TIL that ~50% of the population don't have an internal monologue. That voice inside your head that's reading this.

Mom come pick me up, I'm scared.

No freaking way!

Freaked me out too. How do people without it know what they are going to do?!!

I bet they sleep easier though

98% of my thoughts are completely abstract with no monologue at all.

I've had this discussion with several people and it always blows their mind.

@BobbyTables you don‘t hear an inner voice when reading text?

@BobbyTables but if you can't argue with yourself, how can you ever self-loath like the rest of us??

@Lensflare Nope. Makes it hard to read anything other than text books.

@BobbyTables even though the inner voice slows down the reading speed, it’s super hard to turn it off. I’ve read that you can train yourself to do it.

@Lensflare I've tried turning off my inner dialogue when I'm thinking as the reason is. "If I already know what I'm thinking, why do I need to hear it i my head to completion?" Not only was it hard, it was mentally exhausting.

@Lensflare mine is often Australian. I'm not Australian. I have no relatives in Australia. I've never been to Australia.

So does this mean people without internal monologue cannot reproduce music and sounds in their head either? I always wanted to create a way to play back the sound effects and music I can hear in my head.

@Demolishun I can hear music in my head quite clearly.

@BobbyTables so you have a music player, just not a text to speech engine. Interesting. Is this like Apple not adopting tech other people use?

@Demolishun I can replay a song in my head without knowing lyrics. Very weird

On the subject: I need the inner voice to type and read. I think it slows me down - I'm a slow reader but I remember very well what I've read

I find it strange, I have an inner monologue when reading, but when I'm thinking about code, its 100% in abstractions. not visual, nor audio, just a sort of 'knowing'.

Feels like thinking in variables and operations and transformations over those variables. Like lightbulb moments without three surprise, flowing from each other one after another.

@Wisecrack same here but I don’t find it strange at all. We don’t read code like we read human language text.

You can get a good understanding of the text by hearing someone else reading it loud.

And that’s not true for code.

@Wisecrack same here

@Demolishun like Lobo's micro-radio

@retoor I can do the song replay thing too but it's always at 400% speed to the original and have to focus to slow it down.

I do a lot of singing so I guess it makes sense that my head is ahead (*drum bap 🥁*) of my voice so I know where I'm going

@MammaNeedHummus No wonder you're a software developer

@ojt-rant fuck I wish I could multiple up-vote this 😂

@ojt-rant thanks. That made my inner voice chuckle