Man, this is a really weird thread. I don’t vocalize my thoughts internally either unless I need to formalize and remember them. My guess is that the people who can’t imagine not having an inner monologue just don’t take control of that process, since I can’t imagine they’re unable to think at all without mentally vocalizing things.

And now it sounds like a lot of meditation is training to be able to think the way you or I do, haha.

Is there any useful, productive research out there about this stuff? The only time I’ve come across any convincing or scientifically rigorous psychology was when Feynman did some for fun in his spare time and wrote about it