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.

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I don't have a monologue so much as a dialogue. Especially when it comes to parsing new ideas or resolving internal conflicts, it's necessary for me to give voice to multiple perspectives and talk it over like a conversation. Generally they can either operate together, fusing into one perspective, or take turns, but any time I feel conflicted about something I conceptualize it as a relationship disagreement between the two voices. I think lots of people do this but maybe not to the same extent, for me, they are distinct personalities.

    I don't think any voice in my head is like a real voice, I couldn't describe them specifically and I would never hear a voice and think it sounds like an internal voice, it's more like there's the content of what they're saying and then a vibe attached to it. Kinda like old school RPGs where there's the text and then a sound effect at a certain pitch to represent the voice, it doesn't sound like that exactly because there are words, but it's similar in that it's not as detailed as a real voice.

    Edit: I just realized that I can actually "hear" Sans Undertale saying "You're gonna have a bad time" in my head, based on the sound effect when he talks, but I couldn't articulate it and if I heard audio of it I think it'd sound different/weird.

    • MerryChristmas [any]
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      2 years ago

      You should look into the "internal family systems" theory in psychology. This is basically the underlying premise.