People Don’t Have a Voice in Their Head? #thinking #brain

[shrimpel]

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.

[TheLais]

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.

[ThefinePhilistine]

Dude, it ain’t just a monologue. It’s an entire storyteller.

[Exinixy]

My inner monologue literally never shuts up

[jgarner]

I "think" literally out loud. I constantly talk to myself. Verbally. I respond. I even get animated, moving my hands and such.

[CFC]

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

[lordofthesages]

I tend to have full blown arguments with nonexistent people.

Doesn’t happen often, but is ALWAYS awkward when someone walks in on you and no one else.

[andreaa.]

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

[HarrySandringham]

For me, it's like dialogue, but its not an actual voice. It's more like reading things inside your head.

[tinkthetank_]

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.

[Devntr]

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

[Nadja-uw]

Crazy to know how different „thinking“ can be. For me it‘s no. 4 unsymbolized thinking. No words or pictures or emotions just autopilot and emptiness until a conclusion pops up. An inner Voice would be so exhausting!

[WeirdOftheWhiteWolf]

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.

[pumpkin]

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

[banty]

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.

[alessandronicoletti]

I spend my entire day thinking like there is another person in my head who talks, and actually I think in both Italian (my main language) and English.

[quirrel_dynasty]

When I'm with people i think with dialogue and when I'm alone i imagine with voices in my head and visual thoughts.

[lyrooo]

I talk to myself a lot even to the point of doing it out loud because it is easier for me to concentrate and affirm what I have to do.

[Angellic_Official]

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.

[endingruspendi]

"inner feeling, which is a *concius* thinking" hits hard🗣️🔥