What do you think?

  • illi@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    It’s like talking to yourself, but not vocalizing it. At least that’s how I understand it

    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I still don’t know whether that means my absolutely everyday way to think the words I am typing right now, or if some people can actually hear their “inner voice” like in a movie voiceover when the protagonists thoughts are narrated in the protagonist’s voice. Or do people have a “dialogue” in their heads? I mean that never occurred to me because at least that part of "mono"logue is clear…

      • bitchkat@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Yes, we hear a voice talking in our head. When I’m typing this response, I hear all the words in my head before I type them.

      • illi@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        Pretty much the inner voice thing. Like you are talking yourself through what you are doing, commenting internally on what you see and stuff.

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          3 months ago

          Still not specific enough. I may sometimes “think loud inside” i.e. think in sentence form / “I should definitely do this” - and I definitely “speak silently” in my brain when I am typing out a sentence like this one right here - but I think that is VERY much the norm if not impossible not to do - because writing down language requires the language center / processing skills of the brain.

          Beyond that, however, I wouldn’t normally comment on what I see / do - because that’s… kinda redundant?

          Does it mean there are people who really comment everything in their brains? Like “Mhh… this wall is yellow. There’s a doorframe to my right - the door is made of wood.” etc?

          • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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            3 months ago

            Good point. My guess is that it’s a spectrum, just like everything else going on in peoples’ brains. I don’t do it at all times, but maybe 50% of the time I am “talking to myself.”

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              3 months ago

              From all the attempts of people expaining it a bit differently each time, I think your assessment as a spectrum is the one explanation that makes the most sense, and feels fitting for my “wtf are people talking about”-reaction. It’s like “did you know that 10% of all cars will have an engine failure within the first 50 thousand kilometers” as clickbait for statistical defects…

          • can@sh.itjust.works
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            3 months ago

            As far as I can tell there are people who have an inner dialogue going all the time but I doubt it’s always so mundane. But I don’t know. I’m more like you ( I think) where I thought these words out as I typed them but will probably go back to more abstract thought with music afterward.

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              3 months ago

              yeah, that describes my thought process well - I am thinking in words while typing (or while reading, speaking, listening, obviously), but in abstract concepts when not interacting with language, but with objects around me.

      • can@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        I think there are probably people who go through each as you described. I think we’re learning there’s many different ways brains can work.

        Don’t over think it too much.