• blarth@thelemmy.club
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    29 minutes ago

    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.

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    4 hours ago

    I always think it’s what I sound like until I hear a recording of myself. My real voice is a little bit deeper, but other than that it’s close.

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    6 hours ago

    I’m trans. Born male, transitioned female. I’ve always had a female inner monologue. Nothing like what I sound like out loud.

    • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      6 hours ago

      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.

      • Rebels_Droppin@lemmy.world
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        8 hours ago

        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.

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          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.

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    10 hours ago

    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.

    • BeBopALouie@lemmy.ca
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      9 hours ago

      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).

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        8 hours ago

        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.

      • ada@piefed.blahaj.zone
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        6 hours ago

        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.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 hours ago

    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.”