do you "speak" inside of your head?

[INTP]

i was wondering if this is IXXP or P type related. personally i do this, my infp friend does this and i know other intp who also does this, but my intj friend doesent do it(he says its not efficient thinking ). i havent asked other people, so i decided ill ask you guys.

 

[Little Linguist]

Yep.

 

[entropie]

Yes often but if you would translate head to real world 1:1 it would be more a huge mixture of words, pictures, sounds and numbers in my head for me.

That's why I have difficulties speaking in general and I am always mixing words and things up. Only intense focus on the words I want to say, meaning formulating the sentences in your head in advance, or taking time before you answer does help me to speak clearly.

Nevertheless conveying to others what I think about certain things, never really works 100%. I like to let my work speak for itself.

 

[Moiety]

Nope. But I sometimes talk out loud to myself.

 

[Oaky]

I don't speak to myself inside my head. I visualise more.

 

[Moiety]

I visualise more.

Yeah that's me too.

 

[Ulaes]

i was wondering if this is IXXP or P type related. personally i do this, my infp friend does this and i know other intp who also does this, but my intj friend doesent do it(he says its not efficient thinking ). i havent asked other people, so i decided ill ask you guys.

can you describe it? is it slow or fast? are the thoughts easily interupted by outside noise? etc.
i heard an enlgish teacher say how he thinks at least 1000 words a second or minute or something. that's probably a very typical type of thinking for an enlgish teacher, you know, verbal and auditory. those guys never do shut up.

i think in vivid unsequenced movies, kinda. very, very visual, unstructured and wholisitic. i sense mathematical relationships between things. i don't use words. i struggle to turn my thoughts into words. it's a very slow kind of thinking that is interupted by talking and other noises.

i wouldn't say it's type related at all. i don't see the connection.

 

[Red Herring]

Yupp,

related to this:http://www.typologycentral.com/forums/nf-idyllic/32390-am-i-only-one-having-imaginary-conversations.html#post1217801

 

[animenagai]

Yes, I speak to myself heaps, both internally and externally.

 

[William K]

No, I don't

Yes, you do!

Really?

I agree with the first voice

 

[Ingrid in grids]

I don't. It's all too fast and fluid for any running commentary! I think if I had to pick some kind of 'medium' for my thoughts... it would be something with figures, movements and waves of emotions. That's the best that I can do to describe it...

 

[Qlip]

I babble in my head, and there are lots of abstract shapes and textures floating around there. I speak in my head when I'm actually trying to focus my thoughts.

 

[Oaky]

Funny, there are many more people here who disagree with having the inner monologue than on this thread:
http://www.typologycentral.com/foru...45-do-you-have-inner-monologue-what-like.html

 

[Glycerine]

It's a combination of that and speaking out loud. I usually say something in my head and verbalize tidbits out loud.

 

[angelhair45]

Lately I speak inside my head a lot more, as I've been analyzing my thought processes. My mind is filled with lots of things and usually has a few 'trains of thought' going at a time. Some are random words and sounds, some are more complete thoughts and sentences, and some conversations. I have images going though my brain during this also. Many times this is all at once, but other times I control the flow of thoughts to focus or because I need some quiet etc.

 

[Trentham]

Yes. I'd estimate at least 90% of my conscious thought processes occur this way.

 

[Ingrid in grids]

Funny, there are many more people here who disagree with having the inner monologue than on this thread:
http://www.typologycentral.com/foru...45-do-you-have-inner-monologue-what-like.html

Hm, that is interesting... "No, I'm all alone in my head"? So conversation = company? I feel at ease when I have company who can sit with me in silence.

 

[Einnas]

I am the only one I can have a real conversation with, so of course I do!

 

[Salomé]

Constantly.
I wish I could make the fucker shut up.

 

[Lady_X]

I don't talk to myself..I'm just talking normal style in my head the same as I would outloud it sounds exactly the same..except I don't talk outloud a whole lot but inside there it's constant chatter.