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Post by chlerbie on Feb 4, 2020 19:47:20 GMT
Oh, for sure. I have conversations with myself in my head as well. Sometimes I'll say a part of them out loud.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2020 19:50:15 GMT
Yes. I only worry when the chickens answer me.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Feb 4, 2020 20:05:49 GMT
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 don't do this. I talk to myself when I'm alone if I'm listing stuff I have to do, but I don't hear my voice in my head. If you ask me to visualise 3 tomatoes, I'll see the words "3 tomatoes" and then the tomatoes.
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Post by Linda on Feb 4, 2020 21:04:42 GMT
see I can't do this at all. No chair, no tomatoes, no pictures in my head 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. that sounds like me - my brain just doesnt do images
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Post by brandy327 on Feb 4, 2020 21:15:07 GMT
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. that sounds like me - my brain just doesnt do images And my ds, on the autism spectrum, lives by pictures. It's how he formulates practically everything. The brain is a freaking amazing marvel.
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Post by 950nancy on Feb 4, 2020 21:36:50 GMT
Yes I do. I felt the same way as the author describes when i learned that not everybody sees a picture/movie in their mind when they read. I taught this to my students for years. It was the number one comprehension builder out there.
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Post by papersilly on Feb 4, 2020 21:48:45 GMT
i am less worried about hearing my own voice in my head than hearing strange voices.
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Post by lisae on Feb 4, 2020 23:12:29 GMT
Yes I do. I felt the same way as the author describes when i learned that not everybody sees a picture/movie in their mind when they read. DH doesn't see the scenes when he reads and I can't fathom that. I see the scenes envisioning the spaces. Last night at book club when we were discussing our latest book, I could see the locations in my mind just the way I'd envisioned them when I listened to the audiobook a few months ago. Some details may have faded because it has been a few months but I had those particular houses and locations stored along with my impressions of the characters.
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Post by refugeepea on Feb 5, 2020 0:32:26 GMT
There isn't an option for me. I do have an internal monologue constantly going with myself but it's more of a friend conversation.
Different voice, but it's still all me.
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Post by birukitty on Feb 5, 2020 0:36:56 GMT
I do hear myself in my head and sometime a couple of words will slip out. DH will ask who are you talking to and I'll answer, "myself". It's not constant and sometime I can be very peaceful so I don't really mind it at all.
I'm also a very visual person. When I read I can visualize what the author is describing and if it's a good author it becomes like a movie playing in my head, along with being able to hear what the author is describing, smell the smells and feel the cold or heat.
The brain truly is fascinating!
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Post by Crack-a-lackin on Feb 5, 2020 1:08:02 GMT
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 don't do this. I talk to myself when I'm alone if I'm listing stuff I have to do, but I don't hear my voice in my head. If you ask me to visualise 3 tomatoes, I'll see the words "3 tomatoes" and then the tomatoes. If someone asked me to visualize 3 tomatoes I would see 3 tomatoes, (but probably not the words) because they’re telling me to visualize them. If you were making a grocery list and you needed 3 tomatoes would you say in your head “okay, I need 3 tomatoes” as you write your list? Or would just the image of 3 tomatoes pop in your head?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2020 1:43:25 GMT
This was neat. I always assumed everyone talked in their head. Even typing this I “hear” the words in my head as I type.
Also I can visualize things in my head. Comes in handy when doing cakes or rearranging furniture in a room. Same with doing math in my head, I can “see” the problem and mentally work it out. I think it would be nice not to have the ability to conversation with my own mind. I’m now curious if the ones who can have a higher rate of anxiety than the ones whom do not?
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Post by kels99 on Feb 5, 2020 2:18:14 GMT
I don't.
If I'm practicing for something, or preparing to talk to someone about something important then I will. Occasionally I'll rehash a conversation I had with someone, but other than that I don't hear any voices in my head.
