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.

  • CetaceanPosadist
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    2 年前

    i used to be much better at it but over time my ability to hold images of any kind in my head has broken down as my working memory has degraded. faces of friends are amorphous and nondescript - more placeholders for the idea of a face than an actual detailed image whereas i used to be able to visualize in extreme detail.

    i've had pretty bad cognitive decline over the years via depressive pseudodementia/lack of stimulation and my memory got particularly fucked up after i had electroconvulsive therapy so i'd imagine that's why

    that being said i have a very strong inner monologue that i know i at least partially consciously developed as a way to cope with isolation and loneliness - i would talk to myself and narrate what i was doing or thinking because i rarely if ever talked to anyone else. as a child i thought more directly in concepts and images instead of words.