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.
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
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.
Me, absolutely me. Full on audio, my voice. Not all the time, but a lot of the time.
Depends who’s in. It’s nice when Christopher Walken drops by.
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
It doesn’t sound like me, It (usually) sounds like a man, (which I’m not) but it also sounds female sometimes (but also not my vocie) It must have something to do with the fact that I don’t like the sound of my voice. The inner monologue also goes back and forth between the languages that I know.
Same here to some degree. I can make it lower-pitched, and it still feels natural, but not higher-pitched without focusing hard for some reason.
It sounds like how I think I sound, so nothing like what I really sound like in recordings.
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.
Mine takes on elements of whoever I’ve been hearing a lot of lately. Had Dexter’s voice when I was watching the show. Had Serj Tankien for a bit. It varies.
Me and the other me speak and argue a lot, but it has no sound. No voice. Only words. The funny thing is that I’m crazy, as in labelled with schizophrenia and all, and there is absolutely no voice in my head, not even an inner one, not even when I’m reading.
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.
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 have both forms. The inner monologue voice is a common learned way of thinking. For me it’s a way of testing how things sound, before using it in public. It also formalises ideas for memory.
Below that, I have my mindstream. It’s the active amalgamation of ideas, images and concepts that forms my intellect. It’s difficult to map to language, since it’s not bound by language.
The inner monologue is useful, but not required for intellectual thought. In fact, it can be a detriment. It’s hard to process things, when you don’t have the language for it. It is, however quite useful for presenting ideas. An inner monologue lets you practice what you will say, and how you will explain things to someone else. I’m autistic, so I often need to preprocess what I am about to say. My inner monologue lets me test if it’s “socially inappropriate” (aka batshit insane) before it comes out my mouth.
Not everyone has an “inner voice”. Having one isn’t anything particularly notable either. Humans seem to conceptualize there thoughts in a variety of ways and none of them signify your intelligence imo. For me though it is a very literal inner voice. I conceptualize my thoughts using internal words or pictures. I will even speak to myself directly through a sort of dialogue. I think it comes from reading a rediculous amount of books as a kid.
It sounds like a pirate which is me.
