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- Do you always have an inner monologue? Can you imagine not having one? Or maybe you've never had an inner monologue and wondered what it would be like? Psychologists are beginning to study that voice inside your head-and it's much more complicated than you might think! Join Hank Green for a fascinating new episode of SciShow, all about your inner voice!
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I really can’t conceive how anyone can think without inner monologue
I'm pretty sure I don't have an inner monologue and for me, you just know.
There are no needs for words or to "talk to yourself" through the process. You just get there immediately.
@@Soosane So you don’t weigh the pros and cons of your decisions?
some people act purely off instinct
and you can normally tell who those people are
I just think primarily in images, impressions, and occasionally some emotions, not words. So no true inner speech, but there is a type of thought process.
@@larbur9342 Basically like Aura Guard said. I use images. No words are involved.
For thinking about pros and cons, I imagine if I did option A ad what would happen (in images), same for option B and that would help me come to a conclusion.
"Can you all shut up for a minute." - Is still the weirdest thing I've said to myself.
mostly when I'm feeling super depressed I have to tell my inner voice to shut up because it makes things even worse, then I have to do something to literally get my mind off of the depressive thoughts
@@aamu3 I hear you friend. Try to think of at least two things you love about yourself before you criticize yourself
@@leepope3500 yeah, once I realize I'm spiraling I try to change tone and talk to myself in a well-meaning manner, as if I were a child. Sometimes it's really hard to even just realize what you're actually thinking :(
@@aamu3 Sometimes, you gotta talk to yourself like you are someone who cares and loves you. Not romantically, but just _love._
That's sometimes difficult, especially when the depression disappears(or does it?) and self-hate and/or regret takes over.
@@aamu3 Depression for me is mainly inflammatory with a root to mindset as well.
It's better for me when I'm eating for my body (I can't tolerate carbs so I'm keto [Mediterranean] but I'm not strict, I also have omega 3 and vitamin c. Enough potassium etc)
Anxiety, if you ever get it was my body telling me that something is wrong on all occasions. My worst, was when my gut flora wasn't up to scratch. Fixed it :)
As someone who can’t ever catch a second of silence in my own head, I find the idea of some people not even _having_ an inner monologue baffling
Same!!!
I don't have inner voice but I do have inner monologue and everytime I'm completely shocked some people hear a literal voice when they think. Like, what do you mean it was not only a cartoon thing??? Despite not having an inner voice, is not quiet. I would describe having thoughts as the sea, there are waves all the time, sometimes calm and others like a storm.
Yep, I literally stay up til like 2am daily cause the voice just keeps on thinking and talking as I lay in bed with my eyes closed lol.
YES, I don't understand how they function either!
It's why there's so many NPCs who don't have any opinions or views or thoughts of their own, they use society/mass media for that
Dude, I can literally hear music in complete silence. I could be sitting in a dark room, with only the sound of my own breathing, and I can clearly hear movie quotes, or lines from a video game with the correct voice actor. I can see things in my head too. I’ll zone out in class sometimes and just stare at the wall. But I don’t see the wall. Im seeing whatever it is im thinking about
This is called audiation, and anyone can do it if they develop the skill. It used to be core to our survival up until the industrial revolution.
Same, I literally have no idea how a person functions without this ability. I’m seeing a lot of people in the comments section claiming they can’t process images in their head. Like do they never zone out and just imagine weird scenarios? How can they do it if they’re not hearing/seeing anything in their mind?
You have been programmed correctly
@@pugnacious6290 I can't hear music in my head, maybe my own muttering of it but nothing close to perfect.
Can't see anything either, I think in ideas and feelings, words, nothing auditive or images.
I HAVE to do this when I'm having an MRI, because the panic of being shoved into a tube is overwhelming for me.
Does anyone else listen to music in their head? I'm not talking about singing internally, I'm talking about listening to songs, with or without vocals, and hearing the various instruments or sections. Also not talking about ear worms, where you get a song stuck in your head, but having conscious control over what sort of music you want to hear and which piece.
It's like a shitty radio up there (for me) lol.
YEESSS. Like an internal mp3 player
Yes I can do that
And another thing that my brain does is when it gets overloaded I hear a toilet flush and my brain seems to calm down after it
Yes, but actually listening to it is more satisfying. But a shitty alternative I’ll take.
I cannot imagine *not* having inner speech.
Hi I dont
When I think about it, this voice in my head says, stop it!
I don't either unless I'm reading.
@@NoThankUBeQuiet Could you please describe what is going on in your mind when you are thinking about something? Curious.
@@NoThankUBeQuiet I am also curious about what your thoughts look like lol although idk how someone would describe that
Growing up, I had no idea inner speech was something real. I thought it was just a saying to refer to thoughts, but thoughts weren't actually words, or it was something done by Hollywood to portray a character's thoughts. Honestly, I've always thought in pictures, colors, sensations, but I've never had any problems speaking
I'm the same way. I don't know how these people relax or sleep at night while literally talking to themselves all the time. I just have to conclude that they're all crazy, and we're the normal ones. I don't see any benefit to having an inner monologue, and I definitely don't want to experience it anytime soon.
@@skhotzim_baconNot crazy. In fact I too see pictures and experience sensations.
@@Beyt_El Yes, that's normal. I was referring to talking to yourself as being crazy.
@@skhotzim_bacon I also have an internal monologue though. I don’t know how I would operate without it either. It helps me process and workout issues in my mind. Lol
@@Beyt_El I can't imagine how. Do you argue with yourself or go through a mental checklist of sorts?
I have no inner speech, and it is wild to me to so many people have it. To go even further, some people cannot picture things in their heads, or recall faces in from memory. My brain is silent, but I can vividly picture images in my brain. My husband is the opposite, he has a very active inner monologue, but cannot picture anything, or even picture his childhood home in his head. The human brain is fascinating!
How do you read? Inner monologue is basically just talking but without moving your mouth to make sounds.
Sometimes I WISH. my head is so loud its deafening sometimes lol. So you dont like... think through things?? Im so confused how.
Sometimes I WISH. my head is so loud its deafening sometimes lol. So you dont like... think through things?? Im so confused how.
Sometimes I WISH. my head is so loud its deafening sometimes lol. So you dont like... think through things?? Im so confused how.
@@RickyVisit's bs. It's the new attention seeking. Alot of gen z are doing it people pretend to have all these illnesses
"...you can talk about it amongst...yourself."
"We" had a good laugh at that one.
sus...
Sounding like golem there...
that weird moment when I read you comment at the same time he said it
We… are Venom.
