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.