As per title, I am curious. How does your mind / your thoughts work? I only ever experienced my own thoughts, so I’m curious how it works for other people.

I for one feel like my thoughts sometimes are like me talking to myself silently. Sometimes I can even let out a random short sound, which I’ve come to start disguising by laughing kinda quietly or coughing or whatever. Like it was part of something, and not like an inner monologue almost leaking out.

So, how do your thoughts work?

  • Today@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I have no sound, voice, or pictures in my head. I didn’t know that other people did see/hear things until a couple of years ago. Thoughts just come in chunks.

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      9 hours ago

      Me to. It’s called Aphantasia (no minds eye, so some or no pics) and Anendophasia (No inner voice). For me my thoughts are “just there” almost impossible to explain.

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        3 hours ago

        I couldn’t understand what it’s like for people who actually see and hear things in their heads. I recently realized that I sometimes experience a faint taste and I guess it’s sort of like that?

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          3 hours ago

          I can taste food ok. Too ok, I seem to be some sort of super taster. Everything is to overpowering.

          It scares me to think you could have pictures or movies in your head that you may not wish to have.

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        9 hours ago

        The way I explain it is: when you read, you don’t read the words aloud in your head. You look at them and register their meaning. My thoughts are just those meanings. Usually in larger chunks than single words though. They don’t have a language. I can ‘picture’ sounds I’ve heard before though, like getting a song stuck in my head. That one’s more difficult with pictures.

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          3 hours ago

          When I get a song stuck (which happens constantly) I don’t hear it; I just have the unrelenting urge to sing it.

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            4 hours ago

            Same. And depending on what I’m reading I’ll sometimes use a specific voice…

            Like if I’m reading a text from a friend I’ll “hear” it in their voice. Or I’ll make up voices for characters in a novel.

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        9 hours ago

        Interesting, hadn’t heard the term “anendophasia” before. I don’t have an inner voice either except when reading or writing. No aphantasia though.