I'm not entirely sure if I have a full internal monologue or not. I think in words, and it feels like I'm talking, just silently when I do. It's a voice but it doesn't really have a sound, if that makes sense.
Unlike what some people have described, my mother in particular, for the most part it's not something that I can't control. It's not a narrator describing what I'm doing or thinking, and aside from the occasional Ear Worm I'm more or less in control and can shut it off when I want to not think.
In the vein of the narrator describing your actions, how does that work for other people? For instance, right now I don't have a voice 'saying' "You're typing at the computer", or "There I was, typing a reply to the DW forums...". I'm thinking about what I want to write, but not about the act of writing it.
As another example/question, when I'm cooking, I'll ask myself things like, "how much onion did this recipe call for", or "how fine should it be chopped", but my inner voice doesn't say things like "pick up the onion, put it on the cutting board and..." Those sort of things just happen, because I know I need to do them. Is that what other people experience?
With regards to writing, I will have dialogs between characters in my head, butI usually start off by drawing something, characters most often, to get an idea of what they look like. I'll also imagine what the scene will look like; the blocking, the angles and lighting... and maybe scribble out rough sketches of key things or moments. But weirdly enough I don't always see fully realized images in my head, just, I guess impressions would be the best word to describe it and I often have to draw things to work out what they actually look like... and then know when I haven't gotten it right. Actual things I have a better time picturing and actually 'seeing' something though.
It's weird, I 'hear' a voice that doesn't have a sound and I picture images that I often can't 'see'.
Unlike what some people have described, my mother in particular, for the most part it's not something that I can't control. It's not a narrator describing what I'm doing or thinking, and aside from the occasional Ear Worm I'm more or less in control and can shut it off when I want to not think.
In the vein of the narrator describing your actions, how does that work for other people? For instance, right now I don't have a voice 'saying' "You're typing at the computer", or "There I was, typing a reply to the DW forums...". I'm thinking about what I want to write, but not about the act of writing it.
As another example/question, when I'm cooking, I'll ask myself things like, "how much onion did this recipe call for", or "how fine should it be chopped", but my inner voice doesn't say things like "pick up the onion, put it on the cutting board and..." Those sort of things just happen, because I know I need to do them. Is that what other people experience?
With regards to writing, I will have dialogs between characters in my head, butI usually start off by drawing something, characters most often, to get an idea of what they look like. I'll also imagine what the scene will look like; the blocking, the angles and lighting... and maybe scribble out rough sketches of key things or moments. But weirdly enough I don't always see fully realized images in my head, just, I guess impressions would be the best word to describe it and I often have to draw things to work out what they actually look like... and then know when I haven't gotten it right. Actual things I have a better time picturing and actually 'seeing' something though.
It's weird, I 'hear' a voice that doesn't have a sound and I picture images that I often can't 'see'.
The Roman Rule: The one who says it cannot be done should
never interrupt the one who is doing it.
-- BSD fortune file
never interrupt the one who is doing it.
-- BSD fortune file