Lol dont worry bro I also call my voice by third person but lately it's just been me ig he took a break for a bit 😔
My inner speech isn't like a monologue or dialogue, it's more like a running commentary on everything I'm doing.
I hope it's like an enthusiastic sports commentator.
@@shoujahatsumetsu
"Harry Carry here!"
That's interesting. Mine is more like a secondary person who comments on my choice decisions. He sometimes agrees or disagrees, and sometimes we just shrug and do both or neither.
Mine is more like a list that I'm going over through my day like, as I'm doing my work I'm like "go do thissss and now that done so we've got to do this and this-" or just conversation ig? It's cool we all have diff versions 👁👁
@@Pumpkiinhead i feel this one personally.
my inner monologue never stops and in order to listen to you, my head voice repeats your words internally and then I have side opinions coming through in the mix as well
Uss brooo xD its sooo damn hard to sleep
Sounds like hell
Oh my gosh same. My brain just repeats everything someone says if I don’t actively focus on listening AND understanding and not “just hearing”, which is exhausting bc sometimes I do listen but don’t get anything of what someone said bc I didn’t comprehend any of it 😭
Omg same, and also when I read I need to sound it all out in my mind or I comprehend basically nothing. Honestly it’s exhausting and I hate that I always need to have something in my mind. Sometimes when I want the voice to shut up I listen to music but even then my inner voice is humming to it, so yikes
That genuinely sounds like a pain in the ass
Say I have an appointment on Wednesday with my therapist. I could spend Friday - Tuesday literally having the appointment’s conversation play out in my head 1000’s of times.
I just have music all the time and it never stops, I don't really think outwardly ? Is like unconscious thinking, my brain does it thing like I speak six languages and if I need to think of a phrase or something is just silence and then I get my answer and I don't voiced it out loud (head) is just there . maybe I will smile or be satisfied but I don't go over the details , my friends are creeped out by this since I am able to think or continue talking without pauses but is cause I don't think , during a test, there is silence when I have to read the questions I just hum it, then start writing and I heard the sound of the pen against paper in my head . until I have finished written it
I think the weirdest thing about my inner monologue is that I sometimes launch into entirely fictional conversations, usually involving a complete stranger making a negative comment about me, a friend or sometimes other strangers. I start thinking about how I would respond to them, and quite often it turns into a full blown argument and I end up getting really angry at this hypothetical person that my brain made up
Same lol
Same
Same 😭😭😭
same but i dont get angry,i just leave the conversation
@@KURENANI Please tell me how, I literally get stuck un them…
“The purpose of internal speech may be to catch errors when you talk.”
Oh, is that why my inner speech is so perfect and my spoken speech is weirdly gibberish?
Same here!
My inner voice sounds so much deeper and cooler than my actual voice.
@@michaels8628 same lol
@@michaels8628 same. I'm bilingual and my inner speech has perfect English with no stumbling over words or stuttering but when I actually talk in English it's a mess.
Sad but true :(
I regularly listen to music in my mind and have encounters with different scenarios when I work. It gets me to a place where I can ignore the physical fatigue while I work at my job.
Damn unskilled labor is boring as hell
As a person who speaks 7+ languages, I often hear the question: "In what language do you think?"
The first time I thought about it, I was surprised to see that the answer is: none! I don't usually have an inner monologue. (Unless I'm about to speak or write something, then I need to convert my thoughts into words.)
As far as I can tell, I usually think in kinds of "global concepts" that encompass intentions, feelings and global meaning. If I were to do the experiment they mention, where an alarm goes off and you note down what you were thinking now, I could write a whole paragraph of the thought-concept I was experiencing at the moment. Trying to convert these thought-concepts into words slows the thinking speed down significantly and "flattens" complex ideas-sensations-emotions into sentences, and confines them into parameters/ideologies/culture of the specific language in which it is formulated.
I don't know if this type of thinking is related to my speaking various languages, I think it might be.
I am also capable of having an inner monologue, but it's more limited as a thinking style for me, I find. I usually resort to inner monologue if I am under a strong emotion and want to calm myself down, if I am rehashing a conversation with someone (which rarely happens), or if I need to structure my thoughts about something (though I usually find writing about it a more effective method for that).
I was very surprised to hear about the negative self-talk that the video says many people experience! I hear about negative self-talk in the context of psychology, but I didn't know it was to be taken literally! This is very foreign to me!
Very interesting! I asked someone who speaks 3 languages what he thinks in & he said he very fluidly switches between the 3 languages in his head regularly.
Knowing 7 languages is amazing! I only speak one language, but everything you described is what I experience. My research has led me to the term "unsymbolized thought," but it's still so hard to describe to someone who thinks in words. I think you did a great job!
I am fluent in two languages, and I often try to catch myself to see which language I am thinking in because I do think a lot. But it seems like I don’t think in any language unless I am thinking about what I said to someone or what I’m planning to say to someone.
@@emilyjane9901I can barely speak a second language and it’s interesting cause sometimes I think shirt thoughts in German until I no longer know the word, then I realize it’s in German and I switch back to English. It’s so interesting!
We have the same thinking style! I don’t have an inner monologue with MYSELF, but my brain never shuts up. There’s always background music and thought-concepts, but it’s not me talking to me you know? It’s just me thinking.
The "inner me" never shuts up. As we share a warped sense of humor, I find me quite entertaining.
When I actually "talk" to myself I say we, I've always just thought of myself as two very close people that are different in some major ways.
I'm shocked to find out not everyone does this. My head never shuts up either. It's rather annoying at times. It makes it difficult to go to sleep. What the hay do people who don't have inner speech in their heads have going on? I mean, how the hay do they think?
Rock the Vote exactly my thoughts. (Ironically) isn’t reflection all about thinking? I talk a *lot* to myself. How would I think if I didn’t?
Same. I have a constant conversation with my inner self, particularly when I’m nervous or stressed or I’m focusing on something. then it’s a continous conversation about what to do or how to do something. And If I’m bored or walking somewhere, The conversation is usually about something totally unrelated...
Neither does mine, which I'm actually grateful for, because if everyone heard what was in my head all the time, I'd get punched more often, Inner me is kind of an ass sometimes.
Wait, some people _don't_ engage in imaginary arguments with others? W H A T
I only inhale in imaginary arguments with imaginary people.
Some people hella zen ;)
Hahaha!
I don't. I got really surprised by this video that some people talk to themselves, like wtf!!
I was also surprised. I mean, I expected that from any non-verbal person, but anyone else?
For me even the language changes based on whom I'm discussing with, which usually depends on the topic.
