S/O: The voice in your head

[mommymilkies]

IF you hear a voice in your head. Not little voices. :tongue_smilie: When I read or think to myself, I hear a voice and see in pictures/movies. Dh thought it was weird that my inner voice that reads when I read or talks to myself is British. I have different voices and they change with the dialect of what I am reading, but it always defaults to British. He says this is weird because I'm from the Midwestern US. I am a British novel/history/TV junkie, though.

 

My dh says he does not think in words visually or by "hearing them" and has no inner monologue.

 

So just curious-what dialect does your inner voice use and is that what you speak?

[acablue]

My inner voice sounds exactly like my speaking voice sounds to me. I'm always surprised when I hear a recording of my speaking voice and it doesn't sounds exactly like my inner voice.

[Jean in Newcastle]

Yes, I hear voices. I talked about it in this thread: http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=239900&highlight=voices+head . The Cliff notes version is that I hear a different voices for each character. If I'm reading a book that has a corresponding movie, I hear the actual actor's voice even though I am not an impressionist. My normal thinking voice is the voice I hear when I speak out loud. When I'm typing, my voice says each word slow enough for me to type it. . . .

[thescrappyhomeschooler]

It depends on what I've been reading/watching. I was in a Downton Abbey kick for a while and I could hear my inner voice (and sometimes my outer voice) having a bit of a British accent.

 

My sister speaks with a British accent from time to time. She doesn't realize she's doing it until someone points it out to her. We are huge BBC fans, so it's not that surprising.

[Tap]

I do hear a faint voice, but it is kinder/nicer than mine. LOL I see pictures too.

[LillyMama]

It depends on what I've been reading/watching. I was in a Downton Abbey kick for a while and I could hear my inner voice (and sometimes my outer voice) having a bit of a British accent.

 

My sister speaks with a British accent from time to time. She doesn't realize she's doing it until someone points it out to her. We are huge BBC fans, so it's not that surprising.

 

:iagree::iagree:

 

I tend to hear what I'm reading, and when it's a lot of British, my inner voice is British. If I cannot pronounce a word or name, my inner voice will actually STUTTER. :D I also hear each character in specific voices, like another poster said, and get very distracted when they make a movie that doesn't match what I heard. Prime example- I could never get through P.S. I Love You because Hillary Swank is NOT that character. And, as much as I love Katherine Heigl, I don't see her as Stephanie Plum.

[kalanamak]

I don't have an inner voice of "my" own. I hear my mother. Now, I believe it is MY brain doing the talking, but I hear her voice. When I use the phone I have it to my right ear. I talked to my mother via weekly phone call from age 19-49. So, I hear her in my right ear.

 

She pipes up when I ask her a question, and sometimes during the day. I can also hear my father, but I have to want to hear him, and I hear him in both ears. I can also will up my brother. The only criteria is you have to be dead. I don't hear the voices of the living. :)

 

Aren't we humans amazing? I wonder, now, if my father and mother heard their family. No one ever mentioned it, but as I type this, I hear my mother's voice telling me she did. :lol:

[Kathryn]

My inner voice sounds exactly like my speaking voice sounds to me. I'm always surprised when I hear a recording of my speaking voice and it doesn't sounds exactly like my inner voice.

 

This. I have no imagination.

[PrincessMommy]

My inner voice sounds exactly like my speaking voice sounds to me. I'm always surprised when I hear a recording of my speaking voice and it doesn't sounds exactly like my inner voice.

 

This is me too.

[prairiegirl]

My inner voice sounds exactly like my speaking voice sounds to me. I'm always surprised when I hear a recording of my speaking voice and it doesn't sounds exactly like my inner voice.

 

This is how it is for me, too.

[theYoungerMrsWarde]

My inner voice sounds exactly like my speaking voice sounds to me. I'm always surprised when I hear a recording of my speaking voice and it doesn't sounds exactly like my inner voice.

