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I can't turn off my internal voice at all, except in meditation, and even then it's difficult. I have to spend quite a lot of time where my internal voice is do

I can't turn off my internal voice at all, except in meditation, and even then it's difficult. I have to spend quite a lot of time where my internal voice is doing nothing but counting breaths, before eventually/sometimes, I can just observe the breaths without counting them. Otherwise, I have a continuous monologue, mostly in my own voice. I can think in images, but the images are never completely without narration.

Broken_Hippo 10y ago
This is soooo much me, except that I've never had it during meditation. This actually caused me some problems trying to learn to meditate - I can't grasp focusing on something if I can't have the internal vocalisation with it. I finally settled on making inner sounds along with monotonous drumming - the vocalisation will kinda tune out or get quieter, at least. Thanks for describing it for me, btw :) I have that monologue as well - complete along with your description of images. If I narrate them, they are much better.