And it really annoyed me when I started actually talking english irl to people everyday after moving and I didn't sound as good as my English inner voice modeled after hearing people speak English in movies and videos. It was really upsetting.
A bit of a contribution to the idea that inner monologue helps cognition: sometimes, when I'm doing a particularly puzzling task, it helps me to actually speak my inner monologue out loud to myself. It really is like i'm coaching myself through the problem- sometimes i'll even speak to myself in the third person! It used to be a mild issue on math tests especially cause I'd accidentally coach other people through the problems, too.
Saame! I usually don’t think in words, but if I really need to focus I will put it into words (I usually end up talking to myself lol)
I've had an inner monologue since I was a child. My biggest stepping stone was understanding all the voices are own, and when I come to that realisation, they all turned into one voice, mine.
Couldn't imagine life without it, I've saved myself many times.
This. I'm pretty cool.( My inner voice). 😅
Weirdest thing is waking up from a dream with multiple people in it then realizing they were all you talking to yourself under various diguises to shield yourself from something weird as hell.
I'm honestly shocked that not everyone has imaginary interactions. They're fun. You always win in the end.
Or lose....it's a matter of perspective
Edit: I have the inner monologues too. Just saying, you keep you positive
I'm always impressed by my eloquence, wit and courage in these inner dialogs hahah
I don't 😔😔😔😔
Well, the inner monologue is a result of really bad anxiety, so staying positive isn't always easy anyway.
@@RatoftheSupremeRodentTakeover Me neither
I feel like reading a book for a while completely changes my inner speech. Like suddenly I'll notice myself thinking in the tone of the book's narration.
Or a tv show, the inner voice might be a character...who..knows in this world
I get that too! I even choose certain books to intentionally shift my internal voices, in order to control the narrative style of my writing. It's very useful when I'm not reading trash, which--let's be honest--is most of the time...
Surly that's just your voice
I do that with TH-cam videos, sometimes my thoughts sound like someone making a reaction video about my life
Oh my gosh I thought I was the only one, last year I was re-reading Harry Potter and reading a lot of HP FanFiction and at some point my inner speech had a British accent
As someone with full aphantasia, this subject is endlessly fascinating to me
I haven't seen enough talk about the difference between being unable to have the images created and the ability to access the images that are being generated. I seem to be able to generate the images as I do things like draw that are far more sophisticated than what I'd expect if my brain wasn't creating images, but I can't see any of them. It's a rare day where I see any images, even accidentally. But, the spacial dimension in the things that I draw implies that there is some sort of imagery being created at some point in the process.
I think I have the opposite! “prophantasia” or something
I feel like this video was more about having inner speech than not having it.
It's not just a monologue, it's not even a dialogue--it's a polylogue--a whole committee sometimes.
Hahahahah best comment
I was just going to comment along those lines! I feel like sometimes my brain takes up multiple positions on a topic and I'm debating with myselves!
Touch thumbs brother! I legit have a party going on up here!
yeah; like the smarty pants in your head, the happy over-the-top person... its basically like inside-out!
I have that experience aswell and with me the reason for that is that I have dissociative identity disorder (DID). If you have several voices in your head, DID might be a reason for that. I don't mean to worry anyone (btw I don't even perceive my condition as a disorder, or as something negative at all), but you might want to look into that, if you have similar experiences on a regular basis.
In many cases that condition doesn't need any treatment, but knowing about it can be very helpfull in gaining a better understanding of yourself. Also in case you happen to receive any treatment for an unrelated mental issue, you might want to know about whether you have DID, since it changes drastically how common issues like anxiety or depression need to be treated.
Inside my brain: super talkative
In RL: the silent one
In in real life
This should be a top comment!
This comment speaks to my soul haha
Ella Jameson thats kind what he said
That's a hard way to live. I know from experience. It's a great relief to be able to speak your truth.
The weirdest part about it is that you never get tired of talking internally.
By far rhe best conversations i have ever had have been with myself. My inner speech is so strong that my breathing, tounge and lips will sometimes mimic the words that I'm thinking if I'm alone.
Another neat thing I noticed, if I'm stressed/nervous, songs that calm/hype me up (even those I thought I fully forgot) play in my head
when you're watching a video about inner speech and missing parts and having to go back because your own inner monologue can't shut up for 5 minutes so you can listen to someone else... lol
Lol I completely understand 😅🙃
same
Add dyslexia to that and it becomes a chore to read a book.
I cannot imagine how someone could function without that inner speech. I honestly thought the only time your inner speech stopped is when you die
totally true!
You know when someone reminds you to breathe and then you breathe manually. Well now ive been reminded to think and im thinking manually
Same. I was brain dead most of the day inner speech wise and then this video came out.
You know you’ve just reminded every single person who gets to this comment to breathe, right?
Oh no don't remind me that manually breathing is a thing oohhh ohh aw man aahhh.
Dude brains are so weird.
I find this amazing. Do you guys actually go times without inner dialog? Mine never shuts tf up!
Edit: Ever.
@@lmao2302 Thats creepy..wtf
Something interesting I do when talking to myself is moving my mouth ever so slightly and breathing as if I'm talking. I can also make really loud noises in my head like screaming, static, random frequencies, music, etc.
What I wouldn’t do for one minute of silence. Just 60 seconds of pure bliss. It’s hard for me to even imagine what that would be like.
"It's really hard to measure internal experiences!" You just summarized all of psychology in one sentence.
"The mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell"
@@brago.gameplays How does that relate to this?
Behavioral psychology though
@@albertjackinson It doesn't. That's kinda the point of the meme.
@@Dan0RG I see. And that's likely the only meme I understand often.
I'm insanely aware of my inner monologue, I talk to myself in my head all the time and I'm aware of it.
Same. It’s really annoying. I’ve fallen into depressions from it. I kinda thought everyone did that though, but I guess not
I thought most people had this :p Its rarely quiet. But seems not
Me, too. It switches between describing what I'm doing, or a mostly one-sided argument based on past arguments (real or imagined).
Monologue? Lucky...
Try having a whole endless crowd...😑
I'm the same way to the point that I have an overwhelming urge to actually say it out loud which is why I talk to myself even as an adult.
After getting COVID i lost my inner monologue, and i never have got it back. It's such an isolating experience.
What so you can’t think in words now? Just out of curiosity like as you read this are you hearing your own voice in your head reading it? I’ve never heard of someone losing their internal monologue before only gaining one
My inner only stops when I'm speaking or actively listening.
