How do some people think/speak inside their head while others can’t?

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How do some people think/speak inside their head while others can’t?

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Does anyone know what causes this? Why it happens?

Anonymous 0 Comments

Is having or nor having internal monologue the norm? I thought everyone had it.

I also thought having verbal dialogue in dreams was normal. Next you’ll tell me most people don’t assign unique voices and accents to the comments they read in forums or characters in books.

FYI, 90% of redditors have a 18th century British Accent.

Anonymous 0 Comments

I think it’s possible that thinking is unnecessary, only needing to be used when elaborating on things. The brain is similar to a neural network, if you think about something the pathway is given more priority. I believe that thought is what allows you to choose a lower priority pathway. Without thought, you immediately follow the highest priority pathway, which is usually the correct pathway to follow. If I said think about a chicken, you probably have a good idea immediately. If I said think about the feathers of a chicken and apply them to the thought of a chicken, I’ve then led you down a new pathway which you likely haven’t followed if you aren’t an artist or something of the sort. People with less exposure to conversation likely are the people who can have inner monologue because people with a high exposure to conversation immediately find the words they want to say, simply because they’ve been down the pathway a million times. If you are kept up at night by a reoccurring memory, ask yourself, how many times at the point of that memory had you gone through the same or similar situation? The chances are slim that you’d done the same or similar thing a million times over and it remains a reoccurring memory.

tl;dr

people who don’t think in words are conversationalists, thinking is unnecessary, thinking allows you to choose whether you have an immediate response, if you haven’t thought about it before you don’t have an immediate answer

Anonymous 0 Comments

This is so bizarre. I totally have a monologue, but some of you that don’t seem to think we only think in words. Not true at all, I at least think in words and visuals. The same for dreams, I see people and we talk together, just like the waking world. Is there anyone who ONLY thinks in words?

Anonymous 0 Comments

I’m tripping so hard now to think that some people don’t think in word-speak in their heads.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Im guessing that people who are more sociable and talk more often wouldn’t really need to think speak so they just don’t, and people who do think speak talk less or listen to conversation less so to make themselves not bored they speak to themselves but in their head so no one else hears and it is less effort.

This is just me guessing. I could be incorrect.

Anonymous 0 Comments

So while you all are reading these comments to yourselves, are you hearing your inner voice reading them? I am

Anonymous 0 Comments

I’ve gone down this particular rabbit hole before with some friends, later did some research and discovered that I am considered highly abnormal because I can literally turn my inner monologue on and off mostly at will. When I read I always have a monologue, but no distinctive voices, just one that does not sound like my own voice. In any other situation I can choose if my brain thinks with a “voice” or just visuals or what I call “impressions” which I have no way to describe. Sometimes the switch is involuntary, but if I think about it I control it, like breathing or blinking. Dreaming is visual, and people speak but I don’t “hear” they’re voices, I just instinctively understand what they mean. My dreams are always 100% silent even when people in them speak. Not necessarily related but I also often dream in the 3rd person (watching myself) although I never look like what I do IRL, and often dream I am the opposite gender. When I dream in the first person I can always see my own body, including my hands, and I never speak in dreams, others infer my meanings as I infer theirs.

Anonymous 0 Comments

I’m confused.

Are you under the impression that some people are incapable of…thinking?

That’s what your question implies.