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I will never "have an inner monologue." I will never "need words to think."
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 2:42 PM Author: oomox https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862594&forum_id=2#49859632
This one always riles people up. |
Date: May 2nd, 2026 2:50 PM Author: Nazca Redlines (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862925&forum_id=2E#49859756) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 2:54 PM Author: cowgod Not having one at all or having one 24/7 are both crazy.
Definitely had more of one as a kid. |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 3:05 PM Author: oomox Is there a pattern to when you do or don't?
I have a few exceptions besides the one I mentioned about reading/writing in a different language. It can happen when I'm reading really dense prose in English. I also say numbers in my head if I have to remember them right away, like MFA codes. Also, if I'm writing something that I plan to say aloud (or am otherwise taking the writing seriously) sometimes I read it that in my head.
Yeah a voice 24/7 would be annoying and likely anxiety-inducing |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 3:12 PM Author: cowgod So many things that happen irl are the Same Things that already happened and I don’t need to say the Same Thing to myself
The first time something Bad happens to you or any singular sort of thing it’s good to post-mortem it. Like how would I understand that my parents got divorced because I didn’t make all stars in little league without an inner monologue? It’s not for things like “time to brush my teeth.” Women aren’t deep thinkers so they don’t need one. |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 3:18 PM Author: oomox Interesting, so yours is for Reflection and Processing. Yeah, the stuff like "time to brush my teeth" is what baffles me. The way I've always put it is, I don't look outside and think, "It's raining. I should grab a jacket." I just perceive that it's raining and put on a jacket.
Lmao sure bro. Pretty sure you don't outclass me intellectually. |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 3:39 PM Author: which is what makes time travel possible state your Console history (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862925&forum_id=2E#49859861) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 3:46 PM Author: oomox - Some handheld I don't remember which - PS2 - PS5
Kinda TTT. Played a lot on my cousins' PS1 too.
The cool part is that I got my PS5 within like 4 days of deciding I wanted one, which was the week it came out. I religiously monitored nowinstock and got a heads-up about a drop. Was 180. I remember my heart was beating so fast between when I added it to my cart and checked out. |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 3:51 PM Author: cowgod what did you play on these? DDR? Spyro? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862925&forum_id=2E#49859878) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 3:57 PM Author: oomox Actually spot on lol. DDR was my most-played game on PS2 by far. On my cousins' PS1 we mainly played Spyro, Cool Boarders, and Tekken.
My favorite PC game as a kid was Croc. Played the remake last year and it was 180000. I also checked out the Spyro remake a few yrs ago but didn't play it all the way through. |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 4:03 PM Author: cowgod Did your male relatives do System Link (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862925&forum_id=2E#49859896) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 4:07 PM Author: oomox No, but we played with this neighbor kid who sucked at Tekken
Do you want to know what I play on my PS5 and PC now? It's a short list. |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 4:11 PM Author: cowgod no not really. probably Western Indie Titles. they offer a Reprieve. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862925&forum_id=2E#49859926) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 4:11 PM Author: Medieval Pilgrimage Architecture #BrianJacques, tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862925&forum_id=2E#49859928) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 4:15 PM Author: oomox Yeah a lot of indie decision-based stuff but my main game is ROCKET LEAGUE. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862925&forum_id=2E#49859947) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 7:48 PM Author: cowgod indies offer a Reprieve (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862925&forum_id=2E#49860369) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 3:45 PM Author: cowgod I also think it's helpful for things that take you out of your routine like dieting or something. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862925&forum_id=2E#49859869) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 10:41 PM Author: Massive Penile Appendage (No Future) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862925&forum_id=2E#49860737) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 3:51 PM Author: yidden figures as long as we can all agree that aphantasia is retard-tier I think we don't need to argue about this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862925&forum_id=2E#49859879) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 8:18 PM Author: The Penis Someone posted that infographic with the aphantasia test where you visualize an apple and some people just get a blank. That one is definitely retard tier. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862925&forum_id=2E#49860432) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 10:10 PM Author: yidden figures https://old.reddit.com/r/Aphantasia/comments/swbov5/dmt_a_cure_for_aphantasia/
look how much happier he is now that he can actually imagine things like a human. this therapy should be mandatory. |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 3:54 PM Author: conscious computer I don't think anybody above a certain iq has an always-on internal verbal monologue
It slows down your mental processing so much that almost by definition, a reasonably bright person's brain is not ever going to be doing it while they are actually thinking about something |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 4:00 PM Author: oomox I've met plenty of smart people who at least purport to have a voice all the time. Maybe they're just schizo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862925&forum_id=2E#49859891) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 4:04 PM Author: conscious computer It turns itself off once you have to start actually thinking hard about something
They're probably just low self awareness so they don't realize it's happening. And only thinking of the majority of their awake time when they aren't thinking hard about something, and their idle-minded inner voice is spouting off |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 4:08 PM Author: oomox That's always been my guess too. Like how could there NOT be things that just... come to them??? It is probably just poor introspection. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862925&forum_id=2E#49859913) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 4:15 PM Author: $30 Kirkland brand winter coat nobody actually lacks an inner monologue except illiterates. then you have people like OP who are literate but belong more to oral culture. then you have people who are hyper-literate.
