Inner Monologue: Do you have one?

[Mister Obvious]

About 30 to 50 percent of people regularly think to themselves in internal monologues.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/...aving-them

I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the idea that 50% of people out there don't even have an inner monologue.

I have a damn near constant inner monologue.

Apparently A LOT of people only have one "sometimes" or not at all.

I can't fathom it.

[Mister Obvious]

I have a damn near constant inner monologue.

The only time I don't is when I'm intently listening to someone else speaking...

In which case, I hear their words echoed in my head. I hear what they're saying, and then it is repeated in my mind by my own inner monologue voice. It's basically instantaneous though.

[Mister Obvious]

I've heard people admit to not having an inner monologue and I was surprised... I'm not judging them, I'm just saying I can't imagine what it's like.

You'd think it'd be pretty peaceful.

How would you ever get depressed if you didn't have an inner monologue??

Then again, how would you really get all that excited about anything either??

I don't get it.

[Luscious Atanari]

My inner monologue is definitely in the baritone voice of an older black man and fairly consistent.

[Mister Obvious]

There are even people who hear their inner monologue in third person.

Inner monologue, inner dialogue...

Maybe schizophrenia is a bunch of different kinds of inner monologues/dialogues at once.

Well of course it's more complex than that, but it could be a component.

All very fascinating.

[somethingelseishere]

All of my inner chatter usually hovers in the negative region.
Whether about the world, others or myself. Mostly about myself.
The negative stuff I mean. Some of it I'm sure is the diagnosis
but I'm very solidly pessimistic, since childhood.

Fuck can ya do?

[Mister Obvious]

All of my inner chatter usually hovers in the negative region.

Reminds me of what I was reading the other night about variations in schizophrenia among different populations...

In the U.S., the voices are harsh and threatening; in Africa and India, they are more benign and playful.

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2014/0...ann-071614