 

:iagree: I always have a running narration/commentary/monologue in my head and sometimes I wish I would just.shut.up. :tongue_smilie: :D

[Jean in Newcastle]

:iagree: I always have a running narration/commentary/monologue in my head and sometimes I wish I would just.shut.up. :tongue_smilie: :D

 

I tell myself to shut up sometimes when my inner voice is destructive (putting myself down etc.) but then I get into an argument. . .

[yslek]

:iagree: I always have a running narration/commentary/monologue in my head and sometimes I wish I would just.shut.up. :tongue_smilie: :D

 

This. Makes going to sleep tricky sometimes. My regular inner narrator is my voice (-ish) but my book-reading narrator voice changes...often it's Britsh. I also sometimes have "deeper layers" of narration--like a commentary on the main thought-narration.

[Trilliums]

I don't have an inner voice of "my" own. I hear my mother. Now, I believe it is MY brain doing the talking, but I hear her voice. When I use the phone I have it to my right ear. I talked to my mother via weekly phone call from age 19-49. So, I hear her in my right ear.

 

She pipes up when I ask her a question, and sometimes during the day. I can also hear my father, but I have to want to hear him, and I hear him in both ears. I can also will up my brother. The only criteria is you have to be dead. I don't hear the voices of the living. :)

 

Aren't we humans amazing? I wonder, now, if my father and mother heard their family. No one ever mentioned it, but as I type this, I hear my mother's voice telling me she did. :lol:

 

 

This is really sweet and touching. I hope she gives good advice too. :)

[Gingerbread Mama]

My inner voice sounds exactly like my speaking voice sounds to me. I'm always surprised when I hear a recording of my speaking voice and it doesn't sounds exactly like my inner voice.

 

:iagree:

[Dory]

My inner reading voice always matches with whatever I'm reading, if it's a guy that the voice sounds like a man's, if a woman than a woman's, if British, than a British accent, and so on. I didn't start to develop that until I was in my mid to late teens. Before that everything was movie/picture scenes in my head. I don't really have an 'inner voice' of my own. I have an unending stream of music that doesn't exist anywhere else. It's kinda annoying, but it varies according to how I'm feeling so it's a good emotional barometer for me.

[Catwoman]

The little voices inside my head are telling me it's time to start asking for kilt pictures.

 

But they always say that. :tongue_smilie:

[Lolly]

:iagree: I always have a running narration/commentary/monologue in my head and sometimes I wish I would just.shut.up. :tongue_smilie: :D

 

:iagree:

 

When reading, it changes for each character.

[HSMWB]

My inner voice sounds exactly like my speaking voice sounds to me. I'm always surprised when I hear a recording of my speaking voice and it doesn't sounds exactly like my inner voice.

 

:iagree: And I don't really like how my voice sounds when recorded.

[kalanamak]

This is really sweet and touching. I hope she gives good advice too. :)

 

Indeed, and she is very tactful. She never disagrees with a plan I already have, but only shows up when I "wonder what she would have said", which is exactly how she was in life. :001_smile:

[Scarlett]

IF you hear a voice in your head. Not little voices. :tongue_smilie: When I read or think to myself, I hear a voice and see in pictures/movies. Dh thought it was weird that my inner voice that reads when I read or talks to myself is British. I have different voices and they change with the dialect of what I am reading, but it always defaults to British. He says this is weird because I'm from the Midwestern US. I am a British novel/history/TV junkie, though.

 

My dh says he does not think in words visually or by "hearing them" and has no inner monologue.

 

So just curious-what dialect does your inner voice use and is that what you speak?

 

I hear voices. The character's voice---not usually my own.

 

Also, once I've finished a good book I find myself thinking about every day events in the same rythem---flow--- as the book I just finished.

[Robin M]

I've never really paid attention before. Now I'm going to be listening for the voices and probably drive myself crazy in the process. In the middle of writing a story so will be interesting to see what voices pop in my head for the characters.

 

And yes, I'm one of those who has a running commentary going on throughout the day, interspersed with writing story in my head. Brain is constantly busy. Have had to train myself to shut up while listening to a audiobook.