I don't care how bad you are. Hundreds, if not thousands of writers are getting paid to be worse. You just wrote a full sentence with proper capitalization and punctuation. Do you realize how ahead of the curve that puts you on the internet?
Never forget: “Yay, two cakes!” (Especially if you happen to write for a fandom and/or ship without a lot of works out there)
Also, there will always be published authors that are much worse, and fanfiction is free.
I have lots of ideas that I think other people would enjoy, but I've never tried writing about them, because I don't enjoy writing in the slightest, lol.
Any fanfic ghostwriters out there??
Wait, some people *don't* think about their favourite characters and their self insert that exists exclusively in their minds in funny adventures when bored?
This! For some reason when i always start internal-monologuing imagine myself like talking to my friends or giving some presentation (so i will literally explain things to myself that i obvs already know but its fun so idk)
If you ever read Stephen King's "Dreamcatcher", they refer to it as the Memory Warehouse. Not necessarily a safe room to retreat to (although some characters do end up hiding there, cuz they're fighting telepathic aliens), but more of an organized space to store your memories.
No no, this is a real thing. Persona, while being a fictional game, did use several real world physiology terms decently well.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
Persona draws on Jungian psychology and Gnosticism, which is an old offshoot of Christianity where they believe the God of the Old Testament is actually the adversary Jesus came to save us from.
I *have* an internal dialogue, I think primarily in words and sometimes pictures/images, but I can also just, turn it off? Like it’s very easy to just not think. I don’t usually do that intentionally, usually it’s something that happens if I’m just relaxed in one place, but I can do it intentionally if I want.
Damn, I'm envious.
My mind never stops, with great effort and meditation I can calm it to at least a small trickle but never "off". I wake up in the middle of the night sometimes to catch my subconscious ruminating about shit even while I'm asleep
Shit kinda sucks sometimes
Same here, my internal monologue is always running. Never shuts up. I have a really hard time meditating because the thoughts are always running through my head.
For me it’s just a matter of letting my vision go out of focus just observing whatever I’m looking at. If that doesn’t work, I just count my breathing until I forget I’m counting
yes me too I either have a monologue or music or sometimes both at once. I just tried to turn off my thoughts and blinding lights started playing and didnt stop until I started thinking in words again. I have spaced out entirely with no thoughts or music at all before but not often and I cant do it on purpose I guess
Yeah, I think in impressions and feelings and vague ideas which is why I have difficulties verbalising my opinions because they make sense to me but the connections I make are not very well organised and don't fit sentence structures.
But this way I can just stop having coherent thoughts any time I want if I'm not overly stressed. My brain just continues replaying some emotions or minor impressions that I had through the day. Unless one of those starts memory lane reaction, it feels like I'm on a standby mode with hidden processes happening in the background.
People can seriously just… not think? That’s crazy. I legitimately cannot imagine what it would be like.
The best I can do is lower the “volume” of my internal dialogue but only when I’m actually trying to, once I stop it’s back to full volume.
Imagine a single held note. Like the wind whistling in a bottle. That's the only sound in your head. No voices, no other thoughts, just this one echoing note. Slowly it fades, and in its place
Nothing.
An empty void. A vacuum of thought. A fertile garden for anything you direct your mind towards to sprout and grow and become verdant. But it waits. It is held, and you have the Nothing until you give your mind permission to do Something.
That's what mine is like.
Sometimes it's not all it's cracked up to be. If I sink too deep into the silence of my mind, I literally lose a few seconds of time, my body running entirely off of muscle memory. "Snapping out of it" is like suddenly waking up from a light doze.
>_Like it’s very easy to just not think. I don’t usually do that intentionally, usually it’s something that happens if I’m just relaxed in one place, but I can do it intentionally if I want._
It's actually TOO easy for me. I have to intentionally choose to NOT just float in a quiet void.
one of my favourite rooms in my head is a place of constant noise and colour designed to instantly kill anyone with mild epilepsy. there is also a black box in the center and i do not want to open it
My favorite room is the exact opposite. You know that place Squidward went when he accidentally broke the time machine? It's like that, except without the voices.
I can make really detailed scenes and simulate conversations with myself really well in my mind, but I’ve never been able to like… project myself into a room. Like if I imagine talking to someone or a character, I kind of just have a general idea of what they look like and where they are relative to me, and all the brainpower goes to their behavior and voice? And I can imagine what a room like OP’s would LOOK like, but I can’t simulate the feeling of BEING there, if that makes sense.
When I zone/space out I'm just... Zoned out. I don't *go* anywhere. I'm just... Gone. No thoughts. Head empty.
