Its so weird to me that some people have internal monologues and some don’t. My internal monologue has been the baseline of my existence since I can remember being alive. I cannot fathom what it’s like to not have one.
Mine’s so loud that people have to shout over it to get my attention.
When they read or write, they aren’t voicing it their head? How? Or I really don’t understand the subject
(now I remember the trick to read faster by just scanning the sentences)
When they read or write, they aren’t voicing it their head? How?
It’s like quick flashes of realisation, of idea acknowledgment, without any verbal dub.
Mine mostly consists of my parents scolding me, and me trying to comfort my inner child, i could do without it
I have both. It switches depending on context and activities. For me it’s just two very different brain modes that serve different purposes. In social situations (+for a time afterwards) I usually have it for example. But if I am doing more creative stuff it’s nearly never there.
Anon says “women are NPCs”
ding ding dinge
T as in testosterone?
No, it’s Earl Grey
No, ‘T’ as in ‘Tic-Tacs’.
Maybe it’s ‘tea’. Their internal monologue has a British accent.
It must be.
Explanation?
“T” is testosterone, the male sex hormone. It’s commonly taken by transgender people transitioning to male. Testosterone causes many of the bodily changes associated with male puberty, such as the growth of body hair and muscles. Unrelated to its medical use, it’s also taken by biological males as a performance-enhancing steroid and is on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s list of banned substances.
Anon is saying that after they started taking testosterone, they developed an “internal monologue”. Most people already have this; it’s the sound of your thoughts, such as when you lick an ice cream and think to yourself “wow, this tastes pretty good”. Some people do not have internal monologue. I do not know the medical reason for this.
Anon is expressing confusion as to why taking testosterone caused them to develop an internal monologue when they previously didn’t have one.
Edit: It is important to add context that while testosterone is a banned steroid, the World Anti-Doping agency recognises a therapeutic use exception for it, including for transgender individuals.
What’s the difference between an internal monologue and just thoughts?
A monologue is and actual voice talking in your head, I think.
Never experienced it so 🤷
What is reading like for you? Do you not hear the words you’re reading in your head as you read them?
That’s correct. If I’m actively thinking about something or especially going over and processing some information, I do it like I’m expleining the thing to someone else in my head, using an actual voice in my mind.
So that simulated voice of yourself saying something inside your own mind, that’s “inner monologue”?
@[email protected] So you don’t have that? What happens in your mind when you imagine yourself explaining something to someone?
One more bit of context; many hollywood movies have a male internal monologue used as a narration device. So it’s also technically stereotypically a male thing (even though I have no idea if it is actually related to sex at all). Fight club comes to mind as a prime example.
Fight club comes to mind
So does Bridget Jones Diary.
I’m not saying whether its more stereotypically male or not in movies (I’ve never thought about it, maybe its that there have historically been more male leads in general?), I just like bringing up the classic naugthies rom-coms whenever I can.
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