I have 4 "channels" acting simultaneously in my mind at all times. In other words, they are all separate inner dialogs that I control.
One manages imagery and allows me to rotate objects in my mind's eye.
Another manages music, prayer, and that can be memorized.
Another is my inner dialog, and is effectively my "voice" when I'm thinking.
The final one is a sporadic counter-argumentative "voice" that acts as the devil's advocate for anything my primary "voice" is working through. Effectively, it is the critic of my mind that ensures I don't just buy into every single crazy idea that I come up with.
All four can act at the same time, but usually tasks only require three at any point in time.
For example, when reading I can visualize the setting, and use the two "voices" as characters when in dialog. It takes me longer to read, because I actually allow my mind to "act" out the lines as if it were a movie.
Further, when praying I can recite the prayer from memory and continue to think and interpret my surroundings and even use my inner dialog to evaluate things.
So, to recap, if I wanted to I can pray the Our Father, visualize an origami crane rotating on two axes, think about how there is a Dark and Light Gray but no Dark White or Light Black, and the final voice points out how stupid Dark White and Light Black would be and that I am devaluing my prayer time by thinking about.
If I try real hard, I can get a fifth "channel" to pop in that does math, but that one is about as effective and reliable as Hunter on the board of Burisma.
My "voices" even parse things through one another.
For example, my inner voice allocates the speaking tasks to my music/prayer voice. It allows me to think WHILE talking and also have the critic there to make sure I don't say something stupid that destroys my own arguments.
I fully suspect people who talk out loud don't have one or the other of those "channels"
It's like a multi-threaded CPU. Dumb people just have one or two threads and their logic implodes if you give them too much to think about all at once.
I have 4 "channels" acting simultaneously in my mind at all times. In other words, they are all separate inner dialogs that I control.
One manages imagery and allows me to rotate objects in my mind's eye.
Another manages music, prayer, and that can be memorized.
Another is my inner dialog, and is effectively my "voice" when I'm thinking.
The final one is a sporadic counter-argumentative "voice" that acts as the devil's advocate for anything my primary "voice" is working through. Effectively, it is the critic of my mind that ensures I don't just buy into every single crazy idea that I come up with.
All four can act at the same time, but usually tasks only require three at any point in time.
For example, when reading I can visualize the setting, and use the two "voices" as characters when in dialog. It takes me longer to read, because I actually allow my mind to "act" out the lines as if it were a movie.
Further, when praying I can recite the prayer from memory and continue to think and interpret my surroundings and even use my inner dialog to evaluate things.
So, to recap, if I wanted to I can pray the Our Father, visualize an origami crane rotating on two axes, think about how there is a Dark and Light Gray but no Dark White or Light Black, and the final voice points out how stupid Dark White and Light Black would be and that I am devaluing my prayer time by thinking about.
If I try real hard, I can get a fifth "channel" to pop in that does math, but that one is about as effective and reliable as Hunter on the board of Burisma.
Hahahaha... Glad to know I'm not the only one with a committee up there.
Yeah, it's good to know others have the same.
My "voices" even parse things through one another.
For example, my inner voice allocates the speaking tasks to my music/prayer voice. It allows me to think WHILE talking and also have the critic there to make sure I don't say something stupid that destroys my own arguments.
I fully suspect people who talk out loud don't have one or the other of those "channels"
It's like a multi-threaded CPU. Dumb people just have one or two threads and their logic implodes if you give them too much to think about all at once.
I'm that way too, can definitely sense the different 'voices'...
Interesting.
I have never thought about how many voices I might have.
Now that I think of it, I know I have at least two.
I have a running dialog and a running, original soundtrack.
I mean, I compose (channel?) music all the time. Sing or hum to myself. Sometimes out loud.
While I think.
But I also think in my dreams. Make decisions. Is that a separate voice?
Bazinga! That’s it exactly!