And than there are people like me who just want a break from the inner movie Theater. -.-

I have an inner monologue AND images

I certainly WISH I didn't have an inner monologue. Dude never shuts up

How does anyone not talk in their head, I mean isn't that what thinking is?

I don’t have an inner monologue :)

Oh, the blessed silence! My head never shuts up!

My mother has an outer monologue. She narrates her entire life, loudly. I hate it. Silence is golden.

My inner monologue is mostly remembering and regretting some stupid stuff I did like 20 years ago. I could do without that.

And there are others that have hyperfantasia. It isn't just with mental images, but it can happen with any sense. For instance, I have auditory hyperphantasia. I can hear whole songs in my head as if it were playing on a radio. I can think of a fridge door opening and hear it in my head as clear as day or think of someone's voice and hear it. I feel so thankful for it because I can still hear my grandma singing Amazing Grace and she's been passed for several years now.

I wonder what percentage of those people have both…in my brain the two seem to go together.

Really, for a time my inner monologue was in English, Spanish and Italian (plus pidgins of the above three). It became stressful. Now it's only6 in English, but after speaking to my brother last Christmas, it switched back to Italian and I kept responding to my wife in Italian for a couple of hours (she doesn't speak it).

I have a very hard time seeing images in my mind. So I'm not fully aphantasic but mostly there. I can carry an inner monologue but I don't have to.

I have no inner monologs. I think in moving parts, like a machine.

I have images, an inner monologue and an inner jukebox that mostly plays 80s pop. But right now, it’s playing he roadrunner and coyote song - “Roadrunner, the Coyote’s after you…” There’s a lot going on in here.

I have Aphantasia and Prosopagnosia (face blindness) which also often associates with Aphantasia. I do however have an inner monologue. :)

I have Aphantasia, but I do have an inner monologue. Almost feels like reading a book or a script. But no pictures

I don't have an inner monologue. I mean, I can imagine speech, but it doesn't self-run unless I want it to. Sometimes if I have a hard problem to solve, I'll slow my thoughts down to speaking pace deliberately, but usually my thoughts race ahead faster than words could follow.

You mean inner babbling LOL

My brain cannot comprehend that.

No inner monologue, is that like enlightenment?

True, and if I did not have an inner monologue - I would have no one intelligent to talk to would this be true?

I don't have an inner monologue, until recently I just thought that having a 'voice' was a myth or some sort of exaggeration. I can't imagine constantly thinking loud thoughts; that seems annoying. I'm always imagining all sorts of scenarios, though. Dead silence, but myself doing different things. That's how I decide what to do.

I went through my senses a while back after reading some about this. I thought i actually was capable of imagining all my senses, but realized that while i can imagine images, voice, and taste, i cant imagine smells. An odd thought honestly. I can imagine something tasting fishy but not smelling fishy.

But, who do you talk to when no one else is around!!!

Oh weird. I'm pretty much the complete opposite of that.

I wish my inner monologue would shut up now and then lol

I have had this since I was a little kid. Was good with it til Nam then nope nope nope. Got help for my PTSD and now back being me. Wooton hoooo

I only realised that some people have that "inner monologue" I think when I was in my teens and someone mentioned that they sometimes think in their second language, and I was like "Eh? You mean you normally think in words?" I do sometimes imagine conversations, but I find it hard to imagine having words in my head for every mundane everyday thought. Right now I'm thinking of making myself a cup of coffee and I'm only thinking the words because I'm writing about it here, otherwise I would more just imagine the thing I want (e.g. the taste and smell of the coffee) and the action I'm about to take to get it.

How lucky those people are that don't have an inner monologue.

That. Explains. A. Lot. More. (Sorry to seem repetitive.)

I don't have an inner monologue either, I have several inner voices that sometimes argue and call each other names. That's normal, right? Right?

This is news to me!

I would not be able to have an intelligent conversation without the ability to have inner monologue.

Wow. No inner monologue. I'd be so lonely!!! Me,myself and I. No! Truly!

Sounds like a very peaceful existence!

Wow. I can't even imagine having no inner monologue!

These people don't dream, thrn, right? Oh, but I wish my inner monologue would SHUT UP sometimes...

That’s some dangerous shiit

I can picture things and have a "brain voice". Although the monologue is broken. Sentences are incomplete. Most words are too. But it makes sense to me. Also I've an inner calendar and visualize months and days and have their own colours, but I can't describe the colours either. The week runs backwards. The months forwards. Hard to explain but it's been like that as long as I can remember.

I don't understand how those people function.

I have an inner monologue but can only barely form images

I have images and monologue. the monologue takes drugs sometimes and becomes an author of bad fanfiction, and the worst images pop up at the weirdest times

Is it an issue?

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Jeezus i kinda knew that but didn't want believe it. However the rise of the millions of trump and other populist supporters kind of indicates this phenomena.