Our Inner Voice

What are you doing sitting here all by yourself?
Thinking.
What do you mean?
I'm thinking, how can I, I'm busy with the act of thinking!
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What is thinking?
I sometimes find myself having a conversation with my inner voice. It tells me to do this or that, and I say no, not that, let's do this or that!
My inner voice likes to argue with me! And sometimes it is very annoying!
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Doesn't every human being have an inner voice?
You know, that inner voice that interferes with everything, as if it lives with us inside, but even if it wants to shout, its voice cannot be heard from the outside, and on the other hand, it thinks that it knows everything better than us!
Do you also have an inner voice?
Our inner voice is quiet, but it is actually very dominant. In a sense, it is our inner voice, the representative of the devil, that seduces us most of the time!
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When the wife leaves the house, she starts talking to herself.
I switched off the lights, I didn't iron today, the windows are closed, the hair dryer is not plugged in, and so on and so forth. She has a rhetoric that she puts in order when she leaves the house, and she does not leave the house without repeating the order in her head out loud.
Usually, he does this when we are going to dacha or something, when we will not be at home for a while.
I read somewhere that people perceive things better if they repeat them out loud in the same order.
At least after leaving the house, I guess she doesn't have to get excited because the iron is plugged in, so it's a useful habit.
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Is the iron plugged in? Isn't it? Mum, can you run and check?
This was the question the older daughter used to ask her mother on the phone when she left the house.
Now it has become a habit, when she leaves the house, she switches off the electric fuse in her room so that her mind doesn't stay at home.
Shame on me, I gave her advice.
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I think too much repetition makes you memorise certain things, it becomes a habit. Then again, because you do it without understanding it, you are sceptical anyway.
At least that's what happens with me. Sometimes, for example, if I have just arrived home, I get up a little later and check the outer door, I don't remember if I have closed it, I mean locked it. I have it on automatic, I actually lock it, but for some reason I can't remember at that moment.
There has never been a moment when I haven't locked it, but my subconscious mind doesn't write that moment in my memory because it is a habit, that's all.
So I think there is no need to repeat things so much.
There are also opinions that we should change the repetitions in order to be conscious of what we do.
For example, for myself, if I develop a new rhetoric of locking the outer door, first lock it one round, now open it back and lock it two rounds, just to break the memorisation, I will no longer doubt whether I locked the door.
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However, I have a method that I apply myself when I go to the supermarket for these repetitions.
During the day, or starting from the last time I went to the supermarket, I number the things I need in my mind as I think of them.
Then, when I go to the supermarket, for example, if I have kept in my mind that there are five necessities, I check in my mind whether I have bought those five things in the supermarket. For example, if I have bought four of them and I don't remember the fifth one, I definitely remember it somehow after a little thought.
But I don't repeat those five things out loud when I leave the house like the lady, I repeat them in my mind, to myself.
Maybe I should also consider the lady's method, I haven't made up my mind yet.
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Some people have very good memorisation skills. My memory has always been not that good. I couldn't even memorise a poem properly at school.
I think those with good memorisation skills also have their own memorisation methods.
I feel like most of them are probably playing with their inner voice.
I don't know, maybe their inner voice tells them to remember what they memorised and they remember what they memorised.
In other words, sometimes our inner voice becomes a good authority for us.
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When we think, do we really think with our inner voice?
Or is it just us?
Do we need our inner voice for thoughts?
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Look, another thing that has been on my mind is what language do we think in?
I sometimes find myself thinking in Russian, especially if I am watching something in Russian.
The same goes for English and Turkish.
Sometimes I skip languages in my mind.
I guess we choose a language according to the topic of the moment.
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But sometimes when several languages are spoken in business meetings, our minds start to work in a different way.
Translation is something else!
How do simultaneous interpreters do it?
For example, I can never do simultaneous translation.
In order for me to translate, I will first understand what is being said and then I will explain the same thing to the person next to me in the other language.
Therefore, my translations cannot be word-for-word translations.
In this way, I think translation is an easy thing.
But I cannot believe that the simultaneous interpreters themselves understand the subject. They do not have time to explain the subject.
Maybe they do understand, I really don't know.
As I said, my memory is not that strong, but if they have a good memory, then maybe, those with a good memory might be able to remember what was said.
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As we say thinking, sometimes there are people talking to themselves on the road.
In fact, when these wireless earphones first came out, I used to wonder what was going on.
When we went to Germany, in Frankfurt, I think, I saw a lady talking to the trees in a small park and that was the first time I saw with my own eyes what it meant for a person to talk out loud to themselves.
No, those bluetooth headphones hadn't come out yet.
So I doubted that lady's sanity a little bit.
She was already getting angry at the trees, she was gesticulating. She was running fast from one tree to another.
I didn't understand what she was saying because she was speaking German, but this situation seemed strange to me.
When wireless headphones first came out, I would see some people talking to themselves on the street and I would marvel at how many of them were here.
Then I got used to it, now people with headsets are everywhere and yes, they are really normal and they are just making phone calls.