I do 'think out loud' a lot. If I think of an idea, I often say it out loud when trying to decide if it will work or not. Maybe that's because I don't 'talk' about it with myself in my head.
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Post by jlynnbarth on Feb 5, 2020 3:25:10 GMT
Yes, I do. I also visualize whatever I read. It’s part of the reason some movies based on books tick me off or I don’t like them. It’s hardly ever what I picture or who I’ve seen as the character in the book.
My friend posted about this the other day and dh and I had a conversation about it. He does have an internal monologue, but he only sees the words on a page of a book. He thinks that maybe if he could visualize he’d like to read. As it is, he hates to read and we’ve always attributed to him needing to be physically doing something (hyper). My ds is the same as dh and dd is like me.
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Post by MissBianca on Feb 5, 2020 3:56:29 GMT
I do it a lot. I’ll be driving with the kids in the car and I’ll see something that reminds me of something like I see a house, oh that looks like J’s house, oh I need to call J’s sister W when I get home, I wonder how W’s daughter K is fairing moving back in with her mom. Then I randomly blurt out to the kids, did you know K and her boyfriend moved back in with her mom? Meanwhile the car has been silent for 15 minutes. Then I’m like oh never mind, you didn’t actually hear that thought process. I am always worried I will blurt something random out in public.
And yes when I read, I always draw an image in my head. Also when I dream about old places like elementary school. I have a specific image in my head that doesn’t look like the real place, they just share characteristics but when I dream it they look the same in every dream. It’s bizarre.
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Post by pierkiss on Feb 5, 2020 4:03:50 GMT
I have one. I hear sentences in my voice. If I am thinking I hear me talking in my head.
My son does not appear to have one. He talks non-stop. Sometimes he is talking to us, but more often than not he is talking to himself. Anything that would randomly pop into your head when you’re thinking, he says. When he is engaged in pretend play, there is no quiet that sometimes comes with it. Every pretend sound or words that his characters say or think are vocalized. When he has to do silent reading, he reads the words outloud. He has learned to whisper them, but he’s still making noise. He has autism. I do not know if the two are linked, or independent of each other. I have not come across this behavior in any oft other clients I have ever worked with.
We ask him to read in his head, or make the sounds (for pretend play) in his head. He tells us that he doesn’t know how to do that. It’s really, really frustrating.
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Post by alexa11 on Feb 5, 2020 5:19:36 GMT
Yes- I do all of the time. I just thought everyone did- interesting.
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Post by candleangie on Feb 5, 2020 8:33:37 GMT
Also when I dream about old places like elementary school. I have a specific image in my head that doesn’t look like the real place, they just share characteristics but when I dream it they look the same in every dream. It’s bizarre. Oh my gosh! I thought this one was just me! I do that too. ....it’s grandmas house. I know it is, because I just know. It shares some characteristics with her actual house but then it’s different in HUGE ways. It’s always the same, in every dream, and until I wake up “it IS her house and of course it’s always been this way!”
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Post by MissBianca on Feb 5, 2020 13:05:21 GMT
Also when I dream about old places like elementary school. I have a specific image in my head that doesn’t look like the real place, they just share characteristics but when I dream it they look the same in every dream. It’s bizarre. Oh my gosh! I thought this one was just me! I do that too. ....it’s grandmas house. I know it is, because I just know. It shares some characteristics with her actual house but then it’s different in HUGE ways. It’s always the same, in every dream, and until I wake up “it IS her house and of course it’s always been this way!” But you can still make out all the fine details right? My images and video, for lack of a better term, are very very detailed. Almost like playing a first person high def video game. Irr the s the same when I read books, if the author is really good at describing a scene my brain draws it. I can’t draw to save my life in the real world but I build the scene in my head. So spin off question. I wonder if people like the woman who closes her eyes and just sees blackness can’t conjure a memory from a smell. I will smell something and it rushes me back to a moment in time.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2020 16:22:45 GMT
I've been stewing about this since yesterday and it really is a brain twister. I definitely talk to myself in my head though I don't think of it as a voice. But conversations for sure. I process everything into a conversation up there. I can hardly believe that not everyone does this. Don't they ever sing a song in their head?!! That is my number one question: I'm always singing something to myself on my "off" time (i.e., when I'm not thinking about any one thing specifically).
