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The 7 voices in my head are utterly shocked that people lack internal monologue.

It's bizzare knowing npcs are actually real

I really wish schools would stop allowing kids to use the word "like" 100 times in a 3 word sentence. Seriously, just stop.

I'm able to keep my job because I have an inner monologue. It stops me from telling certain people exactly what I think of them out loud. The older I get, however, the less I give a damn, and the less effective that inner filter becomes. 😂

I have an internal jukebox.

I cannot read without hearing the words internally.

When I learnt this, it made TOTAL SENSE. You know, I've lived my life wondering how clueless some are and am baffled by their decision making. My inner monologue is my decision making process.

I counted a total of 1,435 times these children said, "like." Had to turn it off.

It's actually a scientific question to ask "How do these people think?"

One of my voices constantly makes fun of me

She explained the way she sees the shapes of the sentences and that when she writes, the words just pop out. Sounds like a human-level description of the transformers in ChatGPT.

i just wish mine would shut up sometimes

I can think in pictures, feelings, sounds, tastes, and textures. However, thinking in words is the most coherent form of thinking - which is why I mostly think in words. I can’t imagine not being able to organize my thoughts rationally and relying fully on feelings and senses.

Not only do I constantly talk to myself internally, but I will supply internal dialog for every person connected to the conversation, past or present. It's exhausting really.

Oh shizzle, my grandmother always mumbled when she read and sometimes clear enough that I could almost follow along. I’d say Momaw read that to yourself please and she’d say “I am” lol

that young "lady" got my internal monologue going. it thought "i wonder what would happen if an autonomic nervous system was a person. Is she just a walking limbic system?"

This makes sense to me. She simply visualizes pictures & patterns rather than thinking in words/monologue. I also think it's probably more efficient as 'a picture is worth a thousand words.' It's like a compressed zip file. Less expansive, thus easier to move around. So a (+) in efficiency, but a (-) in depth/range.

I haven't applied the principle much since I was taught speed-reading in high school. The method involves scanning the text while deliberately NOT mentally forming the words. I was able to get to a pretty impressive WPM speed and still demonstrate 80%+ short term retention. But though I used it a bit into college, eventually I stopped trying to do that. I love reading, and I get more enjoyment with the internal dialog than simply shoveling the text in. Sort of like eating a good meal - if you simply eat as fast as you can, you don't savor the flavor.

If you think then you have an internal monologue!

Ive heard it described as feeling stuff without internally verbalizing it. Imagine a psychopath with no monologue, he really would be like a robot

I refuse to believe that there are people without internal monologues. How can they function?

You need to have an internal monologue for deep self reflection and thinking. But also know when to get out of your head and be in the moment so you don't get stuck on analysis paralysis. Mastery is probably knowing how to utilize both in the right circumstances.

Your inner monologue is literally thinking......

I think in words and sentences all the time. I spend an awful lot of time alone, and it’s all that I can do to avoid any type of inner monologue. I couldn’t imagine not talking to myself, at least silently. I do realize that we have thoughts that occur in a flash that don’t involve words, but the minute that I choose to dwell on that thought, it gets mentally translated into words and sentences.

No problem after everyone gets the Chip you will all have an internal monologue the same one i did monologue that just in my head

You could ask these individuals "what did you do?", but not "what were you thinking?". No considered action, no moral agency, no conscience . . . .

I can’t fathom how some people don’t have any thoughts in their heads. It’s just unbelievable. I think they are making it up just for attention.

I just found out recently that people can picture things in their head with their eyes closed. I feel like ive been ripped off. I cant even imagine what its like to see something inside your head. EDIT: Tried to answer everyone's questions. Hope it made sense .....

It sounds like she does have a kind of inner monolog. Instead of "hearing" thoughts, she "sees" thoughts.

“See lists of things to do” That’s an internal monologue

My highly intelligent husband told me that people assumed he was a deep thinker, but actually he was usually thinking about nothing.

I've always found it fascinating how differently people's minds work as well. When I was an instructor, I was always intrigued by the different ways my students assimilated and used information.

"i don't THINK, I just KNOW" Dark Triad personality disorder - good morning.

I would normally comment on something like this, but my inner dialog keeps interrupting me.

She's just a high functioning visual learner. A couple of years back i attended a conference about deaf-blindness and a question that the instructor asked is, are you a visual learner or auditory learner. Meaning what kind of learning do you facilitate faster. The majority of us are a little bit of both but in cases where a lot hearing and vision loss it differs. I don't think good nor bad, she just process visually information faster. That's good question to ask if you are more an auditory learner or visual it helps you become less frustrated in processing information.

Imagine not having the cartoonish angelical and devilish versions of yourself in combination with the neutral voice that is yourself as you are

It feels like this is rooted in some misunderstanding of what "talking to yourself in your head" means. Surely everyone thinks in words once they speak a language, not all the time but certainly they have to be capable of it.

Try to master both in your mind. Clear the noise and enter a state of knowing, somehow rolling a voice and silence into the same thing. Its hard to paint a picture of what im trying to describe, but its a meditation thing. My monologue wont leave me alone most the time.

