Thursday DE: Open your mind

[bjornwilde]

Earlier this week, or sometime recently at least, I saw a bunch of people on my FB feed linking to this article talking about how not everyone has a constant internal monologue going on in their heads.

Which has me wondering, does your pup have an inner monologue? What about other types of mental processing? Do they find themselves visualizing things others say without meaning to? Do they link current events with past events or scenes from movies or TV or books?

And to change the angle of the topic, if you have the inner monologue voice, does it change when you are writing for your pups?

Comments

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka, I feel, does not have an inner narrative, though she will "hear" either Anakin or Obi-Wan when she needs to puzzle out a particularly challenging problem. She tends to think spatially though, or at least much more than other species tend to.

Sabine does have an inner narrative and also she will visualize many things when the idea is presented to her. She can't help herself, though there are times she wishes she could.

Dog seems like a monologue herself in many ways.

Viv is very aware of her thoughts but doesn't "hear" them per se. She also tends to ahve many different thought processes occuring at the same time.

[bjornwilde]

I forgot to answer the other angle. I definitely have my inner voice change when I am writing different characters; the clearer the voice the strong the character is to me.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato definitely has an inner monologue, because we get to hear it in the novels, but he also has a kind of always-on spatial awareness. He tracks the positions of people around him at all times (which is the main reason Barry speeding in and out makes him grumble a little, since the movement is too fast for him to track) relative to the positions of exits and anything that might provide a tactical advantage if a fight breaks out.

Eden doesn't have an inner monologue. KH is vague on the subject of how much Nobodies 'think' and how much they just give the illusion of thinking -- we see them clearly make decisions, pose theories, all the other stuff that indicates cognitive ability, but canon always sets them up as empty shells acting out a performance of being people, with thinking and feeling both relegated to the heart.

[ceitfianna]

According to the novelization, Cassian definitely has an inner narrative and I know I do, so most of my characters end up with one. Its just the way that I write. His is very focused on constantly analyzing what's going on around him and being aware almost to the point of hyperaware at points. Its part of why he's always so tired.

Of all of them, I think Charles has the loudest and the most controlled inner voice as he also has to listen to other people's inner voices. That's why writing him is always challenging and fascinating.

I'm not immediately sure about the details of the others though I think of all of them, Demeter and Tumnus have the simplest narratives.