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https://twitter.com/_nick_diller/status/1596140263298453504?s=46&t=g2F36q1OKSmABUh5In0Baw
- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u69YSh-cFXY I experience internal dialogue but can’t visualise imagery with my eyes closed, it’s just blackness. Couldn’t picture an apple with eyes closed but can visualise the word apple, like a subtitle in the blackness. However, I can visualise an apple with my eyes open.. What about you?
giveusalol
No sound, no pictures, no internal “voice.” Dreams are static and silent. You can read hella fast though.
mike13815
I always wondered how rubber duck debugging worked for people, as if they can't argue with themselves internally over diagnostics.
OneManRubberband
I tried to explain how I think to some friends and none of them understood. It's talking out loud but in my head! What's not clicking!
Jessebob42
We usually have two voices going. We’re both kinda funny though. Darn right we are. Yeah ??.
Jatok
Wow i do the same fantasy world thing, cant fall asleep otherwise. Glad im not the only one
draco25310
Well...50% votes republican so I can believe it.
AmazingNoodleSmuggler
Me and a friend almost got into an argument about this. Turns out she is a very visual thinker and I'm very auditory. So confusing.
LollipopKid
Tbh I thought inner monologue just meant thinking. What's the difference? Does it mean some people don't think and just have blank minds?
HuruinaInu
#2 sometimes I'll listen to music, it gives me 'a thing' to focus on. Big headphones that won't fall off in bed. Music on CD so that --->
HuruinaInu
---> when it ends it shuts off and doesn't play all night. Volume set to just above zero so I can hear it and not blow my ears off.
DesmondHawkins
I learned a trick at camp to fall asleep. I think of my toes and will them to sleep three times. Then my feet, calves, etc. All the way up
wellladeedaa
100% aphantasia, so no images, but (in exchange?) I have extremely good proprioception and can judge dimensions of objects really well
MizWeirdo
Yup, I have a constant stream of noise in my head. And I can totally see a detailed apple in my head.
twistplusfriends
This is such an interesting subject to me. Always thought everyone could imagine whatever they wanted whenever they wanted. What's this lic
twistplusfriends
Picture from?
MizWeirdo
It's an image to illustrate the different levels of internal imagery, to determine where you fall on the scale.
Lowktar
I just assumed that everybody was constantly monologueing to themselves internally
FrolickingFrolicking
Clearly not everybody is. We regularly see IMGUR comments and other forum comments from people who dimwits and not really sentient
paintingagency
You sly dog!
Penelelop
Does that mean some people don’t read in e.g. morgan freeman’s voice, when encouraged to? Or can’t?
airen
Nope not it
HCBailly
kojenk
perfect
LewdSomnambulist
[citation needed]
Maestr055
Are thoughts considered dialogue? Or is it like really a voice?
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
That's my question. I consider it "thinking", not "hearing". Unless it's a song, then I do "hear" it in the voice of the artist. Or a /1
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
movie quote or whatever, anything that repeats something I've heard in real life, then I "hear" that in my head. But my own thoughts are /2
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
generally not in words, unless I explicitly slow down because I'm trying to figure something difficult out. /3
thevortexmaster
My brain hears my own voice but it's not like sound. Everything is in words though
deaconshadow
I haven’t dug deeply into this, but sometimes I’m confused as to what people might mean by not having an internal dialogue.
deaconshadow
Like, before I started this comment, I was running it through my own head to see how I would begin and possibly end it. Is that what they…
deaconshadow
…mean? That they do and say things without running it thru scenarios in their head before execution?
Kightzeareau
Ones with nothing going on their head are NPCs.
Mbcb350
Does that mean that these people don’t get stuck thinking in accents? That’s something my brain does that bothers me,
Raeke
Same. I’m learning German and I also get German words stuck in my head
StabbyMcMurder
I do that too hahahahaha
Justzissguy
I enjoy picking up an accent when I think…
trekkie
My junior high (now called middle school) was a series of circles hooked together. In my head it was a space station that would launch
trekkie
When the Russians launched nukes and we would be safe. Funny how 40 years later still worried about the Russians.
maniacalGiggle
Oh, no.....
writer88katherine5
I kind of like when that happens. I read a lot of British literature and find myself thinking in a Manchester accent ?