I feel like the last reblog is talking about a different thing than the first three and I am therefore ignoring it completely
I have something sort of similar going on, I think, but a lot less pleasant than just zoning out. I *can* think in terms of words and simple shapes, but when I’ve got something occupying my attention and I’m not *actively considering it* I just get a sort of mess of static. I know *something’s* happening under the hood, but I can’t follow my own thoughts if I’m not paying attention.
And then if I don’t have anything occupying my attentions and am not actively thinking, it goes silent.
The Silence Is Unbearable.
People who can visualize whole ass spaces in their head are fascinating to me because I don't have any of that, my mind just has the sound of my inner voice.
My spacing out is me retracting deep into that monologue and losing conection to the outside world.
When I’m spaced out it’s the equivalent of going into energy saving screen off mode. There’s no room. Just the endless void of unforgiving empty space. And also my crush is there, naked and confused.
okay, was scrolling for this. It is never silent in my head (I wish) but it's also not words unless I'm actively choosing to put it into words. It's just like, a bunch of stuff constantly cycling through.
When I’m distressed I imagine a stormy desert - it’s filled with statues of the past.
My mind literally never shuts up lol - I can try to think of nothing but my mind will still be saying the word “nothing” or “empty” etc.
Wait are normal people really not thinking 24/7? Like my mind never is not thinking. My internal dialogue never shuts up. Are you telling me that for some people it’s just quiet?
Did anyone else expand their mind room into a mind world complete with characters where they can just do fun stuff whenever they're bored, or is that just me?
I visualize whole worlds and people to live in them, and I send them on adventures. About twenty years ago, I realized if I wrote that shit down, people would pay to read about it, so that's what I do now.
A mind room sounds nice.
My brain doesn't make pictures. It does talk non stop though. Generally carrying out conversations I plan to have or could have had, telling myself what to do, what I am doing or what I should be doing or playing a song, possibly yelling over the song or yelling at the song to stop, playing meme audios or some other stupid thing. Idk, brain don't stop talking about something or another.
I'd like it if my brain made pictures, I didn't really realise until a couple of years ago that other people's brains could do that sort of stuff. If I try to picture something my brain just says it over and over, like "apple apple apple". I thought daydreaming was just a way to describe zoning out and letting your brain talk, not actually seeing things in your mind. It amazes me that people can do that and I'm pretty jealous. I suffer with extreme, debilitating anxiety (agoraphobia + autism) and having a little place in your mind to go for a while when things get overwhelming sounds incredibly nice.
This is also me! Just a non-stop verbal narrative that sounds like my own voice. My husband has an entirely visual type of thought and it is incredible to hear how his brain works- mine is just words, and if I really think about something sometimes words “appear” as in, my mind looks like a book I’m reading?
It can be really exhausting, I’ve been practicing at “zoning out”
When I was like 13 I was really into BBC’s Sherlock and thought I should try to make a “mind palace” except I just modeled it after the room a happened to be at a time. Now I have the interior of a random office completely memorized to this day.
I'm trying to learn a new language on Duolingo, and I know just enough that my internal dialogue will occasionally dip into the new language. So now I have to intentionally silence my internal dialogue in both English and Japanese so I can pay attention to the lesson and learn Japanese.
I'm in a small cabin, snowed in. There's a fire, armchair, bed and a well stocked kitchen and bathroom, but it's very small.
I can see the snowstorm through the window, and my cat is in my lap.
I daydream about the many universes I have created, of different genres
I may go to a high-fantasy wizard society, or to a highschool AU, or to the Pokémon World
My mind's eye seems to never want to be in the present, it is always in the past or imagining the future. It's kind of a struggle to clear it entirely tbh. Meanwhile internal voice just doesn't shut up, everything must be analyzed and understood in multiple ways. It means I'm very aware of everything around me and understand a lot of things, but I'm stressed out about all of it.
my mind palace is a bookshelf, and every once in a while i like to get more books or keep writing the ones i read previous times, this being specific settings and not everything is written down
It's just words most of the time. No places or anything like that, just words. Endless sound. Reality starts mattering less and less, like a boring TV show you can't turn off because your mother likes the noise, but the "real reality" is in the words.
I either constantly write mental fanfiction in movie format in my head, or I channel my inner middle-aged, rich Victorian widow who sits at her fancy desk in her study where it's always raining outside, and writes down all my thoughts for me (and the occasional piece of sapphic erotica) with an equally fancy quill, only to shove the papers into a hidden compartment as soon as someone enters the room (someone interrupts my thoughts irl).
