But why? According to the rules of natural selection, introspection must come with an evolutionary advantage. And deaf people report using sign language to speak to themselves.Ĭlearly, our inner voices are an inherent part of our minds. It’s also interesting to note that people who stutter out loud say their inner voices speak clearly. Our inner voices have been annoying humans for a long time both the early Christian mystics and Chinese Buddhists were frustrated by their inner voices’ ability to incessantly interrupt their meditation. To say those same words out loud would take close to an hour! One study published in 1990 analyzed people’s rate of inner speech and clocked it at roughly four thousand words per minute. While that might not be a shocking thing to do, it is shocking just how fast we do it. Let’s admit it: we all talk to ourselves.
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