Psychology professor Russell Hurlburt estimates 30 to 50 percent of people have an inner monologue narrating their thoughts throughout the day. But if you don't have one, Hurlburt, who teaches at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, says not to worry.
Uhh, guys. Just FYI a majority of people overall are NPC’s. No inner monologue, no soul, no thoughts to themselves, no mental imagery.
Only around 20-40% of us are actually real free thinking humans. ITT the soulless will try to justify their disability but we all know the truth.
Be thankful you are one of the chosen few if you are and if you are not, i pray for your soulless and worthless existence. I pray you find peace one way or another in this life, even if when you die your existence completely ceases to exist.
> " [...] without being aware it was a 'BAD GUY' thing to say"
LMFAO NPC reasoning, critical faculties of a 4 year old
Joshua Watson
I too would like to solve this problem.
Henry Lopez
It's as though the apple is a ghost, so to speak. I can describe it in great detail, but no physical image accompanies it. It's like the inner monologue is trying to do the inner eye's work. Any ideas on fixing it? I can think words in my head easily but no images, yet I feel like I'm close.
Andrew Hill
When I was a little kid, I used to imagine my inner voice was Luke Skywalker...
Charles Thomas
We don't "see" it. It's like of you were in a dark room and felt an apple. You could guess what it was and give some basic properties of it but you can't see it.
Easton Long
This board will never understand actualisation. It's almost all midwits.
Evan Anderson
I see, very serious. Have you considered suicide?
Benjamin Reed
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Daniel Gutierrez
How does the apple look like? Is it meant to be like I have a picture of an apple on my eyes and I see it when I close them and imagine the apple? Or is it like I remember an apple I saw before? I try to do the latter and I focus on details to try and force in a more clear image but I haven't had much luck though the I wonder if I just need to put in more effort.
Robert Adams
I am my own inner monologue faggot. I can make it say whatever i want to. Low iq faggots don’t understand inner monologue you’re just a NPC and coping.
Landon Torres
You say 20-40% of people are free thinkers, but I feel that less than 1% of people possess any form of philosophical insight. I bet if you ask someone if they have an actual, meaningful original idea, they couldn't give you one.
Michael Young
Also, a few weeks ago, something interesting happened to me...in the morning, as I was waking up, I was visualizing a cat in my mind's eye, and I heard a sound outside in the dining room, which was my Mom eating her breakfast. At the same time, the cat turned its head, as if it heard the noise.
Connor Miller
It's more like imagining it on the spot than remembering. In either case though, it feels like the image is almost there, but hidden behind a black curtain. I'm sure it's fixable but idk how yet.
Levi Morgan
Meds
Juan Sullivan
Stop being of the mindset that these people “see” in their head. They don’t see images. If they did they would be able sketch perfectly this apple they see regardless of the muscle memory and discipline required for producing art. If you can’t see the images you’re focusing too much on the idea of “sight”. I used to think I had aphantasia, but I was just bogged down on the whole “seeing” thing. They don’t see an image, they just envision it in their mind. You can envision it in your mind. You know what an apple looks like, you know what an apple feels like, you know the smell, you know the sounds. You know these things and get caught up on the sight you supposedly lack. Took me a dose of acid and mushrooms to realize I wasn’t blind, I was just approaching it wrong. Meditate and dive deeper. You will realize it too anons, you’re not broken and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Camden Mitchell
I think that's normal user, I think only artfags claim to actually see anything. I don't see anything, and yet I do. I can "feel" every detail of the apple, even imagine eating it. But I'm not sitting here hallucinating an apple... Oh shit I have aphantasia don't I...
Nicholas Lee
I can imagine things so vividly that I used to jerk off and cum to just my imagination as a teenager. I feel very bad for people that can't.
Adam Brown
This is a very fun trick. Every now and then I'll be like "I wanna see some titties" then enter a catatonic state for a few hours till I make cummies
It's hilarious to hear automatons with no spark to their essence get offended when called out about being a hollow human.
The puzzling part is this used to be rare.
Lucas Gomez
There's a topic related to this, can't quite recall what it's called. But they were conclusions reached after an American psychologist I believe conducted some studies on prison inmates, and it was about the inmates capabilities of entertaining.. chronological hypotheticals? Something like that, I swear I saved an image about it somewhere but can't find it.
Any1 knows what I'm refering to?
The "NPC" thing is literally real, and I actually think it is supernatural in nature.
Gavin Watson
please help me understand how to self actualize i am sick of this board please help me bong help me
Zachary Butler
I don't have an inner voice. I am the inner voice. This meat suit isn't me.
