Apparently some people don't have an internal monologue.

[Holding These Alligators Down]

They can't hear their own voice in side their heads when they're thinking about things. Like "better pick up some milk on the way home" for example.

[ṼṏẌṏḭḊ]

No idea. I can't wrap my ahead around it.

How do you think without an inner monologue?

[Xayc]

If you are talking about voice in the head, then it disappears after taking pills

[[N]ebsun]

if something is wrong with the corpus callosum, it can have this kind of effect - it may not be a complete split brain but interference preventing the proper functionality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain

Our brains are really 2 separated entities, connected to form a single consciousness - I think this is what you are talking to when you have your internal monologue, it is likely your separated brain parts communicating to each other.

[Holding These Alligators Down]

ṼṏẌṏḭḊ eredeti hozzászólása:

No idea. I can't wrap my ahead around it.

How do you think without an inner monologue?

Like how do they hear nothing? They can't hear their own thoughts.

[Q-T_3.14.exe]

I "hear" nothing but I understand what they say. I am more interested of is/are "they" one or many.

[Perquisitore]

I wish I didn't have one.

[Kobs]

Internal monologue is like you're talking to yourself, if you do so you already know what you're going to say since you thought of it first than you spoke it in your head... why would you do that in the first place instead of just acting on those thoughts.
Like Oh, I have to call so and so... just call him/her why tell yourself to do so

[[N]ebsun]

Kobs eredeti hozzászólása:

if you do so you already know what you're going to say since you thought of it first than you spoke it in your head... why would you do that in the first place instead of just acting on those thoughts.

So that you can think before you act - not everything is good to just say out loud or do by impulse. I don't know of any other way to think about things other than to "think" about them - and for me at least, that means having internal thoughts / internal monologue.

I wonder if the cause is related to control over the mouth / speech functions - only 1 half of your brain has control over speech (the other half doesn't have control at all), so in order to speak, those thoughts need to cross over to the side of the brain that does have control.
https://www.healthline.com/health/what-part-of-the-brain-controls-speech

Weird thing about internal thoughts - no matter how hard you try, you can't scream (the 'volume' never changes)

[Fox Loaf Liz]

Inside of you are two wolves.

Mine are slightly brain-damaged.

[Xero_Daxter]

Vibin' Liz eredeti hozzászólása:

Inside of you are two wolves.

Mine are slightly brain-damaged.

https://youtu.be/i4YaAUA0eEM

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it's a complicated matter. more related to how processes of perceiving the world and reflecting on everything happens in different individuals rather than who's less virtuous.

[Kobs]

and for me at least, that means having internal thoughts / internal monologue.


See those are two different things, you can think before you speak without saying it out loud in your head but if you're starting to have conversation with yourself, it sounds to me like some form of schizophrenia

Edit: I guess our brains aren't all wired the same, when I read something it's like I hear it in my head but if i look at a blank wall there's nothing no voices telling me it's a wall and it's white and I'm not telling myself to look at something else before i do so. If I speak or write, the idea of what I want to say is already formed in my head and I write it. I can filter it and modify it before I start writing but it's already there i'm not speaking it out loud in my mind as I write it

[[N]ebsun]

Kobs eredeti hozzászólása:

I guess our brains aren't all wired the same, when I read something it's like I hear it in my head but if i look at a blank wall there's nothing no voices telling me it's a wall and it's white and I'm not telling myself to look at something else before i do so

Same, when I read something, or type something I will be thinking the words and 'hear' them in my mind - but if I am doing nothing just staring at a wall, or making coffee, or doing something that doesn't require any thinking, there is no 'voice' saying like 'extend your arm' or 'grab the cup' ect.. but when actually thinking about something that requires some concentration like memorizing directions, or working through a problem I will be hearing a lot of my thoughts.

I think if someone is frequently having long 'conversations' with themself, then that could be a sign of schizophrenia, but not if it's just the everyday 'thoughts'

[saranacX]

If you hooked my inner monologue up to a speaker, I'd be thrown into a rubber room.

[Kobs]

but when actually thinking about something that requires some concentration like memorizing directions

To me this is like I look at google map where I am and where I want to go and I stare at it and all the details, street names etc. and it kind of prints a picture in my mind so I can follow it

Why am I starting to feel a little odd lolll