Inner Monologue

[TheHamburglar]

Do you guys have an inner monologue? I just recently learned that some people have an inner monologue & some don’t. I have an inner monologue. I asked Mrs Hamburg if she has one. She just laughed, said no, & asked if I had one. Each of our minds were blown when we realized how the other thinks & reads. She thought something was wrong with me. I have no idea how people interpret reading words without it.

[star seed 7]

Yes, I figured everyone did 

[steve dave]

I do not. I've read some stuff about this and was baffled that people have this going on. Obviously the same on the other side.

[steve dave]

in good faith question: do you freaks like think about what you're typing and doing at work or whatever in spoken word the entire time?

EDIT: freaks was used lovingly and I only mean it as different than myself which is kinda freakish honestly

[steve dave]

followup question: if so, how do you not kill yourselves? not being mean, but that seems very torturous. maybe it's not. I have no idea obviously.

[steve dave]

CASE IN POINT: I'm just typing this post without hearing anything in my brain. Just doing it. Do you hear it spoken to you when you're doing stuff like that?

[star seed 7]

in good faith question: do you freaks like think about what you're typing and doing at work or whatever in spoken word the entire time?

EDIT: freaks was used lovingly and I only mean it as different than myself which is kinda freakish honestly

Yes

followup question: if so, how do you not kill yourselves? not being mean, but that seems very torturous. maybe it's not. I have no idea obviously.

Used to it I guess? I can't even imagine it not happening.

CASE IN POINT: I'm just typing this post without hearing anything in my brain. Just doing it. Do you hear it spoken to you when you're doing stuff like that?

Yes, I hear every word, sometimes in different accents. But like it's not actually "hearing", like it's not auditory but like my minds ear

[TheHamburglar]

Everything star seed 7 said. I’m hearing the words in my head as I type this. I hear the words to every thought.

It doesn’t drive me crazy. It’s normal to me. Until recently I thought this is what “thinking” is to everyone.

I also hear accents. For example, if I read the words “my wife” I’ll think/hear it in a Borat accent. I thought/heard it in a Borat accent as I typed it now.

[TheHamburglar]

For those of you that don’t have an inner monologue, how do you math in your head? It seems like this would be impossible for you.

If I’m doing more complex math in my head, I also have the ability to “see” a blackboard. This is hard to explain, but I “see” it up & to the right. When I use it my eyes will look up & right as if it’s actually there. I write on it in white text & visualize the strokes of the numbers & operators being written on it. Sometimes I’ll move my right index finger as if I’m writing the equation on it like it’s a touch pad.

[Stupid Fitz]

Yep, I run a ton of stuff by Doggie SF too. I’m basically talking in my head or to Doggie all day.


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[Phil Titola]

I thought you meant like a narrator 3rd person'ing your life monologue.

Yes I do and I can probably pick out each person that does or doesn't have one w/o asking them.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Yep, I run a ton of stuff by Doggie SF too. I’m basically talking in my head or to Doggie all day.


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Yes. A good therapist helped me consider some of the terrible stuff I was saying to myself in my inner monologue. Big part of the healing process.

We will also voice our dog's inner monologue -- he uses the same voice as Lennie from "Of Mice and Men"

[cfbandyman]

in good faith question: do you freaks like think about what you're typing and doing at work or whatever in spoken word the entire time?

EDIT: freaks was used lovingly and I only mean it as different than myself which is kinda freakish honestly

Yes

followup question: if so, how do you not kill yourselves? not being mean, but that seems very torturous. maybe it's not. I have no idea obviously.

Used to it I guess? I can't even imagine it not happening.

CASE IN POINT: I'm just typing this post without hearing anything in my brain. Just doing it. Do you hear it spoken to you when you're doing stuff like that?

Yes, I hear every word, sometimes in different accents. But like it's not actually "hearing", like it's not auditory but like my minds ear

Yeah this, maybe not accents but I often rehearse in my head how I want to say something to a person/audience based on what I know of the person and just like general cues that typically happen in conversations. Or even reading this sentence with different inflections to see how it might convey different thing and how that "sounds" to me. But it's not really sounds but my brain thinks it is. I think the best semi accurate example of the inner dialogue is to me would be like Cady from Mean Girls when she has her quick thoughts happen when talking to someone. Sort of a narration but really it's a consciousness that's a more raw version of myself.

Side note but related. I do think this inner monologue does help partially explain why I can get sensory overload a lot when going out, or when two people try to talk to my at once. If I hear that many conversations my brain wants to hear them all, all while also performing said inner dialogue, it's personally hard for me to shut this down. I liken it to when you're playing catch and then all the sudden two (or more) baseballs are thrown at you, it sort of freaks out my mind, too many things for it to react to. It's also why when I read something I cannot listen at the same time, I have my voice "speak" it out loud, in my brain. So to then have someone talk to me (or have a podcast or w/e on) I cannot "listen" to both.

