DECEMBERING: NO INTERNAL DIALOGUE?

  30 to 50% of people don't have internal monologues! 

As in theydon't have conversations with themselves in their heads. 

And as someone who often internalizes my thoughts like dialogues between 

the ghosts of Mark Twain, Freud, and Harlan Ellison ---

or constantly asking myself: "What am I missing?"

 this factabsolutely baffles me.

Most of us have an inner voice: 

that constant presence thattells you to “Watch out,” or “Buy shampoo,” or 

“Urgh, this girl’s so vain and not like one of the weather kinds!”

 Formany of us, this voice sounds much like our own, or at least how we think wesound.

I write my books usually in first person:

to me it  makes sense because we (the readers) need to know what’s goingon in the story.

But I have friends and readers who are thrown off by my protagonist

thinking to himself or remembering a like incident in the past ...

It derails their enjoyment of the action.

Current science says it is possible for people to live without innermonologues. 

Those people just happen to think in a more blatant version compared 

tothose of us who do have inner monologues. 

Also, it doesexplain a lot about the current world today.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?