system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[ELI5] How is it that our brains can know a certain word we want to say, but for some reason can't think of it until someone says it outloud?
gpt
Even though we register that we are having an internal monologue for our whole lives, we often actually think in concepts instead of real time sentences (besides forcing yourself to consciously think in sentences).
This is also how our hours long dream sequences can in reality be only 4 minutes long.
When we want to say something but can't remember the word, we are feeling the concept of what the word is without remembering it's title.