• CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    this is where i get stuck trying to define/decide what exactly we’re talking about here.

    when I “read”, I can imagine the way the words sound, but i’m just reading, its not a conversation some person in my head is having.

    If i can imagine a sentence in my head - is that inner voice?

    if i can pretend to argue with myself, is that it? or does it have to be like someone stuck in there?

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      10 months ago

      If i can imagine a sentence in my head - is that inner voice?

      I think that’s the basic idea of an inner voice.

      For me it just doesn’t stop, like it’s just a constant flow of thoughts and sentences, sometimes for no reason at all it’ll rehash a conversation from a year or so ago and just get stuck on a loop until I can distract it.

      It’s not always negative tho, sometimes it will stay good things, but it’s just frustrating because I have a really hard time concentrating on conversations because one random word will trigger it to go on a tangent.

      I kinda think it’s the subconscious leaking into the conscious.