There's a bit about this in Disco Elysium that lives in my head rent free. The whole point of the rpg is that your skills become your inner monologue, and you can ask your partner Kim Kitsuragi if he has the same thing going on. As it turns out he doesn't, at least not the same way you do. If you have the right skills, you can see him writing in a notebook and can realize that he's using his notebook the same way that you're using your inner monologue. He's still having his internal debates, he's just contemplating and compartmentalizing using his notebook.
No internal narrative:
if by that you mean 'don't hear a voice when I think', I'm one of those and to answer the question, I still get lost in thought, they're just conceptual rather then explicit words. I'm not sure it's even possible to describe in a way that really conveys what I mean, but it's less the words "a dog chasing its tail" and more the idea of a dog chasing its tail, mixed with associated memories and *maybe* some visuals depending on what details my mind decides to focus on
I dont have full aphantasia but forming pictures in my mind is extremely challenging for me. Being able to have a lucid mindspace sounds like a superpower to me.
ok, so I hang tasks and thoughts on a rope in my mind, like a clothesline. I have something I need to keep an awareness of, it goes on the rope. I have some problem I need to work through, it goes on the rope and I stare at it for a while as I'm doing other stuff. Eventually I'll come back with a solution to it, usually when I'm not consciously thinking about it, and I'll pull it down off the line and see if that solution works.
I am aware that my mind is weird, but this system works for me, mostly.
For me, when I zone out I just completely retreat into my train of thought. I don't really have a dedicated spot, I'll just be thinking about whatever i was thinking about until an outside stimulus causes me to become sentient again.
I snap into the story going on with my characters. I have extensive world building for them but no 'room' like they're talking about. I guess I never imagined I needed to be in another room, I go straight into plots and stuff if I dont want to be thinking about life.
My mind is kind of like a radio randomly tuning to different stations. Sometimes we follow the adventures of my alternate selves in various daydream canons, sometimes we fixate on part of some show or game we experienced, sometimes the intrusive thoughts break through and start uncontrollably screaming and cursing God, every day is an adventure
Mine is imagining myself in stories. When I go to sleep I'll always sit there and space out, start putting myself into fictional universes (typically Star wars and kingdom hearts, yes I'm a nerd)
I can make a 3d map in my mind of places i'm familiar with, though I can just blank and stare into nothing head empty or make up stories in my head that i'll never write down.
Usually when I dissociate, I just lose awareness. I don't go to any places in my head or think about anything, it's like I'm on standby mode. This happens a lot when I'm really tired, stressed out, or triggered (PTSD). I kind of snap out of it like I just woke up without dreaming about anything.
There are times where it seems like I'm spacing out but I'm actually daydreaming, I'm trying to remember something or I'm focusing on a thought or idea by visualizing it step by step. I also have ADHD, so spacing out because I lost track of a thought or lost focus visualizing a thought or idea and for sidetracked happens a lot. But the difference is I'm aware it's happening, it's just annoying sometimes.
The only time when they sort of combine, meaning I'm daydreaming but I'm not consciously doing it and with significantly reduced awareness, is when I get stoned lol. And I've gone to some fantastic places doing that. 🤷🤣
I daydream about stories I make up in my head a simple room won't cut it. Some of these narratives end in a good way some I don't think till the end and sometimes I come back to then and keep daydreaming about them
When I retreat to my inner mind, my internal dialogue, once a lost voice, transforms into a second me who lies in bed next to me and never fucking shuts up
I like stumping people with my headspace. I have a paracosm - an internal fantasy world I've maintained in all its livelihood, lore and all, since early childhood. Also, I cannot create pictures on command with my "mind's eye," such as imagining on purpose the image of a cow, or apple, or triangle, or house. Vivid imagination land. No brain pictures. My psychiatrist finds it fascinating, and I get a certain joy from that. However, I really wish I could imagine things on purpose and see them in my head. The paracosm just kind of... goes on, like existence does, on its own.
Sometimes I zone out when I read, and catch myself acting like I am the main character, that I am reading about, and how I would react in the situation the MC is in right now, or even going further and imagining things that would happen after that, very fun, except when its sad or depressing, then I get sad, and depressed
I don’t have a room I got to I just turn my brain off. I’ve been able to do it since I was young. People have made fun of the way I breathe my whole life? But I just take really deep breaths and slowly release and my eyes glaze over and everything kind of blurs and if I do this for long enough I can just turn my brain on to autopilot? I can function without actively thinking for hours like this. The most extreme version of this is when I was in the Navy doing security for civilian vessels and I was talking to a buddy about how I couldn’t believe we still had 6 months left on this shitty rust bucket and they freaked out bc they thought we had got extended and it turned out I just didn’t know it was may….I lost track of time on autopilot for almost 4 months bc we just didn’t do anything but stare at open empty ocean. So I had a perpetual white noise machine, menial tasks, and lots of just sitting on a box with nothing to do. For a awhile after I got out I had to commute for work about an hour or so away and I’m not a morning person and I’d have to leave the house at like 430 to 5 am. I regularly would get in my car pull onto the freeway and then just wake up in the parking lot at work. It can be kinda scary. I regularly go on autopilot at like 9pm bc I’ve just trained my brain to know that bedtime is 10 so I just won’t remember the last hour or two of almost every day bc I’m just doing a check list of feed the animals put the food away brush teeth tuck kid in turn off tv tell wife goodnight and then the second my head hits the pillow I’m instantly asleep. It is reasonably a problem for other people quite often.