BidenduexMaximus
i catch myself talking to myself in all the voices from "frasier". i tried to see a pshrink about it, but i already know more than them.
writer88katherine5
Well just don’t start talking to yourself in Eddy’s voice
beaverusiv
Even like narrative style. I read an awesome book that was in the 3rd person and suddenly my life is narrated in the 3rd person
Mbcb350
Right?!
WhatzitTooya
Gets even better when you know more than one language!
AK90
I second this. Im Swedish but I think in English all the time.
MissSiesta
Different languages ?♀️
grubbylittleslug
I’ll read an eg Irish character in a book in an Irish accent in me noggin but not my own thoughts!
HandoB4Javert
Mistruths
My experience is that I borrow the accents of people I listen to for long enough. I did a 5h session of MW2 and Ghost's voice became my →
Mistruths
→internal monologue for about an hour afterwards, until I started talking aloud again for a bit in my normal voice to replace it
parabolic000
I'm reading the Expanse books right now and I'm def reading all the belters in the TV Lang Belta accent.
airen
Never happened to me
DVSBSTrD
Better than tinnitus.
MoneyPenni
I have both!
DVSBSTrD
Yay! So do I.
AlcoholicsAnonymousBYO
Let’s drop some e !
badatediting
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
CannotBeBanned
I'm bilingual and sometimes my internal monologue is stuck in one language. It's weird.
badatediting
My internal monologue is often English. I'm not bilingual and I didn't learn English until I learned it in school.
CannotBeBanned
You are likely just exposed to it enough for it to become a main.
ElSephiroth
me too, As a French, it is really weird dreaming in English from time to time. Even fantasising gets confusing...
Illithidbane
#1
Flubunigushir
It’s a form of aphantasia, which traditionally stops someone from forming mental images in their head. It’s kind of a spectrum across a lot
Flubunigushir
Of different types and extents. For example - I can’t move images in my head if I try and imagine them, but I form connections and node type
Flubunigushir
Relationships. I’ve got an internal monologue, but I don’t imagine images when I read a book, I have words and relationships between them.
Flubunigushir
It’s super interesting to ask people you know to imagine x, y, z and get them to describe movement, backgrounds, detail, etc. Like imagine a
Flubunigushir
Wall… is there a background to it or is it blackness? How tall is it? How many bricks are there? Can you remove one of the bricks from it?
battlebetter5772
I would be put away for a very long time if my internal dialogue was ever shared with the world
deadboycantdiebecauseheisalreadydead
avoid concussions and benzos then
69thStPepper
Probably not put away, but a whole lot of people's feelings would be hurt and I'd probably have to go on the run
grubbylittleslug
Haha!
MikeReese9
This is why I think actual mind reading would drive the reader insane.
badatediting
I think an actual mind reader would have to calibrate to each target to get anything more than emotions.
upfr0mhere
Anyone else ever have their internal dialogue take over their mouth for a bit and then have to like force it back into your head?
deaconshadow
Now, imagine the part of your brain that acts as a moderator malfunctions. I imagine that’s kind of what being schizophrenic is like.
SteveTheEgg
I have heard some of the descriptions of schizophrenia & honestly it sounds a lot like my imagination, like my brain does impersonations &
SteveTheEgg
/radio ads and songs and repeats things, but I know it's all me and my main dialogue is always in charge (sans depression thoughts).
Rogahar
My internal dialogue does overlap with my intrusive thoughts sometimes, and then the intrusive thoughts have to be pushed back into the >
Rogahar
> shadows.
bitterbirdonabike
Yeah, I have been told that not everyone has murderous fantasies with, like, actual blood in them... I sure do. How can you not?
onlyhalfghost
Mine disappeared after I had to hold someone's life at sharp edge in defense of someone else. Nightmares for years after, now nothing.
grubbylittleslug
I’ve stepped in here because I’m fascinated by your username
Crawmak
I think most traditional methods of murder require blood in some way or another. Save for poison and maybe strangling.
Cucumberclouds
I have internal dialogue but mostly it’s imagery- like a movie of potentials constantly running and speeding ahead to predict an outcome
Cucumberclouds
Also I have two children who don’t really allow my own thoughts to finish a sentence so it’s really quite a suppressed internal dialogue
stvhunt132
What does it mean when your internal dialogue is closer to a round table discussion with 3-4 conversations happening simultaneously?
Garymcd
Wait what? Not everyone has a fantasy going since childhood? What the fuck? How do you practice conversations before you have em?
kingqk
I think the medical term is schizophrenia ?
