@ytc just reviewed this video and saw five people, one black, three white and one I couldn't tell. Quoting the Bard: "Methinks thou dost protest too much."
Same. Sometimes it's just my voice (rational), sometimes it's my "body" (physical/instinctual) who's speaking, sometimes it's them two arguing at the same time, sometimes it's both of them and songs that are stuck in my head. It's very hard to focus when this happens... It tires me out.
Usually my thoughts are neither words or images. I really cannot describe what form they take, but the closest I can get is that it's like how, in a conversation, your brain conceptualizes what you want to express next before you choose which words to express it with. Take that intangible form of ideas and just, never put the words to it even though you know exactly what it is
Yes! This! I have an inner monologue to help with stringing sentences together when I need to write something out but most of the time I feel like my thoughts are very much just spaces full of intangible things.
It's funny...you say " it's closest how when your brain conceptualizes what you are going to say before you choose the words...". For me, I don't "conceptualize" before the words come. The words-which are my inner monologue-come, and I say them. Or, if it's during a complex communication, I immediately hear words as my inner dialogue in order to conceptualize, then I may somewhat modify by choosing words more carefully. Where I trip up is that I just want to blurt out what I want to say without having to change it to fit the social situation. It takes effort.
I have inner dialogue almost 100% of the time. But sometimes I think visually when I need to remember something. If I was going to the store and I forgot an item I was supposed to get, I would “walk” myself through the store mentally with visual thinking.
I can imagine really bright light and see it while my eyelids are closed. I can increase and decrease the intensity (mostly increase). It gets almost as bright as watching the sun. Can anyone else do it too?
i have so much of an inner monologue that it becomes a dialogue. i talk to people in my head. people i know and live with, people from work, girls i think are cute, people i want to confront but am too scared to, characters from many media sources, old friends and current ones. i talk to them inside my head and mouth the words i’m saying to them and make facial expressions, so i look insane and i know that, but i don’t talk very much in real life, so i must do it some other way. no one wants to listen to me, so i just talk to these idealized versions of people inside my mind. i think it’s the way i found to be heard, swallow my opinions and tell them to myself.
You’ll grow out of it, I was the same way when I was younger. Don’t get me wrong I still have discussions in my head but I’m no longer afraid to say what I’m thinking. Trust me, your opinion are never as stupid as you think they are, nor will they be unwanted by others. People like to know what others are thinking.
@@ImWithMe yes. But not just annoyed. People have literally called security on me because they thought i was crazy and about to pew pew the place up. In actually i was just thinking about life lol.
I have my own voice in my head, I can imagine objects and visualize things which could just be memory recollection. And I think sensory awareness too, I’ve enjoyed sitting there feeling the wind, and often my thoughts come from reacting to my senses
@@grind5298 actually I'm not a doer, and I do overthink. It's just that my thought prices isn't in that form. Or at least, not primarily. For me it's kind of a mix of all the processes he described.
@aaronpolichar7936 true honestly, having it can be uncontrollable.. I'm a doer now but took years to, listen to my self in a positive way instead over thinking.. I think reading with visuals is superpower also. I love having a quiet mind. It does turn off.. sometimes it's full on
Hate the chit chat, but as a artist Singer-songwriter I can hear and feel the lyrics and pitch in my head then put it on paper which is amazing .. I think 🤔
Before starting a conversation, I usually run a sort of simulation in my head beforehand, to know where the conversation might lead and what I should think of beforehand. Mostly it’s so my response times aren’t as long and I’m able to keep the conversation flowing without stumbling over my words. I’ve gotten good at creating different “paths” of the conversation too, so I can anticipate different outcomes and go with whichever route has manifested.
I do that to. I always have actually. I did it when I was little because I wasn’t very good with keeping up a conversation but now verbal communication is one of my strongest skills.
I talk out loud to myself. I know no one is there but it is something I did as a kid because I was lonely. I also can do this in my head when in the company of others. So I don't appear socially weird. I also see imagery when doing this.
