Monologue hell, I carry on full blown conversations and arguments with myself...........and usually lose.

Sometimes I wish I could turn my brain to silent

I usually just have 17 tabs open in my head. At least 3 of them are playing music

I want someone to adopt my inner monolog. It's always telling me bad things about myself, among other things 🙃

I suppose if you never had it, you wouldn't know what you missing. I was on anti depressants for a few months and my inner dialogue, my vivid imagination went away, reading was hard as everything became grey and the words were just words, I didn't get transported into those worlds. That was over 10yra ago and I still suffer from depression and anxiety but I fear losing that inner dialogue and imagination so much that I will Neva do anti depressants again

As far as I can tell, I'm one of those who don't have a constant internal monologue. I don't say sentences in my mind, I tend to think more in images. That doesn't mean I can't have an internal debate/monologue, it's just that that's not the normal/ usual way for me. An internal monologue is almost as tiring for me as if I spoke all that out loud. It's so fascinating to see all these differences!

How do you think so slowly that it can be expressed in words in your head?

As one of these people, I can testify, it is very confusing to hear people talk about their inner monologues before you realize that it's possible to not have one lol.

Inner monologue? Sometimes I have inner dialogue or trialogue. There is the sceptic, the always excited and sometimes accountant joins in. The engineer usually doesn't join those meetings, but he is the the one explaining why something is not so good idea when those three finally make a decision. Or he takes over my full brain capacity to make a plan how something can work. Sometimes I wonder if I should seek professional help, but as long as those guys work together, it is fine I guess.

the answer to "how do you think" is i think more in abstract. like if i'm planning the things i need to do i more "see" how i'm going to do them. where i need to go, who i need to see, if i need to use a telephone, that sort of thing. those options sort of float through my mind and i pick what i can do or what i need to prioritize etc. how i make decisions is by determining how i feel right now and how i will feel by the time the action needs to be taken and then i think about how the results of whatever my decision are will make me (and/or others) feel. so it's a lot more feeling and probing than spelling things out. interestingly, i've read that we non-monologuers apparently often make excellent writers. certainly, when i sit down to write, i don't feel the process of thinking almost at all. the words just flow out of my fingertips. or i'll write something out and then revise it. but i don't think out each sentence before i write it, that would be madness. it feels like i have to write it out in order to know what i want to say. i project it onto the screen and then read it back to myself. it is also a very fast process. i don't know any other way to put it. i also don't usually think before i speak, often to my detriment. i've trained myself to think more before i say things, but usually the words are out of my mouth before i know it. so it's not like we have no mental literacy, but we don't usually think in full sentences inside our heads. more like we're describing the pictures and feelings inside our heads in words we think other people will understand so they can also see and feel these things.

I talked this over with my inner monologue and we've decided that this fact is quite crazy.

How do you think about anything if you can't do this I'm truly asking this question can someone answer me please thank you

This has always fascinated me

I just talk like normal xD I'm constantly talking to myself I never find it weird cuz its how I organise my thoughts I can't do it inside my brain it just doesn't work

My mind never stops... I thought this was normal... its speed is like a F1- car, i think... it used to be faster... 🤷‍♀️🤣

Wait, what?

This is one of those things that I just can't imagine. My inner monologue is always on. I don't understand how someone without one can solve complex problems without talking it over in their head. I also can't imagine seeing images so clearly in your head that you don't need an inner monologue. I can only picture something in my head for like two seconds and then it's gone.

I don’t think it’s all that commonplace

Those people who have multiple inner monologues going should share one with someone who doesn't have any. And we know who those people are.

Apparently, only 30-50% of people have an inner monologue.

must be a lonely life

Maybe they do have an inner monologue but are not aware of it, or even know what is?

I grew up watching "Magnum PI" so I can't NOT narrate my life.

I have an inner monologue that I perceive when reading, writing or planning sentences to say, but not for general thoughts. I think this concept exists in a spectrum, some people's brains are chatty, some people's not so much. But the formation of ideas and reactions is the same.

I can't shut off my iner monologue even at night. Sleeping is a big problem for me

I think all people have the inner monologue they may ignore it but it's there. Even the most psychotic have it. Mentally disabled have it. Its there always whether your listening or not.

EVERYONE has an inner voice. Some people are so unaware of themselves they can't hear it. These people also can't think for themselves and only know how to repeat what other people told them.