While I’m writing this there is, yes, a monologue. One that’s just-in-time, however; I don’t normally bother to listen to a speech in my head before writing it down.
That’s the internal monologue. Mine is also often just-in-time (not always, of course). I can listen to it in my head a whole lot faster than I can talk, type, or write, so sometimes I’ll start out just-in-time at the start of the sentence and then my internal monologue has to regularly wait for the typing/writing/speaking to catch up before I can continue.
For example, in this post, when I clicked the ‘reply’ button I had already planned out the first two sentences of the above post (before the first bracket). The contents of the first bracket were added when I got to the end of the second sentence, and then edited to add the ‘of course’. The next sentence was added in sections, built up and then put down and occasionally re-edited as I went along (things like replacing ‘on occasion’ with ‘sometimes’).
Most of the time, I don’t seem to have any particular internal experience at all. I just do whatever it is I’m doing, and experience that, but unless it’s relatively complex there doesn’t seem to be much call for pre-action reflections.
Hmmm. Living in the moment. I’m curious; how would you go about (say) planning for a camping trip? Not so much ‘what would you do’, but ‘how would you think about it’?
That’s the internal monologue. Mine is also often just-in-time (not always, of course). I can listen to it in my head a whole lot faster than I can talk, type, or write, so sometimes I’ll start out just-in-time at the start of the sentence and then my internal monologue has to regularly wait for the typing/writing/speaking to catch up before I can continue.
For example, in this post, when I clicked the ‘reply’ button I had already planned out the first two sentences of the above post (before the first bracket). The contents of the first bracket were added when I got to the end of the second sentence, and then edited to add the ‘of course’. The next sentence was added in sections, built up and then put down and occasionally re-edited as I went along (things like replacing ‘on occasion’ with ‘sometimes’).
Hmmm. Living in the moment. I’m curious; how would you go about (say) planning for a camping trip? Not so much ‘what would you do’, but ‘how would you think about it’?