Luke Williams
You probably dobt have aphantasia but instead weak visualization
Meditation will help strength your visualization. Sleep deprivation and or hallucinogenics will help you see even if it's a short cut method.
Jason Wilson
What about inner monologue maxxing
Liam Phillips
Ive had inner monologue all my life, i converse more in my head than i do irl, i thought it was just autism desu
The inner voice itself is also just neurons firing and false firing the vocal cords. You've got to go deeper
Easton Lee
We have souls, the NPC's don't. It is absolutely horrifying to think about.
I got nothing, I can only recall hypothetical being part of what the thing was called. And as I described how the results were achieved.
Camden Ortiz
i think the idea is you should be able to invoke an apple in the platonic sense. Not neccessarily a callback to a specific apple, just the ability to think the category: apple and create one, alter it, rotate it in your minds eye
Lincoln Rodriguez
I don't have an inner monologue and I don't give a fuck. I just talk to myself when I'm alone. It's an outer monologue, I don't reply to myself, I'm not a psycho
Thomas Smith
If you write a fake statistic on the internet people are 30% more likely to believe it. Thiugh if you use an odd or weird number people are 43% more likely to believe it
Isaiah Martin
I'll do a little digging I think I know what you are implying. I've had to stop myself from imagining full on conversations with people in my mind. I've been Neet for 15 years now, rarely actually see anyone else much less talk to them out loud anymore. That research might be very relevant to my interest.
Brody Nguyen
Relax your body, use binaural beats for help, close your eyes in meditation pose (not necessarily with the hand thing) and let go your brain of thoughts and mental images, learn to observe them without concentrating on them too much or they'll vanish. Practice inner visualization basically and listen to your voice.
Benjamin Adams
I also have the black curtain thing, though I sometimes feel like I can see some red through it. Could just be my imagination though.
Oh so I'm fine then haha
Holy shit I can do that now, so now I'm 1000% sure I'm fine haha
Elijah Allen
Gosh I'm 100% okay then, with the other posts I replied to and the fact that I can rotate the apple (first time trying) I'm definately not an NPC
Nathaniel Moore
I dreamed of how a blow job felt then when I got one it was exactly the same feeling. This Future brain is no joke
Cooper Wood
The idea of not utilizing mental language to formulate thoughts and ideas is so foreign to me that I do even understand how someone could posses self awareness without it.
I honestly used to think I was stupid because I was someone who would essentially conserve themselves and have a inner narrative monologue throughout the day.
Dominic Anderson
>become your own inner monologue
What the fuck are you on? That's what an inner monologue is: yourself. If you don't have one, you aren't a person; you're an automaton.
Ethan Phillips
It was about the interns below a certain IQ threshold being incapable of comprehending the concept of hypotheticals from the past. One of the examples given was:
>Did you have breakfast yesterday? >"Yes" >If you had not liked your breakfast yesterday, would you have felt bad?" >"I don't understand."
something like that
Christian Wright
How old are u leaf just out of curiosity, in your 20s?
Matthew Perry
What do you mean inner monologue?
I think in abstract concepts and categories and then piece it together as language if I need to. Thinking in words seems inefficient.
Nathan Hill
being able to visualize an apple in your head and its features, color, lightening etc is something you should be able to conjure with your eyes open.
Closing your eyes and literally seeing something in the black void covering your eyes means your tripping. There's a distinct difference as far as I can tell
Carson Williams
>chronological hypotheticals I think you might mean counterfactuals.
Lucas Reyes
Fucking hell, you're not human.
Nolan Campbell
No that is definitely not it. I'm sorry I really can't find the image I thought I saved and I can't remember the name of the thing.
Alexander Reyes
I still have a hard time believing that there are people without inner monologue and I wonder if people just don't understand the concept because sometimes these are worded as if a third person is talking to you and you are literally hearing voices.
Chase Cooper
look qt something. stare qt it for q minute. contemplate its parts. its lines, curves, shadows. talk those features out, keep staring at the object, close your eyes. keep talking about those features. use your hands and fingers to draw it out. youre your closed eyes to see the object
Jackson Sanchez
It doesn't have to be in words per-se; you just view yourself as something separate and distinct from your body. You realize you are directing yourself (whether or not it includes dialogue)
Parker Fisher
Having an inner monologue seems to be detrimental to social interaction. With inner monologue active I'm like full autist weirdo. When I can turn it off (really I just keep repeating "only out loud" until I start saying the things I'd normally think outloud without filter and I become more "well adjusted". When I shut it down back in the day I was a mack until it came back. It has its uses tho