Do you have internal dialogue?

fortwilliam

Internal conversations in your head with counterpoints and arguments?

I don't mean decisions - "Pizza for dinner tonight"

I mean - "Hmmm, maybe pizza for dinner tonight...
- Nah, I had it last week and it was horrible...
- well maybe I could try a different brand
- or I could try to make my own, I've wanted to give that a go for a while...
- ah, can't be arsed, I'll get a chippy...
- maybe I'll call dave to see if he wants to come around..
- etc...

I do, I also give myself ultimatums:
- Shouldn't really have a beer on a Tuesday...
- Well I'll call Dave, if he is on for it I will, otherwise I defo won't
- Hmmm... let's see..

Anyone else or do I have the "voices" inside me?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

No. I might consider options, but never in the form of a dialogue.

I have a bit of that going on alright. A lotta conversation with myself in my head. haha.

Yeah but...isn't it a monologue?

babi-hrse

Of course it's where I do alot of realising things.
Get a fair few ideas through it usually on the toilet

Mam of 4

I thought everyone done that ?
It's when you talk out loud to yourself that people give you funny looks .

Or so I'm told...

brevity

Very much so. I thought everyone does but apparently not...

Yes.

It's not even an internal dialogue, sometimes. I converse in argument with myself out loud. Have learned to pretend to be singing a tune so as to appease the locals.

It's just a sign of an active mind, or so I argue to myself.

Autecher

fortwilliam wrote: »

Internal conversations in your head with counterpoints and arguments?

I don't mean decisions - "Pizza for dinner tonight"

I mean - "Hmmm, maybe pizza for dinner tonight...
- Nah, I had it last week and it was horrible...
- well maybe I could try a different brand
- or I could try to make my own, I've wanted to give that a go for a while...
- ah, can't be arsed, I'll get a chippy...
- maybe I'll call dave to see if he wants to come around..
- etc...

I do, I also give myself ultimatums:
- Shouldn't really have a beer on a Tuesday...
- Well I'll call Dave, if he is on for it I will, otherwise I defo won't
- Hmmm... let's see..

Anyone else or do I have the "voices" inside me?

Dave seems like a bad influence on you.

Autecher

Also yes, but I believe everyone does that. When I am driving I am either singing aloud or having a conversation with myself out loud.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Yeah but usually talking to myself in the second person a bit more than that.

"You should go to bed now"
"I don't want to"
"You know it's 2am?"
"Yes but I'm really enjoying myself and the sooner I go to sleep the sooner I have to get up"
"You've watched this episode four times already"
"Because it's fcuking good"
"You'll be wrecked in the morning"
"Sounds like your problem Mrs sensible, I'm the part of the brain that only activates after midnight"
"You're a stupid fcuking bitch"
"I know, we love this episode though"
"Yeah alright"

bluefinger

Share your thoughts on this

No can't be arsed and will have to follow the thread then

Ah go on you might get a few thanks for it

That's pathetic why would you care about something as arbitrary as getting thanked

You know if everyone felt like that there wouldn't be much to this site

Maybe that's a good thing. The internet is one of the greatest inventions ever and you spend time reading random nonsense on it.

You're no fun.

mistersifter

about an hour before this thread was started I was thinking the same - am I the only one who has conversations with myself inside my own head?!

weird!

ILoveYourVibes

Indeed I do. have an internal monologue that will argue back and forth in a strong inner voice.

I also have periods where i speak mentalese as psychologists call it.

Autecher

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

I also have periods.

Fixed your post because I am immature and it made me laugh

Tell me how

Is it possible to determine whether it truly is dialogue (or monologue as pointed out), or just our thoughts which we interpret retrospectively in the form of questions/statements etc.
I don't usually verbalise the questions while I might still think of them in some form.

Sometimes I do actually go so far as to speak out loud to myself but that is usually a single statement.

ILoveYourVibes

Autecher wrote: »

Fixed your post because I am immature and it made me laugh

You are lucky i am not having my period!

