Do you have an internal monologue in actual words?

I absolutely do, so clear in fact I sometimes wonder if this is what people with dissociative personality disorder hear 😳

........would tell them that I could look at myself in the mirror and have a full blown telepathic conversation with myself without opening my mouth and they responded as if I had schizophrenia.......

and I’ve thought everyone hears their own voice the way I do but apparently not? 🤷🏻‍♀️ 😬 😦

Yes I do. Sometimes I forget which one is in my head and start talking mid sentence.

This must be doing the rounds as a friend asked me this a couple of days ago. It’s fascinating!

I have a monologue and thought everyone “heard” their own thoughts too and I can also see pictures. This might be part of the article but I didn’t read all of it - If you ask me to visualise my dining chair I can see a picture of it in my head. If you ask me to visualise 3 tomatoes I can see them in my head and I can also place the tomatoes ON the chair, in pictures, in my head.

I remember thinking years ago what do schizophrenic people hear when I can hear all this?!

I absolutely don’t understand a cloud of thoughts above the head! How does that work?

I definitely do.

She never shuts up! 😁

I think both in words and in inter-relationships of stuff. Sometimes all words in my head, sometimes all relationships with no verbal component, sometimes both together.

My DD said the same thing, when she doesn’t think verbally it’s not exactly ‘pictures’ she sees or thinks in but how objects inter relate.

My thought process is a jumble to be honest. Mostly it has a movie quality (images) interspersed with text screens to carry some of the more abstract ideas. Sometimes it is my voice with a verbal comment and sometimes my voice makes a verbal comment and a different voice responds.

That's my 'inside voice' which more-and-more often leaks into my 'outside voice'.

All. The. Time.

Both the Boy and I have this internal monologue/dialogue happening.

I also spend time “wandering inside my mind.” It’s like taking a walk and discovering things I had forgotten about or had put on a shelf for later consideration. Due to the manner in which I grew up, I developed a kick-ass internal world in my brain.

Yes I do have an inner monologue but it's not non-stop. My brain doesn't spin non stop like I've heard others say. DH overanalyzes things and thinks and thinks and can't sleep, his internal monologue must never shut up.


I was blown away when I learned that people see a movie when they read! I hear my voice when I read, yes. If it was something described well or a place or thing I know I could picture it if I stopped and thought but I don't I just keep reading. I can picture people, places, things in my life.

I have internal conversations constantly and there is also often a song playing as well - lots of stuff going on up there. It drives dh a little crazy since I think I have told him things or asked him something when in actual fact nothing has been said out loud.

I love to read because to me they are just words on a paper, not images or visions. I can't watch gory or violent movies because I can't get the image out of my head, but I can read it. Weird, right?

I have an inner monologue most of the time, but it's not conversational, but rather list making, problem solving or wishing. I can turn it off easily if I need to concentrate on a task or if the thoughts become bothersome.

YES this - the rest of my family gets a visual picture of what they read but I don't. I wonder if that's why I'm not very into TV/movies?

I just listened to a podcast where the caller absolutely cannot "picture" anything. When she closes her eyes, it's black. She also can't picture past memories. Like I can picture my childhood bedroom... she knew she had a bed and the room had pink wallpaper but beyond that she couldn't tell you anything else. There's actually a name for it - afantasia maybe? My memory sucks but it was something like that.