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Does anyone else hear a little voice in your head that talks about the things you're doing and gives you hints about what to do next?
Yes. Not everyone has an internal monologue but also having one isn't necessarily a bad thing. Brains just brain how they brain
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I do not, it genuinely worries me when other people say they do.
it's not an outside voice telling you to do something, it's just forming thoughts as word to go alongside images and emotions. If you do a lot of reading and writing you will start to do it more. Everybody does it a bit, and everybody also sometimes thinks intuitively and quickly off of images and emotions only. The whole idea of two "categories" of people is almost always bunk (introvert-extrovert psuedoscience for example, there aren't 2 species of humans who 'gain energy' in opposite ways. There's just people who have a more developed set of social 'muscles' where they are not as overwhelmed by social interaction)
I mean, I talk to myself maybe sometimes but that's actually vocalised either out loud fully or as like a whisper. I don't do it all the time though, thoughts are intangible, they're not individual words to me, they're more like clouds, and when thinking about an extremely complex problem it's more like a whirlwind or storm with clouds of thoughts forming from it.
It's not a monologue to me because it's much more complex than just speaking to myself, which does not happen in my head unless I consciously try to do it.
everyone has internal dialogue when writing, by the very nature of writing which is forming our thoughts into words. Some people just do it all the time, some people do it only while writing
I have no outside basis to believe it, but I believe this anyway: It's a learned behavior. I don't think it's something you should worry about, plenty of people don't. You still have the same interiority as everyone else. Just never fell into that pattern of behavior.
Meditation often talks about "quieting" the inner monologue. I've tried sporadically (whenever I actually remember it, really) and for me it feels... like un-clenching a muscle that you've held clenched all your life. It's at once relaxing and difficult, because that "muscle" will just clench back up - the monologue starts rambling - at the first moment I stop actively trying to "quiet" it. I get the sense that if I stuck to it and was stubborn, I'd eventually be able to quiet it without actively trying.
I agree with you here. forming thoughts into words and sentences is not the only way of thinking. Keep practicing that unclenching, it's worth it! I was introduced to "quieting" through Zen Buddhism and after years of practice (full, regular meditation wasn't even necessary) I've switched over to "quiet" being the default state probably more than half the time. Using exterrnal memory aids has helped with this, life and work can get busy. I love sticky notes!
Your ability to also tell that voice "but of course that's ridiculous for a large number of reasons" is the governor that prevents the voice from being a problem in most people who do have an inner monologue. When someone thinks their inner monologue is something else's voice, like a diety, that's when it becomes a problem because it removes personal agency while elevating the significance or validity of their thoughts.
An internal monologue is a normative experience. We really do live like this, for better or worse.
by normative do you mean normal? I'm p sure that's not what normative means.
Yeah, I whiffed it. TY for the catch!