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Well then how is inner voice different from silent reading. Someone is narrating it in the head right. Even the tiktoker who is shown is silent and letting a simulation of inner voice speak in the video right?
Well Doc - I have DID - Dissociative Identity Disorder (would love your thoughts on that) and while I will let the audience google that and what it means, anytime I think of the “inner monologue” that I have, I just have to laugh at it because it could be me, could be an alter or maybe even an alien at this point 🤣. My inner monologue is more like a board of directors 🤣 🤣 🤣. I am in treatment and on the “organizing” end of this disorder so I just laugh at it now & make silly jokes. The benefit of having DID? I can throw myself a surprise party and be genuinely surprised 🤣!
@@beastshawnee I think it depends on injury I get massive migraines. Does my inner monologs go rogue sometimes? Yes those are called 💫intrusive thoughts💫 I got my TBI 5 or 6 years ago, but generally thoughts remain the same sometimes they are nice sometimes they aren't that's normal though...at least for me ^^
@exoticmonkeymanneNot really, its still you, its just kind of like youre discussing things or narrating things to yourself. Maybe other people do feel like their inner monologue is a companion, but for me personally, it just feels like I'm listening to myself speak
@exoticmonkeymanneinner monologues are really nice, and yes it can be your companion depending on how it is. My inner monolgue at the moment is my friend that will help me in life no MATTER WHAT.
@@dnellbuck1896I think that everyone's inner voice, (if they have one, seeing as some people don't) is the real them and what they are actually thinking and want to say. We of course can't always say what immediately comes to our heads since that would get us into trouble a lot of the times and hurt other's feelings. My inner voice also uses some colorful language, and I think things that I can't say out loud.
For me my inner voice changes. If I am listening to someones video with captions and then mute the video, the inner voice has the voice of the person who was originally reading out the video. But it sounds like me when im reading something I wrote myself, like I am right now.
@@PleaseLookAtMeICraveAttentionExactly! I am currently reading my comment with my own inner voice but if I'm already listening to someone talk their voice is what I hear reading.
I actually have whole conversations with myself in my own head as if I’m on some kind of podcast 💀 it’s kinda like therapy. Helps me sort my thoughts and emotions
I have a lot of conversations, but I also find my inner voice legit lecturing me and yelling at me sometimes. Who here has heard their inner voice sigh in absolute frustration at whatever you're doing/saying? 😂
Sometimes I think of something funny I did with my friends, and I recall it so well that I actually laugh, just imagine how funny the original moment was
Even funnier, after many years of this thing i think there's another one i "simulate", and its not mine but it comes from that girl i wasted (kinda) my whole childhood on, experiencing the strongest feelings in my whole life, living that through, just for her to be married on my former best friend :) I can hear her voice loud and clear, i know it better than anyone's, i know what she likes and does not, and its like a different person thats always with you, watching and living in your head. Damn, if there are people in my dreams, shes always there, and it feels like shes not an "npc" there but an actual living person who most of the time just doing her normal things, experiencing that imaginary world with me, and even talking to me sometimes, asking about how its going etc. Its so strange.. its ten years since I last met her irl, and i don't think of her usually, at all, but she's always in the back of my mind, another voice, lovely, calm and helping me get through any unfortunate situation. And that even now, when I'm living with my wife since 2020. We've never talked about it cause i don't want to upset her, but i think it's just a part of me now. Like my usual good old inner voice.
@@KageToHikari_CG way to one up me, nah but I kinda know how you feel. My brother helped me through a lot of problems in life and now that he's gone, I always here his voice giving me tips and guiding me through life.
@@Floppy_Fish33 the most bizarre thing about it she kinda reminds me shes there, when i forget. Like, i read or see NOTHING about her in months, and SUDDENLY, in the middle of the night i see her again in those mental locations i build in my dreams (intelligible dreams are super rare for me, i don't remember anything but darkness in the morning, but when i get dreams, its vivid dreams often, actually, with big and well-structured locations and whatever), and she's always the only one "clear" there, with face not blurred out and voice not being like a general "humanlike" buzzing which i get often when i really know I'm dreaming (and i usually know) and analyze what i see or hear. In one of those she literally said to me "this dream is ours, you know? I see it too." right before i wake up shocked about what happened because that was really SUDDEN and unexpected to hear. I never forget those and remember them in all the tiny details, even after 8-9 years. But yeah, that was the first time, now it doesn't make me throw back to reality, maybe because I'm just used to that. I mean, knowing your dream is just a dream and you can shape it like you want, an infinite sandbox, in which you still need to be careful not to destabilise and ruin it too early. The only thing i can't control in those at all is her.