spoken english and written english are different languages, 24/7 inner monologue means you’re always translating between the two. |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 4:17 PM Author: oomox Wdym oral culture? And what's hyper-literate? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862925&forum_id=2E#49859955) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 4:19 PM Author: $30 Kirkland brand winter coat notice how when you post you're not actually writing anything? you're transcribing spoken english. some people's native language is written english. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862925&forum_id=2E#49859963) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 4:23 PM Author: oomox I don't think of it as transcribing; I think of it as translating my thoughts into words real-time. I don't have the sentences in mind before I put them down; I just poop them out. That's part of why I type insanely fast I think. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862925&forum_id=2E#49859972) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 7:45 PM Author: Nyolent Vigor I feel like I was able to read faster as a kid and I had less of an internal monologue. Said another way, I sometimes feel like my current internal monologue slows me down as a reader.
That's probably bullshit though. It's more likely that I plowed through stuff quickly when I was young because I was reading a lot of fiction for young readers.
I don't read fiction anymore. When it takes me a while to get through something now it's because there is a lot of complexity. |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 7:54 PM Author: oomox Another thing about reading, and maybe this was the case for you as a kid, is that I read chunks of text at a time. Like my eyes kinda scan over the text and I'll process phrases or short sentences at once, depending on how complex the wording is. Not sure if that's possible with subvocalization.
Admittedly I read things wrong all the time when arguing on the internet bc I read too fast |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 10:10 PM Author: Nyolent Vigor On occasion I've thought about using those apps that will help you speed read by flashing one word on the screen at a time. In theory it seems like a way to blast through an internal monologue and read shit way faster than you otherwise would.
In practice though, it's got to heavily mess with comprehension. And even to the extent that you do retain 'enough' comprehension, you're robbed of all those moments that you stop and ponder a particularly poignant sentence or idea.
I can't think of any text I'd actually want to use it on. |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 10:13 PM Author: oomox Yeah when reading for pleasure I'd never want to rush through it. I don't think it messes with comprehension if you're fully concentrating though (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862925&forum_id=2E#49860691) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 7:47 PM Author: Massive Penile Appendage (No Future) Monologue? Pffft! Anyway, (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862925&forum_id=2E#49860367) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 7:47 PM Author: oomox 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862925&forum_id=2E#49860368) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 8:18 PM Author: Medieval Pilgrimage Architecture #BrianJacques, tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862925&forum_id=2E#49860433) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 8:16 PM Author: The Penis I'm still not sure 100% what I have. I use a lot of intuition and mainly look at relations, tensions, constraints, flows etc. But I wouldn't say that I don't verbalize silently at all. When I reason about something I never have a heard silent sentence like “first I need to check X, then Y implies Z.” But I have felt relations and senses of constraints. If I write something out that has stepwise reasoning in it its after the fact to explain something I already intuited. Not sure if this is similar to what you have or what other people have. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862925&forum_id=2E#49860428) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2026 10:38 PM Author: oomox Honestly I think you'd know if you had one. Do you hear an actual voice? Apparently it's like how in movies you hear someone saying their thoughts aloud as a voiceover. I thought that was just a narrative device until the first "internal monologue" discussion I saw online. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5862925&forum_id=2E#49860730) |