Jordan Phillips

Yes, I have an internal monologue. It's my own voice, and I can modulate it. I've been trying to shout in my head and that's hard, but I also am a quiet person overall... I'm not 110% sure of what I sound like shouting. For your example, yeah, I can impersonate Elsa in my head even though I absolutely could not sing "Let it Go" out loud in a way that anyone would want to hear. ;) I don't think I can really produce other people's voices -- I can't "hear" my dad saying a joke so much as I can remember what he says and how he says it, if that makes sense. I feel like I have a very rich inner life -- I talk to myself and think things out that way all the time!  One thing you might want to investigate is subvocalization -- this is the voice in your head as you read. Apparently speed readers try and reduce/eliminate it, since I guess you can only read as fast as you can "say it" to yourself. When we subvocalize, there are actually small movements in the larynx, that would also be active during speech. I'm not an expert in this by any stretch, but your internal voice is important to subvocalization, and other more heavy cognitive tasks can lead to subvocalization... again, I'm not an expert here, but its something I've been learning about lately as I explore the topic of how people think!

I'm also an artist! Part of me is surprised that I'm not more disrupted by aphantasia. Kind of wild to me that I can't visualize anything but can draw lots of things from memory with a pretty high degree of accuracy.

I have no visual imagination. I also don't have visual dreams. I think I can conjure up sound, but it's hard for me to tell if its my own internal voice sort of doing an impression of the voice in question, as though I'm preparing to perform it, or if it's actually closer to the "true" audio. I think I have an inner monologue more often than most, but I also wonder if some of that has to do with being an only child and/or living alone. Taste, like lots of others in this thread, is sort of vague -- I can make my mouth water, but much like my "visualization" attempts I'm moreso thinking of the concept of a food and perhaps how I would describe it to someone else rather than actually sensing it.  Smell and touch I could only think of in words. I can remember what jumping into a swimming pool smells and feels like, but I can't give myself that sensation, I'm just sort of describing it to myself like some sort of bizarre guided meditation. 

I used to teach high school art and had a student who told me he had it. I looked it up, which led to a rabbithole of videos, articles, etc. Like many others, I assumed a lot of language around imagining things was figurative. 

Yes, but not very often -- I'd guess about 10 times in my 30 years.

My dreams feel more like short, emotional stories or experiences -- no visuals. I'm not really sure if there are sounds, definitely not any other senses. I rarely remember dreams (I'm not sure how to differentiate between "not dreaming" and "not remembering dreams") but the ones I do remember are stress dreams on a few similar topics. I have had only a handful of pleasant/neutral dreams in my life.  An example: I awake and remember dreaming that I had to pack for a flight to Italy very quickly and on the plane I realize I've forgotten something important.