I Talk With My Friend Who Has No Internal Monologue
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ค. 2020
- #AndrewLee
I ask my friend about what it's like to not have an internal monologue. Internal monologue is what many call the "inner voice" in your head. I constantly have that voice and found it to be fascinating that some people do not have this.
I'm super curious to know who else does or does not have an internal monologue. Comment down below and say whether you have one, or don't!
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Weird. I could sit in an empty room for hours and not be bored because I'm constantly talking to myself in my head. And whenever I listen to music I also imagine certain scenarios that fit the music.
I don't have a internal monologue until i became a teenager and now i can relate what u saying like i don't get bored because I constantly talk in my head, even scenarios while listening to music , but i can still remember how iam without internal monologue when I was a child . I wish I can let go of this internal monologue , i want to be bored again 😂
Oh, I do that too. I'm always thinking of scenes that fit the music.
Same
@@sitproperlywhilewatchingph423 did you developed it
how do you guys get a inner monologue
I am over seventy, and when I heard about this, my reaction was "What, people actually have talking inside their head?" I hear a little bit of a voice when I'm reading dialogue in a book, but I do not think in words or sentences. I do a lot of talking to myself out loud, mainly in the car. I watched another video where a couple of people were interviewed who had this. One question I found very interesting is "Do you have dialogue in dreams?" They both said no. And I thought, "Yeah, neither do I." I'm a very good pianist, but have always wondered why I have so much trouble hearing music in my head. I'm also very articulate in speech, and have done a lot of teaching, and even radio work. I write books, but I do a lot of the thinking on the page, and just revise and revise. I will occasionally rehearse arguments in my head. Even then, it's like I construct sentences, but I'm not really hearing my voice saying them.
Thank you so much for sharing this information.
Yes. You still process and remember information but just by writing paper and talking out loud. It is another form of monologue. An expressed form of thinking.
I saw another video years ago of a woman talking about this. They ask her if she ever thought about someone she may have upset and later thought about it and felt bad and she said no because she had no inner monologue. That blew 🤯 me away. That’s probably why there are so many people out there just pissing people off and have no clue because its like they have no conscious or voice analyzing what they did to someone and it that it was wrong. So strange, almost like drones.
Something is very different about those people
@@molierresignoga seriously very strange times.
You mistaken internal monologue with self reflection ability
No internal monologue here
But I self reflect through visuals and feelings. I imagine a person I could hurt in the past and then a stream of feelings comes, some feelings judge me, some make me feel guilt and so on.
More than that my empathy levels are extremely high as sometimes I absorb other people's emotions and mistaken them for my own.
And the person you described sounded like a person with narcissistic personality disorder. They have no empathy for others and they almost never self reflect.but yet again, a narcissist can have an internal monologue and an ability to visualize stuff.
Yeah its scary..
Ive had people who have said things that upset me and im thinking "do you not think about your words and how it affects others before you speak?"
@@rammingspeed5217 yea I feel they are mindless drones who don’t have the capacity for empathy.
Im so blown away. How do people pray? What do they do in the shower? Like I am my own best friend. How the ??? What do people do when they are alone?
I am just as blown away as you. Even after asking these question I'm still unable to comprehend it hahhah
@@adotleee And like they think we are "thinking in sentences," but to me its more like I have a whole person with me all day long who's talking and talking and we have full on conversations and he doesn't stop talking unless im asleep. 💕🤔
I can relate to that too! But for me the voice of the whole person is my own voice. The human mind is incredible
@@adotleee me too! Its my voice.
I pray aloud. Never in my head. It doesn’t make any sense to me. I get in, I get out. Showering is like 10 mins or less. I listen to music the entire time. I constantly have to be doing something. Otherwise it’s complete silence.
I think I'm in the same boat. I CAN hear my voice when reading, but thinking is more like when you're reading fast, you just see the words and know what it says.
I think alot of people never get that far with reading. They don't make the leap between reading the words and converting them into mental imagery. I think of it akin to when you watch TV and at some point you "zone in" where yoy no longer notice the world outside the TV
Real life NPC
I assumed everyone had an internal monologue. My mind is overactive, so I figured I was the outlier. It’s important to make a distinction between internal monologue and auditory hallucinations, however.
Do you get auditory hallucinations?
