Idea thieved from someone else on a different forum. Do you experience inner monologue? The voice that just won't shut up, chitchatters and keeps you up; sidetracking here, but insomnia is commonly caused by an obnoxious inner voice. Related wiki articles: Stream of consciousness, Train of thought, Internal monologue, Mind-wandering, Visual language, Subvocalization, Consciousness Articles that may help you to better understand, just found them interesting. Haven't read through most of it myself, skimmed it through. I myself seldom experience this voice, if ever. My mind is akin to that of an animal's, no language; little snippets of memory and visuals flash by and string into a mesh. Close my eyes when writing, open it to scribble scrabble. Quoting myself word for word, I am slow in thought - or perhaps it is that it is thought of in the wrong format, and must correct myself and verbalize it. Quoting a user from that same forum.
I tend to sometimes anrrate what I'm doing as if I'm tellnig a story, I don't have insomnia though. I have a subconscious part of me that tends to act either as my voice of reason or of bad actions, so in a way I can argue with myself which is always entertaining. Sometimes if I've been watching too much of one thing the voice is in the voice of someone off whatever I was watching, and when it's Scrubs I tend to do what JD does.
It's so damn annoying! It got so bad once, I was almost diagnosed with schizophrenia. I'm not on meds if you're wondering.
Ever since I started writing Stories it's become something daily. Like when I watch a movie, I think, "How would this be written in the movie novel?" and I start narrating. Or when Im bored and have nothing to do, guess what family, your in your story written by me!
I don't know if I'm the only one who does this but I have a tendency to walk around and talk with the little voice inside my head...out loud...whenever I'm lost in thought about something. I've also done my fair share of mind-wandering. My friends actually make fun of me for doing it too much because I've been known to just drift away and walk around my college campus, ignoring everybody and everything until I snap out of the trance. It find it's a great way for me to contemplate the things that bother me.
I'm going to say yes, but it's not anywhere near all the time for me. But it's not on the rare occasion, either. If I for some reason start thinking about something that I regret doing, usually when I'm trying to sleep; it's that little voice that goes "goddamn, why did I do that?". But it's not every night, and I wouldn't say it constantly keeps me up -- I do get to sleep eventually. I find whenever it does happen, if I read a book or listen to music, it usually calms down and/or goes away completely. It's not always an annoying, nagging "inner monolgue"; often times it says what I hold back for the sake of politeness and not coming off as a smartass or a b*tch. And yes, I have to agree with Ienzo. Sometimes it can turn into a JD-esque inside voice. XD
Easy answer, yes. Being, I believe, to be mildly schizophrenic a voice in my mind is something I often here, but I have two versions, a 'normal one and a 'episodic' one. THe episodic one is a seperate voice I rarely experience, but it's there and it channels into a voice. But not so much one that talks what I think. It seems to place words in my mind in the form of active thought, and I can 'hear' the voice through my active thought. Random words appear that string into a sentence, so I guess it is a voice, definetly not one of my own active creation though. It's a sub-concious one for sure. It tells me things aobut myself, mainly what I find vulnerable about myself and what I should do about them. It's scary but i've learned to live with it. Actually comes up with some interesting things. Never nice, but interesting. However, more commonly I talk to through my normal voice, of my own creation in my mind, sometimes I use my internal audio to converse with myself about ideas, such as: 'Should I use rhyming in my poem? No i've done that recently and it's more difficult to make sense of. Maybe I should add a rhyming couplet at the end? Like a sonnet, right? Yeah, that'll work. So I can base it on love if it's a sonnet, seeing as a sonnet is a well known love poetry style. I haven't done a love poem in a while, might be a nice change.' That type of sequence usually spans 3 seconds to think of. I find it helpful for getting my mind in gear, and discussing things, to create new ideas out of existing ones. A small technique I like to use sometimes. And yes the voice usually takes the voice of people I know or have heard recently, it's a common thing, actually because our storage of outside sound memory is inliked with our internal voice. Nice to get that off my chest! All that psychology I studied helped figure this out! ^^
It's actually kind of hard for me to comprehend how one could experience an inner monologue. That is... I guess I understand it, but I think my thoughts are too cluttered for it. Sort of a cloud from which I pick things out. My mind's eye is pretty weak as well, so that may have something to do with it. It's even hard for me to designate a speaking voice in my head if I try, such as when reading; though it becomes easier when I use a striking voice as a basis for it. I do at times experience barrages of thought or an involuntary fixation on ideas, but I don't think it's quite the same thing. Instead of a single voice speaking incessantly to me, it's more like a sensory avalanche rolling over me. Although, once I read everything in Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw's voice for a week. I'm still prone to it when I watch too much Zero Punctuation.
Per what I have experienced, my personal sort of monologue appears to be that of a conscious one - that is, one that may be controlled relatively well and with ease. I suppose it may permit a clearer development of my own thoughts, but that is to say I must simply be used to the factor of such an inside voice of thought. Thus, this conscious internal monologue is fuelled primarily through the factor of associate conscious decisions, observations, and whatnot. However, as a result of being generally controllable, it is not always present - certain times and factors may account for my personal thought being based upon memories or non-verbal concepts, an example being mathematical calculations.
Well i think to some degree we all do have an inner monologue. As im writing this, i can hear myself saying the words im typing then i hear a "second me saying yeah, to something i agree with, or no." I don't have any insomnia or other sorts of problems, i just think its the way we process information. we take things we think, hear and or write and process it with an "inner monologue." Especially when we are trying to think of something important and or what we're gonna say to someone.
