thoughts on thoughts? 💭

[ShawnFuzz]

Here is an article I found online about Inner monologue if anyone is interested: https://irisreading.com/how-do-i-know-if-i-have-an-inner-monologue/

if this article is true, it is really interesting! I never thought about anyone NOT having an inner monologue. I wonder what it would be like to never have some sort of sound in your head (conversations, music...)

I wonder if I would be less anxious if I didn't have an inner monologue.

 

[Xara]

I wish I had less of them, I’m tired of thinking. I’m a “no thoughts, head empty” soul trapped inside of a “many thoughts, head hurts” body

It’s so fascinating to me that some people don’t have an internal dialogue! I always have. I’ve always heard my thoughts rather than seen them, unless I’m thinking about something like a memory or what something looks like, in which case I’ll think about it visually rather than vocally. My inner dialogue has always just been my own voice, except it’s my voice the way it sounds to me, not the way it sounds to other people.

She’s pretty much always yapping in there unless I’m watching something or listening to music, then she’s replaced by the dialogue/lyrics I’m listening to, in the actor’s/singer’s voice. That’s part of the reason why I can’t write when I’m watching/listening to something, because the dialogue/lyrics will start overlapping with my thoughts. But even when I’m not watching something or listening to music, sometimes a song will just start playing in there, anyways. It’s pretty much never quiet in my brain LOL

 

[Kitsuragi]

The voice I have in my head is not mine, and it varies by day. Sometimes it's a characters voice and sometimes it's similar to mine but not mine. It do be goin crazy tho, my mind is almost never blank bc my inner dialogue does not know how to stfu

 

[pochy]

i have none. its empty as a shopping center up here sometimes. fr though, i used to have an inner voice/monologue kinda narrating my actions and thoughts but then i got depression and that voice is just gone/ silenced. i wonder what itd look like if i took an mri or brain wave test, maybe my brain is subconsciously doing all the work for me and leaving my active conscience with nothing to process. in that case, thanks brain

 

[moonbyu]

most of the time, my thoughts sound like this:

 

[Stalfie]

They are like bumholes we all have them

 

[toxapex]

It's hard to imagine NOT having one ... like when I'm thinking of what to type, I'm speaking all of this in my head as I think of it. When someone without an "internal monologue" is preparing to write something or ask a question, can they not imagine what the words will sound like? Do they see the words in their head instead?

I never thought about this, but I'm intrigued. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what an internal monologue is?

 

[Neb]

I didn't learn not everyone had an inner monologue until last year. It was a massive shock. I have an extremely active inner monologue that goes on from the moment I wake up until the second I fall asleep. I can't watch TV, read books, play video games, or listen to music without rambling at least some of the time. Halfway through conversations I sometimes drift and don't hear what people say. Once I'm sleepy from reading I lay in bed thinking to myself about different things until I'm asleep. Usually it's whatever I'm doing, past mostly negative memories, in depth thoughts on a piece of media, or my relations to other people. Nothing makes it shut up unless I focus really intently on listening to something.

 

[danmokun]

Oh, you best believe I have internal thoughts. All of 'em! Especially at 2:00am. They don't sound like MY voice though. They sound like someone else's and they sound like "heheheh" and "lololol." But sometimes, they don't sound as beautifully boisteroius as before... Here's just some of my thoughts...

I think about the blue inside your eyes
and what they look like in the rain.
I think about the tears your eyes should shed
whenever life should bring you pain.

I think about the way I make you smile
and what it looks when you frown.
I think about the shaking of your lips
when you're alone and on the ground.

I think about the fingers on your hands
and how they'd fit between my own.
I think about how desperately your hands
deserve a pair to call their home.

I think about you day and night
and think about the ways I might
become your source of hope and light
and maybe some day make things right.
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[Zerous]

Too much of an internal monologue. Like I can visualise things easily and think of music and stuff, but there's always narration. It's really difficult for me to imagine what it's like to think without one, It's such an interesting concept to me. Like, I can't understand how you'd form sentences without going through the words in your head first?

 

[Doo]

Yeah I have an internal monologue. It doesn’t really sound like anything though? I don’t know how to describe it. I very much think in words though. But it’s not always full sentences, sometimes I kind of just think in concepts. It’s faster than actually ‘saying’ every word in your head.
I can’t imagine/picture things very well, I’m not sure if that’s related.