Do you hear your own audible voice when you think?

[pleinmont]

Anyone who thinks they are hearing voices, even their own if they aren't speaking, should get medical advice, imo.

 

[Nithavela]

Anyone who thinks they are hearing voices, even their own if they aren't speaking, should get medical advice, imo.

Why?

 

[HARK!]

Interesting enough, when I hear my own voice I am shocked at how different it is when I hear it off a recorder. It's much deeper/flat in tone in actual recording, but in my own ears internally I sound much lighter and clae.

There are a few of factors at work here.

!.) The recording equipment, and how it is set up and adjusted.

2.) The playback equipment and how it is adjusted.

3.) The acoustic qualities of your head and body. We sound different to ourselves, than we do to other people; because the internal acoustic resonant qualities of our heads are in the mix with the ambient sound. We tend to want to sound good to ourselves; so we compensate for the resonant qualities of our heads by adjusting the tone of our voices.

Short story: we don't hear ourselves as others hear us.

 

[HARK!]

I form words in my mind when I type, read, etc. but I don't hear them audibly.

I don't even know how to comprehend this. I don't know how to write nor type without hearing my words first.

The great part about hearing myself in my head, is that I have the world's most attentive audience, before the world's most explicit speaker!

 

[pleinmont]

Why?

Because hearing voices is often a sign of a psychiatric problem

 

[Nithavela]

Because hearing voices is often a sign of a psychiatric problem

What if the voices tell you to take out the trash and do your taxes?

 

[pleinmont]

What if the voices tell you to take out the trash and do your taxes?

If you are hearing actual voices telling you anything you have to question why?

 

[JacksBratt]

Anyone who thinks they are hearing voices, even their own if they aren't speaking, should get medical advice, imo.

Not so fast.... ask around... this is very common.

 

[Larniavc]

hearing voices is a sign of psychosis,

Experiencing one’s internal monologue is not a sign of psychosis.

You seem to be conflating that with auditory hallucinations which can be (but not always) a symptom of psychosis.

 

[Larniavc]

Because the thought of hearing your own voice, or hearing anything while thinking seems very weird to me because there's no external stimulus.

Don’t you think in words? You’d have to experience the thoughts as words in some way. As I type this I’m experiencing the words I write in my head without any sensory information beyond what I can see i.e. no external sound.

 

[Larniavc]

We don't even know how anesthetics work; we just know they work.

Which is a big difference between anaesthesia and psionics: psionics has never been shown to work under clinical conditions.

 

[Larniavc]

Im wondering if their lack of ability to sing or hum sounds in their head can cause this confusion.

I was thinking a similar thing. I can draw anything I can see pretty well.

But I cannot draw from memory. I concluded that I just couldn’t imagine a picture well enough to recreate it.

Could be people without your musical ability cannot model it in their heads the way I cannot model a person’s face to draw it.

If my psychology degree reminds me accurately it the planum temporale in the brain which is enlarged in people with a good ear for music.

Which makes sense.

 

[Kaon]

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[Kaon]

Experiencing one’s internal monologue is not a sign of psychosis.

You seem to be conflating that with auditory hallucinations which can be (but not always) a symptom of psychosis.

You must not have gathered the context of what I was saying most of the thread - specifically about that part. Or, you missed most of my earlier posts.

It is not up to you to determine whether internal monologues are a sign of psychosis from a social (or medical) point of view unless you are an actual neurologist or someone who specializes in the brain - which was my point: that people will just hear "you hear voices" even if you explain what it is you hear... even if it is not clinical psychosis.

I said that I would be apprehensive about telling anyone that I hear any kind of voices in my head - especially on these forums. The context was how people perceive the point of the OP, not about specificity in the neurology (because regular people will judge you despite the neuroscience). That is why I kept asking for clarification (so that there can be a better idea of what individual means by "audible", and "your own voice" even).

But, I am glad you said "you seem...", because at least it shows you are open to being wrong about your interpolations.

 

[Robban]

A colleague of mine was amazed at something she just found out. I had never heard of it either.
What she read was that some people, when they are thinking, hear their own voice, audibly just like they are actually talking. They can look in the mirror and have an internal conversation with themselves... while hearing their voice.

This colleague, and others so we have found, do just that. They were baffled that myself and others could think and make decisions in the silence of our mind.

So, are you one who can think and have thoughts in silence... Or... do you hear your own voice in a audible dialog?

New one on me.

 

[JacksBratt]

New one on me.

Yep.... me too..

However, in talking to people... it's quite interesting.. Both sides are baffled by the other's method and find it boggling.

 

[Robban]

Yep.... me too..

However, in talking to people... it's quite interesting.. Both sides are baffled by the other's method and find it boggling.

It is not so uncommon though to hear someone say;

"Oh, just thinking out loud."

Haha, when what they said did not go down too well.

 

[JacksBratt]

It is not so uncommon though to hear someone say;

"Oh, just thinking out loud."

Haha, when what they said did not go down too well.

True...

 

[Chesterton]

Yes it does get confusing. This is why some daydream or can sit through a lecture and retain nothing from it. They are talking in their minds and the talking leads to more talking which leads to a daydream or lack of hearing and attention to the speaker.

The speaker needs to be entertaining to grasp the full attention of the audience for long periods of time.

Those to preach meditation call this the monkey mind......It is talking that leads to more talking that can continue indefinitely if not controlled and focused.

One who can silence the mind for long periods of time are considered well trained and conditioned to do so.....and this is not normal.

Honestly, the way you describe it makes it sound like a disorder, something that shouldn't be happening.

The inner voice always take precedence.....It's lowest level is always louder than the loudest outside noise.

So if you were to sit through a rock concert, where a band was playing at a decibel level around 120, you would be hearing your thoughts at more than 120?

Let me ask you a question...... Are you able to Pray in your mind? If so, how does that go being that you dont hear what you are "saying."

I just think it, I don't hear anything.

Also, "keeping your mind stayed on Jesus"....what is this like for you? Are this looking at a picture in your mind?

Yes, sometimes it involves visualization, sometimes visualization of words.

 

[Chesterton]

That is what we believe is needed based on academics. Academic science is one facet of scientia, or knowledge - and it is flawed at best.

For example, uncovering how people can hear themselves, and converse with themselves could help us explain the origin of psionic phenomena. But, by academic standards psionic ability is not real - which, unfortunately

1) wastes time, since the science will change when the paradigms change (~500 yeara from nexus) anyway, and the incredulity could have been put aside to entertain something we later find was real

2) blinds one to the multi-faceted reality in which we exist by default.

We don't even know how anesthetics work; we just know they work. We have a lot to learn about these vessels before we assume we know them.


Of course, this is all excluding the facet of reality called spirituality. In other words, some people are oppressed by spirits and they hear voices, some may have an ability to converse with themselves for defensive and offensive reasons, some have silent minds because they are at peace, etc.

The only thing, physically, needed to make sound is RADIO WAVES, MEDIUM and a RECEIVER. You have a medium and receiver in your mind/brain already; with the right excitation you can produce radio waves - or receive them - which will turn vibrations into sound.

But the bottom line is, if one or more of your senses is perceiving something that's not there, the technical word for that is "hallucination".