[TheHamburglar]

in good faith question: do you freaks like think about what you're typing and doing at work or whatever in spoken word the entire time?

EDIT: freaks was used lovingly and I only mean it as different than myself which is kinda freakish honestly

Yes

followup question: if so, how do you not kill yourselves? not being mean, but that seems very torturous. maybe it's not. I have no idea obviously.

Used to it I guess? I can't even imagine it not happening.

CASE IN POINT: I'm just typing this post without hearing anything in my brain. Just doing it. Do you hear it spoken to you when you're doing stuff like that?

Yes, I hear every word, sometimes in different accents. But like it's not actually "hearing", like it's not auditory but like my minds ear

Yeah this, maybe not accents but I often rehearse in my head how I want to say something to a person/audience based on what I know of the person and just like general cues that typically happen in conversations. Or even reading this sentence with different inflections to see how it might convey different thing and how that "sounds" to me. But it's not really sounds but my brain thinks it is. I think the best semi accurate example of the inner dialogue is to me would be like Cady from Mean Girls when she has her quick thoughts happen when talking to someone. Sort of a narration but really it's a consciousness that's a more raw version of myself.

Side note but related. I do think this inner monologue does help partially explain why I can get sensory overload a lot when going out, or when two people try to talk to my at once. If I hear that many conversations my brain wants to hear them all, all while also performing said inner dialogue, it's personally hard for me to shut this down. I liken it to when you're playing catch and then all the sudden two (or more) baseballs are thrown at you, it sort of freaks out my mind, too many things for it to react to. It's also why when I read something I cannot listen at the same time, I have my voice "speak" it out loud, in my brain. So to then have someone talk to me (or have a podcast or w/e on) I cannot "listen" to both.

Yes. I listen to music all day at work. It’s usually the same music over & over again. I do it so I don’t sit on my office all day with the door shut. It’s doesn’t have to be loud, but I need it to occupy the actual hearing part of my brain so I don’t hear other conversations & have them start mixing in with my work inner dialogue.

[TheHamburglar]

Yep, I run a ton of stuff by Doggie SF too. I’m basically talking in my head or to Doggie all day.


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Yes. A good therapist helped me consider some of the terrible stuff I was saying to myself in my inner monologue. Big part of the healing process.

We will also voice our dog's inner monologue -- he uses the same voice as Lennie from "Of Mice and Men"

That is great work by your therapist. I started taking Lexapro a couple years ago & it helps a lot. I think it’s working by stopping my inner monologue from telling me to worry all day.

This is all so fascinating to me. Based off your response, it seems like “do you have an inner monologue?” should be a first appointment question.

[yoga-like_abana]

Fascinating topic. I don't think I do until it actually comes to a perplexing topic that I need to think about or if I need to self motivate.

[cfbandyman]

in good faith question: do you freaks like think about what you're typing and doing at work or whatever in spoken word the entire time?

EDIT: freaks was used lovingly and I only mean it as different than myself which is kinda freakish honestly

Yes

followup question: if so, how do you not kill yourselves? not being mean, but that seems very torturous. maybe it's not. I have no idea obviously.

Used to it I guess? I can't even imagine it not happening.

CASE IN POINT: I'm just typing this post without hearing anything in my brain. Just doing it. Do you hear it spoken to you when you're doing stuff like that?

Yes, I hear every word, sometimes in different accents. But like it's not actually "hearing", like it's not auditory but like my minds ear

Yeah this, maybe not accents but I often rehearse in my head how I want to say something to a person/audience based on what I know of the person and just like general cues that typically happen in conversations. Or even reading this sentence with different inflections to see how it might convey different thing and how that "sounds" to me. But it's not really sounds but my brain thinks it is. I think the best semi accurate example of the inner dialogue is to me would be like Cady from Mean Girls when she has her quick thoughts happen when talking to someone. Sort of a narration but really it's a consciousness that's a more raw version of myself.

Side note but related. I do think this inner monologue does help partially explain why I can get sensory overload a lot when going out, or when two people try to talk to my at once. If I hear that many conversations my brain wants to hear them all, all while also performing said inner dialogue, it's personally hard for me to shut this down. I liken it to when you're playing catch and then all the sudden two (or more) baseballs are thrown at you, it sort of freaks out my mind, too many things for it to react to. It's also why when I read something I cannot listen at the same time, I have my voice "speak" it out loud, in my brain. So to then have someone talk to me (or have a podcast or w/e on) I cannot "listen" to both.

Yes. I listen to music all day at work. It’s usually the same music over & over again. I do it so I don’t sit on my office all day with the door shut. It’s doesn’t have to be loud, but I need it to occupy the actual hearing part of my brain so I don’t hear other conversations & have them start mixing in with my work inner dialogue.

