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Phone rings, DJ answers
Intrusive thought calling in: .... Hi! ... Long time listener, called lots in the past ... but I was thinking ....
- Program gets interrupted and DJ has to take a few hours to gain control of the broadcast again .....
  https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
  Whole studio is constantly dancing the whole time

"Am I ~~hungry~~ horny or am I bored?"
The answer to all variations is almost always "bored".

And now, it's time for 12 straight hours of the same catchy 30 second clip from this song you overheard in the grocery store!
- Sentience is hell

tfw you don't have an internal monologue...
- Yeah, I was honestly confused for a good while when I learned the concept of zen.
  "Clear your mind."
  "Ok."
  "No, really, clear you mind."
  "I already said ok."
  
  Ooo if you are actually interested, the tradition of Chan Zen definitely has more to say than that. I see how Soto Zen may be seen that way with its intense focus on meditation. Also Soto Zen is way more known in the west than Chan.
- Me neither. Well, sort of. I kinda have a dialogue in my head where I say what is on my mind while talking to another person. But even if get an internal monologue, it's detached if that makes sense. It took me throughout my life to only realise recently that most people have internal monologues, and a lot of people don't like it.
  Studying the inner monologue, or lack thereof, is actually a newly emerging study. There is newly coined term for someone with little to no inner monologue but I forgot what it is called. Anyhow, a study found that those with little or no internal monologue tend to be forgetful, because they don't repeat what they have to remember in their minds. Which explains a lot why I am forgetful.
  
  The way I describe it, is that I can think of words, rather than thinking in words. So, like I could easily make up an internal dialogue, and and sort of mentally roleplay it in my head (though I also have aphantasia, so I even that's not the way most people do it), but those words come after the intention to do it. This idea of "hearing" words in my head that I didn't consciously will in to existence is completely foreign to me
  
  My internal FM mostly plays music unless I'm thinking of something to say.
  
  most people have internal monologues, and a lot of people don't like it.
  Imagine having someone who is constantly by your side all day and all night, they do not stop talking to you the entire time without stopping because they don't need to breathe, now imagine that half of what they were saying was reminding you in intricate detail that one time you said that weird thing to that person, over and over and over, you can't make it stop, it will stop when it is done, the other half is either the most bland and boring thoughts or some of the most bat shit crazy ideas.
  Now imagine trying to have a conversation with a person who you really want to hear what they have to say, they say one random innocuous word which triggers that voice to go on a 5 minute rant about something else that has nothing to do with what that person was saying, you try to focus on the person you want to listen to, but the voice inside your head is exponentially louder than the other persons voice.
  Now imagine you're extremely tired, you need to get up early and you need to be rested, that annoying little fuck will sit there all night talking about how you need to sleep and how horrible it is you can't sleep, but do you remember when you were 5 and you told that kid that really cringe thing, yeah thats what we're gonna be talking about tonight...
  I'd give anything to make that voice shut the fuck up for half an hour.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming, these are your earbuds blasting out whatever it takes to stop thinking for even one second.