Do you think in your own voice?

Postby **Sapphire225** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 12:41 pm

Bare with me...when you think, do you think in your own voice? At first, I thought that everyone did until some of my friends told me they didn't. When I think, I think in my own voice, but apparently, it isn't everyone.

Postby **aliveinHim** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:07 pm

Yes! I think in my own voice!

MAL profile · Postby **FllMtl Novelist** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:12 pm

I'm not sure I think (as in, muse or whatever) with a voice, but when I read to myself, I usually hear my voice (or some version of it) in my head. And that voice can pronounce anything, even stuff I can't pronounce no matter how hard I try. XD

Postby **Ella Edric** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:13 pm

I... think i do...? XD

Postby **Kaligraphic** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:15 pm

Postby **Maledicte** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:22 pm

It depends on what I read. One time I read a book and I kept hearing the villain's lines in CRISPIN Freeman's voice, which was pretty cool.

Postby **ChristianKitsune** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:26 pm

Maledicte (post: 1466575) wrote:It depends on what I read. One time I read a book and I kept hearing the villain's lines in CRISPIN Freeman's voice, which was pretty cool.

HAHA I've done this exact thing! X3 It was fun.

I dunno, I think the voice I think in sounds like its a lower octave or two than what I usually talk in. It's strange...and like Maledicte, I read in different voices.

VERY interesting thread

Postby **Sapphire225** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:35 pm

Maledicte (post: 1466575) wrote:It depends on what I read. One time I read a book and I kept hearing the villain's lines in CRISPIN Freeman's voice, which was pretty cool.

Great, now every Disney villian that comes to mind will be narrated by Alucard. :lol:

Postby **Okami** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:35 pm

The voice I think in is different from my "spoken voice" (as in, I hear myself speak in a voice recording or video and I don't sound right to myself. Yet, when I hear myself speak, it sounds like the voice inside my head.) The voice in my head can also pronounce words that I otherwise couldn't and is a lot more expressive than I typically am spoken aloud. (I write much better than I speak, and often find myself fumbling to get words that I would know in my head out by tongue.)

MAL profile · Postby **FllMtl Novelist** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:48 pm

Okami (post: 1466582) wrote: The voice in my head can also pronounce words that I otherwise couldn't and is a lot more expressive than I typically am spoken aloud. (I write much better than I speak, and often find myself fumbling to get words that I would know in my head out by tongue.)

I'm the same way! It's part of why I like text-chatting so much; I can put my thoughts together better.

Postby **Atria35** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 2:24 pm

My voice sounds like my voice sometimes- other times, not so much. I've actually surprised myself by the voice in my head speaking in an accent out of nowhere. It startled me

I think the voice in my head is about as verbose as I am, as well as having about the same ability to pronounce things.

Postby **TheMewster** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 2:26 pm

I have many voices swirling around in my head, I can't tell which one I think in.

Postby **sailorsaturn** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 2:48 pm

When I'm thinking I usually think with a voice that is like mine but a bit higher than it actually is. When I'm reading the narrative is usually what I imagine the author sounds like and characters are in the voice that I imagine they sound like.

Postby **Tsukuyomi** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 3:00 pm

I think in my own voice, but if I were to read a post by someone I know their voice, I will read their post with their voice in mind xD

Postby **Dante** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 3:11 pm

I guess my inner voice sounds different depending upon the circumstance. But after hearing myself on the telephone, I've come to believe that I neither sound in reality like I hear myself nor does the voice in my head. It is, however, "my voice" as I am possessive of it and use it to define my internal self image (and self sound?).

Postby **Ally-Ann** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:26 pm

I guess I do. I never thought of it before, but whenever I'm thinking about something or reading something, I always hear my voice unless I'm quoting someone. XD

Postby **Radical Dreamer** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:01 pm

I sometimes think in a British accent. XDD I dunno why that happens, it just does. XD Also, if I'm reading a book, I'll have different voices for the characters in my head, sometimes based on various actors. Most of the time, though, I think in what I believe my voice to sound like (that is, not that thing I hear in recordings, but what I hear when I actually talk XD).

