Then obviously it's not you doing the thinking. I suggest you see an exorcist right away.But my big question is this: Does your speaking voice sound like the voice you hear in your thoughts? My does not.
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Then obviously it's not you doing the thinking. I suggest you see an exorcist right away.But my big question is this: Does your speaking voice sound like the voice you hear in your thoughts? My does not.
Mine too.My mind is still blown.
No, I cannot will sound to appear in my brain, nor any other sensory perception. I can only imagine them.I thought the "crazy" limit was hearing your voice + [an agreed upon number of] other voices. I am amazed some people do not hear a voice - and especially amazed by the different means of communication (i.e. text scroll similarity) that the brain can create to convey a message to self.
To extend the question, can the people that do not hear/converse with their own voice will sound to appear in the brain? So far, I have heard mechanisms for how sound is perceived for us in this thread, but can you will yourself to speak if you wanted to?
I would consider myself a philosopher first (stoicism), but it never occurred to me to ask a question like the OP - I have been presumptuous for a while!
Calling people NPCs can get you banned from Twitter, you know.People who don't have inner voice must be like NPC...
Yes, as I said in an earlier post, I think in words, but more like linear text, nothing auditory.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.
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".
There's a meme or twitter thread floating around about this, and yes it seems the two camps find it hard to imagine being in the other.
I think it's better to phrase this as 'having an inner monologue' as opposed to 'hearing your own voice when you think'.
I definitely have a voice, but it is not quite like hearing. If I imagine the sound of the roadrunner's Meep Meep or Beethoven's 9th, I can definitely perceive the sound-i-ness of it. The timpani sound like timpani, not like the 'idea of timpani'. At the same time it is not like actually hearing Beethoven's 9th. Similarly for this inner voice.
It certainly seems to be my voice, though I can make it speak with an accent.
It's not always yakking away. I'm sure when I drive to work, there are stretches of wordlessness.
This is fascinating (the entire thread so far).
What about in different languages? Can you speak in a different language?
Sound waves are actual things. There are no sound waves entering the ear because of thinking.How do you know what is "not there"? You are still using the standard of academia to judge your reality - one very rudimentary facet of reality.
You hear them audibly?
I form words in my mind when I type, read, etc. but I don't hear them audibly. Or like talking to yourself without speaking, that's not audible though.
I do that, too. I don't think it's that unusual.
I can know what a song sounds like in my thoughts, I can sing it in my thoughts, but it's not audible. It's not like hearing it with my ears.
It transmits by telling the mouth to create sound waves.Your brain is a receiver, and a transmitter.
I don't know what that has to do with the topic of hearing one's own thoughts, though.It can receive FM Radio waves based on the circuitry; no speaking required.
I don't know what that has to do with the topic of hearing one's own thoughts, though.
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.
Does the brain produce FM radio waves? I've never heard of that.Because if you can receive radio waves from outside sources, you can receive them from internal sources.
Honestly, the way you describe it makes it sound like a disorder, something that shouldn't be happening.
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?
I just think it, I don't hear anything.
Yes, sometimes it involves visualization, sometimes visualization of words.
I have never heard an audible voice in my mind except for once in my life. Someone called my name during an extended prayer session.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?