Does anyone ever struggle to shut it up, I have arguments with myself in my head telling both voices to just be quiet 😂
Omg yes, always, they often don't listen and need another voice to shut them up. 🤣 And other techniques 😅
Yes 😂😂
Yes i do too.. can't get em to stop. I havent decided if uts a inner voice or actually ppl talking to me... cause they r different voices plus.. they do more harm then good
@@chuckcheek2703 mine are sometimes different voices too, which is weirder when I remember that I try to put on voices when reading a book. Like reading the Harry potter books and trying to read them in the voice of the actors from the movies. Apart from famous quotes, it naturally turns back into my voice
So how on earth is my inner voice able to keep changing, sometimes drastically, without thinking, when I can't consciously maintain a different voice, even when I know how it should sound, for more than a few seconds. 😫
@@chuckcheek2703
Have you looked into that? It's apparently more common than having naturally red hair, but extremely hard to detect (at least if you don't know what to look for). Especially the lesser known Otherwise Specified Dissociative Disorders, as they are often hidden, since they are designed to hide in order to protect you, since it is the bodies coping mechanism. But all bodies can react to similar situations differently.
Only about 6% of people that have others in their head have overt symptoms ( 94% having subtle symptoms, less noticeable, seem normal) and that more people have that then have schizophrenia or are natural red heads, possibly 1% of the population could have it.
A lot of stigma and misinformation, if your worried ask questions, research and seek out a good professional.
Sorry if that was a lot, I got a little carried away and thought the information might be interesting to someone. Information on this is very difficult if you don't know what your looking for. So figured comments like these on videos like this might help someone someday 🤞.
It could just be a different mental health issue, maybe anxiety, depression, guilt, shame, impulsiveness. These can cause harmful thoughts, it depends on the type harm you mean.
No matter what the cause of them, loads of people around the world say that you shouldn't label them as bad or evil. That they are there for a reason, try Mindfulness or reach out to a professional.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk 😅
That there are people out there that don't hear their thoughts, constantly, is mind boggling. I thought that's just what having a mind is.
Personally, I have very little speech in my head. My brain mostly communicates with visuals that transport concepts and are linked to areas of my brain with additional information that can be introduced to the visual concept when needed.
When my brain uses words, it's most often to simulate arguing and formulating answers to questions, to have it available when needed later. But it's always "outer speech", happening inside the head. It's never addressed to different parts of the brain, but always as a unit. When the different parts disagree, it's mainly by showing problems with current plans or by voting on how confident they are with the choice being a good one.
the only time where they ever break character is when something went terribly wrong and one of the players in my brain is admitting guilt, because it was its job to see that in advance...
@@liquidminds Fascinating
my thoughts exactly. I cant not hear my thoughts. if I try to turn off my inner thoughts, I just start thinking about trying to turn off my inner thoughts
I fall into the category of people who doesn't have any mental talking unless I *deliberately* generate it. Using mental talking is quite useful when thinking however, and there's evidence to suggest people are mentally handicapped if they don't learn some kind of language they can "think in" (in that deaf people really need to learn sign language). That being said most of my thoughts are some combination of abstract concepts and images and the experience of a constant internal monologue sounds strange and exhausting to me.
@@vakusdrake3224 it *IS* exhausting. It's like having an idiot constantly jabbering in your ear, and having a narrator that won't shut the hell up. Perhaps I need to retrain my mind. More concept, less words, like Alan Watts and Zhuangzi suggest.
Inner speech for me definitely can relate to negative/depressive thoughts, but interestingly when I think in dialogue it's usually my friends' positive voices helping me work through stuff versus negative thoughts usually being in my voice. The value of having good friends :)
I constantly have a conversation with at least 1 more of myself internally 24/7 and its honestly exhausting at times specially during depressive episodes. I bet not having inner speech must be nice and relaxing
I personally love changing this voice in my head to morgan freeman then making him say the most absurd stuff lmao
LMAO I might have to try that
bruh, i did that minutes before reading this 😳😂
When I read stories I pick such voices to narrate, it’s quite fun.
Yes or David Attenborough
HELP I DO THAT TOO
I have a strong inner voice. Its not negative. I basically just silently talk to myself like a friend. I discuss problems, funny stuff, what an emotion is about, entertaining stuff you would discuss with a friend, etc. its rare i get lonely because my internal monologue is so strong. I was mind blown when i found out others don’t do this
I’m the same way, when I’m bored I can talk to myself for hours like there is someone in my head listening.
Me too. Inner me is hilarious and thinks of comebacks I shouldn't say out loud way too often 😂
Same here
This video sounds like it was written by someone who doesn't have an internal voice
For me it was actually stranger how I can think about something without the inner voice, but obviously everyone does that too.
I definitely have an inner monologue, and it’s most active and complete when I am planning various things or prepping for a conversation, or problem solving, etc. I’m fairly certain that I often have “shorthand” inner monologue, where I don’t have to think the whole sentence out, but I immediately come to conclusions that do need much language to internalize them until someone asks. I think this mostly happens when it comes to emotional things. I’m an INTJ and when it comes to sorting things out, I think I tend to identify those feelings in a simple manner and then shelve them somewhere. That’s not to say I don’t feel emotional, but I tend to not dwell on it especially when it comes to decision making.
Man, as someone without an inner monologue nor visual imagination I really do hope science one day can explain why some brains can process one thing while others just don’t.
woah .... sorry my dude. You're missing out 😔
I've been in a 19 year long conversation with myself, it was a rocky relationship the first 10 years, but we've grown to accept each other.
How?
Idk you get used to it maybe
lol
I literally have DID and I approve this comment
Same but for 23 years and it took us like 22.5 years to accept each other.
Anyone else just playing music in their heads all the time when there isnt anything to really think about
I remember seeing a poll once asking how often people get songs stuck in their heads, and I was like, "Wait... you mean not everyone has a song stuck in their head nearly 24/7?!"
The other day I was listening to a song in my head and someone started talking to me. I had an embarrassing moment when I went to turn my music off on my phone before remembering it was just in my head
@@Handicrafti that's so weird something kinda similar happens to me all the time. When I say or read or think about a word and say it in my inner speech when I go to type my password I type that word subconsciously. Why is that? It happens to me all the time.
My paracosm is generally a noisy place, but music is something I need to tune the other stuff out to focus on. I might be able to get it going in the background while playing out a scenario I'm wanting to write, but it's hard to do that much.
@@woosh_police4018 Same.
Fascinating. I never had an “imaginary friend” but I have constant inner monologues with not only myself, but other people. (Ne)?
The way your inner speech works can indeed change! Mine has changed from being mostly concrete words to emotions and impressions of emotions and concepts. There’s still words being used in my inner speech, but it is being supplemented by emotions, impressions, and concepts.