Postby **Nate** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:14 pm

All of my thoughts are in the smooth, sultry voice of Kevin Murphy.

Postby **PrincessZelda** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:45 pm

I usually think in my own voice. However, when I'm read something that was written by someone whose voice I've heard, I hear it in there voice as I read it.

Postby **CrystalChalice** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 5:47 am

Well, I do think in my own voice....sorta. People tell me that my voice is either soft, monotone, or serious. In my head, though, it sounds more vivacious and carefree.

Postby **Seto_Sora** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:38 pm

I think in my own voice, unless I am thinking a conversation between two people. If one of those people I am thinking is me speaking then I am thinking me speaking in my voice, but if the other person I am thinking is not me speaking but the other speaking then I am thinking the one speaking is speaking in that one's voice. Now if it is that I am thinking two are speaking who are not me speaking then I will be thinking the two speaking are speaking in their own respective voices as I hear them speaking, probably not as they think they are speaking but because it is all in my own thinking, surely they are not hearing their own voices speaking in the way they are thinking but only in the way I am thinking I am hearing them speaking.

SDG

Postby **Lynna** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:47 pm

I think in my own voice, unless I'm reading what another person is speaking. then I think in what I amagine their voice to be

Postby **ABlipinTime** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:39 pm

sailorsaturn (post: 1466596) wrote:When I'm thinking I usually think with a voice that is like mine but a bit higher than it actually is. When I'm reading the narrative is usually what I imagine the author sounds like and characters are in the voice that I imagine they sound like.

Same here.

My inner voice has changed over the years though, mostly to account for the change in my physical voice, but it nevertheless sounds different than my real one.

Also, when I think about my self in third person and have THAT person speak, it's a different voice - more like my real one.

Anyone else give their self a different voice (than their inner one) when thinking of their self in third person?

Postby **Atria35** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:17 pm

ABlipinTime (post: 1466801) wrote:Anyone else give their self a different voice (than their inner one) when thinking of their self in third person?

I don't think of myself in the third person.

However, I do give my inner voice an 'avatar' of my own creation. I like to use her when I'm thinking about myself.

Postby **Nanao** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:35 pm

I think in a voice like mine, but like other people have said, it's not my spoken voice. It's my voice according to me. That's only for thinking though. Reading, it is almost always a different voice. Different voices for different characters, etc ^_^

Postby **Mr. SmartyPants** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 4:38 pm

I do not think in my own voice. Actually most of the time I don't even think with any form of imagery unless I explicitly have to. I'm a very conceptual and abstract thinker.

So if I think about the number "1", I don't imagine a "1" but the idea of one.

Postby **MrKrillz0r** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 4:57 pm

I have english me and swedish me. Since I talk so much english online I tend to think in english sometimes, and the english voice I somewhat different from my swedish one somehow. (At least in my mind, I hope it isn't in real life)

And then I have spanish me which sounds like a retard 'cuz whenever I think in spanish I sound like those sound tapes we had at school. (Thinking in spanish rarely happens, and if its does its probably just a really easy sentance since I'm totally worthless at the language itself)

*Note how I used sometimes, somewhat and somehow in the same sentance*

Postby **Seto_Sora** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 5:53 pm

ABlipinTime (post: 1466801) wrote:Anyone else give their self a different voice (than their inner one) when thinking of their self in third person?

LOL well, the short answer is yes. LOL I have several different persona characters that I will imagine or will directly speak in a different accent. Like Fredric Swinehoot, the mad professor, or Flanagan, the "Irish Lowlander", or Roger, the Microsoft India Tech, and Ferdinand the Frenchie. These aren't alternate personalities so much as they are characters I wrote and act. just for fun. ^_^ Oh yeah, and there is the Brit and another one, but I forget their names. Meybe I should ask them next time we all get together in my head.

SDG

Postby **Okami** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 6:10 pm

I also know that for the novel I wrote, each character, having traits of myself, has a voice that stems of my own. Unfortunately I can't portray that well when reading it aloud to others.

Postby **Peanut** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 6:20 pm

Depends. Sometimes I think in my own voice. Other times I think in different voices. Other times beyond that I think out loud and...well...that's definitely in my own voice.

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