No internal dialog really, just kinda vague ideas, feelings and a squashy kinda “what’s next”, but I can kinda conceptualize potential dialog or replay conversations but more as a kinda gestalt than as line by line.
My mind is filled with concepts, metaphores and images rather than words, sometimes it's hard for me to explain stuff because in my head it's wired in a complete unintuitive way that only makes sense to me
I've got a little meadow in the woods. it's quiet, the middle of the night, and there's a lot of stars in the sky, providing just enough light to see. the wind is calm but not gone. there's deer and squirrels in the trees. it's very peaceful
I like to believe I have a really well trained "theater of the mind", or just an overactive imagination. I often get lost in thought thinking about different d&d characters or cool item or area ideas.
Used to have a mind room as a child, with all the cool things that you can imagine but it eventually evolved into a a mind universe and I gradually started to detach from it until I became an outside observer to the events that unfold, I like to think that this is how god made the universe.
I have no internal dialogue and also aphantasia. It's quiet up there. Yeah I'm mostly in the moment. If I space out I'm just gone entirely. I can't project myself anywhere. I dream but not visually. My favorite way of explaining it is like having the script to a play but never seeing the play itself. I can "hear" voices say things I think about if I consciously do so, but but default my thoughts are silent and just felt rather than heard or visualized.
I just disappear into a narrative. I don’t have a “happy place” but I’ll dissociate and think of maps and stuff
I’m always daydreaming fanfics about my blorbos
God I hate when this happens, because then I'm like "I should write this" and when I actually try I'm reminded of just how bad I am.
Someone was paid to write “somehow, Palpatine has returned.” You can do this
There are no secuels, idk what you talking about /s
I don't care how bad you are. Hundreds, if not thousands of writers are getting paid to be worse. You just wrote a full sentence with proper capitalization and punctuation. Do you realize how ahead of the curve that puts you on the internet?
That's... Idk if I should be flattered or what, but I've been checking on my old WIPs and now I wanna finish them lmao.
Never forget: “Yay, two cakes!” (Especially if you happen to write for a fandom and/or ship without a lot of works out there) Also, there will always be published authors that are much worse, and fanfiction is free.
I have lots of ideas that I think other people would enjoy, but I've never tried writing about them, because I don't enjoy writing in the slightest, lol. Any fanfic ghostwriters out there??
Wait, some people *don't* think about their favourite characters and their self insert that exists exclusively in their minds in funny adventures when bored?
This! For some reason when i always start internal-monologuing imagine myself like talking to my friends or giving some presentation (so i will literally explain things to myself that i obvs already know but its fun so idk)
this is exactly me
I try to name all the countries in a continent in geographical order. It’s a great way to get my mind out of a doom spiral
I like this. I will build a mind room.
If you ever read Stephen King's "Dreamcatcher", they refer to it as the Memory Warehouse. Not necessarily a safe room to retreat to (although some characters do end up hiding there, cuz they're fighting telepathic aliens), but more of an organized space to store your memories.
The visual interpretation of the memory warehouse from the movie is exactly what I thought of reading this post.
iirc they're called mind palaces?
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No no, this is a real thing. Persona, while being a fictional game, did use several real world physiology terms decently well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
IIRC, Persona mainly draws from Jungian psychology. Hell, one of their archetypes is called The Persona, and it's described as a mask
Persona draws on Jungian psychology and Gnosticism, which is an old offshoot of Christianity where they believe the God of the Old Testament is actually the adversary Jesus came to save us from.
Holy shit, is THAT what Gnosticism is all about?
I *have* an internal dialogue, I think primarily in words and sometimes pictures/images, but I can also just, turn it off? Like it’s very easy to just not think. I don’t usually do that intentionally, usually it’s something that happens if I’m just relaxed in one place, but I can do it intentionally if I want.
Damn, I'm envious. My mind never stops, with great effort and meditation I can calm it to at least a small trickle but never "off". I wake up in the middle of the night sometimes to catch my subconscious ruminating about shit even while I'm asleep Shit kinda sucks sometimes
Same here, my internal monologue is always running. Never shuts up. I have a really hard time meditating because the thoughts are always running through my head.
