My current internal monologue is practicing what precisely I’m going to say to the rest of the band at the end of tonight’s gig when I tell them I’m resigning!
I have it quite badly and its getting worse and more negative as I get older which isn't ideal.
Sometimes it spills out and it can be very weird for anybody around me who clearly hasn't been part of the first part of the conversation in my head but is now being talked to by me as if they have (if that makes any sense). This can be very trying for the other person who can't work out why I'm angry/emotional/loving with them. I guess its a bit like if you dream about someone, say your wife and they piss you off/do something nice. Then you wake up and talk to them as if it really happened.
Its very tiresome and I've lost friends over it. Alcohol makes it much worse.
I can't remember the last time I had a full nights sleep.
If by an internal monologue we mean 'thinking about things' then yeah. I don't have conversations with myself, but barely a minute goes by when I'm not thinking about some random thing or multiple things at the same time, usually completely unrelated to whatever I'm trying to do at any moment. Sometimes I wonder if I have undiagnosed ADHD. I've spent most of my life figuring out strategies for blocking it all out, especially at night when I can't bloody sleep. The best one I've found is alcohol. It's literally the only thing that works. 😳
Yes, I have internal monologue, but of I listened to it then I'd never do anything.
After doing a bit if research, I'm surprised to discover that not everyone thinks verbally. I'd like to experience thinking visually but I'm not sure it's something you can easily change as an adult.
My inner voice is normally reactionary to my sensory input, and is normally ignored or edited before I actually speak or act. I think I'll be in trouble if technology starts being able to mind read.
Reading through all the posts and this one has really made me think about abstract art and how it's made.
thoughts should just be abstract images
I assumed that abstract artists created their art to represent the point they wanted to make, turning their thoughts into a visual piece, not an actual copy of a scene from their mind, all because they think visually.
It seems quite busy in my head, full blown conversations with myself, sometimes several different topics at the same time, occasionally this spills out of my mouth too, mostly when I'm on my own (but not always) or walking the dog, I can pass it off as talking to Barney then 😀
Occasionally I can sit down and there's absolute silence, not a single thought passing through, lovely.
I don’t think my thoughts are generally verbalised. I can have an internal monologue, but I don’t spontaneously think in words unless I’m considering a verbal question. I can also switch languages at will for that internal monologue between the handful of languages I speak, but I find verbal thinking is a distraction and a hindrance to abstract, mathematical, and spatial thinking so I tend not to deliberately use it. I don’t think about it much, but every time I scroll past this topic on the forum up pops an internal monologue asking whether I have an internal monologue, which is pretty jarring and a bit distracting.
I suppose this might be to do with language development. I can remember switching languages in my dreams to English at about seven or eight years old, but I’ve been at least bilingual all my life. In that context I guess it would be weird for a specific language to be intrinsic to thought.
My son was looking very happy with himself so I asked what he was smiling at. His reply......its the voices, they are telling jokes.
Don't know if I should laugh or call a shrink