TwentyEightCharacterUsername
I can practice conversations and run scenarios, but I don’t have an ongoing continuing fantasy in my head. Is that normal?
EpsilonBeSmallerZero
Practicing convo before it happens is something I trained away at a psychiatry cus it drove me insane with anxiety and was crippling
EpsilonBeSmallerZero
This bitch here is studying chemistry in uni ffs, how hard can it be to react spontaneously, even if it takes a moment... ASD/ADHD be like
writer88katherine5
Oh I have about a dozen different fantasies that I keep building on. And restarting. It’s like writing a book but without the results ?
TakeYouAway
Same. A movie constantly playing in my brain. Makes me cry and laugh sometimes and I can't explain
parabolic000
GMing a TTRPG is a fantastic outlet for that sort of thing. I know from pained experience.
writer88katherine5
Ha! Yeah I have no doubt! I’ve never GM’d, but my antics as a player have to be frustrating for the creator of the campaign
DVSBSTrD
Wait, the same one all this time?
LillyReke
Huh - like I have a new story every few months.
DVSBSTrD
Me too!
rbudrick
I've never even heard of this, let alone thought it was common.
ExTechOp
I do not have active internal dialogue. I can imagine dialogues, and I can rehearse what I'll say, but there is no "internal voice" I hear.
badatediting
I ALLWAYS had conversation in my head. Didn't have fantasy stories to sleep until mom died. Now I can't sleep without making up a story.
Biffa90
How can they ever win arguments 3 days later in the shower
billiebitkiller
No because I have to pretend to be in the world of whatever book I'm reading or game I'm playing or show I'm watching.
airen
Nope not me
gorramgomer
Aren't you fancy. I don't practice my conversations until AFTER I've had them.
Chronomechanist
I don't have a single one. I have many, usually they are based on the latest novel I've been reading.
Tom40
But, this is the fantasy world. Reality is when I sleep here and wake up there.
StellaMatutina
My family sometimes accuses me of sounding rehearsed I'm like "...yeah? The fuck you do in your spare time?"
rbudrick
Because they taught you to be on guard around them and plan ahead for their bullshit, perhaps?
StellaMatutina
Possibly, I was a shy quiet kid lol wherever it came from, I've adopted mannerisms around anxiety and overcome most of it, thanks
rbudrick
Yw. I went the opposite way, defiant, outspoken, call them on bullshit. They fucking hate me for it.
badatediting
I would rather they hate me than not respect me. Can we exchange?
DrBlackJack
I've got multiple story lines I jump between depending on my mood. Though these days I barely get 5 minutes before I fall asleep.
bundleofwoodensticks
Most embarrassing examples please
badatediting
One story can last two-three months, but then I need to change it. It stops working.
TeflonTrout
I don't know about anyone else, but I can can actively imagine convos just fine. My inner mono is limited to what I'm actually doing...
TeflonTrout
...like organizing a space: "If I put X there, Y would fit here...," etc. But generally if I'm not doing anything, like out on a walk...
TeflonTrout
If I'm thinking with words it's about planning or remembering things. Otherwise I'm just mentally basking in feelings or emotions....
JustDontCare
I often feel I am two. I have my outside voice. My brain voice which is just me without talking, then my observer clone voice who complains
JustDontCare
The observer replies discusses or questions what my main voice/body is doing. But it is still me. But distinctly critical of my choices.
Garymcd
That's interesting, I've got the inner monologue for present activities too but sometimes it's not the main focus of my inner convo?
TeflonTrout
Huh! I always seem to make simple mistakes when I'm thinking about something other than what I'm doing, I'm a terrible multitasker
TeflonTrout
...wordlessly in my head. At bedtime it's the same, if I'm bothered by something I ponder for a bit, but then when I've had enough I...
TeflonTrout
...can think "I'm not going to solve anything bystaying awake worrying, if I sleep now I'll be better able to deal with it when I'm....
misterdirty
Have you ever had a conversation with someone, but it was only in your mind? And you think they know what it was about?
LokiShinigami
A fantasy going since childhood? Sounds like Classic Chunibyo
DharmaDumpling
It's a relief to know that I'm not the only one with fantasy worlds I've been building since childhood and use to go to sleep.
Kagenical
Per usual this is twitter conjecture based on limited data (and ignoring context) about the extremely personal experience of consciousness
122andan8th
I think a lot misunderstand 'hearing a voice', and think since they don't LITERALLY hear a voice, they must have no internal voice at all.