My inner monologue is always running a powerpoint presentation with slide transitions describing why its always my fault and therefore am not allowed to be happy
There are meditation techniques that aim at that. What it comes down to is: Do something that makes you focus on one thing and you won´t think about other stuff. Basically meditation makes you practice being in the moment, being absorbed and immersed in an activity. Maybe try this for a couple of days. Important: If you get distracted (and with most meditation techniques you will), guide your thoughts gently and with kindness back to your focus. Don´t judge, just observe.
@@whilliambergenwall8137 actually no, it doesn't, I just space out and stare at one thing and eventually I stop thinking, my eyesight will go a bit blurry and sound becomes quiter, and then I can't hear a thought in my head, sometimes, it's honestly rlly nice lol It helps me reset my thoughts if I ever get to overwhelmed!
@@joltingonwards2017this is possibly the most terrifying thing I've ever heard. That sounds like being trapped in a prison, no voice and no visualization. I can't even begin to think about how I'd process even rudimentary ideas without the ability to visualize and walk through the process visually in my mind, nor how terrifyingly empty that sounds.
@@A_Pink_Fish I can imitate sound and voices, but I don't hear other voices as if one is talking to me. All my inner monologue is done manually. I hear that some have their inner monologue be like a version of themselves talking to them, but mine doesn't work like that.
@@roxywyndhamyes exactly, it's like reading out loud not someone reading to me, but if I wanted, I could imagine various voices I'm familiar with reading it to me or just me reading it to myself in said voices
Outside cuz I can think about doing something all I want, but unless I physically do it, it won't happen and I control the outside voice better than the inside
Bonus question: Can the people that can't hear voices in their head listen to music in their head? I have the voice and often times will have a song playing in my head throughout work
I have both. I think with both an internal monologue and with pictures. More abstract thoughts and newly created ideas seem to form with pictures first, then later get tuned into words.
EXACTLY. It's still so weird to think how some people can't hear music in their head. I CONSTANTLY have a song (or multiple) in my head but I couldn't imagine living without it. I love my music!
@@bethanyhollenbeak6790same 😂 sometimes I’ll be grooving or head-bopping to a song playing in my head without realising it. It’s wild that so many people don’t experience that haha
It's odd to think people can't hear themselves in their heads. I talk to myself literally all the time in my head. Helps me think stuff through Jesus, glad to see other kindred spirits 😅❤️
Because of my anxiety I’m constantly having to talk through situations and conversations that I anticipate happening. Helps me feel prepared to deal with them.
that is not inner voice my man, your inner voice is just you speaking to yourself but without making sound. what you are talking about sounds more like dissociative identity disorder.
@@danilooliveira6580this isn't DID at all, this is a form of auditory hallucinations. DID can show symptoms similar to auditory hallucinations, but it's characterized by literal dissociation between the two (or more) different identities present in the patient. What that means is that the memories of one of the identities would not exactly align with those of another. There's not enough information from just this comment to say that this person has DID. -i study psychology and work in a psych ward
@@HeterosexuaI not all people with DID are the same, sometimes they can share memories at will, and sometimes they can internally talk with each other. -I dated someone with post-traumatic DID and we talked a lot about her condition. but I didn't say they have DID, I said it sounds more like DID than inner monologue because they said the voice has its own personality. but could very well be auditory hallucination as you said or straight up schizophrenia.