I have the inner voice primarily, but I can do all of them. The inner sight is the hardest to do, but in general thinking, it's just my inner voice. I like to imagine things, then try to imagine them with extreme detail, I'm every aspect I have control of
@Brandon Smith its weird. I never understood it until i got a TBI but now i see both worlds. Basically for me instead of having words to describe what i want to convey to others i just have a feeling inside. I can feel the meaning of what i want to communicate but i just cant come up with the words to do so. Imagine that feeling you get when you know right from wrong then trying to explain that feeling, where it came from and why you have it without being able to use words.
i have the inner dialogue mixed with the visuals. whatever im talking about in my head i picture at the same time. personally i think they're both pretty intense for me and its one of the reasons i was attracted to making comics- i like the combination of words and visuals. i also get really REALLY lost in daydreams because its almost like im narrating a movie im watching
I have a different inner monologue for different people, some are good and some are trying to accuse me of things and others are like intrusive thoughts
I'm an inner monologue person but when I start to get tired it dulls down to visual thinking and eventually to just having emotions over things that I'm thinking about, yet I'm so tired I often don't know what thought evoked an emotion. I feel like a lot of people have the same thought process however they feel embarrassed about it and never admit it. it's like having somebody call you out for having a long face, and you brush past it but internally you snap out of a trance where you feel upset for no current reason, which makes you even more upset and defensive
yes.. its less energy consuming to talk visually than arranging your thoughts articulately. more so trying to think productively like philosophical abstractions and whatnot.. emotions are thought creations too. you think in feelings and it needs a honing of your attention to grasp the nebulous component of emotional tone and articulate it in words, the whys, where and what. its fastly created sometimes and gone before you make aware of it. its called in short as a mood. a cloud of judgement. and there is another more mystical feature of our existence you can tap as well. its telepathy. i can sometimes see the 'aura' of another person and feel what his/her mood is. i can sense them without verbal communication. it could be just my imagination but ive been proven wrong time and time again because i get confirmation through them afterwards. its fascinting. being a psychic is a real damn thing.
This is very interesting. Personally I tend to think with an inner monologue most of the time, but I imagine it as a conversation between me and whoever I would be most likely to have that conversation with, while picturing (vaguely or clearly, depending on how relevant they would be) what expressions and gestures we both would use
Definitely an emotional feeler / unsymbolized. I never understood what people meant by "visualize it in your head" because I can't lol, nor hearing yourself think
how do you read anything with visuals in it? Like if I said "The scene is set in a tranquil countryside meadow, bathed in the soft, warm glow of the setting sun. The sky is a canvas of pastel hues, with shades of pink, orange, and lavender merging seamlessly, casting a gentle, ethereal light over the landscape." you wouldn't see or hear that out loud?
@@ampersandellipsis747exactly, we cant hear or visualize anything in Our heads, but we can still think and hear I World describe it like that we experience it but IT gets processed instantly
Inner monologue and Inner feeling. I can sometimes feel the emotion of having something, or doing something, before actually being in that situation. Which makes me feel more prepared to confront stressful situations or the like before they actually happen, to the point where once the real deal is taking place, people ask me why I'm not nervous about it. I reply to them "I am", while keeping to myself: "it's just that I've had this situation happen a lot of times in my mind before this moment."
I have the first, second and third type of thought process. It's cool. 100% complete movies in my head all the time. Edited to add I also have conversations with other voices but not like a schizophrenia way, just "do I need to get milk today?" and a reply of yes. Or if I'm thinking self depreciating thoughts I'll have a 2nd voice saying "stop talking down to yourself" or something.
The only problem with asking people to tell you what kind of thought process they have is that the vast majority of people that will answer will be those with an inner monologue.
I only think by speaking in my head also I have the ability to sometimes just instantly forget stuff by my own will also speak in my my head most of the times
I am able to think verbally and visually, usually just verbally, but I am able to make stories, movies, alternate variants of reality, and recreate books rather well in my head, since both are very clear to me, I am also easily able to think of both real and made up sounds. So I'm usually never bored, since I can pretty much create universes in my mind and follow a story line like I am in that world.
