Grace your Face

Inner monologue definition: a constant background narration that runs in your head describing your thoughts, plans, or actions in lingual form. NOTE: If you only experience an inner monologue when you're actively writing or planning out your writing, then that doesn't count.

When you're making plans in your head to like, get up and do something, or do something later in the day, are you narrating those plans as you sit there planning them?

Because I'm absolutely not, it's just a series of images or feelings, with maybe a word scattered here and there if relevant.

For example, today my spouse and I need to take our Tahoe to the car vet for a checkup (local mechanic). So just now I was thinking about the direction of travel, then lining it up with the time of day and maybe getting lunch while we're out. The only word I thought was "Taco Bell" because there's one over there we might go to. There's a McDonalds over there as well, but my brain didn't think the word. I only thought about an image and flavor of the specific food I'd get if I went there, saw an image of the building in my mind, and imagined the smell of French fries. I also thought about the sequence of events in the form of picturing what direction we'd be coming from and in which vehicle (me driving our other car, my spouse in the Tahoe, then both of us together in the car, coming up to the McDonalds from the direction of the mechanic.)

Then suddenly I thought about this post and only then did any kind of narration start to form in my mind, and only in anticipation of writing a post about it.