Phone rings, DJ answers
Intrusive thought calling in: … Hi! … Long time listener, called lots in the past … but I was thinking …
Program gets interrupted and DJ has to take a few hours to gain control of the broadcast again …
Whole studio is constantly dancing the whole time
“Am I
hungryhorny or am I bored?”The answer to all variations is almost always “bored”.
And now, it’s time for 12 straight hours of the same catchy 30 second clip from this song you overheard in the grocery store!
Sentience is hell
tfw you don’t have an internal monologue…
Yeah, I was honestly confused for a good while when I learned the concept of zen.
“Clear your mind.”
“Ok.”
“No, really, clear you mind.”
“I already said ok.”
Ooo if you are actually interested, the tradition of Chan Zen definitely has more to say than that. I see how Soto Zen may be seen that way with its intense focus on meditation. Also Soto Zen is way more known in the west than Chan.
Me neither. Well, sort of. I kinda have a dialogue in my head where I say what is on my mind while talking to another person. But even if get an internal monologue, it’s detached if that makes sense. It took me throughout my life to only realise recently that most people have internal monologues, and a lot of people don’t like it.
Studying the inner monologue, or lack thereof, is actually a newly emerging study. There is newly coined term for someone with little to no inner monologue but I forgot what it is called. Anyhow, a study found that those with little or no internal monologue tend to be forgetful, because they don’t repeat what they have to remember in their minds. Which explains a lot why I am forgetful.
The way I describe it, is that I can think of words, rather than thinking in words. So, like I could easily make up an internal dialogue, and and sort of mentally roleplay it in my head (though I also have aphantasia, so I even that’s not the way most people do it), but those words come after the intention to do it. This idea of “hearing” words in my head that I didn’t consciously will in to existence is completely foreign to me
You put words into my mouth (well, more like brain). I don’t hear inner voices.
I looked up aphantasia, and according to Wikipedia, it’s someone who can’t mentally visualise something. I have a wild imagination. But my case is that I don’t hear voices mentally, and my thoughts are quite impersonal even if I get inner dialogue or monologue. The lack of inner voice is called anauralia, which does not have its own Wikipedia page but tied to the entry on aphantasia.
Edit: I’m wrong again. Anauralia is someone who cannot mentally visualise based on sounda. Looks like the correct term I am looking for is anendophasia, or someone with no inner monologue or voice. https://psychologyfor.com/anendophasia-how-do-you-live-without-your-own-internal-mental-voice/
I looked up aphantasia, and according to Wikipedia, it’s someone who can’t mentally visualise something.
Yep. I have that as well as no inner monologue!
While many “hear” the words in their mind when reading, people with anendophasia can process text more directly, grasping the meaning without the mediation of an internal voice.
That quote jumped out at me from the link in your post. I’ve been learning Spanish (slowly) for the last few years, and that really matches with how I’ve learned it. I’ve often described language as “sitting on top of” these mental concepts I have for things. I access the “concept” first and then find the word for it only if I need it. And learning Spanish hasn’t been about learning the English equivalent words, it’s been about attaching Spanish to my existing concept network. I translate Spanish to English by going back to the concepts and then finding the English words.
My internal FM mostly plays music unless I’m thinking of something to say.
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming, these are your earbuds blasting out whatever it takes to stop thinking for even one second.