My inner voice be saying the most horrible sentences known to man that would make hitler and Putin disgusted,so of course the outer voice is the real me
It still baffles me everytime I'm reminded that there's people out there who don't have an inner monologue. Im an avid daydreamer, that voice is my narrator, dawg. I can't imagine not having it. 😵💫
I never realized that someone might not have the inner voice. To me it's just "thinking". Like when you prepare your speech or you are planning what you are gonna say when you're late or forgot homework. You know - any random basic thing. It's not like we need to create those thoughts for everything we do (i e. eating) but creating possible scenarios in your head, for example, of what may people say and how you would reply... and even when writing down this comment here i am using this "inner voice" you could say. These are just thoughts. Reading this comment without saying words out loud is the same. If you are reading this - you are using your inner voice. If you are writing something - you are using inner voice while writing, to form a sentence that will appear once you write or type it. It is therefore hard to belive that some people don't have this. And interestingly enough english is not my native language but when i spend a lot of time in social media that are in english, my inner voice tend to stay english (my thoughts are in english). Sometimes i notice it, sometimes i don't. Sometimes i swap between the two languages in my head. Propably because i feel fluent enough in english that i can replace my native language in head. However it is worth mentioning that babies don't have the inner voice - since they don't know any languages to begin with. And that is to say i don't know when i started having this inner voice but propably it was once i was fluent in basic polish (my native language) and i was able to speak normally and express my needs and emotions. That is to say i belive once you start thinking on your own (as you grow and mature) you start having thoughts - the inner monologues. This is why i was surprised to hear some people don't have it. It is as if they stayed babies in their heads. Either people don't realize they have inner voice or they troll us or... well they are the babies.
@@uxhebxjebrkzfbe5900 Nah schizophrenia is when you hallucinate hearing and seeing things and genuinely believe they're real. Getting into debates with yourself is totally normal. It's like how cartoon characters have the little angel and devil on their shoulder whenever they consider doing something.
Yeah I know what u mean it’s not much of 2 different voices but it’s the same voice being like is this a good idea? Yeah it is why not,- but like is it I could do something rllyyy stupidddd idk if that’s what u mean but I kinda get it
I use to read the "how to train your dragon," books to my son, about a few minutes into it the Irish/viking accent would pop up out of the blue. Explain that one, we do have Irish in us but how do we know what it's supposed to sound like.
You know, that's why most of the time I read manga and comics. The voices and action that I imagine is usually better that what I watch in anime and cartoons
THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll play a whole damn movie in my head while reading. I'll read 50 pages without realizing, the whole time reading unconsciously, while playing what I'm reading as a movie in my head. Most of the time, reading is better than movies. Swan Song by Robert McCammon is phenomenal. Also, The Dark Tower series by Stephen King is amazing.
@@biology9810 I'm talking about the conscious feeling of emotions and thinking without words. For example, when you are hungry, do you think with words, "I need to go to the refrigerator," or do you just go to the refrigerator? It's such a trivial thing to do that you don't need to speak in your mind to do it.
Seems that way for me too. I think of it as my “central self” and if I’m drinking and feel an impulsive thought it usually says “I know you might want to say or do that, but that doesn’t align with your real values”
Same for me, that's why I can't get dead drunk. Everytime I get drunk my inner voice takes over and controls my body as well, which is why I can sleep with half-conscious (including standing asleep) as well
@@JavaJackBdo you lack what others list as “intrusive thoughts” cause I fs do. My guys always goin nuts up there but majority of the time these “intrusive thoughts” are just me doing me if that makes sense? Idk I just found out not everyone has the little voice in their head as thoughts so I’m confused
Dude when I internal monologue I constantly refer to myself as “we” and Ive just noticed I’ve subconsciously considered myself a dual consciousness for years 😭
@@dave7922im pretty sure thats normal and just how it is. I think “we” not for any other particular reason other than it is me, and I am me, we are both me, just imagination
I literally have conversations with my internal monologue everyday. We discuss about my goals, my feelings, if I am doing something right or wrong. It's good to have a friend in my head, who is in fact myself 😂
And when I'm too tired sometimes I just straight up talk to myself, cheer myself up and stuffs. Or if I have enough caffeine running in my blood and in best condition, I'll have full on debates with myself
I have a very VERY active internal monologue. Literally every thought is a clear sentence or weird in my head in my own voice. Somehow I can even recall music perfectly too and I don't know how that one works
My inner monologue is just me talking without actually talking. It helps me walk through more complex thoughts and hear what something sounds like before I say it.
I do that a lot in the "background" (I also have an inner voice on top of it) but it's frustrating because I sometimes have trouble forming those thoughts into words so I can actually share them.
