected to the equations and get all these things in head properly connected to form understanding
When I read stuff, my inner dialog reads it back to me, you don’t get that? Like in the movies when a someone is writing or reading a letter.
So, it’s like you’re reading twice? Like you’re perceiving it with your eyes/occipital line and then your inner dialog verbalizes it for you? Or all in one shot?
All in oneshots - as I read or write, I hear it in my voice while doing it.
I mean I can have an inner dialogue, but normally it goes straight onto the idea level of thinking and I don’t waste resources trying to shape it into words. I can do that, though.
If you’re needing to explain those ideas to other people then it’s useful to expound
NPCs
I’m convinced that a great part of the people that claim to not have an inner voice are either:
- lying to be interesting
- unaware of their inner voice
- not understanding what ‘inner voice’ means. It’s not exactly like someone is talking to you, right? But it does come close.
Some inner voice talking to me all time sounds fucking awful haha
Ikr, it’s wild. I don’t think I could cope with something like that.
It’s not “some voice” talking “to you”, it really just feels like your thoughts are words, if they’re “word adjacent thoughts”.
Like, thinking about how to phrase that first part, it felt like I was reciting the words I was thinking of typing, not like someone else was saying them to me.If it’s a different person than you, then you have a different issue ;-).
I have an internal monologue, but I don’t need it to think and it’s not constant.
I’m not really sure if I count as having an inner voice thinker or not. I definitely use an inner voice when composing verbal/written thoughts, and when I’m trying to remember something specific. However trying to pay attention to my inner thought process makes it seem like my thoughts are mostly non-verbal with occasional sporadic words thrown in? It feels like the more relaxed I am the fewer words there are.
Those are probably the quick-thinker types. I wonder if people with inner voices take longer when making decision because they have to “listen” to the their inner voices.
Have to admit the number of people in here with full internal voices has made me realize why podcasts and long videos of youtubers talking are so popular.
I hate them because it’s like spending 10 minutes to be drip fed 1 minute’s worth of information.
I don’t think i’m a quick thinker guy, but my reflexes are shockingly good. Like i i sometimes knock something over while cooking and i just see it in the corner of my eyes and somehow catch it midair. But in this fraction of a second my inner monologue still goes: i just knocked something over, but what, oh right, i put the soda stream bottle on the counter because i just emptied the dishwasher. Oh no it’s also probably the glass one, because i have three glass bottles and only one that is plastic, so this could bet really messy when it breaks, they are also kinda expensive.
And then i somehow hold it in my hand before i fully caught up. Kinda like when you snooze for 10 minutes but have like 2 hours worth of dreams.
