Inner monologue.

When I was flossing my teeth last night I was suddenly for no reason whatsoever transported back to being at Daymer Bay in Cornwall where we used to go on our holidays. How and why it sprung into my head I have no idea. I’m always having conversations in my head: so much so that on the rare occasion that there’s someone else around me I sometimes ask them if I was talking to myself. Thankfully no one has ever said that I was. But maybe they’re being kind…

What do you have instead then?
I’m intrigued now. 🤔

I’m trying to imagine what it’s like not to have one but I can’t. How can you not?I mean if you don’t have it, do you just sit there as if you’re switched off??? 🤔

My husband used to tell me to 'stop thinking' when I was sitting still . I could never understand what he meant, or how anyone could not think. .Now I do. Even during sleep. Brain is on 24 hours.

Exactly

Everyone!

Lathyrus I was blown away when my husband told me he thought in pictures, I thought every thought in words!

What is an internal monologue?

Absolutely I do. Talk to myself all the time. I get intelligent answers to my questions too

Yes I think so I play things out in my head. I think my mum on occasions got in the habit of talking to herself in her later years not in a demented way, just voicing plans, thoughts that sort of thing, I did say once "mum did you know you're talking to yourself" "I do" she said "because I get some very sensible replies"

I think mine is a bit weird - because if it's not 'thoughts' or worries, I'm 'singing' song lyrics to myself in my head.

I always have an inner monologue going - it's at its worst when I'm trying to get to sleep.
It switches off if I'm reading or watching something interesting though.
I think everyone must have them, as even before we speak, the words must already be there in your brain before you say something, it's just too fast for you to realize it.

If I didn't have one, I would assume I was dead.

Some people think in words, some people think in images.

Some quite literally don’t think anything sometimes.

I don’t really understand what an internal monologue is. I’m always thinking, my brain never seems to stop. Is that the same thing? I’m often busy in my sleep, too!

Mine only stops when blocked by something else like really listening to another persons n, a good book or absorbing film.

But I do know people who say they don’t have an inner monologue

“ Sometimes I sits and thinks.
And sometimes I just sits…..”

Luckygirl3

I chatter away to myself all the time - I'm the only person here - and the only person whose judgement I truly trust!

It’s the only way to get a sensible answer.😄

I chatter away to myself all the time - I'm the only person here - and the only person whose judgement I truly trust!

Or just ‘thoughts’ as most of us call it.😄
I suspect the percentage of people saying they don’t are either brain dead or didn’t understand the question.

I am aware that some people do not have an inner monologue but cannot imagine not having one.

"Also referred to as “internal dialogue,” “the voice inside your head,” or an “inner voice,” your internal monologue is the result of certain brain mechanisms that cause you to “hear” yourself talk in your head without actually speaking and forming sounds."

What is it?

I do, I thought everyone did. It’s amazing, I’m now having an inner monologue about why some people don’t have one.

Oh my gosh, thank you, good to know others have this. I wish mine would shut the bleep up sometimes though!

I read this a few weeks ago and was actually amazed to discover that some people don't have one! I always thought everyone did.