It sounds like what I think I sound like. Completely different from when I'm taped
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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.
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.
I'm trans. Born male, transitioned female. I've always had a female inner monologue. Nothing like what I sound like out loud.
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.
which one ?
D.i.d. be like
Sounds the same as my normal voice sounds to me.
Usually sounds like Jay, from Jay and Silent Bob.
Noyge, noyge, noyge.
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."
My inner voice is literally me talking.
Sounds like Durnehviir to this one.
It sounds like a pirate which is me.
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).
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.
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.
sounds like me
It sounds like me, and it's judgy
whatever I want
It's abstract and doesn't sound like anything. I'm not literally hearing anything just like I'm not literally seeing anything either when I'm visualizing things despite my ability to do so.
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