Cucumberclouds
Perfectly reasonable to just have a conversation about it on a personal level though
Kagenical
Absolutely. I'm being judgemental because of the last sentence in the first tweet; about "it explaining a lot."
Flubunigushir
The stay seems high, but it’s a documented psychological difference in people - look around for stuff on aphantasia, super interesting!
grubbylittleslug
I can relate. Interesting convo to engage in tho, hearing/reading about others experience of reality
theworldcouldbeflat
I don't think in words but definitely have the constant inner dialogue,.
Mbcb350
This.
ThickTomato
https://www.iflscience.com/people-with-no-internal-monologue-explain-what-its-like-in-their-head-57739
Chilichunks
I Fucking Love Science is a really bad source to link. They love the IDEA of science, not the actual, legitimate science. Often fake posts.
VictusVonGuyver
Thank you. That was a fascinating read.
badatediting
Everything after the second paragraph was voiced by Captain Picard in my head.
Ausmerica
@OP I was stunned when I found out I had aphantasia and that people could actually close their eyes and *see* things. I'm also see darkness.
yalczero
Same here. I know exactly what I'm trying to visual should look like but all I see is blackness.
Silkyninja1
Hey @op, I have aphantasia with eyes open or closed. Am jealous of you people with your magical pictures in your heads
primalURGE
same here - absolutely no imagery with eyes open or closed. I remember people telling me to visualize things in their head and was like- ???
Ausmerica
Reporting in. I couldn't believe it when I found out people saw things in their mind.
ProgeriaProstitutes
So if I asked you to imagine say, a bear standing on a house, you wouldn't be able to have that image in your head?
apophisismydad
I can see things, but for some reason I can't do faces. They're usually blank and I kind of just ... ignore them?
Silkyninja1
It's called face blindness
Ausmerica
I cannot picture anything at all, but that may be a blessing vs. seeing faceless people!
Narwhilian
Ok serious question how did you do science in school? I would be hopeless at physics and chemistry without visualization
Silkyninja1
Lots of remembering words and phrases. You think in television, I think in radio.
nightofdarkshadows
i suggest trying mugwort tea or lucid dreaming herb mixes before lying down and focusing on sensory memories of different experiences.
Silkyninja1
And I love science! ❤️
Narwhilian
Yours is probably better for test taking. Friend in college always made fun of me for doing "physics karate" he said he could always (1/2)
Narwhilian
Tell what exam question I was on because my hands would move as I pictured how systems worked / how forces acted on things (2/2)
weave
So these people also never get songs stuck in their head or something? Or have a random word repeating in the back of their head?
Chronocide23
I used to work with a guy who was in his 40's and never had a song stuck in his head. I still can't wrap my head around it.
CognosNerd
I've had Eine Kleine Nachtmusik stuck in my head since I was I six. Sometimes songs with lyrics, never random words though.
Mbcb350
This is one of the things I wonder. Are they immune to ear worms?
Cucumberclouds
My ear worms are more visual than internally vocal
astrangehop
No.
grubbylittleslug
Any ear worm I have can be banished by listening to Madonna’s Ray of Light - all the way through.
Mbcb350
I feel like this is a trick to give me an ear worm & it was successful.
grubbylittleslug
*guffaws* haha
CognosNerd
I simply cannot comprehend "internal dialogue". Do you really hear voices in your head? You really have conversations? I don't get it.
Lulabel73
You know on tv shows when the actor is not speaking but the audience can hear their thoughts, it’s like that.
Jalkii
Can you try to whisper as quietly as possible...then as you talk, try to keep you mouth closed, then stop your tongue/mouth movements 1/?
Jalkii
2/? while still tring to talk, but not projecting at all? Its not quite the same as my internal monoluge when I do this, but its similar.
MrStealUrMeme
Also not exactly the sound of ur own voice, but its close and usually the voice u identify with. Maybe why people hate the sound of theirs
ECayce
My inner dialogue has no sound, it's verbal but silent.
Sarshrimp
Yes. Mostly just my own unless I'm remembering something. Can be so "loud" that I don't hear real talking; it feels like it's talking over
thebigtoto
I already had argument in my head between me and an imaginary person that pissed me off for the entire day.
folderolchi
https://youtu.be/UdFbOFwFz3g this u
Cruxia13
Ever watch dubbed Yugioh, where they spend 3 minutes of "thinking dialogue" before a character actually speaks out loud? It's like that.
