Whoever you people are, I hate you!
How dare you not have your own inner voice constantly telling you why you’re such a failure in intricate detail while reminding you of that time you said that weird thing in front of everyone at a party that no one else remembers.
this is where i get stuck trying to define/decide what exactly we’re talking about here.
when I “read”, I can imagine the way the words sound, but i’m just reading, its not a conversation some person in my head is having.
If i can imagine a sentence in my head - is that inner voice?
if i can pretend to argue with myself, is that it? or does it have to be like someone stuck in there?
If i can imagine a sentence in my head - is that inner voice?
I think that’s the basic idea of an inner voice.
For me it just doesn’t stop, like it’s just a constant flow of thoughts and sentences, sometimes for no reason at all it’ll rehash a conversation from a year or so ago and just get stuck on a loop until I can distract it.
It’s not always negative tho, sometimes it will stay good things, but it’s just frustrating because I have a really hard time concentrating on conversations because one random word will trigger it to go on a tangent.
I kinda think it’s the subconscious leaking into the conscious.
I read something a while back that most serial killers don’t have an inner monologue.
No intrusive thoughts just intrusive actions.
So people who never learn a language have a inner dialog?
Like feral people growing up in complete isolation? How many are there in the world at any given time?
By name, I know of one, Kaspar Hauser, from Germany in the 18th, I believe. Was a famous case in its’ time. Director Werner Herzog made a fantastic movie on this topic in the mid- or late-70s.The odd thing I have heard is that those born without hearing have internal sign language dialogue.
