Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue?

• lingh0e@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If that doesn’t work, turn on the tv and try to repeat the words you hear immediately after you hear them, but absolutely silently. The goal is to echo the television ij your head.

  In between what you hear and what you silently say, your brain repeats the words.

  That is your internal monologue.

  Now imagine you’re trying to sleep and the asshole part of your brain starts talking about the reality dumb-ass shit you did 25 years ago…

  Now imagine that you just got a song stuck in your head. You know the song really well… and you can’t stop repeating the hook in your mind.

  It’s your brain silently reading the captions of the narration of the images of your train of thought.

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• AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh, is that all it is? I guess I was reading it to be where I can hear myself talk to myself when reasoning things out or experiencing things.

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  • aStonedSanta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can do exactly what you are describing and do constantly and all day. You don’t debate me gongs internally with words? That’s confused my brain. Wonder if it’s an ADHD thing on my end.

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    • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t debate ongoings internally, but I am formally adult ADHD diagnosed. This entire post/thread is fascinating to me.

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    • johnlobo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      it is not normal? mine fight constantly.

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  • johnlobo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    your inner voices didn’t fight with each other?

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    • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No? What is it like?

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    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Mine do all the time. Thanks to the Internet I now know that this is either uncommon or lots of people are terrified of what people will think about them if they admit it.

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  • elrik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s the same inner voice speaking thoughts instead of words on a page.

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  • GyozaPower@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yep, it’s mostly that. Like a movie/show/anime protagonist narrating their reasonings and thoughts to the watchers, except there are no watchers and you are just talking to your inner self.

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