Mine is constantly going off all the time, like I’m preparing an argument of some sort (which usually has nothing to do with what I need to be doing) and need to process all the information I can over and over again to make sure everything lines up. If someone talks for more than 5 seconds my own internal monologue kicks in until the person stops or like 30 seconds pass and I realize it distracted me. Makes it difficult to read as well, and on bad occasions it can last for hours. The only time this doesn’t happen is if I’m intensely focused on something like a self-driven programming project.

Just one monologue. The voice is completely different from my RL voice.

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.

Its only there if I need to work out something for talking about with somebody or for a written output, but generally my thoughts are visual or concepts without language attached.

I don’t have one. No sound and no detailed images.

Usually pretty normal but I have a problem where I look at something & start relating it to other things & then like 30 seconds later I am thinking about war crimes. It was already bad before 2023. Most vivid images I have ever “seen” & they can happen while driving. It reminds me of how I used to be more imaginative as a child. Except that was fun.

I have been limiting coffee intake which helps but I do kind of enjoy being pissed off & constantly visualizing maps so sometimes I do it on purpose which leads to Deliberate Site Vandalism since I can’t direct that energy at anyone around me.

So I guess I also have two mode. Snide narrator who is very uncharitable to me & The Visions.

My monologue hums… And when there’s some event /work/(or anything like late for a bus or work or something), it starts narrating the environment and condition with counting repetations(like steps, seconds) sometimes counting up and sometimes oscillatiory count(like in evens; 1-2–1-2–1-2–1…)

My internal monologue is constant. Unless I’m using my language processing capacity for something else (e.g. listening to a podcast or reading text) then my brain is full of verbal diarrhoea. I’ll count each step on my way up a staircase just to fill the dead air in my head.

I probably shouldn’t answer this tbh.

I have three main “voices”, plus a couple of situational ones. As you say, a talker that’s mostly “me”, my conscious self. A listener that isn’t just a listener that’s essentially my subconscious throwing up images and memory in response to my conscious self. Then there’s the other self, the third thoughts, the meta mind, whatever you want to call it.

That third voice is observing the “conversation”, and making commentary and corrections as needed. Like “that’s not how that really happened” when images flash up that are nebulous. Or “no, that’s not who you want to be, stop being a dick” when my conscious self is under stress. Or “go fuck yourself” when thoughts triggered by mental health issues come up.

Plus, and this isn’t some kind of bullshit DID¹ thing, I have fictional characters in my head. There’s this thing I do when I write or DM where I kinda spool up a virtual machine in my head where a character “lives”. These aren’t real entities, they aren’t split off from me, they’re just a construct that’s useful. They can be “deleted”, they don’t take over, nothing like that.

I can, however, have conversations with them if I do a bit of mental prep work to sort of fake forget that it’s just my imagination playing a game with itself. I used to participate in some Mastodon writing prompt hashtags and I’d sort of interview my characters with them sometimes surprising me with what they said. Alas, the instance I used shut down without warning, and I didn’t have a recent backup, so I lost most of it.

While I was writing that paragraph, one of my characters got switched on for a second and grumped at me. I know it’s not a person, it’s all imagination. But it is a fucking trip anyway.

Yeeeears ago, I was running a game. It included a deity coming back to life. During the process, I had been wrapping my head around what they’d be like, and one of the players had communed with the deity a good bit. During a session, the player had their character call on the god to manifest. My ass just started talking as the deity. Full on zero conscious control over what came out. It felt creepy but cool. This imaginary part of myself took over, my voice changed, I stood up and moved around, but none of it was “me”. My conscious mind was starting to freak the fuck out a little because it felt like the imaginary thing was taking over.

That wasn’t the last time it happened, but I’ve never been able to make it happen. Well, not to that degree anyway.

I guess what I’m saying is that my internal monologue isn’t a monologue. Shit gets loud up in here.

Edit: ¹

My bullshit DID thing, I don’t mean that did isn’t real. I mean that it isn’t me pretending to have DID or some other dissociative disorder. People do that, and it’s fucking weird

Sometimes the monologue is so loud I end up accidentally vocalising (whispering) it. I think it might be partially caused by the fact I have ADHD and a monologue like this is a way to keep my brain stimulated (thought wise, but also socially) when there’s no input from the outside.

Mine is just constant words. Constant narration of everything. With occasional music breaks, because there’s always pop music going through my head too.

My mind is mostly pretty quiet. My internal monologue is used for figuring stuff out and making observations/giving myself a warning (ie: that person is lying). It doesn’t narrate anything. I only speak first person with myself. I have difficulty remembering my internal monologue so I’ve made it a habit to write down my observations and then synthesize them. Also my internal monologue is quiet and any kind of noise interrupts it.

I don’t have one…

My base thoughts are non-verbal. Sometimes I describe it like shapes in a hyperdimensional vector space.

My internal monologue is basically just practicing translating these base thoughts into language, to explain concepts to others.