I used to do that a lot growing up. I was really into books and I would integrate myself to the story, come up with alternative endings. I was alone most of the time and would find ways to entertain myself.
In my head there is nothing going on, if I look at someone and they have a ring on there left ring finger, i know there most likely married without thinking about it. ill just look at it and know. If im doing math, i dont think to myself "15x3, hmm 10 x 3 is 30 and 5 x 3 is 15 so the answers 45" i have to solve it on paper jf i dont know it from memory because i cant really think about solving it.
Honestly I couldn't put myself in any of these categories alone. My thoughts are indescribable a lot of the time, taking great effort to translate into words. I see images, I hear an inner monologue, I experience primordial concepts in a way that does not transmute directly to any human sense or describable emotion, all simultaneously, all interweaving, evolving, reaching out for more information constantly. Generating theoretical worlds and simulating the lives of people in them in order to answer minute questions.
i have an inner monologue, but i also visualize the things i think about (or talk about i guess) in my head. I ask myself questions, answer the questions, and imagine myself doing things all in my head.
its weird for me, I usually just know what Im thinking. like I dont need pictures but I can imagine them, and I also dont need dialog but when I do think words, I know what my thought is already but I still just feel like saying them in my head. I dont think "I need to go to the store" I just know it. I feel like most people do this but language has become so integrated in human life that most people also just think in words without realizing that they dont need to.
Recently I have been seeing a therapist, I actually have 1,2,3 and 5. It's not fun in my case. No one understands you and a lot of the time your different way of thinking is seen as a social issue cause no one will or wants to put in the effort to actually give a shit and try to understand you. Which over the course of 20+ years and an extremely horrible childhood equals a person with very very intense thoughts and feelings good and bad with extreme creativity and artistic skill but who is also trapped in something my therapist has revealed to me as being a "Paracosmic fantasy" (its fucking trippy and i thought everyone could see what I saw when I closed my eyes growing up, but they dont) with barely any real friends, too many emotions and thoughts to deal with, and heightened mental health issues. Because I can visually, verbally, emotionally and physically experience my own thoughts, I'm hyper aware of every little thing and am in a constant state of sensory overload. The paracosm in my head is so fucking vivid that I have full conversations and friends who live in an ENTIRE FUCKING UNIVERSE my brain has created for me to escape the real world, and because I can think the way I do I can genuinely experience that place as if it genuinely exists. The people I know and thier stories, the world in my head.. you will never know.. and if your wondering yes, Medication is coming soon. There's alot more to this that what I've said, alot of these things I'm just putting together myself with my therapists help. Of course my situation may be different to others. But for those of you who are wondering, take a person who thinks that intensely, put them in an abusive household for 20 years and what you get is a mentally ill loser with no friends, an overactive brain, living in a fantasy world brought on by a combination of thinking that intensely and not getting the stimulation and support needed for that to become a positive trait or a tool to be used in a productive manner. Now I just have a basket of mental illness and complete control of a nonexistent universe that is entirely made up in my head. Sometimes it feels like this one is the fantasy world, most times I wish it was. I wish I could meet others who can think like I do, maybe then it wouldn't be such a painful ability anymore.
Every word you just said is me. I swear, I got tears in my eyes. I thought I was alone. It's weird I seen your comment because my wife is espose to be taking me to a mental health clinic today or tomorrow to try to figure it out. I might show the doc your comment. I can't ever find the right words to describe my life in pain even though I want for nothing. My wife doesn't understand me. Sometimes I thought she is just an NPC.
If anything I have the opposite yet similar issue as I’m suspected to have some form of very high function autism my brain just works differently and a good 75% of the day my brain is off no thoughts going through just watching while the rest of the time I can talk and make a scenario of about anything and basically make a novel in my head if I wanted to though I’m limited on visual detail as my brain has to pull from what I visual have seen to make a image.
i have multiple inner monologues that make me think more quickly because it’s more of an inner dialogue so i can respond to a question that i ask myself. it also helps a ton with math because it’s like multiple people are collaborating in my head and i often refer to myself as we when thinking lol. i also usually vague visuals and i can mentally project them onto a wall if i need more “space” to think
I have trouble keeping the visualization, for example, the numbers that you are using to perform that calculation in math. Its hard to remember the original numbers, when new ones are being made as you calculate. So how the hell do you get good at remembering what you,”project onto the wall”? Simply practice??