@@adotleee I just think too much, haha, but I worked with a population suffering from schizophrenia and have observed the interactions they have with voices, personalities, auditory and visual hallucinations. It's both intriguing and harrowing.
@@Triplezero13999 That sounds like you said, incredibly intriguing yet frightening! wow.
@@Triplezero13999basically its not "their voice"?
I completely agree with your friend not being able to see the words or hear the words in my head but if I pictured it, I could see it. Speaking out loud helps and that’s how I get things done. I’m currently speaking out these words as I type as well.
He has more mental imagery than most of us. I have zero images in my minds eye.
Same
I would LOVE to not have an internal dialogue. It’s distracting and definitely adverse to my overall well being.
Wow so intresting, great vid once again
thanks bro, you keep the videos coming too 🔥
i talk to myself aswell because i have nobody to talk to most the time
so you do have an internal voice
Yep whever I'm lonley sad or bord I'll just have a conversation in my own head with myself..? I would be so sad if I lost it.
@@laneyperkins840 Sometimes I think Ive lost it because there will be times im playing games and Ill talk to myself like Im in a call with some people, when im legit just laughing and talking to myself, legit feels bad but great since I can agree with myself
I have strong inner monologue in my head, when I'm alone or when in driving I have mental debate with someone I've been arguing years ago, like I should have saying this or saying that, I remember lyrics for almost song I've been heard especially when I like it, but I could never being able read a book, because the voice in my head is too loud , it's like when you try to listen to someone speaking but its hard to do because there too many people try to talk to you in the same time, but I don't hear voice in my dream in my sleep, it just like silent movie, and I only see image in my dream, but don't hear any voice
'not constantly', so yes - he does have an inner monologue. I'm fascinated by this and would love to find a video of someone who truly has no verbal thoughts.
Right, it still amazes me though.
I have no inner monologue. I’m also aphantasic.
@@pepsifreekvideo interesting! I wonder if there's a correlation of those two?
Possibly. Our brains are still so much mystery. I’m just ecstatic to have some explanation as to why I’ve always been so “different” than almost everyone else. My wife and I were chatting about it yesterday and I came up with an explanation that sort of describes my thought process... It’s like I’ve taken photographs of things I’ve seen, read, or heard and all those photographs are hanging on the walls of a room with no windows or lights. I’m right outside this room and I can generally remember all the elements of all the things because the pictures are *right there* but I can’t actually see them.
@@pepsifreekvideo wait whaaat?!? 😳🤯🤯🤯 that sounds interesting but also difficult to understand... like how do you know that there are pictures if you cant see them? 🤔 and how do you know what is on the picture with no image or words? 🤷♀️
I don't see words in my head, though. I just speak them in my head.
I can’t imagine having a quiet mind. Mines won’t shut the hell up. It’s constant unless I’m reading & even when I’m reading sometimes it analyze what I’m reading…& daydreaming happens a lot, like a movie playing in my mind. My dreams are like bits of a movie as well. Interesting 🤔
I can relate but how to get rid of this ?😭
When I read a story I don’t hear myself. I see a movie playing in my head with sound and everything.
MY Lord! Andrew Lee ur friend is a real-life NPC
I think it’s more of just thoughts no voice attached.. if I have a list I have to write it down or it will disappear I can have images of things I have but like if you say think of a dog I see my dog if you tell me to think of a beach I think of aspects of beach but not a visual of beach.. when I read I constantly have to re read. I don’t have sentences in my head I just have thoughts that I relay in writing or speech
There are so many people who think like you I am not one of them🤯
I think there is a spectrum, like with most things, where some people's inner monologue is more persistent and articulate, and other people's just let them be most of the time without commentary. My own voice is pretty persistent, and is both my best friend, and worst verbal bully. At least I feel as though it comes from me, and is just my rational mind weighing options, making observations and taking notes. Sometimes the voice stops talking, and gets replaced by music or singing from a song that gets stuck in there. This was true even before I learned the craft of musicianship. When I'm super lucky, usually first thing in the morning, all the chatter, and all the earworms are quiet enough that I can begin to hear music that I didn't neccesssarily hear from a plastic box before, and might be something of my own. Sometimes , I can play guitar for hours , trying to silence my inner voice , but it's still having a days or years old discussion where I could have, but did not, say a number of things that might have made a difference at the time.
