> Other people need someone else to provide that dialogue; I imagine them as having an inner monologue, but I can't see inside their minds. One of the most su

> Other people need someone else to provide that dialogue; I imagine them as having an inner monologue, but I can't see inside their minds. One of the most surprising realisations of my life was reading that a portion of the population don't have an inner dialogue. The constant stream of verbiage that the voice inside my head uses to articulate my experiences seems such a fundamental part of consciousness that I struggle to picture life without it. I wonder how much, if at all, that phenomenon contributes to the personality of people who think out loud.