Today I learned that not everyone has an internal monologue

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Wow that’s unreal. I got 100 different thoughts going on in my head at the same time. I smoke pot to slow that down.

A while back, on the sit-com, Big Bang, Sheldon said to himself, "I love my mind". That's how I always felt. I was probably borderline autistic since I was reading at three and preferred that to playing outside, didnt need anyone to amuse me and lived inside my head alot.

I, too, was amazed in my 80 years to find that not every one remembered dreams or knew what dreams ment. I learned dream interpretation from an Elder to become a Wabeno-Kwe and when someone told me their dream, I actually saw it like a film in my head. I wrote and created tons of movies, books and songs in my head, in full color and with sound and different voices for the characters and even smelling the sage when the wind blew in one...My dreams were equally vivid and l had prophetic visions also as young as three.Eventually, I used this to become a writer, lecturer and Native artist in oil, water color, birch-bark etc.

Lack of imagiation is why some people are'broken' by solitary confinement and it means nothing to others. I never mind being alone.

The nuns that taught us developed a special program for teaching Native american kids and mixed bloods(who use both sides of their brain almost equally). They figured out that Europeans were Left brain dominent and did well with math, reading and science etc. whereas we are right brain dominent and used abstract concepts, visual,symbols, color and so on. Their style of teaching enhanced everyones gifts and no one felt like an outsider or wierd, which was great because if you are squelched early on you can lose these gifts.
Thanks for bringing this thread forth to the public.

Did you know some people can't play music in their heads. I can play any song I ever heard in my head, not perfectly but close enough. If I have no musical appliance, I can play music memories in my head. Can you?

When I read I see the story like a movie in my mind so does my mother. I didn’t know but a lot of people don’t have that.
Also I dream in color and very vivid, lots of people don’t even remember there dreams or dream in black and white. Strange.

Yeah I can’t I just hear my voice in my head and it sounds terrible. Lol

That reminds me of my 12th year, I had began babysitting and actually had money. I did a super job. We listened to classical music sometimes from the BBC in canada. I loved Beethoven, especially the sonatas and when I saved up 9.oo I was able to buy an Angel label LP with 3 of them on it.

Except, we didnt have a record player at home, and no outlet in our bedroom anyway.(or running water, either, and we lived on a rez that was within the city limits!!). So I would sit on the bed my sisters and I shared and hold my LP record and play the music in my head.

It's just that not all thoughts present in a verbal language. My thoughts are in monologue form 10% to 60% of the time on any given day. It depends on what I am doing, how I am thinking, whether I am focused on the moment, past or future, If I am in a state of worry or ease, operating more from my right or left brain hemisphere.

Sometimes thoughts present as color representations, observing geometric patterns, moving strings of numbers, emotional sensations, visualizations, intuitive pull, and often internal dialog/ monologue.

I have this inner voice - it's mine. It has nothing to do with a conscience - I hear it when thinking about making shopping lists and even as I'm typing this note. It's just a way of thinking. I rarely if ever see mental images.

It is a drop off between being governed by the subconscious mind(reactive mind) vs being governed by the conscious mind(proactive).

I bet the people without an inner monologue, are easily hypnotized/easily go intro trance like states.

I can play music far too easily in my head. Once I hear something I like, it will go on for weeks. That's why I rarely listen to music at all.

Note- I don't visualize at all, but I do conceptualize well.

You never got the feeling that that little voice inside your head was trying to kill you?

I'm going with this one.^^

In the mean time typing on glp is a waste of time.

How the hell could you think?

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the thoughts are direct communication from God.

you either have it or you don;t.

christian fundamentalists don't have it hence why they think God is outside of them somewhere.

It's just something I take for granted that everyone else is just like me. And then, one day, you discover the woman you've lived with for 20 years folds her toilet paper instead of wadding it up. Mind blown.
I'm used to the mind chatter, but I wish I didn't have the same song playing over and over in the background.
I think it's my brain chattering and echoing what's been said or what I'm thinking. Intelligent decisions or single thoughts come from my spirit and they don't repeat, unless my brain picks it up and echos it.

What good is this inner voice? Does it help in any way? Have you ever tried to shut down the voice and just relax?

What does it mean??

I have inner monologue but wish I didn’t because language seems like such a crude interpretation of intelligence and understanding.

The simple sentences in my head don’t interpret all the things going on in my vortex and subconscious, this I know.

I don’t think we have any inkling of the difference between those who talk to themselves mentally and those who don’t.

The big issue with having an internal dialogue is turning it off



Better to feel a thought than to think it

' mary' ' sue' would be the hardest ' level'... -

But, ' god mode' nonetheless.

Carlos Castaneda talks alot about the "inner dialog" in his books. It is crucial to eliminate it in the tradition that he writes about. According to his sources, the content of the internal dialog is first introduced by parents and then by larger societal institutions such as church and school. The objective of those institutions is to constantly bombard the child with a description of reality until the childs' mind begins automatically repeating it internally and that is considered successful indoctrination. The mental chatter is what is responsible for maintaining the continuity of ones' worldview, social identity, and even the construct of reality itself.

It is a fascinating point that the leftist druggies are bent on destroying cultural language based internal thought as they are told it is the cause of all evil, however, once the ingrained internal monologue is eliminated, they replace it with a monologue of different content. So, it is brainwashing and reeducation.

It is also possible that many people surveyed opted not to admit hearing any voices in their heads, including their own.

I have 13 alter egos, each with their own internal monologue.

There's a good reason the NPC meme rustled so many jimmies.


Because it's true.

Maybe they are not awake walk in a dream, I don't want to think what kind of person does not have an inner voice. Imagine them walking during a red light at a crosswalk, do they speak aloud and say walk? Maybe they don't know what you mean by an inner voice or they are robots!

I don't think there was a time I did not know I had an inner voice even as a child. I know this because I didn't show the anger I felt and waited to go somewhere else to let off my anger, I had to or I would have been in big trouble for either using foul language at them or beating the crap out of them, yes I could do this even to people almost twice my size.

I can't even imagine what it would be like to not have that inner monologue. I just can't even fathom it.

Although, there are some days when I wish I could put a sock in it

Yep, scary shit.

I've asked several people if they can hear their own voice in their heads when they think/reason and they looked at me like I was insane.

Crazy.

Great post.

Yeah I ask this of friends and family members several years ago, ( it was brought up in another thread) and I was surprised how many said no.

Without this internal monologue how is forethought even possible?

Very interesting post. Appreciate the Castaneda reference.