I am also a musician, but have never had much ability to hear a piece in my head, even if I've studied it a long time. I had perfect pitch as a kid, and assigned colors to all the key signatures. I have worked primarily as a piano tuner. I hear pitches way above normal human hearing, and am very sensitive to loud noises.
I don't have an internal monologue. I almost always think in pictures or in videos or something...dunno how to clearly explain it. It seems cool to have always monologues in your head, like in the movies.
Can you make up a 4 line poem in your head and then have it ready to say it out loud?
I don't get it...
I don't understand how you CANT construct a sentence in your mind..
I don’t have one. The way mine works is that I can conjure words into my head, but the normal state is not to have any words in my head. You need to verbalise stuff, you just know. I don’t think people verbalise every step they take (or at least I’ve not heard anyone say that) but they can still walk. We don’t turn it off, because it’s not running.
I have no internal monologue for the most part. I can if I am thinking what I want to say to someone or when writing something that someone else needs to read. But for my everyday thoughts it is not a monologue. If I need to buy bananas when shopping I just think the substance and the location and the timing and tuck it into my to-do file.
When I read in my head I don't read the words phonetically, I read the meaning of the words. I am a slow reader likely because if the words don't make sense I need to re-read, and if someone uses the wrong word like there, their or they're I have to phonetically read it to understand their error. I so hate when people misspell or use the wrong homophones.
I couldn't imagine using an internal monologue for all my thoughts, It would feel so single dimensional, you could only think one thing at a time.
I once took a class where we covered self talk and I was sooo confused. I don't typically talk to myself.
I found people who don’t have an inner monologue are actually cute. They are more simple and straight forward. They seem to think and to have a conclusion based on facts. But they can easily be manipulated by “facts” and other opinions.
This is kind of closer to what I have. I don't know if I have an internal monologue, I always just saw them as thought and I am not always thinking, some things just go unsaid. Like If I am going to the bathroom I don't go in my head "Ok let's get of my seat; man my back hurt; ok I'm going to open the door; ah this feels so good; ok got to wash my hands now" I just do it, but If I am thinking, I can do it in sentences. Also when reading and writting I can "hear" the words.
I don’t have one, but it’s so funny seeing Andrew trying grasp the concept of thinking without words. If I need buy stuff I just know, it doesn’t need words or pictures, you just….know. I can conjure a voice in my head, but if you’re not doing that, there is no voice, words, letters. I just don’t need them, it was a real surprise to me when I found out people had voices. It must drive you mad.
I didn't know people had an inner monologue until about three days ago, and it actually sounded really weird to me--like an extra person in there or something. It's sort of hard to say how I think, but it's definitely not a voice, or even sentences. I can analyze, and have no problem expressing my ideas in speech. But there's some kind of translation process going on there. I am certainly not repeating words that have already been thought in my head. About the only time I am really thinking in words is if I am rehearsing an argument and constructing good sentences in my head.
@@steveneardley7541 It sounds like we are very similar. I found out when I was about 35 years old. It was like the world was being reorganised in my head. So many things about other people made sense. When people say, if you’re learning a language, try to think in that language… no sense. I’m looking out the window and my wife says, what are you thinking about, answer, I’m looking out the window. The film thing where there is narration from the character…. It was just a film thing…. Not a real thing, oh but it is. And on and on.
@@steveneardley7541 also, you might notice I have a TH-cam channel, there is no script, nothing planned or rehearsed, I’m just blabbing away kind of knowing what I’m going to say. I would say I’ve improved, but I’m never going to be a genius presenter and honestly I deliberately don’t edit some of the mistakes. Maybe it’s because there’s no voice telling me it’s all crap and you need to be perfect. I think a lot of normal people suffer from that anxiety.
It was well-done, very natural--just like two friends talking. You have nothing to apologize about.@@lovedecanters7891
This is so new to me, that I have barely thought about it. I know when I was growing up, my brother sometimes called me "Mr. Slackjaw." I think he picked up on the fact that a lot of the time there was nothing going on in my head outside of observation. I haven't thought about the foreign language thing. I have studied a number of languages and have taught Italian at a college level. When I'm in Italy I am not thinking in Italian, but I'm not thinking in English either. But I talk in Italian without any trouble. It's hard to pinpoint how I think. Whatever it is that's going on in my head, I learned how to translate that into speech when I was young, though I definitely had some developmental difficulties around speech, reading and writing. @@KevNpton
I did not know there are people who have a constant monologue that they cannot switch off. Or cannot look at anything without the word for it coming to them uninvited. If asked, I can find words for what I am seeing usually ( not always) but it is a distraction from the experience of what I am seeing. Also I think in concepts and then try to put the concepts into words. I imagine having a constant monologue to be like a form of verbal tinnitus, yet you seem happy with it.
