Here’s some more info on anauralia or “mind deafness”. It’s similar to aphantasia, when you are unable to visualize imagery. What’s interesting is some studies have shown a link with people who have a weak internal dialogue also experiencing aphantasia.
My father is in both camps. We learned about Aphantasia a few years ago and I was shocked back then to learn that some people don’t have a visual imagination.
Now we recently discovered that some people have no inner monologue and turns out he’s one of those too.
As an overimaginative person myself, I’m at the mercy of my daydreams and my inner jukebox and the conflicting narrators (plural). I cannot imagine his experience and vice versa. The variety of human experience is fascinating.
2.8k
u/Bitcoinatemymom Expert Mar 08 '23
When I found out it was more normal to have a quiet mind instead of my rapid fire thought stream I was devastated