Today I learned that not everyone has an internal monologue

It's not.

These people aren't taking note of anything.

All reptile, all the time.

I’ve watched and written two full feature movies in my head over the years, but don’t have the connections to get them made.

When I have the time, like on the treadmill, I will imagine different scenes( full visual and dialogue) and decide how each scene will work in the script. I hear the dialogue and change the lines the action, like I am the writer director and cinematographer at all times.

Isn’t this just normal? I figured it was.

Are you telling me I could be rich in Hollywood if I had the connections?

My thought is yours is a bit of an exceptional ability.

My understanding is that the price of wealth and/or fame in Hollywood is much more than a good screenplay.

And, for many who go through with "paying the price", it still ends up being for naught.

The NPC's have a collective group thought.

They pretty much repeat what they are told.

Yeah, actually I probably could have the connections anyway since I’m in the right zip code, and do have some lowly connections, but you’re right, it’s who you know not what you know.

I just enjoy the imagining of stories and it also relieves issues since you write the issues into the story and then create outcomes.

This subject is absolutely fascinating! I can’t image how people without the inner voice think? Do they look at an ugly thing and it think “that’s hideous “ I mean how do they have opinions that they have to decide to remain in their head or not?

The lady in the video says she has to say everything out loud. I don’t meet many people blurting g negative comments constantly ( although you know we have plenty in our heads), so do they just not have opinions and thoughts streaming constantly?

I don't believe this, everyone thinks, otherwise, they couldn't figure anything out. They couldn't plan for the future. They couldn't make a grocery list.

Even animals have thoughts.

So you're telling me you's guys only got one? Shit. I'm uhh gonna go now before I start to sound really crazy

I think you’re right, and these people just don’t understand their own consciousness. I don’t one can form a sentence without it.

That’s what tv is for. Puts your mind into beta wave mode.

This thread has kind of explained something that's been bugging me about certain segments of our society.

It seems to suggest that there are those who are strictly reacting and not thinking, because they have no internal dialogue.

I bet knowing this we could pop people into one category or the other pretty easily.

This has blown my mind. No wonder so many people are thick.

autonarration.

Well ain't that interesting... Considering that certain channeled sources claim only 20 % of humans are real ensouled beings, with the rest being merely simulations. NPC's, in the most literal sense.

I was thinking the same thing. How can someone read without hearing the words and the voices of the different characters in their head?

It brings up more questions too. Don't these people daydream? Are they incapable of silent prayer? Unable to listen to their favorite song without actually playing it? Don't they self analyze, hash through ideas, deliberate plans, and weigh pros and cons inside their minds?

How can they anticipate how future conversations might go without playing variations of the possible dialogues in their head (like when planning to go in and ask for a raise)?

I've always wondered how people could possibly get bored when your mind is like having your own personal holodeck. It didn't occur to me that some people's minds might work very differently.

I once was shocked when I explained to my wife my general constant inner stream of consciousness and thought processes, and she told me that she had not anything even close to that. I could not believe what she was telling me! This led to much more talk about and I think this started the consciousness in her because now she does have a constant inner voice. So, I guess that some people that says they don’t, just don’t know it’s there.

I've come to the conclusion that all my NPCs really suck.

I create movies in my head too - funny movies - even makes me lol a bit. Oddly, I'v found the idea gets made into an actual movie. For example, over a decade ago I imagined a comedic movie about a mousy, overweight woman becoming a CIA agent - some of the details about her dress and demeanor actually played out in the movie Spy with Melissa McCarthy. I have a few movies in my head - stories too. I'd imagine that many creative people, writers, artists, etc have an inner dialogue.

NPC's are adaptive. Their programming is about mimicking true conscious beings. If you point out that you expect them to have an inner dialogue, then they'll claim to have an inner dialogue in the future.

Someone told me that it's impossible to read while dreaming - I read quite a bit in my dreams. Just last night/this morning I dreamed that a friend and I were making plans to go on a vacation together and I'm reading the calendar, September, clear as day and the numbers too. I've also read in other languages - like when I dreamed I was in Germany at an outdoor market and was reading the signs by the food.

My inner voice is a dragon...

crazy shit.

5* and pin bro. You uncovered one of the things that put me on the path to truth

Robotoids... look it up.

Better ask them to tell you what their inner dialogue is saying then, I guess. :)

called robotoids.

Everyone thinks, but not everyone has a defined 'digital voice'.

It is altered in different mental diereses as well.

In some cases in schizophrenia it is either eliminated or altered. Either no digital voice or often replaced with alternate voices which are multiple and not perceived as their own internal voice (i.e. hearing voices).

As others pointed out, children and animals still 'think' but more in connected pictures, memories, concepts without a fully defined digital voice as they do not posses a complete or mature set of language processing skills.

Wow, that makes sense. I think my husband is one of these. I texted him and my two kids about this and the kids said yep, the voice is always there. Haven’t heard from the hubby yet, but he did tell me he can’t remember dreams at all and said he doesn’t dream. I found that impossible. Years later he told me he now dreams....

Mind blown!

Sometimes I put my thoughts down in mindmaps or something so my wife can follow them. Giant flow charts and connected thoughts so she can understand me better.

I should get her to map out her thought process sometime. could be interesting.

People unable to think ahead -have abstract thoughts- can not anticipate consequences

They are not just dumb

They are doomed

Everyone has an inner dialogue if their brain is alive, which of course it is.

Whether someone recognizes it or not is another matter. They are simply unaware of it, but it's going on full blast whether they realize it or not.