So my brain isn't haunted? That's good to know.
Well, are you able to control your inner speech?
@@ageamiu8923 Yes I can.
No he can't*
Yep Yea Got demons in the head
Time to get a piece of flint
And for you a Hole in the head
It's called your conscious... totally normal and healthy to have
@@bunille so you're saying my conscience is the one telling me to burn the house down? That's a relief.
I have imagined interactions more often than actual interactions.
Same, and i feel like i should be able to draw the different imaginary "people" the interactions are with but i don't quite think i could. Lol.
Lol same....
@Jeremy Shaffer No, but it does give me runny poops.
@Jeremy Shaffer it would be the other way around. You are anxious about the potential interactions so you think about them
@Jeremy Shaffer Getting blow could be a mix of intense excitement for the blow and the intense anxiousness of the deal if we was already on blow he could've been hella paranoid about it aswell. Blow and other stimulants get you really anxious that's why people love to mix with alcohol as alcohol reduces that but it also happens to be really dangerous as the blow can make you not able to notice how drunk you are and may get alcohol poisoning
I not only have my own inner voice, but, let's say I'm reading an email from someone that I know, I hear THEIR voice. The same goes for reading an interview, quote, or autobiography of someone famous that I am familiar with. When I read it, it's in their voice.
I have a very intense inner speech, as well as picture things in my head were vividly. This is probably why I live reading so much because the words instantly become a little movie in my head.
Sometimes this can distract me from doing the stuff I need to get done. Like school work. I have learned that listening to music keeps me from daydreaming and wandering off into my mind as much.
me: overly aware of the internal monologue that is currently going on as I watch this video
It did not stop at any point
I had to rewind a few times, since I kept missing parts due to that voice in my head talking over the top of Hank. And once because he had me remembering camping trips. I miss camping.
The final countdown
Glad I wasn't the only one that was listening to this over my inner voice just chatting away
its stressin me out!!
I took my friend's ADHD medication one time and my inner talking completely stopped. It was so weird and kind of nice to have a break! I even said, "I dont understand how Im forming sentences without thinking about it first." My mind had never been empty like that before.
This world is crazy, guys.
congratulations, you also have _some_ form of ADHD then xD
(not necessarily pathological or anything, but if stims make your brain spool down like that it's almost guaranteed you have it)
interesting that it switches off verbalisation for you though. hooman brains are fascinating
@@fariesz6786 ADHD medication also worked for me to quiet my mind, but in my case I have autism. When I asked my psichatrist and psychologist If I could have adhd, they told me not.
I have ADHD. It doesn’t stop my inner speech, but I can control it better. If I have “too much” Ritalin, then my inner speech will stop from time to time. It’s a _really_ weird feeling for me. I don’t really like it. But, it’s nice to be more in control of my inner speech. I used “too much” in quotes because it’s probably not actually too much, just more then I enjoy.
Side note… I think this is also part of the reason why taking Ritalin isn’t addictive if you have ADHD - it just helps you concentrate, and more isn’t better.
@@pedroba76plot twist, you definitely can have both. I do. I only found out about the autism after getting medicated for ADHD. It had been hiding behind my ADHD anxiety and squirrel brain for years.
@@fariesz6786 ADHD is a spectrum, it's not binary. Most people have ADHD in some situations but not others. Mind altering drugs will likely have some kind of an effect on everybody, but if it's appropriate is entirely a different matter. Going for a walk in the woods or just being outside has been shown to help. Maybe meditiation techniques or daydreaming is enough for you to focus your mind when it's needed. Don't try to self-medicate without a competent doctor's advice.
At some point in my life i didn't had an inner monologue but then suddenly one day i started to have inner monologue. It was around the age 8 or so i started to notice my inner thoughts.
Since I was always labeled as a bad child growing up; my inner speech is always about reassuring myself I did nothing wrong when I’ve had an argument with someone.
It’s insane hearing someone talk about “maybe we can train ourselves to have multiple monologues with different voices or to have more consistent conversations with ourselves” when literally this is how I think 100% of the time
Same.
Yea I do the same lol
The harder I try to hear a voice in my head, the more silence I hear.
One time I tried naming all the different kinds of monologues I have in my head... I haven't really heard any of them after that, but there turned out to be about 20.
Same here. Well not 100% of the time, but if I want I can do it.
I remember asking someone if they think to themself in words. They were convinced I hear voiced and were scared of me. This is when I learned not everyone has an inner monolouge.
Being scared of someone who hears voices is completely ridiculous. People with schizophrenia or DID or other stigmatized illnesses are way more likely to be VICTIMS of violence than perpetrators. So if anything, you're safest around people who hear voices, haha
Or not everyone is aware that they are having inner dialogues...
I think you were just explaining badly.
@@Periwinkleaccount Nope. There's a lady who had her first thought at 24 and she believed she was possessed by the devil because of it. It's how she learned about an inner monologue.
@@FLdancer00 who?
My brain does this constantly when awake. I can't stop it for a minute.
Certainly do that a lot myself, some times I swear I can have full blown arguments with myself over things. Honestly, in the end I find it cleansing and helps keep me on track in the long run.
This becomes interesting when you are bilingual or polyglot - speaking one and having inner conversation in another
I asked a friend of mine (Polish, moved to England when he was 15, and is now fluent in English) which language he thought in. His answer was that he "didn't know". I wonder if that means he's one of those people who rarely have an inner voice, and just think in concepts
Idk, I never used another language inside compared to the exteriour one... because if you try to think in one the other one's gonna end up mixing with that one.
I've use the inner speech to "practice" my second language
I speak both English and Portuguese fluently, and I also have inner monologues all the time since I have OCD. It's... interesting. The torture happens in both languages, usually mixed in together, sometimes just one or the other, but mostly in Portuguese. Lol As for other stuff (inner conversations that aren't related to OCD), especially if it's about the future or some sort of hypothetical thinking, it's usually English. It also depends on what Language I was using beforehand. If I was, for example, reading something in English, I usually would be on "English Speaker Mode" so to say.
Fluent in two languages, have self conversations in both languages with myself
it's funny to me when im having a conversation with myself in my head and i skip forward a few words or lines because I've gotten to the meaning of the thought and know what's coming next anyway and don't actually need all the words for it
But then I would want to go back because I have to finish what I started.
Then I would spend like, an hour debating about going back or not.
