Today I learned that not everyone has an internal monologue

I always thought that the inner dialogue was "thinking".

No wonder if most people don't do it, that so many people dont "think".

Lost count how many times I've said that to people.
Don't you think? when they do something really stupid.

I thought people had the ability to think before they do things. Obviously not. It explains a lot.

One of the most intelligent people I ever met told me once why he speaks so slowly

He DOES NOT THINK IN WORDS and has to TRANSLATE to express himself to others !

Believe me he was a man of FEW WORDS but EVERYONE got quiet and LISTENED when he talked

My father speaks 7 languages fluently.

So yesterday, curiously I asked him..

“What language do you think in? Is it your mother tongue? a bit of this language a bit of that?"

He told me..

"I don't actually "think" in any language. There are no words in my head. There is no internal dialogue that goes on in my head, no words no voice. I just think!"

When I was a child I had a constant barrage of inner dialogue, entirely different voices and my own. The others were always hostile and extremely critical of everything I did. I kept this largely to myself because I didn't want to end up medicated or subjected to religious superstitions. I found though that the voices would go away if I actively drowned them out with music, so as a result there's always music in my head even now as an adult, it's instinctive now and doesn't require any willful thought on my part unless I want to change the playlist.

I used to read and hear my own voice in my head as if I was reading aloud at the same pace as my normal speaking voice which was fine for reading children's stories and material at the time, but I learned to divorce mental sub-vocalizations while reading when I learned how to speed read, you don't read each word individually, the same way you don't sound out the words the way a child would when learning how to read, you read the entire sentence as a whole. Naturally it isn't possible to say or pronounce an entire sentence at once so you don't do that. Again music proved to be "instrumental" to shutting down my own inner voice to make that happen.

My own inner mindscape isn't limited to just auditory phenomena, most of the time if I allow it, it'll go into full blown daydream mode where it's no different perceiving seeing in dreams except for being awake, which is most of the time not very helpful as they tend to be a bit absurdly delusional, something I don't notice while dreaming but do when awake, again music will shut this down, especially if I need to get sh*t done.


I don't believe I'm unique in that regard, If anything *not* having an inner dialogue is something to work towards and one of the major initial hurdles when learning meditation is stilling the mind. If anything I consider myself a bit "Gumpy" when I compare myself to the intellects that I'm surrounded by, and given that it took OP 25 years to notice that people are different, he's obviously a bit Gumpy too.

My mind chatter pretty much never stops.

Even when I sleep & dream, there is "discussion" going on.

Every great once in a while, I will wake up in the morning to a nice song playing in my head.

Just makes me think I had a really nice sleep and sorted everything out. LOL

So you are kind of proud to not have the inner voice? Comparing it to meditation, yet in real life we have to think, speak, learn, plan, interact.
How does one plan ahead, come up with a unique idea, write a fictional story without thinking?
Actually how did you think of this paragraph above without having a conscious process?

No, I'd compare it to looking at your feet while learning to dance, as opposed to just getting down. The dialogue is unnecessary.

Well sure, much of what we do is in the subconscious, like thinking about something while driving, and then suddenly realize you hadn’t really looked at the road in minutes.

Actually take that example... say you’re thinking of a conversation you fought about with your spouse earlier. Obviously you are thinking of the words said, in some way. Do you feel the conversation play out in your mind? Do you hear( or for a different word, think) the conversation out?

What word would you pick for how you think it out? I actually hear words... now there are times I’m depressed and I just feel down and no words are playing, but even then the words are there soon enough again.

Actually if I’m real sick, my mind does turn off....too much effort to think at that time.

Replaying a conversation would play out more like re-living the experience, where I'd experience everything that was happening and not just the audio portion, though I could limit it to just that.

I don't hear the words when composing a response as I'm doing it, the same way I don't have to actually give much thought to typing out each individual letter, it's been practiced enough that vocalization isn't required, it would in fact slow it down. When I reach for my coffee, I don't think "HEY, hand get me some coffee, NOW!" I just reach for it.

When I see an apple, I don't see the word apple or hear my own voice identifying the apple in my head, as there are six different languages that would apply in that were the case. When I go try and figure out what's wrong with my car for instance, yeah, there's a set list of things and an order I check them in, but when it's time to identify the problem it tends to happen via a combination of observation and visualization to come to a solution, none of which is verbal. It's like picturing an engine in a working 3D cutaway to find the problem.

Most of what I do doesn't require having to think about it too much and is as you said mostly automatic, which is fine by me as it leaves me free to let my imagination do what it does, but by and large as a Gumpian, there aren't many things that require a lot of greymatter and overclocking of neural circuits to say,"want fries with that?".

TLDR: I just shit words out onto the keyboard.

RE: Frogposting due to too much heckling the (((shekelz)))

Bruh...I can sing it out loud in the shower.

Smoke on the water....funky claude waz running in and out....Switzerland bitches, Geneva Shoreline... with the rolling truck Stones thing..

No music, no instruments, no amazon, no radio....just me bro.

We dance around borealis....space fukn truckn----nekkid.

I hear it in my head the same way I hear it in real life, same wrong words and everything.

Also they found out it was only 20 percent or less that had higher empathy, higher concept of spirituality or God, concept of afterlife and morality. ( no stealing or murdering even if you could get away with it)

My husband does not have internal monologue and cannot play music in his head. Wow, this is trippy.

It’s nearly shocking and scary to find out! At first I was very judgemental and thought of them all as npc’s. Then after awhile I realised it takes all types to make the world go around, and who am I to say what’s “better”. Some people have an inner monologue but can’t picture things in their mind. Perhaps these kinds of people, with less “thoughts”, have a more efficient mind in other ways?

