People without an inner voice have poorer verbal memory
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The vast majority of people have an ongoing conversation with themselves, an inner voice, that plays an important role in their daily lives. But between 5-10 per cent of the population do not have the same experience of an inner voice, and they find it more difficult to perform certain verbal memory tasks, new research shows.
  • livus
    11•9 months ago

    Me too. People like you are fascinating to me. When I first found out that everyone thinks differently I went around interrogating everyone I knew about how they think.

    I don’t have an interior monologue unless Im typing, but I sometimes use my internal “sound system” to play music.

    • @CryophiliaEnglish
      6•9 months ago

      My mental radio is rarely off, but I don’t have an internal monologue.

    • @TodayEnglish
      4•9 months ago

      Me too!! I had my nephew and his wife arguing at dinner about whether the inner voice was real or god. 🤣

    • KillingTimeItselfEnglish
      2•9 months ago

      i dont have one at all, i think, i don’t even have one when typing, which i think leads to a lot of weird mistakes, sometimes i’ll just interject a completely random word, or pickup halfway through a sentence with a completely different sentence, it’s weird sometimes.

      • livus
        3•9 months ago

        I can see that could have that effect! I pretty much need it for typing, it’s like an act of translation. I have to write a lot for work or I probably wouldn’t have started doing it that way.

        If someone is talking or the radio is on when I type I will accidentally include some of the words from those sources.

        • KillingTimeItselfEnglish
          1•9 months ago

          usually im pretty good with typing, ironically. The problem is that if i start to multi focus on things, it gets really messy, just having music in the background isn’t enough to cause me problems though, neither having youtube videos, though it’s impossible for me to focus enough on the video to understand whats happening, while being able to type legibly.

          if i’m rapidly jumping between things, like reading something, and talking to people on discord, while listening to music, i can absolutely throw random words in places they shouldnt be, it’s weird.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)English
      1•9 months ago

      That’s really fascinating and similar to how I think, I think. Like, typing, reading, or thinking about things that are by nature verbal get internally verbalized but in an atonal “narrator voice”, though it’s still not “quiet” otherwise. I also have what I call my “internal walkman” for playing music in a recording/playback manner (sometimes with some “skips”), rather than any voice of my own.