@@MichaelBroer to be honest, I think memorizing numbers is a result of both practice and genetics. I've always done math in my head so I can keep track of around 6 numbers if I focus. What's weird though is that I've been able to do it since like 5th or 6th grade. I always got in trouble in school for doing it in my head and not showing work. It was stupid
Thats also a psychological exercise called "role playing", only instead of the trope in cinema of couples pretending to be the other, it is literally just you pretending to be different versions/emotions/states/stages of yourself. Which is weird as for the longest time such depersonalization, compartmentalization, and splitting of consciousness was labeled a disorder (schizo/DID, MPD, etc). Although, with modern neuroscience, we already know the sensory & thought matrices of brain can be "rewired" into each other for senses (tasting colours, seeing sound, hearing a touch, etc) sooo, tehcnically, the engine can be in the trunk, or under the hood, or, technically, spread out through the entire vehicle...which it also technically is (otherwise cars couldnt accerlerate or be driven direcionally @ all).... most of this devolves into semantics & nostalgic "a priori" abstractive "symbol"(language) base encoding (how we learned letter as runes for sounds, and then letters into words, words into stories etc).
I have a stranger in my mind that speaks 4 languages. He’s always been there for me. He speaks to me when I’m lonely, comforts me when I’m sad and smiles when I’m happy.
I have all of these, really depends on the scenario. Like I’m not having an inner monologue while driving as I’m focused on the road, but super alert to sensory stimulation and feelings of emotions.
Before I learned to talk, I had no inner dialogue. I had become frustrated with communicating in words, so to get better at it, I decided to translate as many thoughts into words as possible to get better at communicating. Now I have an inner dialogue, but I occasionally struggle to translate certain thoughts into words.
Before having an interior monologue I would translate my thoughts verbally without caring about how others felt about them now I have locked that up inside my head so I have no struggle understanding my thoughts also helps I have an immense vocabulary
Inner monologue / dialogue is constant, also visual. The other ways are happening too but I think that I pay the most attention to the inner conversation.
I tend to monologue with myself when I need to communicate with different parts of myself internally, which sounds weird, but I feel like there’s another conscious entity in me that isn’t exactly the speaking part of me that I occasionally need to order around cause they’re being unhelpful. Then when I’m thinking about going to brush my teeth, it’s more like: “Brush teeth.” With the non verbal thought that once I’m ready I’ll get up to do it. When someone tells me to remember something, I visualize a video in my head to remember it. So I’m a bit of a mix I guess.
good for you, it's a more advanced technique than just simple monologue. There's also the technique of becoming that conscious character, which is so much harder but really rewarding.
I’ve been trying to figure this one out for a while. I’ve got ADHD so I’ve got multiple dialogues but I remember things through emotion and feeling however I also seem to have a strong image focused mind but I’ve got aphantasia so I can’t actually visualise the images but I can like feel them? Idk man it’s a mess
Always have been confused hearing about people having "inner dialogue" because the way I process stuff is more abstract, based mostly in feelings. Recently I wonder if it's either the cause or symptom of not being able to communicate well with others.
The one I do most effortlessly is inner dialogue, but I can do all off them at the same time! Usually I can visualise things and look at text, feel feelings, smell and feel the wind and have a dialogue describing and talking over it if that makes sense! It’s really confusing, and it gets supercharged if it’s something emotional from my past I visualise 😊
i choose to do inner thinking to entertain myself, i sometimes inner see if i need to really process something but those two processes are normally too slow so im pretty sure im a mix of 3 and 4 and im also pretty sure everyone has the last one when the time is right.
It sorta depends on the subject, like, if im trying to figure out which direction I'm supposed to go to, I definitely think visually. Otherwise, I have an inner monologue. The weird thing is, they never overlap at a given time.