How do you not have an inner monologue? I can’t even go grocery shopping without mine making my decisions . This can’t be real

If I am thinking about something that is obviously word based, like an argument for some proposition, it will be a monologue of words. If thinking about a design for something that I am going to build, or solving a problem in that realm, it will consist of thinking in pictures. Years ago someone wrote a short article about thinking, and made the point that the kind of thinking that comedians (funny ones) do is the same sort of thinking that is used for problem solving. This is why it is always best to have a good laugh and make jokes about something bad that happens, so that the brain is then primed to solve the problem.

I have no inner monologue, but i am constantly thinking AMA

I discovered this a year or two ago. Then I spent a week thinking about it nonstop (in my inner monologue, of course). I just cannot grasp NOT having an internal monologue.

Just meditate for 6 - 12 months, after that tell your mind "I know" whenever an invasive thought arises, you will soon be aware without thinking.

"The Jerk Store called... and they're running out of YOU!"-George Costanza

Having pictures in your head IS an inner monologue! A monologue is just us communicating with ourselves in a way to plan for each new immediate moment. Some people communicate with words some with pictures

She's pretending to be a genius savant or something.

I used to have more of an internal monologue but now it's less. It's not that I don't process, I simply proces differently and, I think, better. Judging by the way many people talk, it seems like their internal monologue is mere chatter.

Mr. Reagan so I can keep trying to save the world... My motto Saving the world by Lunchtime.......it's taking me longer than I anticipated.

I believed so differently than everyone else I knew and talked to after reading the Bible four times from Genesis to Revelations. Sunday school teachers and pastors of believed opposite of what I thought that the scriptures were saying. Instead of telling people what I believed I decided it'd be easier to just say I was an atheist. Except I'm a very honest person. I don't usually lie I usually answer the question with a question or deceive using the truth. So in PE in Junior high when a girl asked me if I believed in God and I said I'm an atheist, there was a male voice that said "No, you're not!" so loud, I looked around to see who all heard it. I really thought she heard it, too. But, she just turned and walked away. I think it was the Holy Spirit. 🕊️ 🙏 And yes, I did apologize to the girl later and explained to her, why I had lied.

Of course this is a short coming!!! Being ABLE to not do it, would be a positive. Never being able to do it, is absolutely a shortcoming!!!

Wait, i was just talking to myself, having an argument when i clicked. was distracted, what's this all about now? 😂

Can't even fathom not having an inner monologue. I can talk to my mind, I can see images, smells, tastes, go some fancy thought experiments, etc. No wonder so many people cannot think for themselves. They're simply not capable of it.

Mine won't shut the hell up and give me a moments peace.

My internal monologue sometimes tells me puns

Sounds like a defect

A large part of drawing is executed without words, thinking spatial and volumetric, but also very critically and rational. Even more mind blowing is that there are successful concept artist who have no "minds eye", total inability to visualize.

You can learn to have and use an internal dialogue, it's fairly easy actually. In my teens and into my twenties I taught myself to do both, talking internally to organize and focus to become more skillful working, then shutting up when it was bedtime! It just takes a little practice.

You can't have a Psychic connection with your Weenerdog.

First they told us that men think of the Roman Empire several times a week and now we learn that there is another human species living among us. Crazy timeline.

This is a fascinating subject. I was given the test and realized that this issue is a subjective / objective answer based on personal understanding of the question. No matter how hard I tried- I could not provide a voice or lack of one unless I was doing focused, non-muscle memory activities. Thanks Chris

Watching Netflix? I rest my case.

I found it very fascinating as well. I think more study has be done to see if there is any kind of correlation between people who lack an internal monologue and certain behavioral or intellectual traits. Chris, you said that you can't think without using words. Sometimes I get in a state of mind, when I'm resting, and my mind will go from one image to another like some kind of creature that is constantly morphing from one thing to another and it can be the most random things like... I don't know a clown turning into a candle and then the candle becoming the Sun. I would try just to think of random images like that. Edit: It dawned on me that Mom and I are different intellectually and after talking to her I'm almost convinced she doesn't have an inner monologue. She said she doesn't hear conversations with people and it makes so much sense because we clash so much on thinking through things.

There are people that cannot visualize images in their head as well

I have dialogue running in my head all day. I have to actively stop myself when conversing with others or I won't even hear them.

The language you were thought is the very essence of the spell you are under. Do not be deceived by this trickery. The wicked one is waiting to devour at the show of weakness.

It feels like both blessing and curse once you know it is not universal.

I honestly can't wrap my head around this (lol, irony). If they don't have an internal monologue, what the hell is happening in their brains?

I can’t imagine not being able to have dialogs in your head. I’ve always had a vivid imagination, so keeping a conversation going in my head has never been a problem. Bonus!! I’m also bilingual, English/Spanish, so I’ll switch dialects in an imagined conversation…I tend to do this when answering the phone; there are phone pitchmen who think two men live in my house, some American dude and his cousin from Nicaragua and the cousin’s really annoying. This is why for over 30 years I haven’t owned a television, who needs one. Hahaha 😂

I have an inner Monologue that some times my higher being interrupts 😆 while awake or in my dreams .

