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this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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I dont think I have an inner monologue. I think in words only when imagining a conversation, or in this case, writing this comment. Otherwise I think in ...images maybe?
That's wild! I can't imagine having thoughts without an inner monologue. I often wonder how animals think without language and it seems so limited and alien to me. It's just unimaginable.
Maybe language is what's limiting you.
No inner monologue or images here. I just feel it usually. Like the person you’re responding to I’ll sometimes say things in my head like when going over something I’m actually going to say; but it’d be inefficient to do that for everything. I can think much faster without words.
It’s more like ‘hm yeh …and then ’
I'm with @anguo, while if I have to express something I will have inner monolog, but day to day it is thought in concepts. I find it especially concepy space when doing engineering work, it will be 3D virtual world of structures and forces (for lack of a better term) along with thought process of the problems, but there is no language to it