No, I usually don’t say what I’m seeing because I’m already seeing it, so no need to say the word. It’s usually something from the past or the future that you’re not seeing, or if it is about something you are seeing it is an interpretacion about it... or a question fir example, or a reminder of a to do... (for example I see my plant and I don’t say “plant” in my head, but I say “it looks dry, I need to water it” or “oh I need to remember to water it later” or “oh poor thing I have forgotten you” haha many many different options and that’s just one example... 😅
Like howdo remember what you have to buy in. Grocery shop
I can switch it off.. Or on... Whenever I want.
I don't understand how other people cant..
Like... When you dream.. People can talk to you.... Thays what an internal monologue is(but its YOU doing the talking)
It varies. Some people have the ability to turn it on and others cannot hear it at all no matter how hard they try.
I can’t see images or scenes in my head by I have the non stop voice
I don't need to verbalise or visualise simple thoughts and even concepts. I just KNOW something. If it is interesting/complicated enough, I may stop and search for suitable words/images. But it's some extra work, that the thought should be worthy of. And I don't usually do it when I don't have some specific purpose, like speaking my mind or leaving a memory. For instance, that's how I write poetry. I translate unverbalised concepts (that are always more vast and flexible then verbalised or visualised ones) into most suitable words and associated images, lay them out in front of my inner sight and then look for metaphors in what I've got. This is a way to connect original concept with human system (systems) of signs: verbal, visual, etc. While I write, I always turn back to inner silence and check if the words, pictures and plots I make with their visualisations (basically extended metaphors) are accurate enough. And so on, line by line. It's like a very sophisticated game. Almost like Glasperlenspiel. I love it.
Sorry for my English, probably you can imagine how many iteractions it takes me to say something so complicated, something that I, moreover, know without saying, in foreign language...
Well you see same situation, im not heqring my voice sometimes wgen i waching somthing there are some word but when i go off the phone its gone! And i fell to empty, also hearing voices of family IN HEAD that says YOUR HEAD IS EMPTY! I Try evrything its not so easy...
So the practice of playing out scenerios, pre thinking entire sentences to fit a situation, or to write stories and knowing which to go with by imagining what works best between minds, all that is lost? It sounds like it'd be based on reactions, senses, impulses and emotionally driven actions, and either could be good or bad depending on the degree of empathy. Though I think the most destructive people do have an internal monologue but no conscience, one of the most narcissistic person I've ever met had constant internal monologue. But words are not just words, they are symbols which have power and layers of meaning to our psyche, not having that world to work with imagery is like an amputation, no ability to revise thoughts to solve all the kinks before the action. Can they not tell themselves jokes, that would be terrible.
It is kinda slow, isn't it, if you have to enunciate a thought? Thoughts have no imagery or words. They're just there, like several balloons floating and bumping into each other.
Okay so how do other people function? I have other people up here too. I always talk to myself and I list things, and like I don't function without inner monologue. Like now I'm saying what I'm typing before I type.
Exactly same! It's a mystery
Your friend is interesting because he at least see’s images. There are people who don’t even see images. WHAT!!!!!
I am very much like your friend.
For me it’s not like I do have a voice in my head. But I have to start the conversations with it, if that makes sense. Like it’s kind of blank until I make myself articulate the thought. So I talk to myself out loud alottt and write things down so I can actually make things make sense to me. And I hear a voice when I read. But if I’m just sitting there it’s like just random pictures a few words here and there. Like a collage of thought. Anyone else?
Damn how is he living😳
LMAO right, im so mind blown
Internal monologue is actually your soul , wiht out one that makes you a NPC !
NPC"s are a very sophisticated AI programe that believes it"s sentient !
Is it that they are simple and happier humans? Or Perhaps an npc? Or something else. Did these people almost never asked TOO many questions when they where young, so that part of the brain didn't developed an internal voice that comes at ease? One thing for sure, being good friends with people like these is they are TYPICALLY boring.