I truly believe that somehow, someone or something can “inject” thoughts or feelings. For years after I realised this, I had to check all my random thoughts, a vetting or identity check to make sure they were mine. But yea, don’t listen to all of them!

In my experience, they're not nice.

NPC theory has been around forever, even Greek philosophers talked about it. Most people are barely even there inside and out. Almost as if they're just filler to keep things moving in some sense.

It also explains why people are so easy to manipulate with mass media. When they read / watch / listen the sounds that come to them or that they make in their heads becomes their inner dialogue.

A couple years back I read about an experiment they did with people, they put them in a room with nothing but a chair and asked them to wait for a while. Gen X'ers and older folks waited on average just about an hour, same across age ranges. But millennials usually didn't last ten minutes and Gen Z kids less than five.

Younger people are so addicted to constant stimulation and faux social participation over social media and video games that they're not able to sit still long enough to have a conversation in their heads. So the NPC effect will grow just, I'm sure, as it did with TV.

Of course there are exceptions to these rules but I think the difference is people over 40 can still remember what life was like before you constantly had a cell phone / internet / game machine on your person 24/7. I personally do not have a cellular phone at all. Neither does my wife. And we don't watch TV.

I'm blown away at this just like all of you. I've always thought everyone thought in the same way like me. This is so interesting to find out! Like a lot of you too, I wish mine would shut up once in a while. My internal monologue is always thinking/talking to me two steps ahead of what I'm physically doing at any given moment. It's like a queue of tasks to do. "While I'm working on this task, this comes next", so I give both over to my subconscious to handle because I'm focusing on the third task in line.

You know what really makes this all even more crazy, telepathy. When you can read people’s minds (and animals) and broadcast your own thoughts, it gets really trippy. When you hear a thought that is just a mere whisper compared to your own....

How in the hell can you think without words in your head? With just images? That's like special ed thinking. Geez, no wonder most people come across as morons.

it's not outside the realm of possibility that people are lying

get a group of people to lie about it and talk about it


this forum and the general land of media and alt-media and even academia particularly in the social sciences would have to convice you that pathological lying and sociopathy is a more tangible and observable phenomenon

That thought makes me scared every time I go out or interact with others.

It is your subconscious. Your conscious mind, is where the inner monologue comes from. The subconscious mind though, is a total "grrrrrrrrr". It is the reactive mind, the mind that readily believes, then fiercely believes what is told to it while in "subconscious scanning mode"/formative years.

The NPC's, do not have true conscious thinking, so they seek to pollute children via programming of the subconscious mind, because they believe everyone is like them. There are some NPC's on the right, but in future generations they will all be on the Left.

The real bitch of the subconscious mind, is that in truth it controls everything, even the conscious mind to large degrees. But in greater truth, both the conscious and subconscious minds, are not us, they are biological processors, that helps us to do things(so your observations are correct, just not in the way you realized).

We are being's of pure perception. By some mechanism, that ability of perception, feeds into something, which then connects to the conscious and subconscious mind's, as well as instinctive and emotional mind's. The vast majority of people, simply don't have the level of self awareness to realize that.

There where times in my life, where my subconscious totally hijacked me, or influenced my conscious mind in ways I did not realize until after the fact.

In many way's, I tend to fluctuate between intellectual, emotional and instinctive, mental processes.

Due to trauma and neglect I experienced in my formative years when my subconscious mind was still scanning, developing an imprint understanding of the world around me; it came to the "wondrous" conclusion that if other people are allowed too close, they will inevitably hurt me. So my subconscious mind is hellbent on pushing others away, irrespective of my conscious mind, instinctive mind or emotional mind.

I'm now scared of Leftists, upon realizing they don't use or have the capacity to use, their conscious mind. It also explains the F'ed up shit, they can regularly do, and their blatant hypocrisy.

Everyone has an internal voice, but here's the thing. It's not yours.

The proof is, try to predict the next thing the internal voice says to you.

You can't.

From my observation, people with Dementia do not have internal monologue in a form of inquiry. Their internal monologue or much better be called programming or life time habits, make them automaton for worry or suspicious instinct. When a person does not have an internal questioning of "why", "why am I thinking this worry" or every other whys, they become zombie or automaton or possessed.

Internal monologue, especially in the form of questioning and inquiry not doubting or criticizing self, is great for exercising the neurons so that it make more inter-neuron links which will provide alternative route that can still work even when physically getting the sign of Dementia with the brain shrinking and amyloid plague all through the brain.

yeah once you've worked as a slave for a year or two, your inner dialogue goes blank. since you have no free will, you break like a broken horse. your soul literally dies, you no longer have a soul, you can only exist within the framework of the mark of the beast/money.


you see, it's not just about money. the main use of money is for magic, because the power of the money comes from the magic. they reinvest that power into magic. to destroy your souls with servitude, obedience.

why does a serial killer torture people? he wants to see their will destroyed, that part of their mind that is resisting him, in defiance of him, that hates him. he wants to be loved. and once he is loved, then the conquest of the slave is complete.

once you all love your slavery, and love your master, you are now his. forever

I remember when my own inner dialogue began, it began when i stopped being in constant contact with friends in convsersation. i started talking to myself in my head and even then i knew i was insane, i thought the inner dialogue meant i was insane, that i was talking to myself in my head.

i was right, i had gone insane.

if you talk to yourself in your head you are just as crazy as people who talk to themselves out loud. sorry.

Yea that’s how my boyfriend feels. He thinks they’re all lying or don’t understand the question. He can’t fathom how it’s possible. I say if our brains don’t work that way then of course we can’t understand how these people operate.