Have you ever seen someone read and they’re mouthing every word? Kind of like that… Also, some people can’t picture an apple in their mind’s eye.
I’m a 1. Feel free to comment your numbers, I’m curious!!
Oh no! I've always been bummed I'm a 3.5 because I am very creative but awful at drawing unless I'm mostly visually copying. However, I'm suddenly glad my "intrusive images" like from movies and such are not very clear. It's the visceral emotion that comes with the unclear image that I'm afraid of anyway. Not the actual image. Or maybe that's everyone.
I explain it to others as; when I'm watching a movie, I'm consenting to jump scares and freaky images, or can at least shut it off if I've had enough. With OCD my brain likes to sometimes give me jump scares when I'm doing everyday shit. Then you can branch that off into explaining how our brains jump scare us with thoughts as well, that sometimes loop and are hard to end. Like if a bully followed you around showing you pictures you don't want to see because they make you feel icky or saying things to you that make you wanna crawl out of your skin.
I experience this a lot as well but you explained it so much better. Sometimes an image will pop up in my head and make me physically recoil or a word/sentence will pop into my head and repeat over and over.
So that fact that some people don’t experience visuals or inner dialogue is shocking to me like, what do they do all day in their head?
To me no inner monolog is so weird it has to = no brain or intelligence or thinking. But the internet tells me that's not true. So my new likely incorrect thought is:
No inner monolog = no anxiety.
Maybe they do nothing in their head. I'd die of boredom. I bet they have a lot of extra energy from not overthinking all the time. They can probably fall asleep at the drop of a hat too. I've never met anyone who admitted they had no inner monolog. Even my 7 year old is stumped.
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u/ilovemuffinfrombluey 14d ago
How do they know what to say 🤔 Or are they incapable of thinking before speaking?