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Feb 5, 2020 16:41:00 GMT
If you think in full sentences, are you always aware of it? yes, I am always aware of it- it's like I'm talking to myself all. the. time. inside my head. I can picture an object or a setting, if I'm reading a book, but the actual written WORDS are like I'm reading the sentences aloud inside my head. Kind of like the words are scrolling by on a teleprompter, or on a computer screen. I can't fathom what it would be like thinking in visuals or 'clouds' at all. I figured everyone *thought* in the same exact way. ETA: I do talk out loud to myself sometimes, too, but the voice inside my head is ALWAYS there. My DH does not like to read; I'll have to ask him which way it works for him; maybe there's a connection between thinking in 'visuals' and not liking to read, or something like that. He's a very MUSICAL person- he can hear a song, and picture in his head EXACTLY where and when he was in time when he first heard it, even if it was when he was very little. I don't do that with music at ALL, and I hardly remember ANYTHING in that degree of specifics about my growing up. I relate to the world very much in visuals, but I still do hear (and sometimes see) words in my head. We both do dream, I know that- and when we dream it's like watching or being inside a movie (mine are even in color)- I also have places in my dreams that both are - but are NOT- the place they're representing. And sometimes I actually *know* I'm dreaming, wake up, and can put myself back into it. The brain and how it works IS fascinating- I'd love to actually read more about this kind of thing.
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Post by pancakes on Feb 5, 2020 16:45:29 GMT
If you think in full sentences, are you always aware of it? yes, I am always aware of it- it's like I'm talking to myself all. the. time. inside my head. I can picture an object or a setting, if I'm reading a book, but the actual written WORDS are like I'm reading the sentences aloud inside my head. Kind of like the words are scrolling by on a teleprompter, or on a computer screen. I can't fathom what it would be like thinking in visuals or 'clouds' at all. I figured everyone *thought* in the same exact way. Interesting! I *think* that I usually think in full sentences, but I definitely do not see the words going by 99% of the time.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Feb 5, 2020 16:51:24 GMT
I don't think that way most of the time (I just focused on it to see, lol) but I do see the words appear when I'm reading or listening to an audio book. Maybe that's how my brain worked when I *learned* to read? not sure. can’t conjure a memory from a smell. I will smell something and it rushes me back to a moment in time. I can do this, but it's more general in that it takes me back to a specific place-- like if I smell molasses cookies I immediately think of my Grandma's kitchen- but it's more like a *made-up* setting; not an actual specific time when we were there, in the kitchen. I can picture the room, the general sense of the colors, the furniture, wallpaper, the *feeling* of the place, but I don't have an actual memory connected with it. I don't remember actual *real* specific memories as points-in-time, at all. (or at least I don't know whether they were real or if my mind is making them up... if that makes sense.) ETA: I do remember a selected few events as actual 'point-in-time' memories more exactly and specifically, but those are much more recent occurrences (like in the last 10-15 years as opposed to childhood), and typically they're negative / traumatic memories.
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Post by breetheflea on Feb 5, 2020 16:57:00 GMT
I kind of voiceover my entire life as I'm doing things. It's worse when I'm actively writing (I write fiction), as it is hard to get out of that mode...
Making dinner, inside my head I'm starring in my own Food Network show.
I also see the words in my head as words, then pictures. I think I'm pretty good at spelling because of this... DH sees pictures and is a horrible speller (he disguises it with bad handwriting).
