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I often think of something in a way that is not a voice but more a compressed idea, then a subsecond later my inner monologue says this to me and as it's doing
by branchless 9y ago
I often think of something in a way that is not a voice but more a compressed idea, then a subsecond later my inner monologue says this to me and as it's doing it I think "you are wasting your time inner monologue I know what you are going to say" yet never manage to suppress it before it is done. I hope that does not sound too mad.
- ajnin 9y agoI have the same feeling, it makes me feel better to know I'm not alone in madness ;) I have a reminiscence of a time when that did not occur, when I was a small child ideas would not be followed by the inner monologue. I guess that's a trade off : verbalising ideas help to flesh them out and detect inconsistencies but it comes at a price of inefficiency.
- catshirt 9y agothe other price is creativity. some ideas don't translate well- or can't translate to English. when logic and language becomes your core cognitive filtering mechanism, you start filtering "nonsense", as defined within the formal constraints of logic and language.
- branchless 9y agoYes I think as a child I was more instinctive, the wall between my subconscious and conscious was more permeable. Now everything has to be handed to the go-between that is my monologue and into the conscious. This is why I love playing soccer. You just allow your brain to express its ideas physically, there is no time for intermediation.
- daveguy 9y agoAre either or both of you multi-lingual?
- branchless 9y agoI'm learning french but experienced this before then.