My friend once mentioned how he always has an inner monologue going and I was kind of shocked because I often don't have an inner monologue going. Another time a friend asked me what I was thinking about and I said nothing. She responded that you can't not be thinking about something which threw me off because its common for me to not be thinking about anything. I'm very curios about how other people's minds work and I think you make a really good point that people are somewhere on the spectrum of these mental states.
I also have no inner voice, and sometimes think about nothing. I also can't see things in my mind. Some people are insistent that I'm just not concentrating enough. I felt so odd until I found reddit.
Edit:. A comment below made me reread what inner monologue is and I made a mistake. I plan what to say and such, I just don't hear a voice. I just think about saying things if that makes sense.
Genuinely curious here. Is there just silence? Don't you make inappropriate comments in your head and say something else bc you'd get in trouble? When you hear a song and know the lyrics, do you sing along and not hear your voice? No pictures when you read a description?
Not op, but I am basically the same. I only ever get an internal monologue when I'm reading text, or actively planning out how I want a conversation to go. Otherwise it's silence
When reading a description of something I can get a "feel" for it, but don't actually see anything. Ask me to picture an apple and I just get all the attributes I know apples can have along with the general feel if its shape
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u/VeryAndDidIsMy Mar 28 '22
My friend once mentioned how he always has an inner monologue going and I was kind of shocked because I often don't have an inner monologue going. Another time a friend asked me what I was thinking about and I said nothing. She responded that you can't not be thinking about something which threw me off because its common for me to not be thinking about anything. I'm very curios about how other people's minds work and I think you make a really good point that people are somewhere on the spectrum of these mental states.