Your pristine inner experience is whatever is directly in your experience, before the footlights of your consciousness, as William James would say-at some moment. My previous blog posts have observed ...

Mel May only realized she was different while reading a news article one day. "Wait, what? Some people hear a voice in their head?" she thought at the time. She was stunned to discover that this was ...

Video games are big business. The value of the global market is pushing the US$200 billion mark (£158 billion): bigger than the music industry and Hollywood combined. But the gaming industry has also ...

Your inner monologue may be less constant than you think—more like a fridge light that turns on when you look. By Jennifer Byrne Published Mar 17, 2026 9:01 AM EDT Add Popular Science (opens in a new ...