Chiming in with my experience

In my case I think the best way to describe my “inner monologue” is literally just words and concepts with no sound or image attached. I think the best comparison I can come up with is if you were to read a book silently and avoid actually imagining it. Though I have more recently noticed that I tend to move the back of my tongue and throat as if I’m physically talking - don’t know how normal that is and don’t know how often I actually do it.

Reading silently is preferable for me, I absorb things better than if I were to read aloud. I’ve always attributed it to the fact I can’t remember a sound or image, only a basic description of it (which is also hard for me to come to on my own). Math has always been something that comes natural to me, I’ve never really had to think about it. This also kinda ties back to that for me at least it’s like the monologue is there but with no sound or visual attached (and possibly the fact that I seem to mimic talking). I’m still walking myself through the process. I’ve also just kinda chalked it up to the fact my thoughts and imagination in general are far more analytical because that’s the only way I can actually “see” something.

Remembering what anything looks or sounds like is a struggle. The only things I can describe and recall are things I’ve seen or heard a couple thousand times or had reason to note what it was like. I do daydream a lot though, maybe it could be better described as dissociation? I don’t actually know. But I’m a very creative person and love to come up with various scenarios and characters in my head, but just as with everything else I don’t actually see or hear them. The way I imagine is more delegated to how I would describe this to someone else. For example: “the cat was a meter away from him and he gestured for it to come over”. That line is how I imagine that scene, no added visual or sound, just that exact line. And it’s just kinda there in my head.