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Aren't most non-adhders also having constant conversations in their heads
mine isn't conversation, it's music. if there isn't audible music my brain makes some, usually with a beat pretty in line with my pulse.
My music varies. Sometimes it’s music I’ve heard recently on loop, sometimes it’s music my brain came up with, but a lot of times it’s in the background. At times I don’t even notice the music is there until I realize I’ve been playing the King George songs from Hamilton on a loop for a couple of weeks. Either that or I’ll start focusing in on something external and start humming what’s in my head without realizing it. Right now, it’s Foxy Brown’s “Oh Lord” on muddled repeat. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Dont know if it's an ADHD thing, but I have that. What's weird is I eventually realized that the soundtrack is talking/reflecting back to me about what's going on in my life.
Love when a random song pops in my head and I have no idea why until it get to the lyrics that are extremely relevant to whatever's going on at the moment. It's eerie as hell, though.
Exactly that experience! Gives.credence to the notion that we are a multiplicity
It's estimated that about 50-75% of people don't have an internal monologue at all.
That explains the state of the society I guess
Not necessarily
It was a tongue in cheek joke.
because they just talk to themselves out loud, right?
Apoarently they can decide to, like, just not have it right now. Like some damn wizards.
The fuck?
They have thinking layers, the conductor layer can tell everyone else to wait their turn when trying to coordinate a symphony. ADHD typically either has no conductor or the conductor has no arms. Or random sections have weapons grade sonar as instruments.
Edit: Neurotypicals have a conductor that still needs to be trained
Non-adhder here. Not constant conversations, no. And not unbidden. I do have conversations in my head, and sometimes they provide answers that weren't readily available to my conscious mind. But I often have "silence" in my mind. When I'm tired enough, that's "no noticeable activity" or "just the steps required to do whatever the immediate activity." Other times it's a song or a "movie" or plans for what I'm doing later.
I have no silence unless intoxicated or in flow state on something that dose not need words. Best I can manage normally is idle narration and planning. If one voice in my head is not enough to process a concept, simulate a conversation, or ruin my day, more NPCs get added to the thought.
So you can have more voices? How does that sound like? It's like a debate or every voice talk one above the other?
God I wanna be like you, or at least have my brain be a little more like your brain.
As a non-adhd dude, i talk in my head, i have monologues in my head and i "simulate" conversations in my head too, i do the same thing while i write and when i walk in silence i just start a big monologue or i look around commenting things in my head.
I think i can stop that but i always start to talk again in my head so idk, i should see if i get silence at a certain point
Are they? I would really like to know.
Anecdotally in my own life, no.
Some people around me seemed to start to understand better when I told them this asshole in my head starts talking the moment I open my eyes and he doesn't shut the fuck up! I get no peace! It's really how it feels.