METROlD
At my kids school they are teaching him French at age 3 because they want him to think in French as well as English. So...yeah. Its a thing.
shakefu
Look up sub-vocalization. It’s like reading quietly to yourself but it’s just your thoughts about shit.
Mbcb350
Yes. I don’t hear them with my ears but I hear them in my head.
Willowknowsall
What is going thru your head while doing a mundane task like doing the dishes? Do you think about your day, your feelings, make shit up?
sunakochaniscrazyforbones
I hear different sound for different "persons" when I practise conversations in my head. In diff. moods as well as it is escalating.. /1
sunakochaniscrazyforbones
Sometimes I can see the situation too. More it is like dreaming. Also for me the dreams are really vivid too and adventurous. /2
sunakochaniscrazyforbones
When I read I also hear and see the everything as described in the book. When I was a child we did not have tv and I loved reading. /3
redbullvodka
For me, sometimes it’s imaginary conversations, sometimes it’s narration, and sometimes just babble. The only thing that stops it 1/2
redbullvodka
is getting a song stuck in my head and that’s absolutely maddening to deal with. 2/2
yallmfsneedjesus
How do you make decisions? Critical thought? Prioritize or tasks?
nightofdarkshadows
I find it hard to comprehend someone not getting a song stuck in their head and anguishing for days because you have no idea what song it is
jennontheisland
How do you filter what comes out if your mouth if you don't hear it in your head first?
Bugkeeper
I know the thought as a concept idea/feeling/knowledge of what I think. Then I put that into words. Can do it in my head, but don't have to.
Penelelop
I wonder if this differs the same amount amount neurodivergent people too. I’m autistic with internal voice. Can you picture sounds?
Couchwarrior1337
Yep. Much like Donkey from Shrek, the hard part is getting it to shut up.
hiiamluciole
i hear voices above the background music in my head yes. if i dislogue with my mother then i will *hear* her voice, and the music behind
hiiamluciole
will indicate the mood of the conversation. yes, like in a movie. i don't remember thinking differently (autistic + ADHD here).
ECayce
When I smoke pot the inner dialogue becomes a group discussion, reason why I've only smoked pot twice.
MrStealUrMeme
So when you asked this question, you don't really know exactly how your sentences go until you typed it out?
CognosNerd
That's a decent way of describing it. I have the basic structure of the thought I want to convey, but the words are individually selected.
cdp6r92jgf5
Sometimes it’s constant pep talks to keep me going. Other times it’s like I’m starting my car and I’m narrating like it’s a space ship and
cdp6r92jgf5
I’m getting ready to take it out of the shuttle bay. I internally compose responses to people. I’m an introverted shy person.
Kagenical
It's mainly me talking to myself, I use myself as a sounding board for ideas, and sometimes to plan conversations. I don't narrate actions.
CognosNerd
Whenever books described what people were talking about I thought it was just exposition, not something people actually did.
Kagenical
And conversely, while listening to music/doing things, I think almost exclusively in imagery (if at all). It's contextual. But that's cool!
CognosNerd
Visualizing data models works really well for me, especially since I can modify a variable in step 1 and "see" how it affects the flow.
MrStealUrMeme
1) You don't hear audible voices like having schizophrenia. It's kind of like in the way you see images in your mind except with sound. Like
MrStealUrMeme
2) the best way I can explain is like knowing the sound a word makes and being to recall that sound without being able to hear it. 3) or
CognosNerd
I can do that, but it takes a great deal of mental effort. My interest lies in the automatic narration people are describing.
MrStealUrMeme
3) being able to recall the taste of salt, but not actually tasting salt. Or recalling the feel of an ice cream head ache when not having 1
electronicbovine
Do you not hear your own voice in your head, and can you not interact with yourself?
Bugkeeper
I CAN switch that on, but my default is "impression/picture/minifilm/knowledge of the thought in its totality; then put that into words".
LizardEnterprises
I mean I can't speak for everyone, but I don't literally 'hear' it, as much as the words are just sort of... there, in the same way that
LizardEnterprises
like a keyboard or video game controller, or a tool that you're super familiar with is there, in your hands, without needing to feel it.
