Inner monologue: useful, entertaining, annoying

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Is it true that up to half of people have no inner monologue? I investigated | Arwa Mahdawi

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A tweet went viral a few years ago saying only 30-50% of people have an inner dialogue.

Psychologist Russell Hurlburt says most people are very confused about our inner experiences.

He says research shows that the nature of our inner voices varies dramatically as well.

Some of us might hear our own voice while others might experience the world as the subject of a 2021 Guardian feature did via a bickering Italian couple.

It doesn’t mean that 30-50% of the population don’t have an inner voice at all in any circumstance. Anyway, there are two big takeaways from all of this. The first is that it’s always useful to remember that we all experience “reality” in completely different ways. Our brains are miraculous and extremely weird things, and everyone has a different way of processing the world. And the second big takeaway is that you should never immediately trust a statistic that you see on Twitter (now X). - Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist.

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