Many of us talk to ourselves in our heads pretty much all day long. But it turns out that there are plenty of people who don’t. In fact, thinking comes in many shapes and sizes, and no two minds are exactly alike. In this episode, we explore the peculiar world of how we think, and consider the pros and cons of inner speech. Featuring psychologists Charles Fernyhough and Russell Hurlburt, and lots of 20K listeners. Follow Dallas on Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn. Watch our video shorts on YouTube, and join the discussion on Reddit and Facebook. Sign up for Twenty Thousand Hertz+ to get our entire catalog ad-free. If you know what this week's mystery sound is, tell us at mystery.20k.org To learn more about this topic, check out Charles’ book The Voices Within, and Russell’s book Investigating Pristine Inner Experience. Go to indeed.com/hertz to start hiring today. Visit babbel.com/20k to get 55% off your subscription. Find the right doctor, right now with at zocdoc.com/20k. Visit shopify.com/20k and sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period. Support us by supporting our sponsors at 20k.org/sponsors. Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: https://www.20k.org/episodes/voiceinside Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Youre listening to 20,000 hz in movies and tv shows its pretty common to hear a characters inner monologue.
In this Seinfeld episode, Elaine gets stuck in a subway car and starts panicking to herself.
What if Im here for the rest of my life?
Maybe ill get out in 5 seconds.
One banana, two banana, four banana in adaptation, Nic Cage plays a neurotic screenwriter whos constantly second guessing himself.
I'm a walking cliche.
The dentist called again.
I'm way overdue.
If I stopped putting things off I would be happier.
And in Dexter, a lot of the dry humor comes through Dexters inner monologue, like when he looks into an empty box of donuts, just like me, empty inside.
This trope never really seemed weird to me because it's not too far off from the way that I think on an average day.
I spend plenty of time talking to myself, debating myself, putting ideas into words, and it all happens in my head.
Honestly, it can be exhausting.
It's so persistent that I just assumed everyone else did this.
But then I came across this YouTube video from the CBC that completely blew my mind.
I'm Olivia Rivera and I don't have an internal monologue.
I always thought it was something that people just manifested and made up for movies and books and characters just to kind of like explain your inner thought process.
But I didn't realize that it was actually that constant for people, that people did actually have a little kind of voice in their head telling them what to do and what to think and stuff like that.
I don't have that.
Until that moment, I had no idea that some people don't have an inner monologue.