@ElyseMGrasso Yeah perhaps monologue is a better term in hindsight.

@KanaMauna I am realising that as well. This requires more options or a multiple of polls.

Very interesting how minds work!

@ElyseMGrasso So is it a combination of things or... No inner dialogue at all?

@cks I know right? But apparently they can and my brain can't comprehend how

@mayintoronto @abhayakara

@mayintoronto @cks This reads like aphantasia to me, to be honest.

@banneduser Yeah I can imagine that sucks

@NicksWorld This is so intriguing that a blind person can have a mind's eye, but my mind's eye is blind.

The mind and body work in mysterious ways, eh

@spiegelmama

@spiegelmama @NicksWorld This is so fascinating to me. Curious to know if you have always been blind. (I don't need an answer if you don't feel comfortable sharing)

@spiegelmama @NicksWorld No mind's eye. No ability "see things in your head". We do have an imagination, just not visually/graphically.

@falcennial Yeah it's an interesting "affliction"! I first read about it a decade ago, blissfully unaware it was a thing. The author of the article also thought that "too see it in ones mind" was a figure of speech and not a real thing

I struggle reading books because of it. It really takes a toll to try and make sense of descriptions of environments, I just skip them but later they seemed crucial to the plot and it flies all over my head. I can read manuals and historic annals just fine.

@mayintoronto @ruben For me thoughts become words when typing or writing. That's why I really like typing on a computer! I can easily rephrase or add clarity as I struggle to do that in my mind before actually writing

@wynke Thank you, interesting.

That last parapraph describes exactly how it is for me (but interestingly, at this time, zero people have chosen the "aphantasia with inner dialogue being just vibes"-option, but it's early days)

For me, visual memories, like peoples faces are also stored in an abstract manner and they fade away really fast. Of course, I do recognize people, but I can't see them in a "minds eye", so I like to have pictures of people close to me.

There might not be a relationship /at all/ or, probably, any relationship is purely coincidence but who can blame a dude for being curious

So I just read something and that makes me wonder...

Do people with aphantasia (like myself) more often have an inner dialogue that is "speech-like", you know actually speaking words in a language

Or (like me), more often just "vibes" and their inner thoughts only becomes language once these need to be expressed

(I also added the options for people who have no aphantasia [have phantasia I guess] so we can compare results )

Boosting is appreciated ️

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