LizardEnterprises
I don't hear the words, but I very much experience them as whole formed words, and they do *feel* like my voice.
cassie65
How can you not hear your own thoughts, how do you think of things, how the actual fuck does that work???
airen
I have mostly ‘unconscious thoughts’ w images / sounds not usually w words
Bugkeeper
I get emotions/images/plans-as-minifilms first; I don't hear the words automatically, but I CAN add eg. snarky comment if I want, any voice.
cassie65
I can get myself to shut the fuck up lol
CognosNerd
My thoughts are generally visual or, when I'm cooking, flavor. Imagine an AR overlay that you can tinker with.
cassie65
It sounds like this gives your thoughts added depth, no that's not the word, texture, flavour words seem pale in comparison
SeeShark
If your partner says "we need to talk," what's going on in your head?
CognosNerd
Emotional responses, but no actual words. Mostly fear of if we can afford whatever hairbrained thing she wants to do.
SeeShark
How do you navigate the conversation if you can't consider alternate things to say?
hiiamluciole
oooooooooh the cooking part must be awesome !
LCDC
When you are reading do you not hear the words in your head? I’m confused
Grittycatbuns
No, it's super odd to think of hearing a voice . It's just.. thoughts
adiving
Those are actually unrelated. (I can do both.. as well as thinking in concepts... but not in pictures)
CognosNerd
If I'm reading fiction I see the words I'm reading, I feel like hearing them is inefficient. I wonder if this is why I don't like audiobooks
CognosNerd
Anything technical, like math, dataviz, programming, I visualize whatever I'm reading. AR overlays with postit notes and 3D models.
LCDC
That sounds more complex than just hearing yourself talk
METROlD
Etranel
Nope. I can hear it in my voice if I think on it for a few moments, though.
grubbylittleslug
Yeah while I’m typing this I’m narrating it as I go. And this. And now this too. And this!
JackedUpGinger
My tongue will also LIGHTLY shift when I’m thinking in song or slights (comebacks)
Cucumberclouds
Exactly- and do you use yours to process and make decisions? That’s when mine is loudest
Metlahaed
Weird thing is that you can’t raise or lower the voice, it’s always the same “volume” in your head
TheFoxhounded
That's not true for me.
Jinxer13
I think that's also cited as a common reason fro slow reading in speedreading tutorials. The fact that we actually narrate it while reading.
zeusfdelta
What about this,… or this,… does it sound like your voice or mine…?
LowestForm
Just discovered the narrator voice for imgur is a more androgynous version of my own.
RedDragonDaker
I heard SpongeBob’s voice due to remembering the episode with the Hash-Slinging Slasher.
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TheFoxhounded
I can do their voice saying anything I think of so It's not really memory if you can too.
sarzaya
I heard it.. and just now realize typing is a different voice than reading! Trippy!
TheFoxhounded
I can do any voice I know as my internal dialog at will. I like to do Morgan freeman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Christopher Walking.
grubbylittleslug
Stewart Lee’s in this instance - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q60Y8tPzWpg
HieronymousFlex
Yeah. You know those old noir movies where the main character narrates what's going on in the story? It's kinda like that, but all the time.
instanoodles
ALL.THE.FUCKING.TIME its so exhausting but I am prepared for every conversation I will ever have lol.
noReallyIamPrincessBob
That is just bizarre.
MetropolicChange
Jup, the voice reacted to this with: heloo helooo? I amalways here muhahahaha.
paintingagency
Except without a fedora, at least most of the time.
DdCno1
I can just turn it on and off at will. I can also freely switch between the voice and language from any voice and language I know. Most 1/
DdCno1
of the time, it's just a voice that doesn't exist in the real world though and it's speaking a lot faster than I or anyone else can. 2/2
CognosNerd
That is incredibly weird to me. Do you control what is said? I would love to have a Mid-Atlantic narrator, but I'd be worried about insanity
HieronymousFlex
It's just your own thoughts given a voice, a wandering mind keeping itself occupied by going through imaginary conversations and /1
HieronymousFlex
pondering things you've seen or done. I can "turn it off" by focusing on something else, like reading a book or doing a task etc. /2
Pummelallthethings
Here's a thing, books to movies soon after reading, character voices are always wrong. Can bring voice from a movie to a book character.
