Do you have a narrator inside your head?

[Lyndsielee666]

Apparently only 25% of people do so I’m curious

[Lliam]

When I do, it's humorously and is usually inspired by imagery from a movie, TV or sports. It can be fun.

"He shoots! He scores! The crowd goes wild!"

"My glass of scotch and I were minding our own business when she prowled up like a tigress. Top of the food chain. Her green eyes and red hair looked lethal. Even standing still she seemed to undulate. Her legs went all the way up to Heaven. I was pretty sure those weren't guns she was aiming at me, but I still had to resist the instinct to raise my hands."

Theme songs also come to mind in certain situations.

[ZackBan]

Well subconscious has a voice of it's own and we can have full conversations sometimes.
It actually acts as an alter ego because it brings up the things I normally try to avoid thinking about.
On occasions I have let it take control in a manner where I obey what it's suggesting agaisnt my better judgment, hasn't lead me astray so far.

[CrazyGirl2]

Yes, it’s called your “internal monologue”, and I don’t know about 25% where did you get that number from? Everyone is supposed to have an internal monologue!

[Lyndsielee666]

See I thought that also but my boyfriend told me he didn’t have one so I’ve been googling 😂 asked my grandpa that’s a doctor and apparently a lot of people don’t have one

[CrazyGirl2]

Well, who am I to argue with your Grandfather? But, I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t have an internal monologue, I’m sure it’s possible that a mental illness could cause someone to not have an internal monologue, but you can’t just pull statistics out of thin air. There is a huge difference between your grandpa telling you some people may not have one, and you asserting that 75% of all humans don’t have one! You might want to cite a source for your clam that 3/4 of all humanity does not have an internal monologue. I did find a professor of psychology at the University of Nevada Russell T Hurlburt who asserted that up to 75% of people do not have an internal monologue, (perhaps this is where you got the 75% number) but his methodology has been widely criticized because he based his findings on peoples ability to recall what the were thinking BEFORE a random “beep” would sound. As he failed to take into consideration the subject’s concentration at the time, or their memory state at the time, or why the memory before the beep be considered so important that the brain recorded it to long term memory, his theories were not exactly dismissed, but it was recommended that functional MRI and EEG (electroencephalogram ) be part of any revised study. Thus there would be more than mere subjective opinions, and more concrete objective evidence to back-up his claims. The only other datasets I could find on this were based on on-line polls (which are never scientific).

[Espresso-Grande]

I do. Moreso when i'm trying to work out what to do in a dilemma or particular situation and during self-reflection.

[Account]

Yes, I do. Especially when I have to force myself to do something.

[weysally]

what's a narrator?

[ChrisMaster69]

Yes and no.

mine is locked up in a room and I hold the key.

pretty much silenced

[electromagnetic]

I talk out loud to myself. A lot now that I think about it.

[Leavesbound]

I thought I was the only one.

[Bellatris]

25 percent? That can't be right. It would have to be more like 90% surely. I simply cannot imagine being without the "narrator", because I've been this way my whole life, and cannot comprehend the silence the other 75% (apparently) endure.

[normalice]

I have an entire orchestra, but no "voice".

[Jean-Marie_Céline]

Uhm, I had never thought of that honestly, good question!
I guess that at times I do hear a narrative voice!

[Jjpayne]

I do that sometimes, mostly I just talk outloud to myself 😅

[likelyOK]

Yes it’s me

[Tunasub]

Would you mind telling me what you say to yourself?

[Daviddd5412]

No I don't think so. I have a voice in my head but it's usually just saying a bunch of dumb stuff 😅

[InfobotLives]

Yeah, she has your voice 👀

[Lyndsielee666]

Bad robot 😭😭

[Wowie101]

That i do 5 of them...

[Kaneki05]

i didn't know that was thing as normally mentally well?
Thought that was stuff like shizo. And no i guess i don't.

[sean1234]

🤔 Sounds like those people are possessed by demons.

[Sevenpointfive]

i know i don't have an editor 😎

[Coulis]

Oh absolutely!

[MikeTheBartender]

I thought it was 100

[exitseven]

Yes, only sometimes but yes I hear myself telling me what I am doing

[bowenw]

Yes and also a DJ that plays songs that fit the situation.