Yup, 100%. I often listen to the same things again, it's sort of an active "white noise" that just allows everything to block out and I can focus. And yeah if things start to mix I have to stop. When I work on specs it's almost always listening classical or electronic music with little to no words in it. If i do something like drawings/CAD, then I can change to something with more language in it since the inner monologue doesn't need to be used. 

[steve dave]

For those of you that don’t have an inner monologue, how do you math in your head? It seems like this would be impossible for you.

If I’m doing more complex math in my head, I also have the ability to “see” a blackboard. This is hard to explain, but I “see” it up & to the right. When I use it my eyes will look up & right as if it’s actually there. I write on it in white text & visualize the strokes of the numbers & operators being written on it. Sometimes I’ll move my right index finger as if I’m writing the equation on it like it’s a touch pad.

Does a computer hear math to do it? My brain just does it. I don’t see or “hear” the numbers. My brain just knows the answer.


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[TheHamburglar]

Yup, 100%. I often listen to the same things again, it's sort of an active "white noise" that just allows everything to block out and I can focus. And yeah if things start to mix I have to stop. When I work on specs it's almost always listening classical or electronic music with little to no words in it. If i do something like drawings/CAD, then I can change to something with more language in it since the inner monologue doesn't need to be used.

50%+ of my listen time is Pink Floyd or Pink Floyd ambient music on YouTube. There are 4 people on YouTube that do piano covers that’s I’ll listen too, plus Nine Inch Nails ambient. My current “my mix” has a lot of Sparta, The Mars Volta, Brand New & Death Cab. I’ve been doing a lot in SQL lately & I need something with a little more than just ambient music when I do that, but I’ve been listening to those songs for so long I don’t process the words & the singing voice is just an instrument. I can’t listen to something new.

[steve dave]

Yep, I run a ton of stuff by Doggie SF too. I’m basically talking in my head or to Doggie all day.


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Yes. A good therapist helped me consider some of the terrible stuff I was saying to myself in my inner monologue. Big part of the healing process.

We will also voice our dog's inner monologue -- he uses the same voice as Lennie from "Of Mice and Men"

lmao you made your dog a moron in your brain. That’s awesome.


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[TheHamburglar]

For those of you that don’t have an inner monologue, how do you math in your head? It seems like this would be impossible for you.

If I’m doing more complex math in my head, I also have the ability to “see” a blackboard. This is hard to explain, but I “see” it up & to the right. When I use it my eyes will look up & right as if it’s actually there. I write on it in white text & visualize the strokes of the numbers & operators being written on it. Sometimes I’ll move my right index finger as if I’m writing the equation on it like it’s a touch pad.

Does a computer hear math to do it? My brain just does it. I don’t see or “hear” the numbers. My brain just knows the answer.


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This is so weird to me. Sounds like a super power.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

Yep, I run a ton of stuff by Doggie SF too. I’m basically talking in my head or to Doggie all day.


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Yes. A good therapist helped me consider some of the terrible stuff I was saying to myself in my inner monologue. Big part of the healing process.

We will also voice our dog's inner monologue -- he uses the same voice as Lennie from "Of Mice and Men"

lmao you made your dog a moron in your brain. That’s awesome.


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Our dog is always musing about how he never gets let out of the house exercise, how girl dogs are trying to get his attention around the neighborhood and how he is trying to play it cool while passive/aggressive begging for cheese.

[BIG APPLE CAT]

in good faith question: do you freaks like think about what you're typing and doing at work or whatever in spoken word the entire time?

EDIT: freaks was used lovingly and I only mean it as different than myself which is kinda freakish honestly

i mentioned this in the lifehacks thread (i think), but my inner monologue activates when i have a big task that i need to do and really do not want to have to do it. especially if its a tedious task like the kitchen is a total disaster and i gotta do the dishes.

When this happens, my inner monologue describes each step of the kitchen-clean-up-and-dish-washing process like an episode of How Its Made and yes it is narrated in 3rd person by the voice of Brooks Moore and I am the anonymous Worker he's describing.

[Sandstone Outcropping]

in good faith question: do you freaks like think about what you're typing and doing at work or whatever in spoken word the entire time?

EDIT: freaks was used lovingly and I only mean it as different than myself which is kinda freakish honestly

i mentioned this in the lifehacks thread (i think), but my inner monologue activates when i have a big task that i need to do and really do not want to have to do it. especially if its a tedious task like the kitchen is a total disaster and i gotta do the dishes.

When this happens, my inner monologue describes each step of the kitchen-clean-up-and-dish-washing process like an episode of How Its Made and yes it is narrated in 3rd person by the voice of Brooks Moore and I am the anonymous Worker he's describing.

I think I would enjoy reading a transcript of this.

[steve dave]

have you guys considered doing drugs about it?