stream of thought
Continuous inner monologue
Stream of thought is the continuous flow of ideas, impressions, and mental associations passing through a person's mind.
The phrase captures how consciousness moves fluidly from one thing to the next rather than in discrete, organized steps.
In literature, stream of consciousness is a narrative technique that attempts to represent this unfiltered mental flow: The novel's stream of thought passages showed every fleeting observation and half-formed idea.
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- flowUnbroken forward movement
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
- daydreamConscious fantasy while awake
- reverieAbstracted, pleasant daydream
meditation · drift · musings · rambling · introspection · inner monologue · free association · inner voice · meandering · reflection · monologue · awareness · fleeting · subconscious · tangent · musing · wool-gathering · mental
- consciousnessconsciousness, self-awareness, awareness, wakefulness, alertness
- literary psychologypsychological depth, psychological conflict, inner monologue, subconscious, unconscious mind
stream of thoughtlogical reasoning
Structured thought process
systematic thinking · formal logic · linear thinking · analytical reasoning · analytical thinking
stream, streams, streamed, streaming, streamer, streamers, streamlet, streamline, streamlined