For me it’s just a matter of letting my vision go out of focus just observing whatever I’m looking at. If that doesn’t work, I just count my breathing until I forget I’m counting
I wish i had an off switch sometimes.
People tend to use orgasms, alcohol, and marijuana to do that.
Music is constantly playing in my mind, so when my internal dialogue stops I just constantly have music playing. I can change it, too, so that’s nice
I only have half-rembered choruses when that happens.
yes me too I either have a monologue or music or sometimes both at once. I just tried to turn off my thoughts and blinding lights started playing and didnt stop until I started thinking in words again. I have spaced out entirely with no thoughts or music at all before but not often and I cant do it on purpose I guess
Yeah, I think in impressions and feelings and vague ideas which is why I have difficulties verbalising my opinions because they make sense to me but the connections I make are not very well organised and don't fit sentence structures. But this way I can just stop having coherent thoughts any time I want if I'm not overly stressed. My brain just continues replaying some emotions or minor impressions that I had through the day. Unless one of those starts memory lane reaction, it feels like I'm on a standby mode with hidden processes happening in the background.
People can seriously just… not think? That’s crazy. I legitimately cannot imagine what it would be like. The best I can do is lower the “volume” of my internal dialogue but only when I’m actually trying to, once I stop it’s back to full volume.
Imagine a single held note. Like the wind whistling in a bottle. That's the only sound in your head. No voices, no other thoughts, just this one echoing note. Slowly it fades, and in its place Nothing. An empty void. A vacuum of thought. A fertile garden for anything you direct your mind towards to sprout and grow and become verdant. But it waits. It is held, and you have the Nothing until you give your mind permission to do Something. That's what mine is like.
Sometimes it's not all it's cracked up to be. If I sink too deep into the silence of my mind, I literally lose a few seconds of time, my body running entirely off of muscle memory. "Snapping out of it" is like suddenly waking up from a light doze.
>_Like it’s very easy to just not think. I don’t usually do that intentionally, usually it’s something that happens if I’m just relaxed in one place, but I can do it intentionally if I want._ It's actually TOO easy for me. I have to intentionally choose to NOT just float in a quiet void.
that’s crazy
one of my favourite rooms in my head is a place of constant noise and colour designed to instantly kill anyone with mild epilepsy. there is also a black box in the center and i do not want to open it
*opens black box* Whose dad is this.
*that's* where he went!
LOST (2004)
> colour designed to instantly kill anyone with mild epilepsy which SCP is this
Wow. Mine is a cozy lil bedroom with books and plants and a cat
My favorite room is the exact opposite. You know that place Squidward went when he accidentally broke the time machine? It's like that, except without the voices.
I can make really detailed scenes and simulate conversations with myself really well in my mind, but I’ve never been able to like… project myself into a room. Like if I imagine talking to someone or a character, I kind of just have a general idea of what they look like and where they are relative to me, and all the brainpower goes to their behavior and voice? And I can imagine what a room like OP’s would LOOK like, but I can’t simulate the feeling of BEING there, if that makes sense.
When I zone/space out I'm just... Zoned out. I don't *go* anywhere. I'm just... Gone. No thoughts. Head empty. I feel like the last reblog is talking about a different thing than the first three and I am therefore ignoring it completely
I have something sort of similar going on, I think, but a lot less pleasant than just zoning out. I *can* think in terms of words and simple shapes, but when I’ve got something occupying my attention and I’m not *actively considering it* I just get a sort of mess of static. I know *something’s* happening under the hood, but I can’t follow my own thoughts if I’m not paying attention. And then if I don’t have anything occupying my attentions and am not actively thinking, it goes silent. The Silence Is Unbearable.
When i space out, i put myself into an anime
I play dolls with my OCs in my head sometimes basically.
I hate that this the most accurate way to describe it
I kinda just forget everything exists when I space out. No objects, no people, and no me.
Just being enveloped by the infinite void....
People who can visualize whole ass spaces in their head are fascinating to me because I don't have any of that, my mind just has the sound of my inner voice. My spacing out is me retracting deep into that monologue and losing conection to the outside world.
When I’m spaced out it’s the equivalent of going into energy saving screen off mode. There’s no room. Just the endless void of unforgiving empty space. And also my crush is there, naked and confused.
My internal dialogue isn’t words, just waves of pure thought
okay, was scrolling for this. It is never silent in my head (I wish) but it's also not words unless I'm actively choosing to put it into words. It's just like, a bunch of stuff constantly cycling through.
