I can't make my thoughts sound like anything except myself. That is, assuming I'm not going into Feral Animal Mode, where I have NO narration and I just do stuff.
No, but I do hear thoughts relating to Visual Calculus, Inland Empire, Shivers, and Electrochemistry in the appropriate voices.
This is making me want to classify my thoughts into a similar sort of skillset system
Edit since I'm thinking about it: here's what I got
- Executive Function MOT
- Inner Realms PSY
- Gastronomy FYS
- Obscure Allusion INT
- Ruthless Criticism PSY
- Adrenaline INT
http://www.valleymagazinepsu.com/do-you-have-an-inner-monologue-lets-find-out/
Potentially the majority of people don't have an inner monologue. Blows my fucking mind. What the fuck do they even do all day - just vibe? God I'm jealous but terrified.
I've never understood this. I spend all day every day talking to myself. I actively seek out activities to make myself shut up in my head.
Most people don't have a voice inside their head
no no no no no no n o no no n oon o no :hypersus:
I honestly find this upsetting enough that I have to not think about it.
Buuuuut, it does help me contextualize my experience. Having this many words for everything all the time isn't normal. I shouldn't expect people to keep up with it, and that's okay.
Edit: The original comment was pretty hurtful. I’m sorry. The only relevant portion was how would not having an inner monologue work.
This was a big internet kerfuffle a little while back, kind of like the blue/white dress thing.
From what I gathered from people who don't have an inner-monologue, many of their thoughts are more like impressions or a series of memories mushed together in a way that makes sense to them.
They can describe these things if they put effort in, but their brains don't really interpret the world linguistically first. They have sounds, sights, smells, feelings, emotions, and these get shuffled like a kaleidoscope of meaning.
It's just a radically different way of making sense of the world and having qualia/internal experience. It is BIZARRE to someone like myself that basically has a near constant inner monologue, or I guess even something like a running self-dialogue. I find it tempting to feel chauvinistic towards people who don't have an inner voice, but I honestly can't even begin to imagine how vivid and sensual their world must seem. They may (and through exploring this difference with people I know, do) pity me for how sterile and 'wordy' my world is. My world is filled with libraries of descriptions, while theirs is more like a collage of Google image results if Google could also fetch smells and emotions and memories. I just have my fancy sounding little stories about the world while they FEEL it.
Really gives one a sense of awe and wonder at what kinds of things are beyond our cognitive horizon, or that we're blind to and cannot possibly hope to see. If human beings with all their commonalities can have such radically different cognitive structures, what else might be a possible arrangement of a mind? Would we know it if we saw it? And perhaps more frighteningly, would it even recognize us?
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."
-HP Lovecraft
That’s so cool tbh. I often wonder about how radically different life can be. Aliens are cool. Also, that’s a banger quote.
Sometimes I'll "set" my inner monologue to repeat a thing I have to remember, like "the steam game ID of FTL is 212680" (I was trying to set up the multiverse mod on linux)
Then like an hour passes and my inner voice is still saying "212680" and I haven't been paying attention, and then I remember the number but not what it was for.
What I'm saying is I have at least two inner voices :gigachad-hd: :gigachad-hd:
it's not really a thing i do consciously, it just kinda happens and then i realize it's happening and it stops and then it doesn't happen again until a week later
My inner monologue sounds just like me and I hate him. If it was a demonic void voice maybe I would take it more seriously.
transition makes this hilarious. I used to hate my voice in my head and now I just sound normal. what's even funnier is when I sound like a dude in my head then open my mouth and speak cause even dysphoria can't deteriorate that. the ping-ponging makes me laugh at this point.
I don't know who's voice my inner monologue is but it sure isn't mine. Lemme try to make it larp as the reptilian brain and I'll get back to you
Edit: just had the Epiphany that it has the same cadence as NileRed whenever I'm reading instructions. Recipes, directions, the oven settings for a frozen pizza, I read all of them in that top ten/science presenter YouTuber speech pattern. It also has something closer to a GAE accent than the accent I have IRL
No i much prefer my inner monologue sound like me, anything else makes me feel crazy
