Your inner monologue may be less constant than you think—more like a fridge light that turns on when you look.

Emily Kwong is pretty sure she lacks an inner monologue, while the inner monologue of producer Rachel Carlson won't stop chatting. But how well can a person know their inner self? And what does ...

Take a second to sit in silence. Is there chatter inside your head? Or is it relatively quiet in there? There’s a conversation making its way around TikTok about this inner voice — or lack thereof.