Guy's Internal Monologue Discovery Ruins His Day

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mattstaff
Feb 10, 2020 12:00 AM EST

This guy's seemingly innocent discovery about how our brains work when it comes to the "internal monologue" process ended up inspiring quite the ripple effect. People were shook. To learn that other people in the world are able to have an internal narrative, while others aren't, was too much for some folks to fathom. 

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    Text - Kyle- @KylePlantEmoji Fun fact: some people have an internal narrative and some don't As in, some people's thoughts are like sentences they "hear", and some people just have abstract non-verbal thoughts, and have to consciously verbalize them And most people aren't aware of the other type of person
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    Text - My day was completely ruined yesterday when I stumbled upon a fun fact that absolutely obliterated my mind. I saw this tweet yesterday that said that not everyone has an internal monologue in their head. All my life, I could hear my voice in my head and speak in full sentences as if I was talking out loud. I thought everyone experienced this, so I did not believe that it could be true at that time.
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    Text - Literally the first person I asked was a classmate of mine who said that she can not "hear" her voice in her mind. I asked her if she could have a conversation with herself in her head and she looked at me funny like I was the weird one in this situation. So I began to become more intrigued. Most people I asked said that they have this internal monologue that is running rampant throughout the day. However, every once in a while, someone would say that they don't experience this.
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    Text - Today 1:57 PM When you lay in bed and think, you don't hear your voice? Like, can you say a complete sentence in your brain and hear it? Delivered no i just see words
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    Text - My life began to slowly spiral out of control with millions of questions. How do they get through the day? How do they read? How do they make decisions between choice A and choice B? My friend described it as "concept maps" that she sees in her brain. Another friend says that she literally sees the words in her head if she is trying to think about something. I was taking ibuprofen at this point in the day because my brain was literally unable to comprehend this revelation. How have I made
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    Text - When you think, can you hear your voice in your head? Like, can you think in complete sentences in your brain and "hear" it? No lol why Because I can
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    Text - I posted a poll on instagram to get a more accurate assessment of the situation. Currently 91 people have responded that they have an internal monologue and 18 people reported that they do not have this. I began asking those people questions about the things that they experience and it is quite different from the majority. I would tell them that I could look at myself in the mirror and have a full blown telepathic conversation with myself without opening my mouth and they responded as if
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    Text - And that makes sense like it might sound so weird but whenever I would watch a movie that the person hears their own voice in their head thinking I would literally be like I wish that was a thing That very much so is a thing Imaoo Mind blown
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    Text - And to their surprise, they did not know that the majority of people do in fact experience that echoey voice in their head that is portrayed in TV and film. Another person said that if they tried to have a conversation with themselves in the mirror, they would have to speak out loud because they can't physically do it inside of their mind.
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    Text - I'm gonna write an article on this tomerrow. Stay tuned. Just want you to know you ruined my day w this. I haven't been able to stop wondering what ppl who don't hear their voice actually do in life. Hope you've been well
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    Text - I started posting screenshots of these conversations on my instagram and my inbox started to flood with people responding to my "investigation." Many people were reassuring me that I was not crazy for having an internal monologue, while others were as absolutely mind blown as I was. People were telling me that T ruined their day and that they now do not understand anything about life. Maybe you are all just a figment of my imagination, but regardless, yesterday made reality seem even more
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    Text - How do they think? How does this affect their relationships, jobs, experiences, education? How has this not been mentioned to me before? All of these questions started flooding my mind. Can those people without the internal monologue even formulate these questions in their mind? If they can, how does it happen if they don't "hear" their voice? I mentioned earlier that I was spiraling out of control. WellI, as I write this and as I hear my own voice in my head, I am continuing to fall down
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    Text - How do you read without saying the words in your brain. Be descriptive please. I can say them in my head, like I can read to myself silently obviously but when I'm reading there are key words from each sentence that I can see and that's what I can retain.
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    Text - I can straight up look at myself in the mirror and have a full blown telepathic conversation with myself. Can you not do that? Nooo00 If I need to have a convo with myself in the mirror I have it out loud I can't do it in my head
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    Text - Okay good night. Life is no longer what I thought it was. Whether people just have different definitions of their thoughts, or if people literally don't have an internal monologue, there is one thing that we do know... you will definitely get a headache if you keep thinking about this. Just trying to wrap my head around it is causing irreversible brain damage. I suggest asking people around you what they experience. If you are one of the few that do not have this internal monologue, pleas
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