Sounds like you have a lot of intrusive thoughts then. They are usually a result of accumulated overwhelming resentment that comes with a sense of lacking control or even helplessness in life. There might be a lot of unprocessed (unfelt and unexpressed) anger toward other people (hurt, sense of betrayal, dissapointment, loneliness) or yourself (shame, guit, hopelessness, powerlessness, self-hate). If you are currently in an abusive environment, maybe you can look for ways to change your environment and temporary cut off contact to people who are harmful to you, to get a new perspective and rest your overactive nervous system. (This is step 1) If you are currently in a safe environment with supportive trustworthy people around you, then your intrrusive thoughts are probably a result of some past trauma and emotional wounds that linger and come up from time to time to remind you that it's time for some internal healing work. (this is step 2) There are many ways for inner healing, depending on your circumstances, there is no one right way, even though some people seem to be very adamant about certain procedures. If you have the resources, you could try psycological therapy (and there are various modalities of that), there are also sensory therapies like EMDR or biofeedback for psychosomatic issues, there's many kinds of meditation (Dr. K from HealthyGamerGG talks to people online and always recommends to them a personalised meditation at the end of a talk), many people go to church to self-reflect or for communal support, for others going on hikes in nature is very healing, some people love gardening and walk barefoot to find peace, some people find healing in art and music, some talk to friends and comiserate over issues and brainstorm ideas to solve them, for some people physical activity is the key to more peace and happiness (intensity of activity has to be adjusted to certain health needs and fitness level, from gentle yoga, tai-chi and stretching to intense weight lifting and martial arts, with everything in between like running, dancing, swimming, biking, skating, parkour, gymnastics), some people find healing and companionship by adopting a pet (nurturing animals with issues can be especially rewarding, because you have the opportunity to take in a creature in need and see it heal in real time, so then you can allow yourself the space for healing) and finally some are healing by being active in online communities or support random people by offering kind words and ideas to address someone's suffering ;) Negative and violent intrusive thoughts are totally something you can heal, I'm certain of it, because I've experienced them and noticed that they are only active when I'm in danegerous situations and at risk of assault and abuse, around people who are toxic to me, in unhealthy and exploitative work-environments or when I neglect my own needs to the point of utter depletion and serious health issues. Btw - learning about healthy communication and boundaries also helps to improve interactions with people and knowing who can be trusted and who shouldn't be trusted. Good Luck! :)
I only recently found out that not everyone has an internal monologue and it blew my mind. I've had it for as long as I can remember and I literally cannot imagine living without it.
It’s not as uncommon as you think, basically 0 animals have an internal monologue but you can tell they are thinking. But agreed I can’t relate to that either.
It is a bit weird. Because what if you have a eureka moment and you’re not quite sure how you got to the answer. Wouldn’t it feel like some unknown outside being just gave you the info? Or at least be concerned if this is a original thing you just know now?
I honestly thought everyone had an inner voice that speaks to them! I can’t even rationally accept people don’t have one. How do they think without one? 😳
People keep saying like “this explains so much about our world because they probably don’t think” like come on all humans think… I don’t have an internal dialogue, I think things without hearing anything in my head, I ask questions to myself by thinking, not an inner voice, thinking doesn’t require speech, but I guess it’s easier for some people. Also internal dialogue has nothing to do with intelligence, as I am a very smart student and counsellor to my friends, and my best friend is too but she has an internal voice
@snowpools8498 It's like music. I can hear certain songs perfectly in my mind - the vocals and each instrument - but of course, I cannot recreate those sounds myself 🤣
Well then can you imagine other people dancing wether people you hate or people you have met on steet to dance but in their own appropriate way and mannerism
It's even better when you're an artist and make silly little stories with your ocs (characters). You can give each a different voice Or just listen to music without really listening, so to speak
Now that's interesting. I have aphantasia, so I can't picture things/people but I can rememberscenes from movies and stuff like that. I can hear "my" voice in my head when I'm thinking/reading, but that's it
My internal monologue is literally just like I'm reading aloud or speaking. I can even feel small movements in my neck, jaw, and so on as though my body is miming speaking while i think.