AMKC

Ye I do. I talk with the other voice in my head. I have two voices there. The good one and the one that likes to be bold and naughty.

kowloon

The WitchKing of Angmar wrote: »

Yeah but...isn't it a monologue?

There's more than one of me on the inside, but it's not always apparent from the outside. Unless we're having one of our arguments.

BarryD2

Of course, you need someone intelligent to talk to sometimes

Patty Hearst

I love when someone posts something like this and I realise I'm not the only one that does certain things and maybe I'm not actually mad lol.. I do this all the time and address myself by my previous boards name and often wondered if anyone else did it.. Ta OP.

JJJJNR

Empty vessels make the most noise.

ILoveYourVibes

JJJJNR wrote: »

Empty vessels make the most noise.

Yeah but I echo loudly.

Autecher

AMKC wrote: »

Ye I do. I talk with the other voice in my head. I have two voices there. The good one and the one that likes to be bold and naughty.

Ooohhh AMKC, tell me more please! I am very interested....

ToddyDoody

Peep Show Channel 4. David Mitchell.
(To paraphrase)

'It'll be really handy to have an assistant. Jeremy can you post this. Jeremy can you file this. Jeremy can you suck this. Jesus where did that come from!?'

Junkyard Tom

I have a relentless internal critic.

Hobosan

Sometimes I'll have an internal monolgue and imagine certain people delivering it, depending on the topic. For whatever reason, I find the monolgue less interesting and fruitful if I imagine myself speaking, particularly for situations I've never been in.

For example, I'll imagine various comedians delivering my thoughts. Carlin for serious societal musings, Norm Mcdonald for ridiculous bad jokes and the aftermath of telling them or even Rob Kearney doing my idea of a funny post-match interview.

Imagining actors doing scenes with my script and choreography would be another more relatable example of this type of thing I suppose.

This will typically be before bed where I have the opportunity to flesh ideas out. The ideas I imagine on the fly during the day have no discernable character delivering them.

Apparently Tesla could build complex machines in his head and run them for wear and tear before ever building them. I know certain people are supposed to be more mechanically minded but that is so spectacular, I struggle to believe it. Amazing if true though.

Your Face

Yes of course we do.

Hobosan

Your Face wrote: »

Yes of course we do.

Some people can't and never realise until it's explicitly laid out like this.

I've heard of people that never realised that when people say, "Imagine scoring the winning goal for Liverpool", that it was literally possible to do a video playback in the mind. They believed it was a turn of phrase.

I used to..
But I stopped talking to me..
Couldn't be listening to my sh1t..

Outlaw Pete

No.

Outlaw Pete

Eh, yes you do, quit trying to impress people, Pete, you're a loser, go to bed, stop eating so much junk too.

corner of hells

Yes and it has a name , "alcohol".

Irish Guitarist

Yes I do.

Irish Guitarist

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Yes I do.

You fucking idiot. I told you to post a better reply.

Irish Guitarist

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

You fucking idiot. I told you to post a better reply.

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Fiery mutant

I prefer talking to myself. It’s a better quality of conversation than talking to some of the dopes I have to deal with.

Mollyb60

Hobosan wrote: »

Some people can't and never realise until it's explicitly laid out like this.

I've heard of people that never realised that when people say, "Imagine scoring the winning goal for Liverpool", that it was literally possible to do a video playback in the mind. They believed it was a turn of phrase.

Did you see this article on the BBC about your 'inner eye'?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47830256
I found it really interesting to see that other people have a really strong imagination and can actually see things in their heads. I would probably be close to the aphantasia that they describe. My imagination is terrible. I would never have distinct pictures in my head when thinking of things. Just a fuzzy greyness.

As for talking to myself, I do it a lot but I don't think it would be distinct conversations with myself. More just snatches of thoughts. But there would be disagreement with myself and arguing.

Humans are weird.