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.
It usually sounds like me. I can hear it in someone else’s voice if I’m thinking about something they said or might say. I can use other voices too, or make one up, but that takes more effort.
There’s also one that feels like a ghost of my real voice. That’s the fastest one to think in. It’s very neutral and colorless (for anyone else who thinks of voices in terms of colors).
My internal monologue adopts whatever voice end accent fits the situation and what I am thinking about. Otherwise it is mostly ethereal and has no sound unless I think about it and give it a “voice.”
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.
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.
Me, absolutely me. Full on audio, my voice. Not all the time, but a lot of the time.
It sounds like a pirate which is me.
Usually sounds like Jay, from Jay and Silent Bob.
It sounds like me, and it’s judgy
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 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.
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 seems there is evidence that our larynx moves when we think. So the inner voice is actually ours as well.