@@Cain1500 as in match tone? like youll match talking softer or maybe deeper to other people? (i do this, it feels weird to use my deeper voice to talk to a quiet girl especially if the rooms quiet)
I have an internal monologue and visualize everything very clearly when it is read or described. I loved reading as a kid even though it took me way longer than a lot of people, because it was like watching a movie in my head. It made miscasting in adaptations more jarring well into my early adulthood.
Or I create dialogues in my head between an imaginary me and an imaginary friend that I'd like to share these thoughts with but am too afraid to do so in real life
I never even considered that some people might NOT have an inner voice. It just seems natural to me to read things in my head or construct my thoughts as sentences. My inner voice is even speaking these words as I type.
I didn’t realize that some people didn’t have an internal monologue until I realized that my kid has aphantasia about the time he was 8. When I realized that he can’t visualize things in his head (which is a big part of my thinking process) I started reading about the different ways people think and found out that some people don’t have an internal monologue. It makes sense, though, that as different as we all are that we would think differently too.
Newsflash: most of the world doesn't. India, africa, asia, eastern europe....people from all these places generally have a so called "resting mind" unless they are engaged in conversation. That doesn't mean their heads are empty, means their thoughts are not verbalized before they come out of their mouths.
Those are called NPC's they are there just to fill space and give quests. You can just ignore them if you like since they don't really matter. PS I just became your inner voice for a minute
@@Gecko88 This is completely off topic but you haven't heard about words that mean more than one thing? Look up for example "shocked" in the dictionary.
I really like talking to myself because I agree with myself on so many levels. It genuinely feels like my inner monologue is talking to me. Also, when I’m in bed and can’t sleep, I like to imagine animes or mangas that I’ve watched and place a self-insert OC and pretend that I was always a part of the anime or the manga. I’ve created so many storylines that I can’t even remember. Sometimes I fall asleep while doing it and sometimes I don’t.
@@praya88Well.. I can change my voice in the head and do all sorts of voices. If I want a pleasant one, could easily shift to any pleasant voice I've heard in the past.
Hold on, I've always thought I have an inner voice, but these comments make me feel that you guys ACTUALLY *HEAR* a voice in your heads. I can imagine voices and images and whatever but if I stop actively imagining a voice, there's nothing really. I do monologue with myself but it's quiet
My inner voices and my outer voices doesnt know whose the real one so i decided wait who IS REALLY DECIDING AHHHHHH AHHHHHH I have calm down a bit but I will have a rap battle and whoever wins is the real one
My inner voice sounds a lot cooler than my actual voice. Sometimes I forget that’s not actually what I sound like since I don’t talk very much, and I get disappointed.
I can remember episodes of tv of play them like little re runs in my head. I have an inner monologue and decent imagery as well. It makes me day dream alot because i can imagine conversations from the past and see all kinds of potential outcomes aswell as imagining future conversations and wonder how they might play out as well with out comes for realistic do ridiculous depending my mood.
I don't just have an inner monologue that narrates what I read I can literally talk to myself for hours, I think about something and then I reply to it and then think of something again and reply again like I can have full on discussions with myself and most of everything I think I voice it in my head with the inner monologue it's like having a friend that can read my mind
My inner monologue is like a softer, more reasonable version of myself. It constantly does thought experiments and navigates any and all possible scenarios that could happen in real life and how to respond to them. It’s like a slightly separate persona.
Yeah. And honestly I wish I could have a better ship, not one that falls apart at 28 despite the effort I put into it (although now most effort goes into piloting it)
I feel like people without internal monologue might think we are crazy hearing that we talk to ourselves. Its just extremely useful for working out problems or sorting out our thoughts. I also talk out loud too when the internal voice isn't enough.
@@MyemnhkI don’t hear a voice but I talk to my self you can think about it as if you know ASL so you don’t hear a voice but the information still is transferred best way I can describe it and I can’t tell if he’s joking but I can’t give a good description about anything including family members faces
it's totally normal to talk to yourself internally or externally. Often, it can help cognition, which is essentially how you process and understand information
I've heard some people have their inner voice as someone else's voice and I don't know how that would work because mine is just kinda my voice but quieter and such.
Not only do I have an internal monologue, I hear music too. Sometimes a song will start playing just by hearing or reading a word that reminds me of that song.
