/doomer/ - Doomers Club

i think people started to call this NPCs

I deal with this to a degree. I can form images of simple stuff in my head, like geometric solids and writing, but when it comes to visualizing faces and stuff like that, I draw a blank.

>>1658

That was about lack of internal monologue, not this.

I got something like that early this year, but instead of being completely unable of visualizing, it gets disrupted by horrible images/thoughts.

Is this ocd or something, help

>>1673

>lack of internal monologue

i think i may have this too. is it supposed to be sound like someone is actually talking in your ear?

>>1996

only when you're on lots of drugs

>>1996

no that's schizophrenia inner monologue is more like having an argument or discussion but your opponent is you - yourself as "voice" in your head. this is how our brains usually solve shit out especially when you lack enough external stimuli at that particular moment. it can have also negative impacts, for example people with low self esteem, anxiety, depression or whatever can experience inner monologue in form of "abuse" - f.e. literally telling themselves internally they are less worthy, all odds are stacked against them, they can't overcome something, etc. now why is this different and more accurate to be described as inner monologue than simply "just thinking" is usually detachment from the inner voice - f.e. in situations where you analyze problem, so your inner voice represents some opinion/statement and you argue internally against it to reach some conclusion/solution. if the "voice" isn't solely internal but you perceive it as external and often as "not you", in other words as some other person's voice, creature, that's usually symptom of schizophrenia. You are in healthy case not hearing the voice with your ears but you are fully conscious of it being "inside your head" as a thought process.

>>1654

It would seem that there is the possibility of total lack of "internality" or "intensionality" in some brains. It is theorized to exist in philosophy as "philosophical zombies" or just "zombies" for short. Someone is there in the physical sense, and might even pass a turning test and have all the sort of behaviors you expect of a human being in all respects, seeming to think original thoughts, fall in love, react emotionally to things, have a full life of memories…

But no one is home. No one is "inside"………………………………………………………………………..

You are alone, there is no one in the other body. Kind of like an organic robotoid. How about THAT?

>>1994

Intrusive thoughts, could be symptoms of something. I often daydream and for a few months last year whenever I tried visualizing I'd only get thoughts of heavy genital mutilation and other kinds of genuinely cringe inducing shit, probably mind pollution from all the internet garbage. I'd wait and see if goes away on its own.

>>1996

Do you read aloud inside your head the words on your screen? It's like that, without the reading.

>>2022

what if I literally talk to myself when I am alone? is that schizo?

>>2069

Not at all. I caught Terry Davis syndrome and I talk to myself all the time as part of creative thought process.

>>2069

Now, I thought about it and he was a schizo so we are both fucked

>>2071

at least we do not glow in the dark