I interviewed Kirsten Carlson, a PA Student at Francis Marion University, who is one of the few people that do not have an internal monologue. She does not h...
Is that inherently how you always engage with text?
Usually, yes. if I'm looking a table of data it's a bit different. But anything that's mostly text I engage with like that.
How similar is that sensation to actually hearing speech?
It's much more similar to talking. Because It's "my" voice and I can mostly control when I start and stop it. unless I'm having trouble sleeping or feeling really emotional or something. then I might "argue" with my self inside my own head or "rant" inside my own head and I have a little less control over that.
Is there something sensory?
My brain "hears" while my ears don't. So the volume of the voice in my head is never overwhelming. I'd say there's something quasi-sensory to it but it's not really "sensed" overtly the way external phenomena are.
Does all your thinking operate with an internal monologue?
No. A lot of it does though.
Every thought is linguistic?
No. Sometimes I just "feel" things. But I think I verbally process a lot of emotions so my brain "talks it out." a lot.
i'm going to answer it like it's 3 lol
Usually, yes. if I'm looking a table of data it's a bit different. But anything that's mostly text I engage with like that.
It's much more similar to talking. Because It's "my" voice and I can mostly control when I start and stop it. unless I'm having trouble sleeping or feeling really emotional or something. then I might "argue" with my self inside my own head or "rant" inside my own head and I have a little less control over that.
My brain "hears" while my ears don't. So the volume of the voice in my head is never overwhelming. I'd say there's something quasi-sensory to it but it's not really "sensed" overtly the way external phenomena are.
No. A lot of it does though.
No. Sometimes I just "feel" things. But I think I verbally process a lot of emotions so my brain "talks it out." a lot.