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• hayvan@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s correct. If I’m actively thinking about something or especially going over and processing some information, I do it like I’m expleining the thing to someone else in my head, using an actual voice in my mind.

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  • lemming@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So that simulated voice of yourself saying something inside your own mind, that’s “inner monologue”?
    @lepinkainen@lemmy.world So you don’t have that? What happens in your mind when you imagine yourself explaining something to someone?

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• Siethron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What is reading like for you? Do you not hear the words you’re reading in your head as you read them?

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  • greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its actually wilder than that, some people have aphantasia where they can’t imagine shapes or forms in their mind. If you describe a dog, they do not have a mental image of the dog.

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    • arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have thoughts that I hear, but I can’t picture images in my mind. Like I know what a dog looks like, but I can’t see it

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      • greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You my friend, have aphantasia. IIRC its about 1-3% of the population.

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  • alternategait@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not the person you asked, but I’m the same way. I do not hear sounds when I read which is one reason I don’t tend to be moved by poetry (love music and spoken word poetry though). I instead tend to have an extremely vivid imagining of the things described. I always feel that books are better than movies at least partially because the special effects in my mind cannot be touched by anything possible these days.

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