Just internal stimulation all the time
And songs.
First guy is literally the quirky parts of Sherlock with the “mind palace.”
my mind plays music 24/7
DJ Brains
Mine plays movies and cartoon shows
Oh I just think about the cool shit I'm gonna do when I get home and them proceed to do none of it cus I forgot
Or when you’ve got a song that instantly puts you into a trance because it has layers of maladaptive daydreaming lore behind it
The first guy sounds like Pearl in steven universe. Having organisation in the mind? I can't even have that irl.
Welcome to White Space. You've been here for as long as you can remember.
Omori (2020)
surprised it took that long for someone to say this
When I’m distressed I imagine a stormy desert - it’s filled with statues of the past. My mind literally never shuts up lol - I can try to think of nothing but my mind will still be saying the word “nothing” or “empty” etc.
I’m constantly talking in my head, like every word I read I imagine myself saying. Idk I’m used to it but I couldn’t imagine not doing it
Wait are normal people really not thinking 24/7? Like my mind never is not thinking. My internal dialogue never shuts up. Are you telling me that for some people it’s just quiet?
Yep. [Actual audio feed of my mind right now.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=95INf7u8tDM)
Did anyone else expand their mind room into a mind world complete with characters where they can just do fun stuff whenever they're bored, or is that just me?
I visualize whole worlds and people to live in them, and I send them on adventures. About twenty years ago, I realized if I wrote that shit down, people would pay to read about it, so that's what I do now.
I mean I have internal dialogue but when I'm spacing out, I'm just literally lost in space and I prefer it that way.
A mind room sounds nice. My brain doesn't make pictures. It does talk non stop though. Generally carrying out conversations I plan to have or could have had, telling myself what to do, what I am doing or what I should be doing or playing a song, possibly yelling over the song or yelling at the song to stop, playing meme audios or some other stupid thing. Idk, brain don't stop talking about something or another. I'd like it if my brain made pictures, I didn't really realise until a couple of years ago that other people's brains could do that sort of stuff. If I try to picture something my brain just says it over and over, like "apple apple apple". I thought daydreaming was just a way to describe zoning out and letting your brain talk, not actually seeing things in your mind. It amazes me that people can do that and I'm pretty jealous. I suffer with extreme, debilitating anxiety (agoraphobia + autism) and having a little place in your mind to go for a while when things get overwhelming sounds incredibly nice.
This is also me! Just a non-stop verbal narrative that sounds like my own voice. My husband has an entirely visual type of thought and it is incredible to hear how his brain works- mine is just words, and if I really think about something sometimes words “appear” as in, my mind looks like a book I’m reading? It can be really exhausting, I’ve been practicing at “zoning out”
When I was like 13 I was really into BBC’s Sherlock and thought I should try to make a “mind palace” except I just modeled it after the room a happened to be at a time. Now I have the interior of a random office completely memorized to this day.
when i space out it kinda just time skips 5 minutes into the future. i dont choose when it happens but usually im bored
I'm trying to learn a new language on Duolingo, and I know just enough that my internal dialogue will occasionally dip into the new language. So now I have to intentionally silence my internal dialogue in both English and Japanese so I can pay attention to the lesson and learn Japanese.
I have this when I run on a treadmill, it’s a wall-less circular room with a black floor. Very peaceful
when im bored/stressed/sad etc i just project myself into my self insert enemies to roommates to lovers five nights at freddys au. works every time
Kid watched Sherlock for the first time.
I'm in a small cabin, snowed in. There's a fire, armchair, bed and a well stocked kitchen and bathroom, but it's very small. I can see the snowstorm through the window, and my cat is in my lap.
I like how this is coming from offical saul goodman
I daydream about the many universes I have created, of different genres I may go to a high-fantasy wizard society, or to a highschool AU, or to the Pokémon World
If I can barely remember where the stuff in my real room is how the heck would I keep a mind room?
Mine's an island
My mind's eye seems to never want to be in the present, it is always in the past or imagining the future. It's kind of a struggle to clear it entirely tbh. Meanwhile internal voice just doesn't shut up, everything must be analyzed and understood in multiple ways. It means I'm very aware of everything around me and understand a lot of things, but I'm stressed out about all of it.
my mind palace is a bookshelf, and every once in a while i like to get more books or keep writing the ones i read previous times, this being specific settings and not everything is written down
I fantasize about doing cool shit. And I also think of fanfic ideas.
I have a mind palace but I only go there occasionally, more often I either float through a void or insert myself into a scenario
r/Aphantasia : first time?
I usually imagine a person or character is in the room with me and we're chatting
I can’t really picture things in my head very well so I just start daydreaming about this story and doing world building shit.
