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As per title, I am curious. How does your mind / your thoughts work? I only ever experienced my own thoughts, so I'm curious how it works for other people.

I for one feel like my thoughts sometimes are like me talking to myself silently. Sometimes I can even let out a random short sound, which I've come to start disguising by laughing kinda quietly or coughing or whatever. Like it was part of something, and not like an inner monologue almost leaking out.

So, how do your thoughts work?

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[-] mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I hear my thoughts in monotone in English and sometimes Russia (my native language)[I am Ukrainian]{I speak Russian because I was born during the Soviet era}

I can see clear detailed images in my head but only in still frame.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I usually dont engage directly with my thoughts unless I am talking to myself out loud which I often do.

I think mostly on instinct, and rationalise/summarize my actions only if I have to.

It's a bit like waking up at night in a pitch black room and making your way to the toilet. You barely remember it the next morning, but if someone asks you about it you say "oh yeah maybe" and retrieve/fabricate a memory of you navigating around furniture in the dark (because you MUST have), but can't actually recall it.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago
[-] Ludrol@szmer.info 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My thoughts are like background noise that when I tune in my internal LLM it gets turned into coherent language(English and Polish). I have recently learned to switch off that LLM for a moment, and as a side effect I begun to have problems with verbal communication.

Edit: I also have a model that turns noise into 3d models and scenes

[-] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

I have an internal voice/monologue day-to-day but visual when engaging in recall.

Easiest way to describe it is when I read a novel it's all going in as words but if I think about a specific part later it's recalled as a picture my mind created out of the words. I read the book but recall the movie.

[-] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

For me it's often like watching a movie and lots of 3rd person monolologue as well as one wierd idea after the other popping up and going.

I often alao have interviews with myself how I just killed it in certaim situations and do play by play analysis from these events.

When in public settings I often play in my mind some wierd social games: where I try to find the mood of others and react to what they do (kinda like a dating sim).

I also like to go back to past events and analyse what I could have done better and memorize what to do in a future convo.

Since I speak more than one language my thoughts change languages. When I consume or produce in a certain language my brain is basically in that language and all my thoughts are in that language.

[-] stinky@redlemmy.com 1 points 1 week ago

schizophrenia here, my inner monologue is often conversational, like a string of words I'd speak to a person. and if I listen closely, I hear faintly a man or woman repeating the thought out loud, with emotion like confusion or contempt

[-] RedPostItNote@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
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[-] chunes@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

The same as everyone else's. The "differences" in the way people think can be ascribed to many things:

  • some people are describing active concentration
  • others are describing subconscious thinking
  • describing the way only some of their thoughts happen
  • not inferring what was said the way the speaker intended
  • etc et
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