It sounds like how I sound to myself when speaking, but not how I sound listening to a recording of myself.
It also sounds different if I’m reading someone else’s words.
It seems there is evidence that our larynx moves when we think. So the inner voice is actually ours as well.
I sound more confident in my head than when I actually say things out loud, I wish my outer voice was just as confident as my inner voice
It sounds like how I think I sound, so nothing like what I really sound like in recordings.
Depends who’s in. It’s nice when Christopher Walken drops by.
It doesn’t have a sound, it’s just the words themselves.
I know this is impossible to describe like explaining vision to a blind person, but how does that work? I can hear mine and can not hear someone if I’m thinking hard enough
Maybe I do hear it in some sense, but in my head it doesn’t seem to have the sound of a voice in the sense that you hear Professor Farnsworth’s distinct voice when you read, “Good News, Everyone!” My own thoughts don’t seem to have a sound. Maybe it’s just a neutral sound that doesn’t seem to be a sound because it’s my own thoughts, I dunno.
Can you hear music if you focus on it? If so what do singers sound like?
It doesn’t sound like me, It (usually) sounds like a man, (which I’m not) but it also sounds female sometimes (but also not my vocie) It must have something to do with the fact that I don’t like the sound of my voice. The inner monologue also goes back and forth between the languages that I know.
Same here to some degree. I can make it lower-pitched, and it still feels natural, but not higher-pitched without focusing hard for some reason.
It’s mine, always has been. Always knew it wasn’t god speaking to me.
Unfortunately it’s also self-loathing. I’ve spent years retraining it / myself.
Me, absolutely me. Full on audio, my voice. Not all the time, but a lot of the time.
Mine takes on elements of whoever I’ve been hearing a lot of lately. Had Dexter’s voice when I was watching the show. Had Serj Tankien for a bit. It varies.
our head voices are only ever versions of ourself. we’re not hearing presidents or celebrities when we think. only when things around us are really bad do we think-talk over each other.
It sounds like what I think I sound like. Completely different from when I’m taped
I hate hearing a recording of my voice. It is a lot different compared to how I think I sound.
Place your hands in front of your ears (pinky against your temple palms facing ears) while you speak and you can come close to how it sounds on a recording.
I used to work with video production for a while and a lot of voice over artists do that to preview what they sound like.
I think my inner voice sound like I think I sound.
I sometimes have quite a strong accent irl. In my head I don’t.
I’m trans. Born male, transitioned female. I’ve always had a female inner monologue. Nothing like what I sound like out loud.
I’m also a trans woman and I think my inner voice is just genderless it’s hard to describe.
That’s interesting. I’m also transfeminine, and my inner voice sounds like however I think I sound at the moment. Like, it transitioned with me, and also changes when I’m sick.
My internal monologue has no sound, it’s just raw words. Not text, just the concept of words.
My thoughts can have a voice if I give it one, but not by default. Usually things only have “sound” in my head if I’m playing a song in my head or something.
For me no inner voice of any kind. It’s just sort of there. No minds eye either.
If anyone wants to look them up they are called Aphantasia (no pictures in mind) and Anendophasia (no inner voice).
I have a minds eye and can give my thoughts a voice if I choose, but they aren’t there by default. Interestingly though, I am a parent to a child who appears to have aphantasia.
This is me too. Though I can generate an inner steam of words, those words have no audio qualities and are purely conceptual. They also come “after the fact”. I’m thinking of words, rather than words being the medium of my thoughts.
Maybe I’m an idiot, but I can’t figure out what it is people are calling an inner voice. I just have thoughts; they aren’t internal vocalizations and often aren’t comprised of words. I don’t know how to describe them. It’s like a chaotic flow of imagery and sometimes words that forms a whole diorama of moving images and the logic that pairs with them.
Not everyone has an “inner voice”. Having one isn’t anything particularly notable either. Humans seem to conceptualize there thoughts in a variety of ways and none of them signify your intelligence imo. For me though it is a very literal inner voice. I conceptualize my thoughts using internal words or pictures. I will even speak to myself directly through a sort of dialogue. I think it comes from reading a rediculous amount of books as a kid.
I have both forms. The inner monologue voice is a common learned way of thinking. For me it’s a way of testing how things sound, before using it in public. It also formalises ideas for memory.
Below that, I have my mindstream. It’s the active amalgamation of ideas, images and concepts that forms my intellect. It’s difficult to map to language, since it’s not bound by language.
The inner monologue is useful, but not required for intellectual thought. In fact, it can be a detriment. It’s hard to process things, when you don’t have the language for it. It is, however quite useful for presenting ideas. An inner monologue lets you practice what you will say, and how you will explain things to someone else. I’m autistic, so I often need to preprocess what I am about to say. My inner monologue lets me test if it’s “socially inappropriate” (aka batshit insane) before it comes out my mouth.
