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