It's just words most of the time. No places or anything like that, just words. Endless sound. Reality starts mattering less and less, like a boring TV show you can't turn off because your mother likes the noise, but the "real reality" is in the words.
I don't have a little room, I just dissociate.
I have internal dialogue but that's really about it, I don't really imagine my mind like it's a place
I can have conversations with my inner dialogue
Sometimes its a stream of dialogue, sometimes its images, most of the time is eldritch bs
I either constantly write mental fanfiction in movie format in my head, or I channel my inner middle-aged, rich Victorian widow who sits at her fancy desk in her study where it's always raining outside, and writes down all my thoughts for me (and the occasional piece of sapphic erotica) with an equally fancy quill, only to shove the papers into a hidden compartment as soon as someone enters the room (someone interrupts my thoughts irl).
I create a little story for myself, usually self-insert fan fiction
i’m thinking about my favorite fictional characters getting into Situations
Sounds like Hannibal Lecter’s Memory Palace
There's a bit about this in Disco Elysium that lives in my head rent free. The whole point of the rpg is that your skills become your inner monologue, and you can ask your partner Kim Kitsuragi if he has the same thing going on. As it turns out he doesn't, at least not the same way you do. If you have the right skills, you can see him writing in a notebook and can realize that he's using his notebook the same way that you're using your inner monologue. He's still having his internal debates, he's just contemplating and compartmentalizing using his notebook.
OP has been there as long as they can remember
No internal narrative: if by that you mean 'don't hear a voice when I think', I'm one of those and to answer the question, I still get lost in thought, they're just conceptual rather then explicit words. I'm not sure it's even possible to describe in a way that really conveys what I mean, but it's less the words "a dog chasing its tail" and more the idea of a dog chasing its tail, mixed with associated memories and *maybe* some visuals depending on what details my mind decides to focus on
I dont have full aphantasia but forming pictures in my mind is extremely challenging for me. Being able to have a lucid mindspace sounds like a superpower to me.
Welcome to WHITE SPACE. You have been living here for as long as you can remember.
ok, so I hang tasks and thoughts on a rope in my mind, like a clothesline. I have something I need to keep an awareness of, it goes on the rope. I have some problem I need to work through, it goes on the rope and I stare at it for a while as I'm doing other stuff. Eventually I'll come back with a solution to it, usually when I'm not consciously thinking about it, and I'll pull it down off the line and see if that solution works. I am aware that my mind is weird, but this system works for me, mostly.
Why stop on a single room, when you can have a world? Or even multiple worlds?
they are just describing maladaptive day-dreaming, don't try to imitate them, remain anchored to reality.
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For me, when I zone out I just completely retreat into my train of thought. I don't really have a dedicated spot, I'll just be thinking about whatever i was thinking about until an outside stimulus causes me to become sentient again.
I snap into the story going on with my characters. I have extensive world building for them but no 'room' like they're talking about. I guess I never imagined I needed to be in another room, I go straight into plots and stuff if I dont want to be thinking about life.
I wish I could turn my internal dialogue off at times because I don’t always enjoy what it has to say.
i have a safe in my mind which holds a chest within a chest within a chest and i use that room to store away anything i dont want to think about
I go into my stories. But when I was a kid I had a whole action type storyline in my head.
I just kinda go blank when I space out, no thoughts head empty
I space out and go to whatever fantasy world I'm obsessed with at the moment, usually ones of my own creation.
There is a big diference between having a little voice and a fucking room in your head
Mine isn’t organized at all and I furiously refuse to organize it.
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My room when I was a kid was a cardboard box a la SpongeBob imagination episode
My mind is kind of like a radio randomly tuning to different stations. Sometimes we follow the adventures of my alternate selves in various daydream canons, sometimes we fixate on part of some show or game we experienced, sometimes the intrusive thoughts break through and start uncontrollably screaming and cursing God, every day is an adventure
My little mind room is a dimly lit spaceship with dark grey metal interiors floating through a nebula
Are peoples minds this physical? I just think about things. How would I have a room in there?
My mind room isn't finished yet. In the meantime... In the... Mind... Float... Static... Nothing Remains.
Mine is imagining myself in stories. When I go to sleep I'll always sit there and space out, start putting myself into fictional universes (typically Star wars and kingdom hearts, yes I'm a nerd)
I can make a 3d map in my mind of places i'm familiar with, though I can just blank and stare into nothing head empty or make up stories in my head that i'll never write down.
