I Can’t Stop Thinking About How Not Everyone Has An Internal Monologue

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If you have an internal monologue, you’d likely be shocked to hear that some people just… don’t. 

Wild, I know. But some people just don’t have a voice inside their heads that they hear when they think.

Personally, I hear every thought in my brain as if I’m saying it out loud, so it is mind blowing to me that some people do not. Every single sentence I say on a daily basis is played in my head like an audio file before I actually say it out loud. But this isn’t the case for everyone.

I genuinely do not understand how anyone thinks without hearing their voice. Do they see words as if they’re reading a book? Or do they just have abstract thoughts that don’t directly translate to thoughts? I don’t fucking understand.

It’s sheer madness, and thanks to a viral article by Ryan Andrew Langdon, the Internet is just realising that not everyone has an internal monologue.

Prompted by a tweet by @kyleplantemoji, Langdon fell down a rabbit hole of trying to comprehend people who don’t experience the phenomenon that is an internal monologue.