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Discussion Board / Do you have an inner voice?
« on: May 24, 2020, 07:11:41 am »
Okay so, lemme explain LOL
In the past year, I've recently learned that some of you weirdos have an inner voice? Like, y'all can HEAR that?? I thought it was an expression or metaphor this whole time, all 18 years old my life! ON TOP OF THAT, you people can imagine things? And SEE THEM IN YOUR MIND? WHAT. That's literally insane to think about, I had no idea.
But seriously, it's been interesting and also horrifying trying to wrap my head around the concept of having an inner voice and a mind's eye. I've been completely reevaluating the way I think and the way I think that I think. That makes almost no sense but HAH, grammar is correct. I think. Apparently the lack of an inner voice/mind's eye is called aphantasia. Whoa.
I had a conversation with a friend earlier about this whole thing, and this was my attempt at rationalizing the way I think:
"My thoughts are like, a thousand voices talking all at the same time about different ideas, except you can’t hear or see anything about it and can either subconsciously think about things to them done or consciously think about things to get them done, which takes longer and physically hurts my head but it’s the way I was conditioned to think and learn so now I’m trying to unlearn it all and think the way that’s best for me."
The TL;DR is that I think in abstract thought without actually thinking in words or images bahaha.
So it all boils down to my question! Do you have an inner voice/mind's eye? Do most of you have it and I'm just slow? What's it like being able to see things and hear a voice in your head? I feel like I'm missing out ;ooo;
In the past year, I've recently learned that some of you weirdos have an inner voice? Like, y'all can HEAR that?? I thought it was an expression or metaphor this whole time, all 18 years old my life! ON TOP OF THAT, you people can imagine things? And SEE THEM IN YOUR MIND? WHAT. That's literally insane to think about, I had no idea.
But seriously, it's been interesting and also horrifying trying to wrap my head around the concept of having an inner voice and a mind's eye. I've been completely reevaluating the way I think and the way I think that I think. That makes almost no sense but HAH, grammar is correct. I think. Apparently the lack of an inner voice/mind's eye is called aphantasia. Whoa.
I had a conversation with a friend earlier about this whole thing, and this was my attempt at rationalizing the way I think:
"My thoughts are like, a thousand voices talking all at the same time about different ideas, except you can’t hear or see anything about it and can either subconsciously think about things to them done or consciously think about things to get them done, which takes longer and physically hurts my head but it’s the way I was conditioned to think and learn so now I’m trying to unlearn it all and think the way that’s best for me."
The TL;DR is that I think in abstract thought without actually thinking in words or images bahaha.
So it all boils down to my question! Do you have an inner voice/mind's eye? Do most of you have it and I'm just slow? What's it like being able to see things and hear a voice in your head? I feel like I'm missing out ;ooo;
