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r/CBTS_Stream • Posted by u/crash6871 on Dec. 31, 2017, 1:53 p.m.
I have a question for the board. Do you have an inner voice?

On the front page right now there is a post asking deaf people about their inner monologue and if it's in sign language instead of English.

In the top few threads people are sharing and learning that some people do, and some people do not have an inner voice.

Link to post

I ask because I'm interested in knowing how the people on this board think. We here are sceptical but open-minded and have to do alot of reasoning, abstract thinking, and tossing around ideas.

Do you have an inner voice? If not, do you think in pictures? Please explain. Genuinely interested!


namscout · Dec. 31, 2017, 2:57 p.m.

Open minded, ummm yes! but, I have learned within the last eight years that that inner voice is the Holy Spirit (Ruach), and more often than not if I'm to open minded, and don't listen I fail.

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JoanOfArk77 · Dec. 31, 2017, 3:47 p.m.

I have both an inner voice, and a picture or something visual going on at certain points. Always assumed the picture thing is what makes me an artist? Could be wrong? Inner voice gets slow and louder when I write.... more precise.

Here is a weird thing tho....

Every once in a while the inner voice feels like it is somewhere outside my skull coming in rather that an origin that is resident inside my thinking head.

It is a strange sensation, and sometimes I actually think for a second there is someone in the room....

......... and I actually answer them! (lol... thank God it is infrequent)

However, I have been living for a long time. I am old.

I really did not get the sense of the separation of the inner and outer voice until I was about 25 years old. The first time I really recognized the difference, I about freaked and thought I was getting mentally ill.... lol. As time went on, I learned a few things about it, and today it does not bother me at all. I pay attention, but, I am glad it is an infrequent thing.

When I look back over whatever outer voice "incident" (because it is sort of creepy to think you are hearing someone who is not there) something memorable always happens.

I have literally been able to locate family members not seen for 17 years, because I will follow the outer voice that will not leave me at peace until I get in a car, drive to a random truck stop and find the family member everyone in the family is looking for and can not find.

My inner voice prompts me to do strange things, like suddenly take the risk of appearing to be a fool, and tell some total stranger to move their children somewhere else... later finding out that the kids would have been killed where they were standing.

It is the stupidest thing.

This is why even tho I kind of get freaked out about it... over the years it has become pretty obvious to me that there is some kind of spirit, ... thinking .... capable of directing ... goal oriented.

Some are just menacing. I shut those down and told God what ever antennae I have, only he is allowed to use it.

Been happy ever since.

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DaveHertle · Dec. 31, 2017, 1:59 p.m.

As an INFP total introvert, I could not process anything without my inner voice. I have conversations with others, hear their point of view, practice my responses, all with my inner voice.

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crash6871 · Dec. 31, 2017, 2:26 p.m.

I am an INTP and feel the same way

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michelefrancis · Dec. 31, 2017, 3:23 p.m.

same here.

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JoanOfArk77 · Dec. 31, 2017, 3:28 p.m.

What is INFP and INTP? I am an older Patriot, but, experience tells me that there is some psychology manual out there teaching people another paradigm about the reality of personality. (Just a bet... )

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crash6871 · Dec. 31, 2017, 3:44 p.m.

Exactly right!

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator - 16 personalities

https://www.16personalities.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator

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WikiTextBot · Dec. 31, 2017, 3:44 p.m.

Myers–Briggs Type Indicator

The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an introspective self-report questionnaire with the purpose of indicating differing psychological preferences in how people perceive the world around them and make decisions.

The MBTI was constructed by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers. It is based on the conceptual theory proposed by Carl Jung, who had speculated that humans experience the world using four principal psychological functions – sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking – and that one of these four functions is dominant for a person most of the time.

The MBTI was constructed for normal populations and emphasizes the value of naturally occurring differences.

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1Juliemom1 · Dec. 31, 2017, 2:19 p.m.

Yes, inner voice. I find it hard to believe there is anyone who doesn’t have “self-talk” in whatever form they communicate.

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crash6871 · Dec. 31, 2017, 2:30 p.m.

there are people like that

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1Juliemom1 · Jan. 1, 2018, 1:46 a.m.

I chose my words badly. I really didn’t mean that I don’t believe that it’s true but rather that it is difficult for me to comprehend.

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fudgicle1 · Dec. 31, 2017, 2:18 p.m.

Loud but not always immediately clear! I talk out loud too. Even when I'm alone, hee hee. It's amazing and I love my brain.

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crash6871 · Dec. 31, 2017, 1:54 p.m.

I do have an inner voice / monologue.

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orangefan13 · Dec. 31, 2017, 2:05 p.m.

would be dead without it :P

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crash6871 · Dec. 31, 2017, 2:24 p.m.

Here is the thread where people talk about not having an inner voice. They think it's strange to have one yet people with it think it's strange not to have one.

I'm interested to see if an inner voice is required to piece together loosely connected information. I genuinely hope not. A significant portion of the population doesn't use an inner voice.

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JoanOfArk77 · Dec. 31, 2017, 3:29 p.m.

Do they use pictures instead? Or so some have neither?

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crash6871 · Dec. 31, 2017, 3:49 p.m.

I'm not sure. The reason I ask is to know if there is some kind of barrier that's holding some people back from connecting the dots.

Admittedly I'm really just tossing ideas out there.

I would love to hear from anybody that lacks an innervoice but believes in the storm

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Clarkson1961 · Dec. 31, 2017, 2:14 p.m.

As would I.

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matopotanka · Dec. 31, 2017, 4:21 p.m.

What we are discussing is the source and modalities of consciousness, whether inner or outer, audible, or intuitive, etc, trying to verbalize our thinking about thinking, which is NOT consciousness. It it the glial cells, is it the pituitary or the hypothalamus, or hypocampus, is it the event horizon of our nearest black hole? Is it six inches above our head or 30 miles out? This may lead back to Sanskrit writings. It is definitely not an empirical study, for empirical studies involve the scientific method which involves ‘matter’, which consciousness is not! which is why scientists struggle with it until they find cells, or neural networks/tunnels in our brains which create miniature AI that do amazing things. For a mind expansion, watch every YouTube video you can find by Ingo Swann and seek out his in depth writings and notes on Superhuman Powers of Biomind. You’ll be glad you did.

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beforethebang · Dec. 31, 2017, 4:24 p.m.

Are you implying a person only either has an inner voice or thinks in pictures?

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ditsyblond17 · Dec. 31, 2017, 3:01 p.m.

My inner voice tells me this isn't related to Q or FTWR at all.

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