People without an inner voice have poorer verbal memory
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The vast majority of people have an ongoing conversation with themselves, an inner voice, that plays an important role in their daily lives. But between 5-10 per cent of the population do not have the same experience of an inner voice, and they find it more difficult to perform certain verbal memory tasks, new research shows.
  • @[email protected]English
    3•6 months ago

    What happens to your monologue when you’re not thinking about it though?

    When your senses provide information about tastes or sounds, isn’t that a kind of thinking without the monologue?

      • @[email protected]English
        5•6 months ago

        I’ve battled insomnia for my whole life and not being able to shut off the monologue is the main reason

        • @[email protected]English
          4•6 months ago

          Try playing tv or radio in s different language. There’s still the sound but you don’t get sucked in.

          • @[email protected]English
            3•6 months ago

            i’ve found “space music ambience” to work very well, it’s stimulating but not too engaging. Voices don’t work for me no matter what language it’s in, because i’ll try to interpret it.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•6 months ago

          I struggled with insomnia a lot.

          Podcasts and audiobooks helped me immensely. I have wireless headphones but I don’t “wear” them, I just rest them on top of whichever ear. I turn the volume down to a level where I need to concentrate to hear the words. It’s exceedingly rare that it takes me more than 15 minutes to fall asleep these days. Staying asleep is another story though.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•6 months ago

          keep your eyes open in the dark; do all the things that trigger your master and tissue specific circadian rhythm like cooler temp, no food before bed, no blue light for hours before bed; blah blah blah

      • @[email protected]English
        1•6 months ago

        I wouldn’t describe it that way, no.

        I’d like to preface this by saying that I’m not some kind of mindfulness / meditation guru and have no business trying to explain such things to anyone else given I have such a poor understanding myself.

        I think really I’m just talking about feeling feelings. The monologue might be reporting on sensory inputs “that spoonful of peanut butter has a very sticky mouthfeel!” but there’s an underlying feeling. You can kind of feel the feeling and disregard the chatter.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•6 months ago

      For me, my inner voice is muted when I am focused on something, like working on a task or playing a video game.

      The second I stop focusing, the inner voice starts.

      If I do nothing, it’s usually a song that is stuck in my head.

      As for other senses, for me, it is the same as focusing on a task. When my senses are activated, the inner voice stops.

      If I am reading something and I know thr voice of the person that wrote that, I automatically read in their voice and it is extremely hard to read in my voice.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•6 months ago

        Does you inner monologue have a voice? Mine is just… Voiceless? Like, pure translation. I never think in “My Voice”.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•6 months ago

      Mine is constantly whatever song my brain has decided is that days hit. Most of the time im able to tune it out but that doesn’t mean that 100% that songs playing over and over audibly in my head, it just varies how loud it is at that moment

    • @[email protected]English
      1•6 months ago

      It doesn’t shut off, I think visually and through the experiences of the senses in part too but the words always accompany the images/senses