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Many of us go about our days with an inner commentary running through our heads.
We’ll ask ourselves if we have time for another coffee on the way to work in the morning. Or remind ourselves that we need to call our mother before the end of the week.
These voices in our heads help us plan, reflect, encourage, criticise or cajole ourselves.
But unlike ordinary thoughts, this inner speech has a seemingly “verbal quality” that plays out much like a dialogue between the different parts of the self.
Dialogue has some very special qualities that involve representing the point of view or the perspective of another person.
If all that is going on internally for you … that’s very powerful, because you can take a perspective on what you yourself are doing.
– Olivia Willis and Lynne Malcolm
Read more: Inner Voices: How Your Internal Dialogue Helps You Make Sense Of The World
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