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Post by Viperstrike on Mar 17, 2024 15:31:15 GMT -5
I keep seeing people talk about this, and it’s so fascinating to me. Apparently not everyone has one. I can’t even imagine what that’s like, or how you would even think? Mine runs all the time, and I can see images in my head too.
I saw a video of a woman without an inner monologue who explained what it was like, and I just don’t understand. She can’t hear a voice in her head or imagine pictures, so whenever she reads she analyzes the shape of the words and files it away and that’s how she processes information? She also said she doesn’t daydream at all, and can’t even if she wanted to. She doesn’t think to herself and can only talk out loud and whenever she reads she has to move her lips like she’s talking.
I saw someone else ask their friend without inner monologue, “What would you do if someone told you to sit in a chair all day without having anything to do? What would you think about?” And her friend told her she doesn’t think about anything, she’s just sitting in the chair.
I can’t even process either of these things. So I’m curious.
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Post by Brownie on Mar 17, 2024 16:19:30 GMT -5
I don't have like, actual words in my head unless I really try to
I also can't see images in my head either, and I think those two are linked.
It does allow me to speedread very fast because I don't have to wait for an inner voice to catch up. Def a perk. It also helps me lucid dream and that's kinda neat. Makes drawing from memory suck. Conceptualizing complex 3D physics also sucked a little bit, but it also makes me super good with maps and directions because that's more in line with how I conceptualize everything. So it's good and bad ig.
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Post by brooksie on Mar 17, 2024 16:21:00 GMT -5
as my 50 facts about me post from 2017 will attest i hear voices in my head kidding
people who are great at visualizing are crazy to me however the people who do not have an inner monologue are terrifying to me (no offense)
i wish i could turn mine off but yeah its just words in my head, ive never been able to like have a 'movie in my mind' like people talk about with reading. just logically understanding whats happening
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Post by 𝕊’𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 on Mar 17, 2024 16:54:58 GMT -5
So, I have hyperphantasia, which means that not only do I have a constant inner monologue going (usually a couple actually), I also have an extremely vivid imagination. I can close my eyes and picture just about anything and in different “styles” too. Sometimes it’s realistic, sometimes it’s my art style, sometimes it’s something else. I can imagine smells, voices, noises in general, etc. and when I found out that not everyone does this, I was shocked
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Post by rabbit on Mar 17, 2024 18:07:10 GMT -5
Yeah, but it is more like a dialogue. Like someone is talking to me or a group of people that are not me are talking to each other. I thought like this ever since I can remember.
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Post by Leapkit on Mar 17, 2024 18:51:15 GMT -5
Its funny, there have been a few threads on this same topic and my answer was always (paraphrasing) "I don't think in words but I can think in pictures"
Well apparently I'm a liar.
I got put on depression medication last month and have been on it for nearly exactly a month as of today but about a week in, I suddenly realized I was having whole coherent thoughts in full sentences instead of fragments or more vague ideas.
So yeah uh. Turns out I was just super depressed and traumatized for literally my entire life up until now and assumed the brain fog was just what was normal.
I still have delayed speech though but my brain is actually keeping up with conversations with less pause. Definitely better overall, sans a couple of annoying side effects.
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Post by Jaysnow on Mar 17, 2024 19:16:14 GMT -5
I definitely do, and the voice in my head is my own.
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Post by ᦓρ꠸ᥴꫀᠻꪖꪀᧁ on Mar 18, 2024 13:35:43 GMT -5
I believe I was the latest person to make a thread on this topic. You can find it here: wcrpforums.com/post/3566870/threadAnyways, as I said on my previous thread, I have an inner monologue that never shuts up. I visualize too, especially when I’m reading. However I don’t think in pictures. If I wanna visualize I’m either telling myself to see something in my head, daydreaming, or reading. The little voice in my head is constantly playing though, 24/7. It amazes me how some people truly don’t have a voice in their mind.
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Post by 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘶𝘯 on Mar 18, 2024 15:34:56 GMT -5
sometimes, but not always. like 50/50 i think? i think in scentences when i'm trying to analyse something, but a lot of the time my thoughts are less concrete. idk how to explain it bc my thoughts definitely have meaning like words and scentences do, and while i think in proper scentences when writing most of the time, there's no "translation" when i'm speaking or doing informal writing like journaling or texting. i guess the difference for me is that there's no sound, it's more like reading than speaking - though i realise now that i'm writing this that maybe those of you who have a constant internal monologue have that same voice "reading aloud" to you when you read!
i also am very poor at visualising. i can do it if i try to and focus on it, but if i'm not telling myself to picture something i just won't. when i do, i have to individually "draw" every detail. so it rarely happens, because how often do you have to picture something? i definitely don't visualise while reading, it slows me down so much to focus on it and i completely lose my emotional connection to the story.
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Mar 18, 2024 16:47:31 GMT -5
I think in pictures almost exclusively. But it's kind of like pictionary for me, so I sorta have a running monologue through what is essentially hieroglyphics?? My brain never shuts up. I'm the person who will go on multi-hour road trips in complete silence (no podcast, no music, etc) just thinking.
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Post by Ivyfalcon on Mar 18, 2024 20:31:58 GMT -5
Yes, I have a really hard time picturing anything so I mostly just think in words.
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Post by ! (Ġray) ! on Mar 20, 2024 18:24:22 GMT -5
woah this thread is wild
I'm like S'more, i can picture anything in my head and my mind never shuts up
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Post by 𝕊’𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 on Mar 20, 2024 22:09:18 GMT -5
woah this thread is wild I'm like S'more, i can picture anything in my head and my mind never shuts up ayyy hyperfantasia twins!
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Post by Papillon on Mar 22, 2024 9:46:11 GMT -5
isn't that just... thinking?
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Post by Viperstrike on Mar 24, 2024 17:00:54 GMT -5
isn't that just... thinking? you would think so. some of the people who say they don’t have an inner monologue say they don’t think, they just “feel” something and that’s how they know things. I don’t understand it.
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Post by ☆*:.。. Rain .。.:*☆ on Apr 9, 2024 16:31:16 GMT -5
Its funny, there have been a few threads on this same topic and my answer was always (paraphrasing) "I don't think in words but I can think in pictures" Well apparently I'm a liar. I got put on depression medication last month and have been on it for nearly exactly a month as of today but about a week in, I suddenly realized I was having whole coherent thoughts in full sentences instead of fragments or more vague ideas. So yeah uh. Turns out I was just super depressed and traumatized for literally my entire life up until now and assumed the brain fog was just what was normal. I still have delayed speech though but my brain is actually keeping up with conversations with less pause. Definitely better overall, sans a couple of annoying side effects. Wait actually? Same! So that’s what’s been going on with me…
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