Do you hear your own audible voice when you think?

[JacksBratt]

From what I recall, the stats on the percentage of people with an internal voice/narrative vary really wildly depending on time and place. Some studies have it at above 80% and others have it at just 20%.

Inner speech is just one of five (or six) inner mechanism relating to thought.

It's also interesting that of those that do have an internal voice, some people hear it constantly and other people only hear it intermittently.

I'm lucky and/or cursed (depending on perspective) in that I have not just an internal monologue, but a full on multi-party conversation going on inside my head. My brain can be having an argument with itself quite easily, while another voice is doing something completely different, like reciting a verse, singing a song or bothering me with some esoteric and useless piece of knowledge.

When I started second year psychology at university, I was surprised to find out was this unusual (it happens to something like 3% of the general population) and that most people in my lecture theater only had a monologue.

My tutor, on the other hand, was delighted, and spent most of the rest of the semester trying to devise tests for me to participate in.

Thanks for that information...

I have noticed, from my drafting education, that I can design a house floor plan and can visualize, in my head, the three dimensional home. I don't know how to describe it as it is not an actual visual picture like a dream.. but in my minds eye I can visualize and correct spacial errors or conflicts.

My wife, on the other hand... had no idea until the house was built.

The human mind is a vast mystery.

 

[Heavenhome]

No... in fact the first time I heard my own voice on a recording I was shocked.
"Who is that?"
I did not speak for a week.
Need to take speech classes.

I totally get what you say. When I heard my own voice, I too was shocked.
I still don't like hearing it.
It sounds nothing like what it sounds to me when I speak!

 

[Robban]

Thanks for that information...

I have noticed, from my drafting education, that I can design a house floor plan and can visualize, in my head, the three dimensional home. I don't know how to describe it as it is not an actual visual picture like a dream.. but in my minds eye I can visualize and correct spacial errors or conflicts.

My wife, on the other hand... had no idea until the house was built.

The human mind is a vast mystery.

Is that not a vision, to recieve an idea and visulize
the finished product before even starting on it.

And going through the steps in the mind but always having the finished product there.

What else can spur one on to reach the goal,
through fire, water and difficulties.

Could well be the purpose of one,s life?

 

[essentialsaltes]

But I keep having questions about this. If you're actually hearing something when you think

It is like hearing, but it is not like actually hearing.

how do you think and listen to external sound at the same time?

It depends on the situation. The internal monologue isn't always on. If I'm concentrating on listening to something, I'm probably not blabbing in my head. I spoke of driving before -- I think I usually concentrate mostly on the driving, so I'm not blabbing in my head other than the occasional 'Use your turn signals, for pete's sake!'

If I'm hearing two different things at once, it amounts to gibberish

You may be selling yourself short. For things that don't require a lot of attention, you can probably multitask. You hear the babble of the neighbor's TV, and the birds outside, and the dump truck, and the furnace lighting...

 

[Hazelelponi]

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[Robban]

It is like hearing, but it is not like actually hearing.



It depends on the situation. The internal monologue isn't always on. If I'm concentrating on listening to something, I'm probably not blabbing in my head. I spoke of driving before -- I think I usually concentrate mostly on the driving, so I'm not blabbing in my head other than the occasional 'Use your turn signals, for pete's sake!'



You may be selling yourself short. For things that don't require a lot of attention, you can probably multitask. You hear the babble of the neighbor's TV, and the birds outside, and the dump truck, and the furnace lighting...

All those sounds are intrusions you do not have to think about them to hear them.

Can one think two thoughts at the same time?

or,
Can one process two thoughts at the same ttime?

 

[Hazelelponi]

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[Robban]

Sometimes you can't tell, but most of the time you know. What comes from God cannot come from yourself - because it's knowledge you know you can't know..

Take the example of the person you shared, that was knowledge she knew she couldn't know.. So you know the source is outside of yourself...

That what was kind of what I was getting at.

But in most cases you do not know until after, if at all.

Which is good for no one can boast.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Can one think two thoughts at the same time?

or,
Can one process two thoughts at the same ttime?

I don't think I can have two internal monologues going at once. It is a monologue. But I think more than the monologue can be going on, so it may depend on what a 'thought' is.

I wonder if it's a leftbrain/rightbrain thing. The left, which handles speech, can generate a solitary internal monologue, while the right brain can be humming a tune or worrying about a sick relative or something.

 

[Robban]

I don't think I can have two internal monologues going at once. It is a monologue. But I think more than the monologue can be going on, so it may depend on what a 'thought' is.

I wonder if it's a leftbrain/rightbrain thing. The left, which handles speech, can generate a solitary internal monologue, while the right brain can be humming a tune or worrying about a sick relative or something.

A homeopat once told me the left side of the brain takes care of everyday worries and cares,
the right side of the brain takes care the creative.

So aches and pains on the left side are often caused by too much worry over everyday matters economy etc.

While aches and pains on the right side are often caused by being in someway obstructed in ones developement of their creative side.

I think more of the heart, the heart is on the left,
the left side of the heart is the pumpstation that pumps blood through the body and brain.

What we eat goes into the blood the blood is pumped through the brain.

The right side of the heart is where the G-dly part of the soul resides.

The head is connected to the body by a narrow channel
to allow only a trickle down to the thirsting G-dly part.

So where our thoughts come from is determined by how much our G-dly part wants to reconnect with it,s source.

What we eat physically and spiritually have a roll to play.

Or so I would reckon.

 

[Chesterton]

It is like hearing, but it is not like actually hearing.

That's really how I'd describe my visualizing - like seeing but not actually seeing. Maybe there are hearers and seers. Maybe we need to coin a new word for you - audiolizing.

It depends on the situation. The internal monologue isn't always on. If I'm concentrating on listening to something, I'm probably not blabbing in my head. I spoke of driving before -- I think I usually concentrate mostly on the driving, so I'm not blabbing in my head other than the occasional 'Use your turn signals, for pete's sake!'

This is also similar to me as I mentioned earlier. My visualization depends on the situation; I'm not always doing it.

You may be selling yourself short. For things that don't require a lot of attention, you can probably multitask. You hear the babble of the neighbor's TV, and the birds outside, and the dump truck, and the furnace lighting...

I don't remember where I could find it, but within the last year I read an article about a scientific study which claimed to show that our brains cannot actually multitask. Yes, I can hear multiple sounds, but I can't "attend" or mentally focus on more than one. Perhaps similar to focused vision versus peripheral vision. I was going to start a thread in the science forum related to this once, but I kept thinking my question was going to sound really stupid, lol. Since reading this thread I may reconsider.