@@lisabriggs9064 meee 😂
yeah same like i’ll be explaining something or working something out in my head and i’ll get to the point where i’m like “i know what i mean idk why i’m explaining it” 🤣
or when I rewind it to change something, and i skip a part because "yeah yeah i got this part"
I was looking for this. There are actually 3 levels of speech that some of us can navigate through, jumping back and forth: full thoughts almost bared of any speech as the video says, an intermediate level in which we can hear the sounds like from afar and full blown speech in which we even articulate the slightest details in our heads such as whether we pronounce the differences between /z/ an /s/. I would even add a 4th level, which is moving the tongue inside with our mouths closed, which personally hardly ever do I do.
I have full-on conversations with myself.. I ask questions and respond in my head. I talk to myself about my day and bounce ideas off myself.
I also daydream constantly and have a vivid and very active imagination.
As a kid i didnt have an inner monolgue and as i got older into my teens i started to have one and it really weirded me out for a bit because i wasnt used to it. I now have a mix of speech, pictures, and feelings. Although i have to picture myself talking to someone in order to have a dialogue and not just random commentary.
"Talking to oneself is the best way to ensure an interesting and intelligent conversation." Oscar Wilde.
as long as you are Oscar Wilde ;)
Not true. I'm a boring idiot.
I'm sure he did alot of that in jail
Best way to self delusion.
Love it. Oscar knew how to say it out straight like an arrow and a fellow dubliner
I went to a school for disabled children. One of my classmates had a severe speech impairment due to cerebral palsy. Our teacher once asked her whether the speech impairment was present in her inner speech. She said no - it sounded normal inside her head.
That's very weird. Cuz I thought the voice inside ur head would be based off how u hear it when u speak
@@fleepity Yes and no, it’s normally different when you more so think about how you speak out loud, but when your just thinking, it’s never a clear voice of yourself to other people because your not focusing on it. Either way it’s pretty cool
@@unrealomida1 mines pretty much exactly how I sound, just without the fumbling from talking too quick that I sometimes do
@@fleepityinteresting, mine doesn’t sound like my actual voice so much. but it feels more like the real me, the actual voice of who i am. not how i’m perceived to other people
@@keeptaiwanfree out of curiosity are u some flavour of trans / nonbinary.
I have more than inner monologue but a whole dialogue. Comes with the introversion.
My inner monologue never stops. I can totally relate to the negative self talk in my head, and being able to see an image in my
Mind and also “talk” about it in my mind. I also practice conversations and situations in my head and speak both parts. I often wish my inner monologue would shut up… it often causes me anxiety
Props to whoever thought up "you can still talk about it amongst yourself" 😂
Yeah, that made me laugh.
i think the weirdest thing is how we read. like my brain narrates the words. i hear them as if i was saying them out load. but i’ve heard other people don’t do that
My brain does that too
Idem
If you pressed me to put a voice to what I read, yeah I guess it's my voice, but it's halfway between that and a thought, kind of a neutral idea of a sound. This is with plain text or narration of course. Obviously, Gandalf sounds like Gandalf and my friends' text messages sound like them.
I'm not hearing the words. Just seeing the film! Also don't have inner speech.
I narrate what I'm reading to myself but my friend doesn't. Her reading speed is significantly faster than mine (and I'm a very fast reader).
My inner monologue is definitely me, although sometimes with different opinions to what my main line of thoughts express.
It's like another person who is still very much me.
sometimes i wish i didn't have an internal monologue, it's like the speed of my brain is confined to the speed at which i can process the words being "spoken" inside my head. like i need complete sentences to think through things, instead of just HAVING an understanding of something, like i have to talk to myself and constantly be thinking.
My inner speech consists of speeches, therapy sessions with myself and a LOT of stories I make up when I'm bored 🤷♀️
People forgets the most obvious reason, we don't always get a chance to have an intelligent conversation.
What was your best story?
@@clairee4939 Dude my entire life I've been "writing stories" before going to sleep. I ran out of superpowers. But I do have trouble when adding aliens in my story, it gets extremely difficult to "write" it. If I wouldn't be so lazy, I would probably have had at least 500 stories by now. The thing I like best is using whatever dream fragments I got left to come up with some crazy stuff.
@@Clifford_Banes and it’s in words ？
@@clairee4939 I have full speeches and rewinding the story if at some point things don't fit, choose a different action or response to get to where my story is or simply change the whole story. In my last one I got bored of slowly changing the world, so my main character gets killed by his one and only partner-in-crime and lover, who steals his powers and forces the people of the world to change their ways. She's using both words, and actions. Meeting the leaders of the world, everyone has something to say, everyone has a different point of view (which is limited by my own knowledge of geopolitics, civilisations, religions) and they express it. It's like a book.
Also, I talk to myself a lot. "I'm so stupid, why did I say that? I never learn to keep my mouth shut". But it doesn't have to be a bad thing. It can be "I really nailed that one, didn't I? Well done me."
Sometimes I talk to myself as "you damn fool" if I'm really mad at myself, I'm distancing myself from...myself.
I talk to myself so much that it's tiring. Every word I think about triggers a connection and every connections triggers more. I talk a lot because it forces me to be less divergent and stick to a story.
Meditation works to calm my thoughts down, it's like a thoughts tornado in my head, and meditation is like going into the eye of the tornado.
Medication would probably work better.
I still remember the one history class where one of my (Egyptian-Australian) classmates came in talking about having being approached by another (Turkish-Australian) student asking him if he thought in English or Arabic, being like "who thinks in actual words?"
This was the day we discovered some people don't have an inner monologue, and he discovered other people do.
I used to be confused on the concept of inner monolog because I too don't default to actual words, I was far into my teens when I even started to do that and still have to imagine there's someone else I'm speaking with; I have no self directed inner speech. Now, probably because I'm neural divergent, I do sometimes 'script' things ahead of conversations to help me during them later, but this isn't inner speech so much as priming for an event, practicing.
Even when I began writing as a hobby I didn't develop an inner monolog, and still find them distracting/emersion breaking in stories. For the longest time I thought inner speech was a kind of trope or concept I didn't quite 'get' like so many other social things and expectations, I just accepted it refered to something that I was supposed to accept but might never understand.
Wow, that's fascinating! Does your friend think in a visual logic and language structure?
It's actually funny how it changed for me as I got better in English. First it was always in my native language and I had to go through the mental gymnastics to translate it. Now it depends on the enviroment: I think native when I talk to my fellow countrymen, watch or read stuff in my native language. Mostly Emglish otherwise due to spending a lot of time speaking/hearing English in my daily life (work+hobbies).
Sometimes it's just abstract without having any wordly shape and I struggle to translate them into any language.
