For me there’s two separate participants, a ‘talker’ and a ‘listener’. My mind identifies more with the talker, because that’s the one that has agency. Since there are two participants, both of which are me, I talk in 1st person plural (‘we’ve got to do …’, 'we thought about this earlier’). I stopped being afraid of being alone after I started having an internal dialogue around the age of 11, since having a second participant in the conversation meant I was always in company.

Edit: Wow, looks like there’s a lot more diversity in this than I was expecting

  • ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works
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    2 hours ago

    Weird. I have a monologue right but it is not actually a monologue and I can just make another voice in my head to tell it to shut up or talk to it physically. There’s also like how it insults me often and sometimes I get mad at it. Other times it’s just mixed with my perseption of myself so more like me telling stuff to myself. I’ve also gotten more than 3 “characters” or roles but does not happen that often.

    When I read or write it’s also there. I am very sure it repeats rhe sentence multiple times when I write and thqt, mostly to slow itself down, like I already know what imma write ofc.

    Then of course I have images and sequences or “videos” to call them in any way. That’s also weird because it’s kinda ehat I have the least control over. I am often grossed out at this imagenery or however you spell that. Other thing I don’t have much control over are the songs and all that in my head.

    Then there are the concepts. Often I first think of a concept and then the monologue translates it to words, another way I already know what imma say. Sometimes it doesn’t get translated to words and I think I am not thinking but if I take a closer look I was still thinking. There’s also when my monologue talks and I do not realize like it’s more unconsious, happens when I am focused in other thoughts at times probably i don’t remember when it happens. I also think that I might not actually been having a monologue but just concepts at those times.