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How do you define an inner monologue? Thinking in sentences? An inner voice in your mind’s ear? A narrator that comments on actions?

On average, aphantasics report a reduced imagery in all other sensory modalities [1]. About 26 % report a complete lack of multi-sensory imagery (total aphantasia).

I have total aphantasia, but my inner experience is worded thinking [2], which Hurlburt defines as follows: “Worded thinking is the experience of thinking in particular distinct words, but those words are not being (innerly or externally) spoken, heard, seen, or voiced in any other way.” [2]

For me, this is an inner monologue, but it’s just silent.

[1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-cognitive-profile-of... [2] https://hurlburt.faculty.unlv.edu/codebook.html#target4