Same, when I nod my head to a car for example to thank them for letting me in front I’ll mouth the words but not even make a noise. Happens with counting too
@shemshem9998 omg this, sometimes i end up not saying hello to people because I've said it in my head and even done the mouth movement but no sound actually came out, make me look rude sometimes
My father is from NZ and moved to Sweden when he was around 21. I asked him, because he talks in what we call "swenglish" and he told me he even think in swenglish these days, he has loved here over 30 years now but English is still so common even we Swedish people talk and think in swenglish 😂❤
@@DarthZ01 na bro, its not like that, for me my default language changes to English whenever i read too much books or watch something in English, but after some time it reverts back to normal ps i am not fluent in English, i can only listen but not speak.
Fun fact: if you do have an inner monologue and you want to learn to speed read, one of the keys to doing so is essentially to stop the inner monologue from reading all the words you read because it slows you down.
This is exactly what got rid of my internal monologue. I used to have this unstopable voice in my head, now its the opposite and I just have nothing-ish going on, just kinda quiet.
Wanting your inner thoughts to stop is only gonna make you think yourself in a circle. Thoughts manifest at the speed of... thought. So you can't avoid thinking by thinking about stopping. It's like when someone says "now you're breathing manually" and it tricks you for a moment into focusing on your breathing, which feels weird because it's normally something you do unconsciously. It won't go back to an unconscious action until it fades from your attention. Same with trying to force thoughts away, you have to let the fade from the forefront of your attention. If that means finding a distraction, so be it.
I once read somewhere that the volume of your internal voice/thoughts are all at the same volume. You can be whispering in your head or screaming like a banshee and it's still at the same volume. When characters in books and movies and such say "It's so loud, I barely hear myself think", that's an actual thing that can happen.😂
I love reading books and that's one of the reason I love books. I think I have all the things related to visualising and hearing related to imagination. Maybe too much of living alone and thinking leads to that
Once when I had a really high fever, I was singing the ABCs in my head. A really weird thing happened where the voice kept getting louder and Louder and LOUDER and tinnier and it was so weird.
@@KillbayneI can’t win against myself simply bc I or the internal monologue will go “why” “but what if..” so instead of answers or winning a debate against myself I get questions
I hear my thoughts with my own voice inside my head. I also have incredibly strong visualization. I assumed this is how we all are. I learned differently a few years ago. Our minds are amazing.✨️
Yeah, I'm the same way and I thought so too for a while. I remember hearing about folks who can't see pictures in their head. Sometimes I get visuals of shit I never thought were possible and mainly now, it's just full on fighting game images. I've been obsessing over making this game, I can't do it myself so I take notes and use AI to help flesh out shit. Like idk how to put it, I see full on movement systems, magic systems, camera movement, detailed fight scenes all as if I'm watching a real game but it's not real..yet..lol and it all happens so fast, I have to focus a bit to purposefully bring it back up. I feel like Neuralink is gonna answer more questions that we can even think of. We'll figure out how every possible variation of the human brain works. I'm so excited. I go on tangents a lot, sorry.
@RavenMaria-ri5re well it depends, how are you seeing it? Is it a think or person in a dream? Short answer, yes, sometimes. I met an awesome girl in my dreams once, she seemed chill and fun as the same time, big Curly hair, beautiful light brown eyes. She may be a real person in a different universe. May be a person from the past or future. Or even someone I could have met in an alternate time-line.
If I watch something emotional, I can play out an original scene in my head with me implanted, playing out the event like a real memory and emotion. If I let myself get into the day dream hard enough, I can start shedding tears of emotion as if I really went through it. Then I snap out of it KNOWING it’s not real. I can play whole songs in my head if I memorized the lyrics like a radio, especially if I have a song stuck in my head at the moment. I can hear a shadow version of myself in my thoughts that’s watching and giving subtle critiques and review throughout the day but it’s not a separate person. It’s like a mini extension or backdrop version of myself. If I sit for a minute and think of where I lost my keys, I can picture or play a small snippet video in my head in reverse to remember where I was and what I was doing. But it’s not like Sherlock Holme extremes where I go into a mind palace and remember every little details.
