It was recently brought to my attention that most people don’t. I find that…literally impossible to believe.
So, do you have an inner monologue? Do you talk to yourself? Do you get lost for hours in your imagination? Just spend time thinking? When you read, is there a voice that reads the things or do you just…see the words or something.
No I feel the hunger pangs and I imagine myself eating or making a sandwich (or whatever), and that propels me to action
So what is your experience with reading like? And if you're typing out a comment on this thread, do you think of what you're going to say beforehand, or do the words just appear on the screen without conscience thought?
Reading is kind of like what that other commenter in the thread said about "observing the meaning of words as if they were logograms". Maybe if a character is speaking I'll give them a voice in my head but when nobody is talking I'm busy trying to construct the scene with the description the author gives me.
As for typing a comment, that's kind of like speaking, so I need to have a voice in my head that's telling me what I want to say.
That sounds kind of like an internal monologue
Is it a monologue if you're talking to someone else
WOW
Do you ever think in words or sentences? When does it happen?
Sure, perhaps when I'm trying to process a difficult sentence or something similar to that I can think in words and sentences. But that's not what my brain defaults to.