Does anyone else use Hexbear in their head?
Sometimes I think of something I'd want to post but instead of posting it I just imagine what the replies would be.
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2026
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Sometimes when my life gets confusing I whisper to myself beanis treatlerite outdoor cats and then everything makes sense
This is why badposting is for. Let your posts fly free
If I did that I'd be banned, I have the most unhinged badpost pulsions
If I did that I'd get a doorknock within the hour
Oh fuck I had a good idea for a bad post yesterday and didn't post it
You can just say ppb, this is taking forever
I have to believe this is just someone taking the piss
for my own sanity, if nothing else
Has to be
i hear a voice that says, "you are jesus christ and everyone wants to have sex with you."
pretty sure it's god.
Nope, that's Heinlein
high quality shit post
Does anyone else hear a little voice in your head that talks about the things you're doing and gives you hints about what to do next?
I ate Clippy to consume his power
Yes. Not everyone has an internal monologue but also having one isn't necessarily a bad thing. Brains just brain how they brain
I do not, it genuinely worries me when other people say they do.
Your ability to also tell that voice "but of course that's ridiculous for a large number of reasons" is the governor that prevents the voice from being a problem in most people who do have an inner monologue. When someone thinks their inner monologue is something else's voice, like a diety, that's when it becomes a problem because it removes personal agency while elevating the significance or validity of their thoughts.
it's not an outside voice telling you to do something, it's just forming thoughts as word to go alongside images and emotions. If you do a lot of reading and writing you will start to do it more. Everybody does it a bit, and everybody also sometimes thinks intuitively and quickly off of images and emotions only. The whole idea of two "categories" of people is almost always bunk (introvert-extrovert psuedoscience for example, there aren't 2 species of humans who 'gain energy' in opposite ways. There's just people who have a more developed set of social 'muscles' where they are not as overwhelmed by social interaction)
I mean, I talk to myself maybe sometimes but that's actually vocalised either out loud fully or as like a whisper. I don't do it all the time though, thoughts are intangible, they're not individual words to me, they're more like clouds, and when thinking about an extremely complex problem it's more like a whirlwind or storm with clouds of thoughts forming from it.
It's not a monologue to me because it's much more complex than just speaking to myself, which does not happen in my head unless I consciously try to do it.
everyone has internal dialogue when writing, by the very nature of writing which is forming our thoughts into words. Some people just do it all the time, some people do it only while writing
I have no outside basis to believe it, but I believe this anyway: It's a learned behavior. I don't think it's something you should worry about, plenty of people don't. You still have the same interiority as everyone else. Just never fell into that pattern of behavior.
Meditation often talks about "quieting" the inner monologue. I've tried sporadically (whenever I actually remember it, really) and for me it feels... like un-clenching a muscle that you've held clenched all your life. It's at once relaxing and difficult, because that "muscle" will just clench back up - the monologue starts rambling - at the first moment I stop actively trying to "quiet" it. I get the sense that if I stuck to it and was stubborn, I'd eventually be able to quiet it without actively trying.
I agree with you here. forming thoughts into words and sentences is not the only way of thinking. Keep practicing that unclenching, it's worth it! I was introduced to "quieting" through Zen Buddhism and after years of practice (full, regular meditation wasn't even necessary) I've switched over to "quiet" being the default state probably more than half the time. Using exterrnal memory aids has helped with this, life and work can get busy. I love sticky notes!
koishi i love not thinking is hilariously apt bc shes close to enlightenment due to not thinking
An internal monologue is a normative experience. We really do live like this, for better or worse.
by normative do you mean normal? I'm p sure that's not what normative means.
Yeah, I whiffed it. TY for the catch!
recreating the prehistoric bicameral mind from first principles
Don’t make AI into a literal god challenge
Zeus, are we cooked?
primeval lizard brain: yes. you've never been so cooked as you are now. freak the fuck out and run into the wilds and never return.
Still applies today though, dunnit?
This is literally the same dynamic as praying to god in Abrahamic faiths.
Please don't let the term "thinking" get replaced by "consulting your internal LLM".
People discovering thinking in 2026
Must be nice not to have any thoughts in your head.
I would literally prefer tricking myself into believing in Koishi from touhou than ever consulting an LLM
I had a stroke trying to parse this post title
You spent too many tokens and got into a loop on your brainGPT? Did it go over budget on the token allowance?
Professor Oak's voice appearing in my head as if he were Professor X when I'm trying to use a fishing rod in a fossil musem: "There's a time and place for everything, but not now"
Me: Wow, did I just get ChatGPT in my head?
So, like, poe's law, but, do some people just not know about thinking? I know some folks don't have an internal monologue, but they can still ideate.
There are a number of people who have no inner monologue, so it stands to reason that other people don't realize what someone is talking about when they say they're thinking.
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