@@kricku schizophrenia is quite literally the opposite. Schizos can't recognise their inner voice as themselves and think the voices in their head are coming from some place else.
I have an inner voice but I also think in pictures and feelings. Like when I'm talking to someone my thoughts may just be feelings until I'm ready to speak them
This reminds me of reading. My inner voice be reading the words to me and my brain is creating an imaginary universe, like I’m sitting there hallucinating at a tree. Crazy stuff.
I'm spanish but when there's a south american character I read in my head with that accent. And smetimes when I read in english I read in english I read with a british accent to make it funnier
Probably people without an inner voice just tend to think more effectively through images, etc. Because operating with speech (inner voice) implies logical coloring. Therefore, as a person grows up (learns), he goes more and more to "his strong" side. For example, as a person with an inner voice, I often talk to myself if I have the opportunity. This is probably happened implicitly due to the fact that hearing my voice I have the opportunity to "memorize by ear" my thoughts, thereby improving the general memory of thinking, as well as the stability of thought formation, itself. So in addition to my normal instant memory, I'm adding auditory memory. And it makes sense, because the brain itself is capable of operating auditory memory separately to some extent. But of course all this has its obvious disadvantages, however, they almost always come to naught.
Im in shock right now tbh, I never even thought about the idea that some people dont have internal voices, my brain cant even comprehend that. Like how do you even think????
i for some reason cannot imagine my own voice, no matter how hard i try, its been like this since i can remember being able to think. so i just have to use someone elses voice.
I have inner voices, yet it is hard to exactly picture people’s faces, or rooms. I can still picture them basically, but the more I think of the room, the more distorted the room gets.
I’m fully convinced it’s a massive misconception. Everyone thinks the exact same way, but some people just react to the question differently. When you say “do you hear an internal dialogue” some might think that they don’t actually “hear” anything in their head. Same how we can “picture” an image, without an actual perfect rendition of the image. I think some people are just confused by the question, because there would literally be no way to function if you can’t think
I literally have conversations with myself in my head 24/7. Unless I‘m focusing on other people speaking, I‘m speaking to myself. I basically have my own podcast and it never stops 🤣
I was extremely quiet from my childhood like many parents said to my parents that it's a blessing that I am so quiet Little did they know, I always used to talk with myself in my inner voice while somehow mimicking other people's voice aswell for more immersion 😂
There is no separation between me as my body and me as my inner voice. The one i am inside my mind is the one i am outside it, i am one full entity that thinks and acts for itself.
EXACTLY THIS! People always looked at me shocked and confused when I said I don't have words for thoughts- just flashes of colors/lights, imagery, sounds, sensations, and feelings. I'm also faceblind, or often my recalled memory of faces are distorted, even my family members who I've been around for years.
that is a skill that will come in handy if your ever in an MRI machine in your life. train it and you can choose the song. i had a brain tumour as a teen and get regular mri's, lasting more then an hour. this is how i entertain myself. as you cant move or talk during. my inner monologe recites the song. #uselessskill876
Fun fact - whispering and shouting are the same volume inside your head. Have fun with that one. But you can trick yourself into making it quiet. When I was in high school, I was in band. We would always do this exercise where we'd start loud and get quieter and quieter until there was nothing. I just imagine that and it works to quiet my mind for a few minutes. Very specific and very vivid.
That was literally me last night! Laying there trying to go back to sleep while my inner voice is reminding me what I need to do the next day and playing a song at the same time 😂
I can replicate any voice i hear as my innervoice . Same with accents i cant say but I can hear clearly in my head. Like I always use Kevin Conroys voice whenever i read a Batman comic cause i grew up with that show.
@@DisillusionedMillennialsame but it doesn’t sound like hallucinations voices, those are hard to distinguish from reality. One time I heard a voice as if it was said telepathically and that scared the shit out of me 😂
@@KatharineOsborneHi! I’m someone with ADD with relatable experiences to Op, but it may be different for them. For me, when I have to actively think about something it’s when it kicks in(like typing exactly what I want in this comment or if I need a well thought out reply to something important) but other times when I’m just distracted I can either have abstract/random thoughts about things or images loosely come across or it’s just an empty head kind of thing but everything still makes me snap my attention to it.