We actively think by choice.
In other words we have on/of switch we control. We live the now.
You don't have to think about walking in order to walk.
We accumulate data and make logical choices on the data without the need to slow down and talk to your jimmeny cricket.
Yes we are happy and content.
We dont worry until immediate worry is needed.
We can contemplate ideas at will but there is no voice nor images nor sound nor smell (varies per person). Silent thinking? Abstract thinking? Unsymbolized thinking?
We don't have intrusive thoughts.
We are typically boring yes, because small talk is boring and we rather just sit in silence.
Thought provoking ideas, philosophical conversations interest us the most.
An npc is a programed entity whom cannot do anything beyond said programming. The closest thing to an npc would be brain injured vegetable but even then we can't read there minds, we only form idea based on electrical activity.
So is it a trainable trait??
You can't recall the word he said because you can't talk in mind
That's not how it works
I'll repost my question buried in my post: If you don't think beyond timing in re your actions during a day, do you ever consider or think about CONSEQUENCES?
Does this mean, those with inner monologues are better writers, and those who see pictures are artists?
I was surprised some people can only do one, or neither. I can do both. I have a friend who doesn’t have an internal projector and can’t picture things, and another who has neither a monologue nor projector and it blows my mind
Apparently people with constant inner monologues or almost constant, interestingly are more likely to have a vivid visual imagination.
As someone with an internal monologue...
I think it helps with making presentations and speeches..
Ive alwaybeen told im shy and quiet..
But Im not shy... I just do lots of thinking in my own head(with no need to talk to others)..
But when giving speeches or presentations at work or whatever I blow people away(because im given a STAGE to express what is processed internally through careful consideration)
@@rammingspeed5217 Im a bad speaker could it be because of internal monologue ?
@@osomaler probably
It was not clear to me what he’s experiencing; I don’t think there was sufficient description of what his internal experience would be (notably; how it’s different than most other people) 🤔
No internal monologue
I can turn on internal voice, but it's all intentional. Occasionally I have monologue, but it only describes things. It's not interacting with the world or me
I think and process information through mix of feelings and visual imagery. I have conversations in my head with different parts of my psyche, but they happen again through feelings and visuals.
I guess this visual part is dominant in my case, so I don't need a voice to lead and describe my actions. They're reflected to me in images and feelings.
Also, when I imagine an apple, I can't control myself from "feeling" its' round shape and smooth texture and its' taste.
So I guess there's some "sinesthesia" involved.
When I need to plan something I imagine visually a watch on my hamd, me rushing to this meeting, what I have to do to prepare and so on. Again it's a mix of visuals and feelings towards these visuals.
I guess I'm very like your friend on a video. He seems like a very sweet guy.
Then you DO have an internal monologue
@Ramming Speed I guess
It's only active when I write.
The voice is genderless btw
@@laniakeas92 thats a bit weird...
My internal monologue is how I think I sound...
@Ramming Speed well that's why I'm telling you that I have no internal monologue. It's only active when I write and spell each word in my head
I think ONLY in visuals, sometimes with sounds and emotions.
@@laniakeas92 but you CAN hear a sentence in your mind IF you choose?.. Thats an internal monologue.. You just choose not to use it
The next thing ur friend is gonna say without thinking is what NPC like Belethor always say without consequences like
"Everything's for sale my friend. Everything. If I had a sister I'd sell her in a second."
or
"I'd even buy one of your relatives, if you're looking to sell. Ha ha ha ha. That's a little joke."
33 % of people have an internal monologue the rest don't !
That explains a LOT.
npc's
P.S.- Some people also don't form sentences, they only hear parts of sentences.
With this content you should meet up with Mark Rober and be verified on tiktok, and instagram 😀😁
ahaha, maybe one day !
So if you don’t have an inner monologue are you like.... soulless? 🤔
:o, that's a way of looking at it. but probably not lmao
I dont trust anyone who dosent have one, like how do you think without it..?
Loading I agree seems like you would just react instead of thinking things out. Very dangerous
this is Interesting. are you saying that you actually hear words in your mind?
@@laneyperkins840 that’s rather closed minded of you, I assure you that although I may process information differently than others but I am quite trustworthy
I need a bit of that 🥲