So we don't need to doubt the sanity of every self-talker we see, especially with the opportunities offered by today's technology, people are now laughing at themselves on the streets, talking to themselves, in a sense they have lost their sanity, but on the other hand they have become smarter.
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Although it is quite rare, it is still possible to come across people who are mentally unstable and talk to themselves on the road.
For example, I recently came across a lady, who was quite old, talking to herself in the vegetable aisle of the supermarket about whether to buy this or that.
No, I did not doubt the sanity of that lady, but I would be lying if I said that I did not find it strange. Every time I see someone talking to themselves, I remember that young lady in Germany and I felt sorry for her.
I couldn't help her because of the language barrier, so I guess that moment stuck with me.
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I wrote in one of my previous articles that in our language thinking is related to dreaming.
Indeed, we Turks have made both actions related, thinking and dreaming!
For some reason, this correlation does not exist in other languages. I don't know if there is one.
At least there is no such relation in the languages I know.
In our case, I think that the relation is not directly with dreaming, but with dreaming.
If we call dreaming dreaming, which I think should be the Turkish word for dreaming, we can say that in a sense it is possible to establish a relation between the two.
First of all, both actions are performed while we are conscious.
Only in one of them, we are thinking about something a little more from life, while in the other, we are thinking about things that we are not sure that they will come true, but we say how nice it would be.
Since dreaming itself is an event that takes place during sleep, when we are no longer conscious, perhaps dreaming should be defined with a different word.
Let's call it a dream! I had a dream!
Sure, why do we say "dream" now when there is a Turkish word for it?
I would understand if you called it a "vision", because a dream is something we see while we are asleep, but I think a word related to seeing would suit a dream better.
Vision!
By the way, there is indeed a word called "appearance" in our language. It was introduced in 1935 within the scope of the language revolution as the Turkish version of the Arabic words tezahür or tezahürat. Its written meaning in the dictionary is actually hadise.
However, I have never heard anyone say something like "manifest", that is, it became a phenomenon instead of "appeared".
In other words, it seems that this word has not caught on like many other words.
Therefore, instead of dream or dream, I think a more accurate word is phenomenon. If anyone agrees with me, they can use it in their daily lives.
Tell me, what visions did you have tonight?
No! No! I won't say a word without saying no!
That's what my late mother always said, for some reason she wouldn't tell me about her dreams without saying "no".
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The term "appearance" is made, sir, madam, tell me your appearance and you'll understand your tomorrow.
I wrote "tomorrow" to rhyme! There is no such word in our language. The correct word is tomorrow, of course! I just wanted it to rhyme.
I think vision can really be used instead of dream.
I think dreaming is the correct verb instead of dreaming.
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In one way or another, thinking is an action we all do without realising it. It's a God-given gift!
There are no people who don't think!
There are some who find it difficult to think. There are even those who rent their mind to someone else and become zombies, but a normal person is born with the ability to think.
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That doesn't seem to be the case in the animal kingdom!
A thinking chicken?
Have you ever seen a cow that burnt its ships?
I guess there are those who look at the train, but not those who think.
Can you imagine? For example, if you had a cat sitting in the Black Sea like a shipwrecked cat brooding, would that be possible?
What do you think about this? Do you think animals can think?
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I think they probably think, but they can't think as long as we humans do.
At least I know a dog that dreams.
A friend of mine was telling me that his dog was always dreaming. When I asked her how she could tell, she said that who knows what he sees in his dreams, but when he wakes up, he reacts nonsensically. I didn't ask him in detail how he reacted, but he somehow understood that his dog was dreaming.
At least I have heard that dogs dream.
I promise that if there are academic studies on this subject, that is, whether animals dream or not, I will investigate and write about it sometime later.
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Let's talk about our inner voice!
Some people have what we call a sixth sense, we can also say that some have strong intuition.
It is useful for such people to listen to their inner voice.
Okay, our inner voice is a little bit the voice of our fears.
Anyway, the dreams we see are the things that we experience during the day while we are asleep most of the time, which seem real to us during the coincidence of the things we see with the information previously stored in our memory, reordering the information in our memory according to the order of importance and deleting unnecessary information from the memory.
In a sense, dreams are the images that seem to be related to us when the things we see but do not pay attention to are reviewed and their relations with the information in our memory are investigated.
On the other hand, they can warn us about something we don't really know. This is because our intuition is also involved in the evaluation when we dream.
In a nutshell, aside from our fears, I think it is useful to re-evaluate the decisions we will make by thinking at least once more about what our inner voice says, whether it is about the decisions we make instantly or the dreams we see.
As the ancients said, the throat is nine throats, think a thousand, say one.
You can guess that these words can also be interpreted as think a thousand, do one.
Could our inner voice actually be the angels of Kirâmen kâtibin?
It can indeed, why not?
Anyway, another name for them is Guardian angels.
Listen to your inner voice! You will not be wrong.
My love and respect to everyone from Moscow.