MrBearNaked
For me, it’s all in a default voice. If I try hard or repeat something I heard, I can do an accent.
instanoodles
For me its like sitting in a restaurant, the person at your table is reality and the conversation going on in my head is people sitting
instanoodles
/2 behind me. I try so hard to pay attention to people in reality but if the conversation going on in my head is more interesting its a
instanoodles
/4 so I can concentrate on talking with my wife, if I dont I wont remember a single thing she said or I said to her.
instanoodles
/3 constant struggle to pay attention to what I am doing in real life. When I talk to my wife, no phone, no TV, nothing to fidget with
thevortexmaster
I thought everyone talks in their mind. How do you read books? I talk inside my own head. I didn't know people can't do that
ruferto
i do that sometimes for character dialogue but when the book is good or there's a lot of action and i want to read faster, i turn it off
thevortexmaster
You have a super power
ruferto
no, i've just read a metric shitton of books over the years
airen
When i read books i see it like a movie
uogirl
Same. And I can cast the movie myself, picking appropriate actors that I know of. It’s pretty fun ?
airen
No words from the book its just words to pictures n sounds
jejorda2
When someone speaks, I visualize the words and read them. Palatino typeface, 18 pt black on white.
thevortexmaster
Neat. I just have my voice talking but inside instead of out
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
I wouldn't call it "talking" though, personally. I call it thinking. It happens faster than words. And when I first start reading a book, /1
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
I do notice that I'm "reading" the words explicitly and repeating them in my head, but once I get into it, that goes away. I just /2
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
experience the story, like it goes right into my brain with no "talking" in between me reading it and understanding it. It's more like /3
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
watching a movie I guess. /4
CognosNerd
Out of curiosity, do you enjoy audiobooks? What you're describing is exactly how I think and audiobooks are too damned slow for me.
Froggie243
Only if I'm doing something else physical at the time- drawing, driving, Legos. Otherwise it lulls me to sleep, even if I wasn't tired.
hiiamluciole
they are too slow and limit my imagination but that's because i have the voices and music in my head
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
I've never done audiobooks and the main reason is what you say, they just seem like they would be too slow. They don't interest me.
Nightmarespawnx
It's basically always silent. Thinking for me involves words not spoken. I can't imagine anything visually, by taste, by smell, or by sound.
SenfinaZeit
That sounds freaky. Like being blind.
justatinyduck
Really , i think my brain just concerts information like taste, sounds etc in my head from memory. So just imagine things they get livley
SageOfDepth
That sounds like Aphantasia
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InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
How do you, for example, draw a house? If you had to. I see it in my head first and then draw what I see.
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Nightmarespawnx
Same! Then when people find out you get asked a bunch of questions so they can understand how it works.
Froggie243
That's wild. On the opposite end, I can zoom in and out of endless visual detail. Real or imagined. Good at cad, drawing, and directions.
thevortexmaster
Intriguing. What about when you read? How do you process the words?
Nightmarespawnx
The words just pop into my head one after the other. Just with no sound. Memories work very similar, i just describe it with words. 1/2
Nightmarespawnx
Traumatic memories are different those I do recall better beyond just words to describe them. Not sure if I always like this but it 2/3
giveusalol
It’s all conceptual. You can understand without needing to see.
thevortexmaster
Well yes. For me it's all words and my voice. It's just me talking out loud but inside
Boksha
Fun fact: that way of reading is actually quite slow. If you shut the voice down, you can go way faster (don't try this for math textbooks).
cybermage256
I used to be able to go to the library and read a novel before leaving, but speedreading is a strain so gave it up.
hiiamluciole
except i cant shut it down. when i read trevor noah's book, it was in his voice and god, he talks slowly in comparison with my reading speed
tj90007
Yeah, that one is hard for me. I love to read, but I do read slow because of this. I can read without verbalizing but I miss details.
thevortexmaster
I read fast I thought. I go through a couple trilogies a month usually. I'd say I read a few thousand pages a month.
Boksha
If you want to enjoy what you're reading, I wouldn't recommend speed-reading techniques anyway.
thevortexmaster
I'm not sure I can shut that down. Well maybe with some sort of strategy and practise
Etranel
Subvocalization can be trained away by engaging your speech/vocal center of your brain. Hum while you read to get the hang of it.
thevortexmaster
I'll try
ruferto
just read a lot, you get faster and it goes away after time
thevortexmaster
I read a bit. I'd say I'm a 3000 page a month kind of person. Always been into novels.
taralanth
Unless u have ocd like mine. I use to beable to shut the voice off but when i do now i have to stop and re read over and over again :,(