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Feb 5, 2020 17:06:59 GMT
I don't do this. I talk to myself when I'm alone if I'm listing stuff I have to do, but I don't hear my voice in my head. If you ask me to visualise 3 tomatoes, I'll see the words "3 tomatoes" and then the tomatoes. If someone asked me to visualize 3 tomatoes I would see 3 tomatoes, (but probably not the words) because they’re telling me to visualize them. If you were making a grocery list and you needed 3 tomatoes would you say in your head “okay, I need 3 tomatoes” as you write your list? Or would just the image of 3 tomatoes pop in your head? Goodness this is hard! As an example, I would be in the lounge thinking of what to make for dinner at the weekend, and that thought would turn to what I needed, and because my list is in the kitchen I would be saying out loud as I walked to the kitchen to write it down "tomatoes, eggs, I've got mustard and olive oil already..." by which time I would be in the kitchen writing it down. I suppose I talk so that I don't get distracted before I do something important. I don't do it that often. And in my head I'm seeing the words "tomatoes" and "eggs". Not the actual items. I think you're right though, if someone asked me to visualise 3 tomatoes I probably would picture the fruit rather than the words, but I definitely wouldn't hear a voice saying it. I was thinking about this driving to work this morning and I really wasn't hearing my voice in my head. It was lovely and quiet in there! But I could see my diary for today in my mind's eye and read what it said.
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Post by Jockscrap on Feb 5, 2020 17:55:14 GMT
Just phoned my DD, who is a speech and language pathologist, to ask her about this. The question she wants to know the answer to is if non-internal monologuers ever have songs stuck in their heads? We are all big internal monologuers in our household, to the point that we can completely miss what has been said on the radio or in a meeting because the internal monologue has drowned it out. I often have to rewind a podcast because I haven’t heard a word of it. What a fascinating subject.
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Post by gillyp on Feb 5, 2020 18:04:46 GMT
So spin off question. I wonder if people like the woman who closes her eyes and just sees blackness can’t conjure a memory from a smell. I will smell something and it rushes me back to a moment in time. When I close my eyes, all I see is blackness too, in front of my eyes, but the things I can visualise aren't through my eyes anyway. I see them in my head somewhere towards the top back. The monologue voice is in that area too. Smells/scents evoke memories with me but not so much.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Feb 10, 2020 19:28:28 GMT
bringing this thread back again, because over the weekend I finally remembered to ask my DH about the subject. I know someone (in this thread, I think) said they don't like to read for pleasure, and they're one of the people who does NOT have the internal monologue in words. Since my DH also does not like to read for pleasure, I asked him the question to see (unscientifically) if there might be a connection between the way you think and whether you like to read or not.
This is what I asked him: "if you're thinking about something, or trying to fall asleep at night, what goes thru your head? is it words, or what?" It took me a little while to actually get him to understand what I was asking him; I had to describe what happens in MY head, which is words, like a conversation with myself; it just happens inside my head instead of out loud.
When I finally got him to understand what I was asking, he was kind of blown away, lol!! HE thinks in 'visuals' and what happens inside his head is in pictures and memories, but they're visually-based, NOT *just* words. When I told him I don't actually "see" visuals vividly unless I'm asleep and I'm dreaming, his response was, "no! that's just wrong! That's crazy!!"
I tried to say I believe MOST people have the 'voice' in their head, and think in words, like I do, and he figures that the way HE thinks (in visuals) is probably how most people think. This is such an interesting topic!! I'd like to really find out more scientific information about it.
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Post by paget on Feb 10, 2020 21:15:13 GMT
I haven’t responded to this yet... my initial response on the poll was internal monologue. But I also see pictures. I think most of the time I have both at the same time. Does anyone else have that? That’s what was confusing me about the responses - I could “agree” with both sides. For what it’s worth, I’m left handed for writing and silverware- but right handed for everything else. Maybe it has to do with which side of the brain is dominant?? And since I access both all the time I have both words and images? Just an idea.
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Post by Tearisci on Feb 10, 2020 21:19:10 GMT
Yes and I also talk things over with my dog quite a bit
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