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re: Do you have an inner dialogue?

Posted on 8/1/25 at 6:28 pm to
Posted by JodyPlauche
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2009
9757 posts
Posted on 8/1/25 at 6:28 pm to
Id, Ego, Super Ego!

Freud wrote about that years and Tom and Jerry made it popular.
Posted by LSUSkip
Central, LA
Member since Jul 2012
24717 posts
Posted on 8/1/25 at 6:35 pm to
Sometimes I talk to myself just so it will stop.
Posted by gizmothepug
Louisiana
Member since Apr 2015
8477 posts
Posted on 8/1/25 at 6:37 pm to
Talking to myself in my head? Yeah, all the time. I probably have more conversations with myself then I do with my own family.
Posted by Havoc
Member since Nov 2015
37156 posts
Posted on 8/1/25 at 6:41 pm to
Also my inner voice is often an outer voice if no one is around, and often a British accent.
Posted by hansenthered1
Dixie
Member since Nov 2023
2096 posts
Posted on 8/1/25 at 7:28 pm to
Nope, I run through life just pure reaction no thought process at all
Posted by white perch
the bright, happy side of hell
Member since Apr 2012
7559 posts
Posted on 8/1/25 at 7:35 pm to
How many of yall have more than one voice in your head?
Posted by Ed Osteen
Member since Oct 2007
58760 posts
Posted on 8/1/25 at 7:35 pm to
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I do to the point my wife accuses me of talking to myself sometimes.


My grandfather and my father both talk to themselves in their older age. It’s strange to see, it’s like they are having a silent argument with themselves. I’ve caught myself starting to do it sometimes so I guess it’s hereditary
Posted by pelicanpride
Houston
Member since Oct 2007
1661 posts
Posted on 8/1/25 at 7:40 pm to
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My wife cannot understand it. She can sleep anywhere anytime. Maybe she has little to no inner dialog while I live with a chatty arsehole in my head.


My husband can fall asleep in seconds, and it takes me forever. And I sort of think he might not have much of an internal dialogue going on. Sometimes, I’ll ask what he’s thinking about, and he’ll say “nothing.” For years, I thought he was lying to me because how can a person be thinking about nothing? But he’s always insisted that sometimes he is literally thinking nothing. Maybe I could think about nothing if that damn little voice would shut up.
Posted by bhtigerfan
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2008
32876 posts
Posted on 8/1/25 at 8:13 pm to
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Until this moment I didn’t realize there were people who don’t have an inner dialogue going on almost constantly.
Same here. I thought pretty much everyone but the severely mentally disabled did.

Who the frick doesn’t have inner dialogue?
Posted by bhtigerfan
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2008
32876 posts
Posted on 8/1/25 at 8:17 pm to
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One of my biggest social fears is that i unconsciously start verbalizing my inner dialogue in front of others without realizing it.
I’d be canceled, fired from my job, divorced by my wife, and disowned by my family.

My friends would probably be cool with it.
Posted by Traveler
I'm not late-I'm early for tomorrow
Member since Sep 2003
26064 posts
Posted on 8/1/25 at 8:18 pm to
I'm pretty sure anybody that has spent time on TD (esp the Rant) has had more than a few conversations with themselves about some of the stuff posters have contributed or admitted about themselves.
Posted by bhtigerfan
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2008
32876 posts
Posted on 8/1/25 at 8:19 pm to
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Mine sure as hell isn’t very politically correct.
I probably call at least 20 people a day “a fricking retard” in my mind.

And my inner dialogue has been known to use the N word with the hard R.
This post was edited on 8/1/25 at 8:21 pm
Posted by bhtigerfan
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2008
32876 posts
Posted on 8/1/25 at 8:22 pm to
Everyone has to have some inner dialogue. How can anyone accomplish any task without it?

Posted by bhtigerfan
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2008
32876 posts
Posted on 8/1/25 at 8:28 pm to
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You think that's bad, mine rhymes
Oh we know this.
Posted by bhtigerfan
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2008
32876 posts
Posted on 8/1/25 at 8:40 pm to
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I also have a song in my head every second of every day, which I have been told is not necessarily normal
Same here sometimes.

Last week for like 3 days I couldn’t get Pearl Jam’s Yellow Leadbetter out of my head. Even trying to sleep.
Posted by When in Rome
Telegraph Road
Member since Jan 2011
36145 posts
Posted on 8/1/25 at 8:45 pm to
I think mine is different than simply getting a song stuck for a few days. Mine's just constantly playing songs in the background like a radio station. Yes, certain songs get stuck, but if one finally goes away, the next one replaces it. Luckily it's usually songs I tend to like. But I have almost no control over which song starts "playing" unless I make an active decision to start singing a new song to myself. It is weird to wake up or tune in and catch the song midway through and wonder how long that's been playing before I caught on.
Posted by Nevada_Tiger
Las Veags
Member since Jan 2025
277 posts
Posted on 8/1/25 at 8:53 pm to
This thread reminded me of a video I saw years ago - a child voicing her inner dialogue through her Barbie doll. It’s kinda cute

YouTube
Posted by CCT
LA
Member since Dec 2006
6780 posts
Posted on 8/1/25 at 9:45 pm to
I feel schizophrenic after singing along with this.

Posted by Kingshakabooboo
Member since Nov 2012
1408 posts
Posted on 8/1/25 at 10:49 pm to
I don’t think I do but as usual this voice in my head keeps telling me I wrong and don’t know what the hell I’m talking about.
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