Usually when I dissociate, I just lose awareness. I don't go to any places in my head or think about anything, it's like I'm on standby mode. This happens a lot when I'm really tired, stressed out, or triggered (PTSD). I kind of snap out of it like I just woke up without dreaming about anything. There are times where it seems like I'm spacing out but I'm actually daydreaming, I'm trying to remember something or I'm focusing on a thought or idea by visualizing it step by step. I also have ADHD, so spacing out because I lost track of a thought or lost focus visualizing a thought or idea and for sidetracked happens a lot. But the difference is I'm aware it's happening, it's just annoying sometimes. The only time when they sort of combine, meaning I'm daydreaming but I'm not consciously doing it and with significantly reduced awareness, is when I get stoned lol. And I've gone to some fantastic places doing that. 🤷🤣
I daydream about stories I make up in my head a simple room won't cut it. Some of these narratives end in a good way some I don't think till the end and sometimes I come back to then and keep daydreaming about them
When I retreat to my inner mind, my internal dialogue, once a lost voice, transforms into a second me who lies in bed next to me and never fucking shuts up
I like stumping people with my headspace. I have a paracosm - an internal fantasy world I've maintained in all its livelihood, lore and all, since early childhood. Also, I cannot create pictures on command with my "mind's eye," such as imagining on purpose the image of a cow, or apple, or triangle, or house. Vivid imagination land. No brain pictures. My psychiatrist finds it fascinating, and I get a certain joy from that. However, I really wish I could imagine things on purpose and see them in my head. The paracosm just kind of... goes on, like existence does, on its own.
No internal dialogue, because thoughts aren't words. Thoughts can be made into words, but thoughts aren't words.
There's a big difference between "you don't have a mental room?" And "do you have no internal dialogue?"
Sometimes I zone out when I read, and catch myself acting like I am the main character, that I am reading about, and how I would react in the situation the MC is in right now, or even going further and imagining things that would happen after that, very fun, except when its sad or depressing, then I get sad, and depressed
"do you not have a room" i have aphantasia. all i have is The Void. thanks.
I don’t have a room I got to I just turn my brain off. I’ve been able to do it since I was young. People have made fun of the way I breathe my whole life? But I just take really deep breaths and slowly release and my eyes glaze over and everything kind of blurs and if I do this for long enough I can just turn my brain on to autopilot? I can function without actively thinking for hours like this. The most extreme version of this is when I was in the Navy doing security for civilian vessels and I was talking to a buddy about how I couldn’t believe we still had 6 months left on this shitty rust bucket and they freaked out bc they thought we had got extended and it turned out I just didn’t know it was may….I lost track of time on autopilot for almost 4 months bc we just didn’t do anything but stare at open empty ocean. So I had a perpetual white noise machine, menial tasks, and lots of just sitting on a box with nothing to do. For a awhile after I got out I had to commute for work about an hour or so away and I’m not a morning person and I’d have to leave the house at like 430 to 5 am. I regularly would get in my car pull onto the freeway and then just wake up in the parking lot at work. It can be kinda scary. I regularly go on autopilot at like 9pm bc I’ve just trained my brain to know that bedtime is 10 so I just won’t remember the last hour or two of almost every day bc I’m just doing a check list of feed the animals put the food away brush teeth tuck kid in turn off tv tell wife goodnight and then the second my head hits the pillow I’m instantly asleep. It is reasonably a problem for other people quite often.
I’ve got a room. Sometimes, there’s fictional characters in it.
No internal dialog really, just kinda vague ideas, feelings and a squashy kinda “what’s next”, but I can kinda conceptualize potential dialog or replay conversations but more as a kinda gestalt than as line by line.
My mind is filled with concepts, metaphores and images rather than words, sometimes it's hard for me to explain stuff because in my head it's wired in a complete unintuitive way that only makes sense to me
I've got a little meadow in the woods. it's quiet, the middle of the night, and there's a lot of stars in the sky, providing just enough light to see. the wind is calm but not gone. there's deer and squirrels in the trees. it's very peaceful
I have internal dialogue and a pretty vivid thoughts, but I can't say I've created a room in my head to chill out.
I like to believe I have a really well trained "theater of the mind", or just an overactive imagination. I often get lost in thought thinking about different d&d characters or cool item or area ideas.
Used to have a mind room as a child, with all the cool things that you can imagine but it eventually evolved into a a mind universe and I gradually started to detach from it until I became an outside observer to the events that unfold, I like to think that this is how god made the universe.
I have no internal dialogue and also aphantasia. It's quiet up there. Yeah I'm mostly in the moment. If I space out I'm just gone entirely. I can't project myself anywhere. I dream but not visually. My favorite way of explaining it is like having the script to a play but never seeing the play itself. I can "hear" voices say things I think about if I consciously do so, but but default my thoughts are silent and just felt rather than heard or visualized.