On May May only realized that she was different when reading a news article one day. “Wait, what? Some people hear a voice in their head?” He thought at that time. She was stunned to know that it was not just a figure of speech – her friends were really talking to themselves in their mind. May, a 30 -year -old Australian video maker who lives in New York, is trying to convince his family: “I don’t have a voice in my head.”
“My father was like, ‘You are lying’,” He told AFP. But once came around his father, who started working with psychologists in May who agreed – he is one of the very rare people who lack internal speech. The idea that some people cannot experience this phenomenon, so new that a clinical name, Enndofasia, was proposed only in a paper last year.
It has proved to be extremely difficult to study the internal monotonous because it depends on people that they are capable of explaining how they think – and it shows that we are unreliable narrators. “People are unaware of the characteristics of their own internal experience,” Russell Herlbert, a psychology professor at Nevada, Las Vegas, is ignorant of the characteristics of their own internal experience. “
“And no matter how confident you are, Herlbert said, a pioneer in the field that has studied people with many internal experiences including May. Herlbert said that most people are speaking their internal voice all the time, but it is actually one of many events of our internal experience. Others include visual imagination, “incompatible thinking”, feelings and sensory awareness.
Only one quarter of time?
To study these events, Herlbert researched, in which a Bipper would have to go randomly, while the study participant was reading Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” and described what was in his head. He said that instead of uttering words in his inner voice, they were actually making visual paintings – “his own video” – of the book, he said.
People also have different types of internal speeches. Some have many voices, while bilingual people can switch languages. California -based particle physicist Giyorden Stark, who was born deaf, has a mixture of internal speech and visual images. The 34 -year -old told AFP, “I don’t think of the word ‘bed’ in my head, but I imagine the idea of killing my head pillow, which is similar to the sign of a symbolic language for the word.
To guess how often people are hearing an internal voice, Herlbert emphasized that a lot of research is required on the subject. But the figure of a ballpark may be that people are “internal lyrics” 20 to 25 percent of the time.
The average includes people who have more frequent speeches and no one, such as May. Herlbert said, “His internal experience is nothing, but that is an exception rather than rules.” Helen Lownbrook, a major internal voice researcher of French Universit Grenobal Alps, has had to change his mind on whether people like May may also be present.
“I thought everyone had an internal voice recently,” she told AFP. The idea went the counter for his previous work, which suggested that internal speech was an important part of speaking vigorously, which served as “internal simulation”. But Herlbert’s work – and discovery that some people cannot create mental images, a position called Eptasia – changed his mind.
‘Pros and cons’
May believes why there is a lack of an internal voice, she has never been a concerned person – and why meditation is very easy for her. Daniel Gregory, a philosopher who specializing in internal speech at the University of Barcelona, stated that a potential loss of having more internal speech is “a vulnerability to the negative idea pattern, for the rumor”.
But we can “use the internal speech to encourage ourselves, to give themselves positive messages”, he told AFP. May said that this is a common reaction to hear that he has no internal monologue: “Wow, it must be stunning.” “I am really hurry to push back on him because I think there are definitely professionals and opposition,” he said.
“I reflect a lot about what aspects of living experience I am remembering.” Along with not emphasizing the future, it can be a difficult time to remember the past. Loevenbruck said that those who had studied with Aphantasia reported to be “strange” autobiographical memories “because they have no sensory way to relieve memory”.
May insisted that the lack of an internal voice did not mean that she was unable to think. “I haven’t gone in. I know the stuff and I feel the stuff,” said that, who plans to create a documentary about his experience. Asked what is going on through his head, he just replied. “Okay, I’m sitting here, I am listening to you and then I just answer automatically. And that’s it.” It is not how it happens for everyone? ,
