Do you have an inner monologue?

Do you have an inner monologue?
Do you make internal observations about the world around you when not focused on a task or talking to someone else? Do you think in words or pictures? Do you have a "mind's eye"?
If you were to imagine a glass of ice water in your mind's eye, can you spin it around and look at it from all angles? Can you pick it up and feel the wetness from condensation on the glass in your hand? Can you hear the soft clinking of the ice cubes as you raise the glass to your lips and take a sip? Can you feel the cool, refreshing liquid wash across your tongue and down your throat as you swallow?

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Mine is too fucking much.

I literally imagine scenarios and situations im going to be in not just days, but months, or even years before im in them.

When my sister got engaged I spent 2 fucking years wondering what im going to do at her wedding and I just kept running simulations of me at her wedding in my head on an almost daily basis for 2 years.

The only thing I can describe this as being, is like those google maps things that tries to find you the fastest route to your destination and calculates all the different ways to get there, obviously thats a super computer doing 1000000 calculations/scenarios a second but you get my point.

I dont think the human brain was meant to think this way, Ive been this way since my first memories. Living this way is extremely draining and Im tired from it.

>that moment you realize your entire life has been spent imagining conversations and relationships that never happened
>have this feeling like you have a deep connection to certain people because of the way your mind has fixated on them but in real life they have never spoken to you and don't even know your name
>your fantasies feel like the actual way your life was supposed to play out while real life is a nightmare alternate timeline where none of the conversations and friendships you made ever happened because you never said anything

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>If you were to imagine a glass of ice water in your mind's eye, can you spin it around and look at it from all angles? Can you pick it up and feel the wetness from condensation on the glass in your hand? Can you hear the soft clinking of the ice cubes as you raise the glass to your lips and take a sip? Can you feel the cool, refreshing liquid wash across your tongue and down your throat as you swallow?
cringing
everyone can do this

I know this feel. I don't want to know it... But I do.

>Do you have a "mind's eye"?
If you were to imagine a glass of ice water in your mind's eye, can you spin it around and look at it from all angles? Can you pick it up and feel the wetness from condensation on the glass in your hand? Can you hear the soft clinking of the ice cubes as you raise the glass to your lips and take a sip? Can you feel the cool, refreshing liquid wash across your tongue and down your throat as you swallow?
This isn't what internal monologue is, you npc. Literally anyone who isn't mentally handicapped can do this.

My imagination is extremely vivid. I can pretty much make a new world, put myself in said world, give the world laws according to what I want to experience (magic, sci-fi, supernatural, etc.) and then I go to town. I use it to meditate and get to sleep, since my mind is never quiet. I always have at least ten thoughts inside at any one time.

Yea, I didn't know it was a "thing" until recently. I plan out situations in my head that are farfetched, try and figure out what to say in conversations, and sometimes I end up muttering out loud to myself. I imagine myself as different people talking to each other sometimes, not sure if that falls under "inner monologue" but whatever. Sometimes its a little overwhelming and probably the root of my social issues since it makes a lot stuff manual and conscious and it leads to over thinking
Maybe it's kinda dumb but I always have some sort of background music playing in my head too. Sometimes it's nice, most times it's annoying
I wonder how it works
I have that "mind's eye" shit, I once tried to explain it to a teacher and she thought I was dumb

I don't have a mind's eye but do have an internal monologue. If I close my eyes I don't visually see an object.

Everyone can do those things. This npc meme is just dumb.
The thing with thinking in words or in pictures is similar to when some people read a text and they "say" the text in their heads and those who just read it. The latter way plays a large part in speed reading.
Although some people might have some defects in their brain which cause something. I knew a guy who couldn't internalize any music. Like he couldn't hum or even play it in his head just after hearing a song.

>spin the glass from all angles
>the water dumps out
>imagination has a wet spot now

not joking, if you spill the water does that mean you're an NPC?

When I close my eyes or just concentrate with open eyes, I can see a stream of neverending images, all moving at once and morphing into each other. I can direct this stream into something more shaped or just leave it at random, in which case I can just watch and enjoy. It's usually incredibly complex series of real life and imagined things that move way too fast to be described or depicted consciously, for example I can see a set of complex clockwork gears that I consciously can't describe or draw, or fractals that morph into each other, or landscapes that change constantly, that sort of thing.

Is this normal?

exactly what an npc would say

You don't literally see it in your vision, you just infer that the image you are generating is there. Since it's basically just your brain self-activating visual processing centers without outside stimulus, it's like looking away at what's in front of your eyes to a different screen at a video feed of a little pocket dimension that you can change at will.

>Do you have an inner monologue?
Not that much on normal situations, I can kinda "turn it on", if I'm thinking about some situation where I have to speak.
>Do you make internal observations about the world around you when not focused on a task or talking to someone else?
Depends on what I'm doing. When I'm not focused, I usually just daydream and get lost in my thoughts. If I'm talking, I'm usually pretty focused on that.
>Do you think in words or pictures? Do you have a "mind's eye"?
Concepts. I'm not that good at visualizing things in mind. Words happen sometimes but not that much.
>If you were to imagine a glass of ice water in your mind's eye, can you spin it around and look at it from all angles?
Somewhat yeah, not the most accurate picture though.
>Can you pick it up and feel the wetness from condensation on the glass in your hand?
Well, I don't think anyone can really feel" it, it's more like a vague memory.
>Can you hear the soft clinking of the ice cubes as you raise the glass to your lips and take a sip?
Like before, they are vague memories.
>Can you feel the cool, refreshing liquid wash across your tongue and down your throat as you swallow?
Vague memories here too.

>...when some people read a text and they "say" the text in their heads and those who just read it. The latter way plays a large part in speed reading.
I default to the later, but the first way is kinda useful for doing poetry or if you're writing a speech.

The only thing I can't do in my mind is create smells. But I heard that the olfactory bulb in your brain is the one of the few regions in your brain that can generate neurons so it's possible to train it.

I have an inner monologue but it just tells me what a piece of shit I am 24/7. Also,
>paypal me
Everyone at my school uses 'venmo' and I'm just like wtf is that.

>when you comfort yourself by believing that once you die, you'll get reincarnated into someone else and live a more happy and fullfilling life; but you're also too much of a pussy to kill yourself because you're scared that you might be wrong about reincarnation and that there is nothing but eternal void and darkness after death, so you grind your teeth and endure a thankless life you never asked for

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Similar to this Mine is way too much
I daydream about worlds and stories I create
I create imaginary conversations with myself and act like its someone I know
I constantly overthink things and plan what I'm going to be doing tomorrow, the next day, the next week, the next month, the next year, what I'll say, how the scenario will go, what I'll do if it goes bad etc.

honestly I can't get it to shut up. I sometimes worry that I might have a psychotic disorder, but i've brought it up before and im still just autistic with a big imagination.

it just fucking annoys me, hearing this one voice just speaking every tiny little thing that it thinks of. god i wish it would shut up

I don't think much at all to be honest, unless I have to figure something out. But I can imagine sensations and tastes very well to the point where it's just like real life.