Rec | I EITHER SEE VISUALS OR HEAR A VOICE IN MY HEAD

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i either see visuals or hear a voice in my head

i can very very clearly picture entire scenarios play out like film scenes or just conjure up imagery related to whatever's on my mind. but if i'm just thinking random thoughts ("i need to pay my phone bill later" "fuck my stupid life" etc) i don't see anything and just hear my own voice in my head saying it to me. for instance typing this out right now i'm hearing it all in my own voice as i write

@princess

Jun 17, 2025

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@sabina

Feb 19, 2024

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Part Self-instruction, part simulated dialogue

so about half the time my "internal monologue" is my own voice giving myself instructions (ex. "ok, i have ten minutes to spare. what should i do? i think i'm gonna pull up pi.fyi and look at posts until i have to get back to work."). it's not literally me listening to my own voice because i am conceptualizing the voice much faster than i (or any human) is capable of speaking, but it definitely coherently exists in my head as a fleshy .mp3 file, and it is definitely my voice. the other half of the time i am simulating social scenarios in my head. there are a variety of scenarios where i do this: sometimes i am actually rehearsing for a real social situation that is actually going to happen, sometimes i'm merely preparing for the possibility of a social situation, sometimes i'm trying to do a post-mortem on a situation that has already occurred so i can think about how to improve, and sometimes i'm just talking to an imaginary adversary in my head in order to find and plug holes in my worldview / philosophy etc. adding the caveat that if i am alone (or merely think i am alone) the "internal" monologue / conversation frequently becomes an external one, and i am sometimes ambushed by my partner and / or roommates who occasionally hear me passionately arguing with an imaginary person and i've just kind of made peace with the fact that i am going to appear casually schizophrenic to anyone who catches me doing this because i genuinely believe that actively trying to rehearse conversations and arguments in advance is what helped me get over my debilitating introversion to the extent that i have