Voice in my Head

[activeStick]

Do you have an inner monologue?

Can we get a poll? YES, NO, or I HEAR MORE THAN JUST MY OWN VOICE.

Do you talk to yourself or stated in another way, make general comments in your head (not spoken out loud) in your daily lives? A report came out recently that only 30-50% of the population have an inner monologue. This blows my mind, since I do have an inner monologue and speaking to friends, they all do as well.

According to research, only#30-50% of people have inner monologues, which means up to 70% of people don’t have a talkative brain. The thing to keep in mind (no pun intended) is that it can vary from person to person, says Ogle, and an inner voice could become more or less intense throughout your life or depending on your mental state. If you’re super stressed, for instance, it’ll ramp up.

https://www.bustle.com/wellness/does...rnal-monologue

Below is a conversation with a woman who does not have an inner monologue. I can't even comprehend how she reads without saying the words to herself in her head, even though she talks through that.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1767745681375015076

[btimbit]

The leprechaun tells me to burn things

[nik-]

My inner monologue is narrated by Will Lyman from Frontline.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

It’s not that I think this study is total BS and each person’s internal monologue will be different but lots of what he’s describing is just thinking. She’s just using different words to describe it. She absolutely does not say everything she thinks about. She even clearly stops to think multiple times during the video when she’s thinking of the answer and then repeatedly says she doesn’t do that. Although I believe her that her thoughts are more “visual” than some people so it may not be accurate to call it an internal monologue.

[Puppet Guy]

[Geraldsh]

I swear my wife can hear the voice in my head, puts me at a big disadvantage because I don’t have a clue what’s going on in her head.

[FlamesAddiction]

It reminds me of reading a Reddit thread a long time ago where a girl thought she was special all her life because she could say things inside her head, and everyone was like dude, those are called thoughts and everyone can do it.

[The Yen Man]

It doesn't seem that strange to me? Instead of an internal voice in her head for her inner thoughts, she instead visualizes it like a page in a book that she reads rather than a voice telling her things.

[afc wimbledon]

Overview of Julian Jaynes’s Theory of Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind
In January of 1977 Princeton University psychologist Julian Jaynes (1920–1997) put forth a bold new theory of the origin of consciousness and a previous mentality known as the bicameral mind in the controversial but critically acclaimed book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Jaynes was far ahead of his time, and his theory remains as relevant and influential today as when it was first published.

Jaynes asserts that consciousness did not arise far back in human evolution but is a learned process based on metaphorical language. Prior to the development of consciousness, Jaynes argues humans operated under a previous mentality he called the bicameral (‘two-chambered’) mind. In the place of an internal dialogue, bicameral people experienced auditory hallucinations directing their actions, similar to the command hallucinations experienced by many people who hear voices today. These hallucinations were interpreted as the voices of chiefs, rulers, or the gods.


Consciousness — as he carefully defines it — is a learned process based on metaphorical language. Misunderstandings about Jaynes’s theory usually stem from not understanding Jaynes’s more precise definition of consciousness.
That preceding the development of consciousness there was a different mentality based on verbal hallucinations called the bicameral (‘two-chambered’) mind.
Dating the development of consciousness (as Jaynes carefully defines it) to around the end of the second millennium B.C.E. in Greece and Mesopotamia. The transition occurred at different times in other parts of the world.
The neurological model for the bicameral mind, which has now been confirmed by dozens of brain imaging studies.

[opendoor]

I'm not sure which bucket I'd be in. I'm totally capable of having an internal monologue and do it all the time when I'm writing or thinking of what I'm going to say. Basically whenever I'm thinking of expressing things in language, then I think in words.

But I don't do it all the time for everything. I'm looking out the window right now at the ocean and it's a nice sunny day, but I don't think to myself "great weather today, the ocean looks nice"; I just internalize that concept/feeling without thinking in terms of the words or language. And I certainly don't sound out the words in my head as I'm reading something; I can't even imagine how much that'd slow me down when I'm trying to take in large amounts of text quickly. If I'm really trying to read something carefully then I guess I do that to some extent, but that's not normally how I read.

[Sr. Mints]

No, unfortunately I blurt it all out.

[Coach]

Yes. I have a pretty intense inner dialogue actually. It's more a cycle of alternate potential realities.

[Cheese]

yes, and narrated by Morgan Freeman!

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by activeStick

Do you have an inner monologue?

Can we get a poll? YES, NO, or I HEAR MORE THAN JUST MY OWN VOICE.

Do you talk to yourself or stated in another way, make general comments in your head (not spoken out loud) in your daily lives? A report came out recently that only 30-50% of the population have an inner monologue. This blows my mind, since I do have an inner monologue and speaking to friends, they all do as well.



https://www.bustle.com/wellness/does...rnal-monologue

Below is a conversation with a woman who does not have an inner monologue. I can't even comprehend how she reads without saying the words to herself in her head, even though she talks through that.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1767745681375015076

Did a voice tell you to start this thread? Who are we really responding to?

[timun]

Originally Posted by Cheese

yes and narrated by Morgan Freeman!

Do yourself a favour: think to yourself...



















... "titty sprinkles"

[keratosis]

Boobies always works for me.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Internal dialogue happens pretty much constantly, so much so that I find I'm talking out loud to myself. It's a little embarrassing at times.

But as my dad used to say, "I have to talk to myself. It's the only way I can be sure of intelligent conversation."

[Geraldsh]

You can talk to yourself all you want now, people will think you’re on your phone.

[troutman]

I remember an interesting thread where some posters decribed how they can’t perceive images in their thoughts.

https://fortune.com/well/2023/05/23/...nds-eye-brain/

About 4% of people have aphantasia. They're often surprised to learn others see mental images in their minds and they can dream in images but can't think in them.

[#-3]

I don't really have a minds eye. I read that article 10 years ago about how 4% of people don't have a minds eye, and when they were describing that some people literally can't pull up images in their head, I was blown away by the counter, that people can literally picture something when they are told to visualize. It's something I only learnt in my late 20s, before that I thought people were just speaking figuratively

But an inner monologue, yes that's very active.