Ever feel like your brain is just "loud?" More often than not, my inner monologue drowns out everything external. In conversation, I constantly have to ask people to repeat themselves, and in utter silence, I'm completely incapable of relaxing and letting my mind go blank.
Is this a Ne thing, or am I just plain on the verge of losing it?
I have that too! Sometimes, when someone is talking, I'll go off into my own little world for 10 seconds or so, until I realise that the person is staring at me. Then, i snap back into reality, apologise, and ask them to repeat themselves. Sometimes, I even listen and realise I haven't understood a word they've said. The words have registered, but I don't understand because I was thinking about something else.
(Before you call me a bad friend; it only happens sometimes.)
Do you also have several trains of thought going on at once?
Recent example I can show you guys, in my PerC video challenge thingy, one of the bonus questions was, "Are you fascinated with/by wooden planks?" I only realize after posting my video that I never actually answered the question, LOL!!! I did think about wooden planks for a bit though. I guess they did fascinate me?
I remember thinking about the way different wood types looked, the ring patterns, the colors, different stains, the feel of wood, sanding wood, wood flooring, wood flooring patterns, how much some wood types cost over others, and so on, and so on...
Nice, so I'm not the only one who has no idea what people are saying to him.
My mind is always going batshit crazy thinking about 10 things at once only to then realize there's actually someone talking to me now.
Yes to all of it! It's the worst at night and cause me a lot of insomnia problems. Ended up getting severely addicted to Ambien (EVIL stuff). I also do what others mentioned about going off into space when someone is talking to me and not registering a thing they said.
From when I was 15 until I was 18 I was insomniac. I'd stay awake until 5:30am, which is when my dad woke up, then I'd jump off the computer and get in bed. No telling what he'd do if he caught me (actually, I could tell, but it's an unpleasant collection of stories). He'd leave the house at 6:15am, and then my mother would get me downstairs for breakfast etc. If I did get any sleep, it was during those 45 minutes. It WREAKED my body.
Looking back on it now, I did most of my learning on the internet during those years. It launched me ahead of my peers by decades worth of education. Since I've been working and raising a family full-time, I haven't had as much time as I'd like to allocate to just... researching things. I can't afford to be insomnia wreaked again.
Sucks about the Ambien. I'm sure somebody would have tried to force me on some crap like that if they knew what my nights were like back then.
I'm an INFP, but can totally relate to the "loud" brain thing. Sometimes when its really bad and someone starts talking to me, I'm just like "Yeah, uh huh. I know what you mean," and then realize I didn't comprehend a word they were saying because I was thinking intensely of something else. It gets like 10x worse when I'm stressed out.
I feel your pain on the brain "loudness" idea. I sometimes need to slow down my trains of thought so I don't give myself a headache (this especially happens when I'm closing in on a deadline or I'm anticipating something). I need to sit back, take a few breaths and meditate for a few minutes before I return to anything that requires some attention.
Occasionally. I usually only let it happen when I'm bored and waiting for things to get moving. I find letting my brain wander is a nice refreshing break from all the focusing I have to do for work.
My coworker is an ENTP and he has confessed on numerous occasions that he cannot stop his brain from spinning its wheels. It's non stop all the time for him.
It's an N thing more generally. I have a theory that the volume of our internal monologue, and our relation to it is what separates sensors and intuitives. I remember tossing a question out to the various types last year, and the answers were quite distinctive between the two types. Theirs tends to try to cut them down, and make them nervous whereas our is just always on, and tends to go away if we're particularly nervous/scared (at which point we tend to pay attention to all the signals our body is sending)
Not just loud, when not having mind monologue, my mind randomly play up music in my head. When I was driving, in class, even when having a conversation, my mind tend to put on music at random times. That is one of the cause why I have concentration problem.
I have this theory that Ne and insomnia is kind of related. In month long periods, like right now, i just can't seem to shut my brain up enough to get to sleep. The only thing that works is weed, and that makes me stupid the day after...
One sleeps in two blocks, first block at night and the other during the day. Has done the falling asleep standing and leaning thing a few times when really tired.
The next sleeps 5 hours at night and then an hour or so during the day.
The third fell asleep standing and leaning today. I'm not sure about his normal sleeping pattern though.
An ENFP and an INTP I know used to smoke a joint to go to bed.
I know of two ENFJs that hardly ever sleep at all though.
No I am the same way... I prioritize by having my inner monologue as being most important then everything comes second (and third, etc, etc) naturally... but I don't have the problem with paying attention in having conversations with people.
I guess that part is pretty easy and I think I do a wonderful job with this bit although I have been quite the insensitive person lately.
But yes, you're also right, in silence, I'm COMPLETELY incapable of relaxing and letting my mind go blank.
Pretty much. It also suck when having a conversation and when someone says the first few sentences, you start analyzing it like crazy and start missing what they are saying as they continue to talk.
I started making some videos for the main member video forum here, and I've noticed that watching myself, I seem to talk a lot slower than I think I do. Further testament to how loud my brain can be. Although, my "internal monologue" is really just a crap-ton of weird visual data. I mentioned somewhere about my chromesthesia in another thread. Maybe that's why it's so tricky to get my thoughts out, because I have to convert them?
Yes, I often wish it wasn't though. I think I secretly wish I was a lot more introvert than I am...well I say it's a secret but I'll happily shout "WANNA KNOW WHY MY PERSONAL SECRET!?"
Yus. Sad part is is that more often than so it's just a bunch of incoherent garbled white noise that I constantly try to decipher and make sense of when it happens. Apparently I look really deep and methodical during these brief moments and a lot of the time get slammed with the question "Watcha thinkin' about?".
Have to bite down and keep myself from simply saying "Good fucking question."
l've actually not been able to put words together (other people's) sometimes, because of this.
Though, it's usually also triggered by the environment but the combination is death. With the loud brain, in a quiet room l feel pretty normal. lt's just my normal.
The loud brain in a loud room can be problematic. lt can make for some interesting interpretations on my part in discussion though lol.
Anyone also have an issue with typing because of this? Do you often type random words you're thinking of? Once, l was trying to go to a random site and l typed "my phone bill'' into the address bar.
Those awkward moments when you wonder if you're not speaking out loud without realizing it and try to catch the reflections of your voice in the room..
Anyone also have an issue with typing because of this? Do you often type random words you're thinking of? Once, l was trying to go to a random site and l typed "my phone bill'' into the address bar.
Haha heavens no, I dont want to be institutionalized at this time xD
@Topic: Its for me like that too, especially at night which causes insomnia pretty often. The only way to get some sleep for me is to stay up pretty late so I'm to tired to think when I'm going to bed. On normal school days I had between 4 and 5 ours of sleep.
On the other side, I LOVE it that my brain entertains me all the time when I have to wait at checkin lines, wait for people or just moments where normal people would be pretty bored.
There was a point when I tried shutting it up.
It didn't work, at all. Now it "talks" in multiple languages, some I don't even remember how to speak in, and about multiple subjects/potentials in any given moment/area.
It's annoying, to say the least. Also it's mostly become an incoherent jumble due to the infinite.. thingies.
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