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That whole thing sounds made up. No one hears voices in their head unless they are schizo or under the influence
I can play back music in my head when I'm bored or watch an entire movie. Sometimes even just with my eyes open. And I don't think I have those disorders but who knows
I think I'm just hung up on semantics of it.
I can certainly conjure visuals from data in memory, I can play music back like you said and even change the notes and sounds like a MIDI file being played with a soundfont, but it's not like a movie where there's a slightly reverb'd version of my voice in my head dictating out thoughts involuntarily as a voice. Thoughts are thoughts, they're a separate data type to me than audio or visuals.
A line of thought to me is a sequence of concepts represented by some unknown malleable fuzzy data structure in my brain, not an .MP3 file playing like what "internal narrative" seems to indicate.
At any moment a thought can be cast to another data structure like an image or video or audio, but it's not anything but a thought until I make the choice, likewise this isn't limited to just memories but imagination in equal amounts. I can just as well conjure visuals that aren't real and/or events that didn't happen and experience them in equal amounts and clarity. This is what I understand as daydreaming. But it's not exactly like watching a film, or even to the level of vividness of an actual sleepy-time dream.
I'm very much known by my peers IRL from interactions there and my comments on the interwebz for philsophizing and intellectualising as well and often been told by people as a kid and young adult that I have a very vivid imagination if I share some idea in my head, and it wasn't even an insult I'm pretty sure haha!
Thoughts as its own data structure, not associated with a language or words, sounds so interesting and yet so foreign to me