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>No figure is yet known for the exact prevalence of "ticker tapers" among the synesthete and non-synesthete population, but an interesting study (Holm, Eilertsen and Price, 2015) found that almost half the general population reported some kind of mild experience of this type.

Amazing, I wonder what else I have no idea of will eventually turn out to be experienced by half the population.

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The study is here

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17588928.2015.1...

It's interesting but I think the citation is a little misleading. I think the samples of convenience probably oversample for this kind of thing, and some of what they include is stretching the definition of tickertape synesthesia a bit. They say true tickertape synesthesia is probably rare.

The study itself is fair enough imho, I just think that citation is a little misleading without more elaboration, even with the "mild" disclaimer.

Having an internal monologue (thinking in words/sentences) is actually a minority thing.

Wait. Is it? I see pictures if I focus, but it's mostly like a conversation with someone who lives inside my head.

When I'm tired I sometimes get an inner monologue that just keeps going, but it's nonsensical, like a Markov chain. I have to actively stop it. Annoying.

I get this too! I have to be really tired, lying down and calm. I always think of it as listening to the noise of my subconscious. Mine isn't continuous, more I can pick up nonsensical phrases every 10-20 seconds. I've never heard of anyone else having this!

Have you tried voicing it out loud and recording yourself?

> Having an internal monologue (thinking in words/sentences) is actually a minority thing.

I'm often in robotic mode but as soon as I "think", it's internal monologue (either in french or in english and, maybe maybe maybe, sometimes in code!?).

But I don't have that "stock market ticker tape" thinggamagic: never happened to me to visualize words like that.

Is it really? Would be super interested in reading up on that (not doubting, just very curious)

X to doubt, full of self-important wieners with pitiful imaginations, that are jealous my "red" is "redder" than their "red":

I cant actually picture red; but its a lack of articulateness and a vocal minority rarely-intersecting that drown out my lack of understanding or doubt.

indiscernible from crying, they "cannot also picture red, by a way less than you can empathize with"

nobody actually sees what they think. the wall is blank.

those drifters are usually debris or thiccer blood cell components

You can't picture red and the wall is blank? Sounds like you have aphantasia.

thank you.

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