this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2026
249 points (99.6% liked)
memes
20610 readers
1858 users here now
Community rules
1. Be civil
No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour
2. No politics
This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world
3. No recent reposts
Check for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month
4. No bots
No bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins
5. No Spam/Ads/AI Slop
No advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live. We also consider AI slop to be spam in this community and is subject to removal.
A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Sister communities
- !tenforward@lemmy.world : Star Trek memes, chat and shitposts
- !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world : Lemmy Shitposts, anything and everything goes.
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world : Linux themed memes
- !comicstrips@lemmy.world : for those who love comic stories.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Do normal people really argue with themselves?
I have aphantasia, no visual mind images, and was thinking about the cartoon representation of the devil and angel battling on the character's shoulders.
I learned counting sheep meant actually watching sheep in their mind. Could it be like that?
I'm debating if I have an interal monologe. I can "speak" words in my head.
But I wrote this comment without planning and just wrote it down as it came to me saying each word in my inner voice as I typed it.
I'm by NO means a normal person, but I can have full conversations with imaginary people, and if I try, I can put that part of my own thoughts I'm 'talking to' into either a setting or a person I know's body, at which point the me in my head talks to them like I would talk to that person. It's like rubber ducking but in my own head.
But in terms of arguing with myself about things, I do it a lot when I weigh up pros and cons of doing something, different 'parts of me/my brain' giving differing opinions to come to a decision.
I mean this with no jokes or puns, but I can't imagine having aphantasia, though that's partially because my work and hobbies revolve around (that pun was intended) a lot of mental manipulation of 3d objects to understand how things work.