God bless the NPCs

Is she LEFT-HANDED?

IMO: The ideal mind has both, with the visual track slightly dominant. "Mr. Reagan", your videos are works of art. I estimate your I.Q. at 150 minimum, you have musical ability and you like poetry. You may have engineering skills.

Actually, I have an internal dialogue.

'monologue'? armatures, i have an internal dialogue!

I don't have a constant chatter going on in my brain but I can think in words if I need or want to. I must be terrible to not be able to think in words just as it must be terrible to not be able to turn the chatter of when it's not useful or needed as it in those situations is a distraction that diverts attention away from whats going on. As Jiddu Krishnamurti so eloquently put it: 'When inquiring into things one must not only use thought but also the flight of the eagle that leaves no trace in the sky.' Both are essential for understanding the World around you in full. These poor people obviously only have the second part.

How do people who are born deaf, and have never heard words in any language, think? How could they have an internal dialogue?

I am thinking ALL the time, so much I remember as a kid deliberately trying to stop my thoughts because I noticed some people don't do it, I noticed some people do not think.

I have no internal monologue. discussed this with my wife and therapist. My therapist was glad I figured it out as it helps knowing something about how you think and communicate. My wife has one, and it's fascinating learning how she thinks. I'm in the moment all the time, so I hate to reread things i wrote because it never sounds like me. When I think it's like picking from the thousands of words flying out of a filing cabinet in my mind to put into speach. I try to stay quiet if I dont automatically know something because I'm likely to blurt out and speak without thinking. It's like 30 people in my head giving me stuff to say and if I dont take time and mull over the best ones I will just say whatever comes out in the moment before i think about what i just said. Im surprised how much comes out before it feels like I've even had the thought the words represent.

Have you ever heard of a beautiful curse? my brain does not shut off. it's nearly impossible unless i hyper focus on a task, and even then it's for 2 seconds. here and there. How she is the one extreme, he is normal, for me it is the other extreme. i even think and analyze about the fact that i'm being self aware and thinking. it never stops. i've been awake twice as much as normal, my whole life. it's more rare to sleep 2 nights in a row, than not. for 7 days i'll sleep 3 or 4 of the nights. if it's 2 nights in a row sleep, it's a few hours only after exhaustion and grinding. escapism is the only way to survive it. i wish i could turn it off sometimes.

I've know of this for a long time, and it's never gotten less scary.

I wear my sunglasses at night so I can so I can watch you weave and breathe your story lines

Im constantly thinking and debating inside my mind. Im also a musician and that is done a lot in my head to i hear musicians use both sides of their brain for problem solving etc

Morning Chris.

I've been losing it for a week after finding out about this. NPC's are real number 1. Two- I can do so much better mentoring people now. The exercise where +30% people couldn't unfold a cube in their mind helped me realize I need to use more visuals versus asking people to visualize a difficult concept. This should help the world get better in theory.

For as long as I can remember I've had 3 internal monologues. 2 voices in my head telling me if I should do something or not. Kind of like in a TV show where they have a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other. Except both of my internal monologues are good and I'm just trying to make the best decision for every important decision. I can't even wrap my head around how these people think. Maybe it's like trying to think but you can't use language? I guess there are tradeoffs. These people probably excel at stuff I suck at.

lol. A long time ago I worked with someone whose first language was not English. I don’t know why, but I asked him what language he “thought” in. He gave me the strangest look. And finally said English. It never occurred to me that people don’t think words.

The fact that so many of us are shocked to find this out probably means its not very common...

I think those of us who do have inner monologues can often be over thinkers. I know for myself I often have a hard time falling asleep if I’m analyzing events of the day or anticipating the next day’s events.

Yes, not everyone talks to themselves. We aren’t all completely NoitZ!😆🤨🙏😑🥦

Reminds me of Austin Powers coming out of cryogenic freeze. 😆 Interesting, because our schools have a very difficult time dealing with kids who learn differently. Glad she overcame her issue.

Wow... I've never heard of this. My mins is constant stream of internal monologues

Glad i read a lot 😅 Currently reading Fellowship of the Ring, Tomboy, Hard wired, finished Neuromancer awhile ago 😅

Words v pictures, such an interesting topic. The brain is such a mystery. I saw a documentary about a genius who thought in pictures. He may have been a savant as well, I don’t remember. But he learned Icelandic in one week. One of the most difficult languages for a non-native to learn. He saw numbers in colors and could phenomenal calculations in his mind. Amazing!

*If you don't have an inner monologue then is it also impossible for you to get an earworm song buzzing in your head?*

I have trouble understanding this as well.. for example you are in class and the teacher is discussing a topic and a question pops up in your head so you raise your hand to ask... how do you relay that question internally before asking aloud?

Interesting I can't shut my brain off I need stimulus to sleep at night. Stories, audio books, etc it works sometimes.

This is a well known topic, I have read some research on this topic and people with no inner monologue don't have introspection, they can't philosophize with and about themselves without voicing it so it tends to get ignored.

😂😂😂I’m stuck in scenario mode‼️

Listening on how our brains work picking up a ball while rolling a joint 🤯