The storyteller of your thoughts

[We Are The Witches]

I believe it is normal for people to generally leave their thoughts in the hands of a mental voice, that is a voice (you), that will question things, explain them, ask & answer, make observations, express feelings, etc.

It is not rare the use of the second-person of singular to do so, which is as if the narrator of a story was referring directly to you, while you yourself are that voice, however, the most common form (I think, we'll see here, maybe not) should be the first-person singular. You address yourself as "I", but also make questions to oneself, expecting (or not) an answer, like "Should I go to the cinema? Meh, not today".

How "normal" these things are come from my own speculation, I have not done any statistics on it, but now you can participate as well and share your thoughts.

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So for example, these would be the voices in one's mind for day-to-day activities, and when speaking to oneself. Only first-person and second-person of singular are "popular", others are for memes and extraordinary people, and don't take serious the denominations in parentheses:

• 1st person singular (the normie): "I'm going home, then watch TV."
• 2nd person singular (the ultra normie): "Man, you're a fucking idiot, how could you make this mistake!?" (to oneself)
• 3rd person singular (the messiah): "He entered the room and everyone applauded." (to oneself)
• 1st person plural (the bipolar): "We're gonna kill it dude!" (to oneself... oneselves?)
• 2nd person plural (the batshit insane): "You guys are just going to dismember this corpse and get rid of the evidence, ASAP." (proceeds to do)
• 3rd person plural (the druggie): "After smoking on the palace of god, they went and scattered across space..." (sits in the couch staring blankly into the horizon)

Which one are you? Or which ones do you use?

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

• 1st person singular (the normie): "I'm going home, then watch TV."
• 2nd person singular (the ultra normie): "Man, you're a fucking idiot, how could you make this mistake!?" (to oneself)
• 3rd person singular (the messiah): "He entered the room and everyone applauded." (to oneself)
• 1st person plural (the bipolar): "We're gonna kill it dude!" (to oneself... oneselves?)

these

 

[The Cheese Aisle]

I don’t have an inner monologue

Edit: unless purposefully trying to. Are most of your thoughts are narrated, or just occasionally? Does it take effort?

 

[AnsemSoD1]

I am classifiably insane nigga.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

I don’t have an inner monologue

Edit: unless purposefully trying to. Are most of your thoughts are narrated, or just occasionally? Does it take effort?

NPCs don't have any thoughts to narrate.

 

[The Cunting Death]

All of the first 3 and sometimes if I feel meta, 4.

 

[The Cheese Aisle]

NPCs don't have any thoughts to narrate.

Fuuuck, how do I become an NPC then?!

 

[Not a bee]

... what if there's multiple

 

[Apochrypha]

2nd person usually but sometimes 1st. If you don't have an inner monologue your IQ is room temperature.

 

[AnsemSoD1]

All of them at once, my imagination is a fickle thing to deal with.

 

[Large Marge]

i have a tendency to sporadically speak in 1st person plural, and i'll try to recuperate by claiming "the royal we/us".

 

[jershs compensation beard]

Sir this is an Arby's

 

[Ultrapenguin]

I usually use the second person, like there are two people around and that conscious me is somehow a separate entity from unconscious me who I have to observe and wrangle.

Then sometimes if I'm especially keyed up or trying to work something out I'll talk to myself like that physically in real life. A few times other people have overheard me and told me they assumed I was on the phone because it sounded like one side of a normal conversation.

Sir this is an Arby's

You're Josh's beard yet somehow don't know that Josh himself has admitted to habitually walking around his abode arguing with himself like a schizophrenic. This is very pertinent to kiwi farms.

 

[Lokenstien]

I've got a whole congress to deal with up there and oh boy do they love to bicker.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Does it take effort?

I don't really think about it much, no joke intended
a while back I realized that I had grasped the mind of no-mind, and since then I just flop from sonomama to more long-term pondering (and unfortunately still some wool-gathering) sorta on the fly, it kinda happens as the situation warrants

 

[Insuficiencia renal]

I am like that character from that game, what is its name again? Dance Heaven? Techno Hyperborea? House Valhalla?

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

which one is the one where i don't act like a fucking schizo retard?

 

[seri0us]

You're Josh's beard yet somehow don't know that Josh himself has admitted to habitually walking around his abode arguing with himself like a schizophrenic. This is very pertinent to kiwi farms.

Almost as pertinent as Florida having no basements.

 

[Cats]

he looks like this

 

[Shitted Scaredless]

There's a lot of them. No one is helpful.