@@boginoid the moment I realized that I was becoming fluent in German, was while taking an early morning shower. It suddenly occurred to me that I was thinking about my day ahead *in German, in my head.* It was the coolest thing! And even though I haven’t lived in Germany for decades, I can still switch between English & German almost at will.
@@CharlesPayet Haha, always those shower thoughts. Best place to ponder.
I'm *constantly* talking to myself, its usually I will say it first in my head before I repeat it out loud, which runs over it a couple times before it becomes verbal, imagining not having that is odd to me and many others lol
I used to have lots of inner speech but most of it was intensely negative and distracting.
During therapy using cognitive behavioral therapy method I learned over a long course of time to “silence” this voice. Ignore it, state it isn’t helpful, untrue.
Since I’ve been mostly successful with this through the years I notice I don’t have much of inner speech except for certain tasks.
I speak to myself when writing, reading, rehearsing what I’m going to say or should have said. Anything that involves words or speech.
But when I’m doing other things, even problem solving or deciding, I hardly ever talk to myself at all anymore. The thoughts are more direct and innate involving pictures, emotions, and logic that are hard to describe.
Really fascinating video!
People aren’t always just engaging in inner speech at all times? Woah.
Ikr... (this may be weird idek) but sometimes i have conversations with different "voices" if i'm bored. But i'm not crazy lol.
@@ethan.000 thats what a crazy person would say....
ethan ADD/ADHD? That’s what I’ve got and my mind hardly ever shuts up lol
jo YES. My brain does not shut up.
It's so exhausting...
My inner voice is active every second even at the same time I'm concentrating on something. Sometimes it's bad before i fall asleep. I call it "THE DUMP". There are so many scenarios going on and on top of each other I can't fall asleep. When it comes to choices, there are dozens of outcomes that present themselves.
I was born and live in germany, but I consume a lot of content in english (books, series, movies, YT, etc.), and in the last few years (I'm currently 33) I started to have my inner speech in english after e.g. watching a movie. Furthermore, I was unable to switch back easily. I had to concentrate really hard to think in german again.
when I stop to think about it, one of the ways that I became fluent in English (my native language is Portuguese) is that I kinda forced myself to do my inner conversation in English, that was when I was 15-ish, now that I'm 30, I can honestly say that I can have an inner talk mixing English and Portuguese without even noticing! it's really interesting to be able to notice how we are always practicing conversations with others in our minds!
Oh, I relate to this
My internal speech is in English even though my mother tongue is isiXhosa. I think it’s because of reading exclusively English books as a child
It worked for me too. I have inner monologues in German or English even though Spanish is my mother language. It really helped me out to gain proficiency in them, and to work around the missing vocabulary.
@@josecorchete3732 Muchas veces cuestiono en mi mente las cosas que hago en inglés, como "why tf you just let her go" o algo por el estilo, es muy curioso.
That's essentially what separates someone who is trying to genuinely learn a language from someone who is not really that interested. Someone I used to know told me he learned English by "beginning to think in English". He would constantly second guess his thoughts by trying to re-think them in an English equivalent.
Lol that's honestly how I learned Portuguese 😬
You can definitely train your inner speech. My depression got much better after years of catching myself talking negatively about and to myself in my head. Every time it would happen, I would stop and think, "Would you say that to a good friend you love?" and then I would think about how I would say it to such a friend instead. It takes a while, but the results are worth it ❤️
Same here. You can even train your inner speech to be positive. "You are not stupid, you just made a mistake", etc
I'm experiencing that right now. Exactly
Oh my God I did the same thing!😊
YES whoaahhhhh I've trained mine to stop body shaming myself. Wow.
@@kateroonie8324 listen to that mf and get to loosing some weight.
I’m pretty much just narrating my own life at all times, but I talk WAY more in my head because as soon as you have a thought in your head, you’ve essentially already said it. I thought out this whole comment before I wrote it in about the time it takes to say “banana”, but alas here I am 2 minutes later finishing writing it out.
I have actually trained myself to think differently! When I'm not trying or too tired, I have something like that abbreviated inner speech where full concepts and moments are put into a collage of memories and single words, but I usually force myself think through things in full sentences because it helps me make connections between things!
"Talk about it amongst yourself." It's like the whole video was made just for that joke.
"The me's in my head wont shut up"
I often use inner dialog to argue against myself when I'm angry about something. I basically check if I might be wrong or if the other side has a good point as well - and that helps me to cool myself down and see the other persons point when the actual argument happens.
Mine usually goes along with whatever I’m feeling 🥲
I do that too, I’ve avoided a lot of needless conflict by arguing against myself. I feel if I can’t win an argument against myself then maybe I should rethink my stance, I don’t always “lose” haha in that case I stay mad
I use my inner voice to not be a hypocrite
That’s called emotional intelligence :). Many are lacking it :)
This!!!
What a fascinating video. I have an inner monologue literally every waking moment, so it didn't even occur to me that other brains don't work that way. I just assumed everyone had an inner voice criticizing their past actions, planning future tasks, and motivating them to do the things they don't like. I even have music playing in my head most of the time, and it just plays in the 'background' even while I have complex thoughts. I couldn't even imagine experiencing even one moment of life without speech or music in my head. It sounds peaceful but strange.
Super interesting topic! Thx SciShow
If my inner voices are replaying actual conversations from when I was a child, I must have had some damn sophisticated conversations with my mother at four years old.
lmao
This to me is obviously 100% false.
I am dumbfounded that anyone would actually believe this theory,
I've been speaking to myself in my head from infancy.
@@detran09 How can you remember back that far
@@jake6681 I also have active inner dialogue since 4-5 years old, I think that the difference is that at such age you don't think about the negative things as much so people commonly don't remember it because our inner speech develops with our views of ourselves and changes drastically from childhood to adolescence, it shifts constantly as we mature I guess
I think it's more about HOW we talk to ourselves in our heads. Like, if you talk to yourself with soft, positive tones, or harsh, negative ones, for example. If someone who you looked up to saw you struggling with a problem, and they encouraged you to slow down, think about every part of the issue, praised you for trying, versus if they scolded you, talked down to you, and told you to hurry up, then your inner monologue might reflect that as you age.
5:02 is the single greatest image this channel has ever produced
Agreed. Obviously required a bit of extra work to photoshop that date photo. Unnecessary perhaps but probably worth it!
Agreed. 🤣
It's good, but it pales in comparison to the grand creation that is Muscle Hank.
I don't know, the beans thing was pretty great
@@jacksonpercy8044 oh god whatever happened to the muscle hank account
i… spent 19 years of my life in legit mental silence and never questioned it. i never thought people actually had an internal monologue. i thought that was legitimately just a book or movie trope. i’m now questioning everything.
