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I do have an internal monologue. I can also think in pictures and I can also think in terms of neither, just pure raw thought. I would say most people are like

I do have an internal monologue. I can also think in pictures and I can also think in terms of neither, just pure raw thought. I would say most people are like me. They have 3 modes of thinking and they probably have a primary mode which they favor. I favor none and go into all 3 depending on whether I’m reading, writing or doing something else. The second bigger group has only one primary mode of thinking. The internal monologue. They can only think in terms of an inner voice and this inner voice is so powerful I often encountered people who think this inner voice is the definition of thought. They assumed thinking was COT. The even rarer versions you get people who assign colors to numbers or people who can’t even perceive to think in pictures. You’re the first person I’ve encountered who can’t even have an internal monologue.

idiotsecant 2y ago
I think you'd be surprised. I never knew that internal monologues were a thing until there was a HN thread about it and a lot of people had them and a lot of people didn't. I always thought it was something that we did in TV shows or books to give you a sense of what a character was feeling, I didn't know this was an actual literal experience people had. I can certainly have an internal monologue, in the way that you could put on a puppet show. I can conciously think to myself 'self, this is self. Clean your car out' I can form the feeling of those words in my head. But there's nobody 'saying' them if that makes sense. I'm playing back a design of my conscious self.