💯 % inner dialogue at all times. My voice, if that makes sense. I've been that way since my 1st memories. I think out loud, which I've also done since childhood. I remember hearing my mother's "frequency" sound in my head when she was coming. If I had to explain it, its' similar to tinnitus ringing. I visualize pictures easily in my mind. Are we all just freakin' weird?
I have my brain talk to me and give me advice, I always have the control myself. And when I’m thinking about something there’s actually a conversation going on between me and my brain. And when my brain or I needs to describe something my brain or I could make a sort of PowerPoint to prove why something is worth doing. It’s really strange and hard to explain but it allows me to be empathetic and open minded
For me I sometimes talk to my inside voice like I act like it's an Interview, my brain asks questions and I respond out loud. But in reality I make those questions . I don't get how someone doesn't have a inner monologue
I'm definitely a visual thinker, if i think about something i usually create a 3D interactive rendering of it in my mind, even if it's just numbers, words or physical properties of something I've never seen before. Quite bizarre but useful.
I'm a mix of roughly equal parts speaking, seeing and feeling. They can sometimes overlap but it's very rarely all three at once. The wierd part is that the inner monologue from a third person perspective about 50% of the time, like there's some semi-omniscient narrator talking through my thoughts, feelings and actions inside my head.
I experience both inner speakings and seeing all the time. So for example, I need to buy some groceries, so I sit on my desk chair, thinking about it, talking to myself about what I need to buy, imaging the route to the store, walking inside, and checking on each aisle the stuff I might need or not. It goes on for some time, then I stop and start watching a movie and decide to order the groceries online bcos I remembered I have extreme social anxiety and the idea of just going out and stumbling with someone terrorizes me LOL
I have a mix of the first two. Every word on this message was first said in my mind, whilst I pondered as to send'em or not. Additionally, I also envisioned other people reading it on their mobile as they furrow their brows.
I feel like I have a few. The monologue one for sure, but also the imagery one. I talk to myself in my head all day, but I am able to see pictures and think visually. I'm sure I sound like a lunatic, but this is all just so cool to me. I know a few people who said they don't really "think," and I never knew that was actually possible. It blows my mind that people can go around with no words or pictures in their head.
I think it's a matter of development. You most likely have inner monologues if you happen to train it by thinking through things as often as possible, as if you were having a conversation with someone smarter than you in your head
Last two, it confuses other people when I tell them that my thoughts don't manifest and I have no pictures words or feelings in my head. Sure I think, there's never a moment without thoughts, but I just can't explain how.
Not only do I have extensive conversations internally, I visualize what tasks I am supposed to do before I do them, I have full inner stories and feelings I get happy or upset about, I can put my brain in auto pilot and feel full existence in my head while it feels like I perceive what my body is doing
One thing is you can’t trust what anyone says. People are gonna tell you they are type of thinker they want to be, subconsciously or not. You need a set of questions which abstract any discernible way of being able to tell what thinker type the question is querying about.
I only have inner dialogue thinking. Whenever I screw up or say something stupid and there’s a dead silence, I often but not always, think about the person I was talking to thinking about the screw up and then most times I think about them thinking that I’m thinking about them thinking of my screw up. If it doesn’t make sense have the other internet strangers in the comments of this comment explain it to you.
sometimes i have random conversations with myself in my head. I’m seeing some people who say their inner monologue is a random person but mines just myself ig
I inner monologue a lot, but not constantly. But something I did notice from this is I do FEEL my thoughts a lot. Like I'm making a book and when I'm writing out a characters emotions and expressions I recreate it through myself kinda on impulse to get a feel for it.
I do all of these, but speaking is constant. The other's can supplement. When I sense danger, they can all be active at different levels, to help me get to a safer situation
I have a whole ass anime worth of “characters” in my head. It’s not like actual voices, just reflections of my emotions that “sound” different in my inner dialogue
Inner monologue, but i get a mix of all these, sometimes my brain says things, picture things, and feels things- there also the times where i think about going to the grocery store and in my head saying ” i should go to the grocery store” and for some reason somehow feeling excited about the snack isle and smelling the chilled veggie side in my head
