For me there’s two separate participants, a ‘talker’ and a ‘listener’. My mind identifies more with the talker, because that’s the one that has agency. Since there are two participants, both of which are me, I talk in 1st person plural (‘we’ve got to do …’, 'we thought about this earlier’). I stopped being afraid of being alone after I started having an internal dialogue around the age of 11, since having a second participant in the conversation meant I was always in company.

Edit: Wow, looks like there’s a lot more diversity in this than I was expecting

  • Hexarei@beehaw.org
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    6 hours ago

    For me it’s like there’s a council in my head, but they’re all me. One takes the center and the rest are all around, in the “room” in my head. Each one is a specialist at a different thing, which includes one of them who is always putting on a performance of a song.

    So far I’ve identified:

    • A singer
    • A problem-solving orchestrator (gets all the others to collaborate)
    • A lover (occasionally pines for affection, loves being cutesy)
    • A joker (shouts jokes over the rest of the voices)
    • 3-5 non specialists that just deliberate about things
    • A writer (functions as my inner monologue when I’m writing something)

    My wife will poke fun at me because sometimes I’ll end up narrating my own thought processes with “we” and she’s like “Got a mouse in your purse?”