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by TeMPOraL 1979 days ago
Makes me wish somebody would do a study of all these facets simultaneously and put the answers on a scatterplot.

For me, it is:

- 1-2 / 6 on the "mind's eye" scale

- perfectly working internal monologue; almost all of my conscious thinking involves me "hearing" sentences in my head (I don't experience actual auditory stimulus, but I can "hear" the words, the cadence, and sometimes even tone)

- good trivia/history memory

- bad situational memory, bad memory for people's names

- I can only recognize faces of people with whom I dealt for prolonged periods of time

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> perfectly working internal monologue; almost all of my conscious thinking involves me "hearing" sentences in my head (I don't experience actual auditory stimulus, but I can "hear" the words, the cadence, and sometimes even tone

Do you feel like it's always "you" who is actively saying the monologue, or is it being "dictated" from the outside, you are listening but not saying it internally? Perhaps by an imaginary friend, Jesus, aliens, gods, buddhas, whatever?

It's always just me. I never had an imaginary friend. I never felt a different entity speaking in my head. It's always my own voice in my head saying things or conversing with itself.