I didn’t have a inner monologue, i think speaking just waste time. But after hearing that people speaks to themselves, i started to do that too cuz I thought it was cool for some reason
I had a therapist once who would say of negative self-talk, "That's just one opinion." I loved that - and when I remember it, it cracks me up, which also helps.
This might have just changed my life lol.
@@thecozyintrovert Awesome. :D
I would say it's less an opinion and more all the recorded messages we store in our brain from the ether that pop up at regular intervals. We mistake these thoughts for opinions and worse yet OUR OWN views of the world when they are literally just messages we play on loop; and often the negative ones have more of an internal reaction (ie. they make us feel something) so our body mistakes that feeling (even if negative) as a good thing, thus why so many people have negative self-talk because the negative thoughts stimulate something in you and your body goes, "Oh, this must be good" and keeps replaying these stored ideas thinking they are useful.
Thank you sooo much for sharing this. My inner dialogue will now include this perspective (and likely argue over the weight of it). 🤣
@@thecozyintrovert look into self compassion. We can change our inner voice. It’s all about reparenting ourselves
I'm aphantasic: I can't visualize at all when thinking. My entire thinking is through inner speech. If there are scientists out there who want to study that, I'm here for it!
Same!
Same here! But I'm not only aphantasic, I don't experience inner speech either. I think in concepts only...no thoughts, head empty forever
my 한국어 not bad wow, so how do you remember things you’ve seen or heard? Can you play memories in your head at all?
@@sunflowerhyuck7810 what do you mean in concepts? i think i might experience something similar
@@thereyougoagain1280 It's really hard to explain because I usually don't think about this stuff haha. I've never been good at remembering things and I'm guessing that might be the reason. For example I can't really recall people's faces. Of course if I see them often enough I will remember certain features of them and I can more or less imagine what they look like without seeing their faces in my head. If I don't see them for a month or so my memory gets blurry. As for things I've heard: I usually write down important things because I keep forgetting stuff people told me to do or I list down everything I need to do a few times every now and then. I don't know if that helped you haha. I never really paid attention on how I remember things because remembering often isn't something you do consciously.
Thank you for this video. I have constant internal monologue (regardless of if I'm speaking) and my theory is that my brain is "virtualizing" or "abstracting" reality such that I can understand the situation better versus just "experiencing" it and going with the flow. What some call "wrapping your head around something". My guess and my hope is that it also helps with experiencing empathy.
It absolutely blows my mind that not everyone has an inner monologue. I feel like there’s a completely separate world in my head…where I see images, I re-experience different situations, I talk to myself, I reflect on things I’ve done and said, I contemplate different ideas, have conversations with other people, analyze and discuss situations with myself while I’m in them…I mean I couldn’t live without an inner world. I feel like it keeps me sane. It’s how I make sense of everything. It’s constant, I’m always aware of it….it’s the real me, my true reality.
I've been mind blown that people REALLY DO have inner monologues and can imagine objects or places in their mind as clear as day. I guess the idea that not everyone processes imagination the same had never occurred to me 😬 I'm actually extremely envious of you, and other people that can. Now that I'm aware of this phenomenon, I feel like I'm missing out on this whole human experience.
But I do find all of this fascinating, it's been a fun rabbit hole to fall into 😊
@@yo_victoria It has it's pros and cons.
It never shuts up.
I wish I could experience silence in my head lmfao
Me, 24/7 😑
❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@yo_victoria same lol, I got full blown aphantasia and have never been able to experience the world most people do. But it is a fun little thing to learn and wonder about
I have inner thoughts 24/7. I hold conversations with myself and practice whole conversations before having them with someone and plan out what I want to say for every outcome I can think of. When planning them I also hear their responses like they’ve actually spoken. I thought everyone was like this… really strange to think about. I also can visualize my thoughts really well and can see the person I’m “speaking to” as if they’re there in my head. But most times it’s like a presence that they’re there. Idk. You’ve given me plenty to think about
I'm just like this! I'm kinda glad I'm not the "only one" that does this exact same thing. :)
Neither of you are alone in this. My inner monologue is the same - I often use it as practice for talking to a person. Or I’ll have different conversations with different imagined people depending on the topic.
I can even have conversations with myself this way - treating myself as the ‘other person’ in the conversation. It’s a really good way to separate yourself from an emotional situation and look at it objectively.
Yes same for me. I also can create copies of people in my mind copying personalities. Tbh it's weird if you don't talk in your mind. Lacks depth. I think inner monologue is good and helpful
you described how I think perfectly, you’re not alone
Do you also need to learn the person first? Like ask various question about random topics or things they like so that you form an more accurate simulacrum? At least I am not totally crazy but everyone at work kinda thinks I am. I could be though but I look at it that everyone is a little crazy and sometimes that's just spice.
for what it’s worth, i had near constant inner speech until my freshman year of high school- i don’t know if it was from stress, change of lifestyle, or nothing at all, but i sort of just lost my inner monologue. i still read in my head and i’m capable of planning speech in my head, but something just altered my brain’s default language from verbal to more conceptual
I've always had a song playing in the back of my mind. Sometimes its intentional, but most times it lingers after having heard a song playing earlier. Although I don't always pay attention to it, its always there, and I can change the song at will. Anyone else have this?
"[Some people] don't necessarily talk in their heads 24/7."
Lucky bastards.
I bet they sleep too.
Lucky bastards.
Seriously though... Imagine sleeping, or having a quiet mind.
Lol ikr
I have a hyperactive inner speech.... it never shuts up.
The trick i have found to help me fall asleep is to put a movie on that ive watched heaps and 'watch' the movie in my head whilst it plays in the back ground.
Because ive watched it so much, i have no more questions about it that my inner monologue wants answers for.
Its still hard to fall asleep, but it helps.
@@cubiusblockus3973 Yes! I can't sleep without something playing, when they took Friends off Netflix.. not cool ahah
@@cubiusblockus3973 I do the same but I play a song in my head! I've done this since I was a kid
I have full-on arguments just with me and I actually learn, one being a devil's advocate and one being my current standpoint or sometimes constructive criticism about something I made, and then calling myself a degenerate loser, and then beans
I've full on explained my thoughts to myself out loud. I'm straight up just explaining a concept to myself out loud, such as some complex scientific concepts.
@@popcornrocks5208 you do that as well?
Yep, I'm still thinking about thos beans too
@@popcornrocks5208 i do this too. And another part of myself goes “I don’t need to explain this, I already understand it” but it continues
@@damongaming275 both of you do that too?