if i focus hard i can bring myself to almost hallucinate audio -- but that's not what i usually mean when i say "voices" in my head!
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Replying to @fire__exit @insurrealist
yes - most of these folk ideas about inner life or phenomenology breakdown when you *really* analyze them - I suspect ‘inner monologue’ is just another of them
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the classic example is how majority of people used to claim they dreamed in back and white, now majority claim they dream in color
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Replying to @rhyncophorous @fire__exit
It depends on the reason it happens, but it's just the possibility of some people never growing beyond pop entertainment even when it comes to near physiological functions.
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Replying to @insurrealist @fire__exit
lol it’s not like ‘smart’ people are immune to this... it’s pretty universal
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we’re all pretty much equally blind to our inner workings, it’s a hardware constraint
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you’re missing the point, it’s not that peoples dreams ‘really’ changed, it’s just the language and metaphors the culture provided them to describe it
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i remember having specific dreams in black and white when i was quite young, not just about metaphor
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on a mass scale it may be connected to how they get encoded in long-term memory, but dreams can have all the perceptual aspects of waking life
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