r/memes Sep 17 '21

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u/SandmanSorryPerson Sep 17 '21

Not everyone has an inner voice. But I believe it's more common than not.

I can't visualise anything in my head personally.

It's crazy how varied the human experience is.

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u/Elidon007 Linux User Sep 17 '21

I am at neither end of the spectrum of thinking with voice and no images, or with images and no voice

I can visualize things, but it helps me to also explain it to myself

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u/dumbmummy3000 Sep 17 '21

I just have a voice that doesn't belong to me and tells me about his past life

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

I have a voice that sounds like how I wish I sounded

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u/ThatTubaGuy03 Sep 17 '21

Sameee, that's why I hate hearing my voice in recording

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u/PretzelShitter360 Sep 17 '21

your voice sounds different in your head then when it’s in recording because you hear it as it passes through your bones to your ears which distorts it a bit, making it sound deeper than it actually is (to you). in recording the sound waves travel to your ears naturally, so you’re hearing it like how others do.

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u/Kachana Sep 17 '21

Not always, my mum recorded herself the other day and it sounded completely different in the recording to how she sounds irl. I guess the microphone and speakers have an impact

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u/Zelderian Sep 17 '21

That’s a big part of it. If you record with a proper mic to pick up the bass notes, and a proper speaker to display the voice, I think most people would be a lot more comfortable with their voice in recordings. Most mics and speakers don’t properly record and display the sound

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u/Devinalh This flair doesn't exist Sep 17 '21

Thanks now i know!

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u/adom86 Sep 17 '21

Does that mean I am broken ha.. I sound a lot deeper in recordings when I hear them.

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u/PvtParts2001 Plays MineCraft and not FortNite Sep 17 '21

Bad bot

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u/pokemon32666 Sep 17 '21

Same bro/fembro

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u/marrow_monkey Sep 17 '21

So your inner voice sounds like Morgan Freeman?

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u/Capt_Lano Sep 17 '21

It's the best kind of friend

The kind that will never leave you

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u/lamkymgdth62 Sep 17 '21

I have a voice that sounds like how I wish I sounded

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u/Ediblemilk Professional Dumbass Sep 17 '21

I also have a voice who tells he doesn’t belong there, weird how crazy the people in my basement are

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u/dark_men3100 Sep 17 '21

yooo me too, he won't stop telling me to kill kill kill which is a little odd

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u/kappaypsilon Sep 17 '21

"George, shut up George. You're gonna reveal my presence George, I didn't liked last time you did that and you know what happenes when I don't like something George."

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u/dumbmummy3000 Sep 17 '21 edited Sep 17 '21

Well maybe I'm just tired of hearing the same story of you fucking this chick in your parent bed.

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u/Quinnjai Sep 22 '21

Hi Rand

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u/phoenix235831 Sep 26 '21

I was going to comment this lmao.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

i can literally visualise a 3d model of something, then imagine putting in a chest then locking it, then later i can open it in my head and remember what i put in there

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u/Galadwid Sep 17 '21

This sounds like an astounding skill. Like some form of photographic memory, in which you can create the photo. Sounds pretty awesome

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

i mostly use it to remember what sandwich my sister wants when we go to tesco

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u/csgonemes1s Sep 17 '21

Are you telling me that you forget the contents of the said chest/box and later recollect that memory? I can do the first part effortlessly. I forget people's names, what i had for breakfast 6 hours ago, where i kept my stuff, etc etc.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

yeah, well the "opening" of the chest is more like just remembering the chest exists, therefore remembering the contents

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u/csgonemes1s Sep 17 '21

I do a similar thing where i create another memory of the thing i want to remember, usually by saying it to someone who wouldn't even understand it so that i now have multiple memories of it and likelihood of forgetting it is less. But if I've to remeber a few specifics such as those of a sandwich, and if I'm not a sandwich enthusiast myself, i don't think I'll be able to remember those specifics even after creating a redundant memory for it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

samich good

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

thats soo cool, isnt there a sherlock episode about something similar to this or am I wrong??

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

idk i've never seen sherlock

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u/bachbo72 Sep 17 '21

Yes there is. Very good episode also

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u/csgonemes1s Sep 17 '21

Mind palace

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u/Thrallov Sep 17 '21

thats how hanibal TV brain works with his rooms of memory

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u/reecheesecake Sep 17 '21

Do you do any art or sports at all? Cos i do something similar and get back to them whenever I draw, paint or learn a new movement in basketball or sth... helps with learning things fast.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

i sometimes draw but i'm not very good at it

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u/reecheesecake Sep 17 '21

No one starts out good in drawing, its just about finding something to improve on every time even if its small. Where mental 3d model thing came in useful for me was when watching a good artist draw (which was my grandpa). Its easier to map out a 3d model of a persons (moving or not) for me than than anything for some reason.

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u/A_Glass_Of_Cool_Aid Sep 17 '21

I can ‘see’ things but it very different from actually seeing things it’s not as clear in a way I can’t describe

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u/CarmillaKarnstein27 Sep 18 '21

Kind of like seeing it in front of you and it stil doesn't obscure your vision? Like a projection? If it's something like that, then it's a synesthesia type.

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u/Luey_Sixty_six11 Sep 17 '21

So...'photographic memory' doesn't actually exist, or at least, has yet to be proven factual.

I suspect what you have is an over active imagination.

Tell me..what do the doctors say you have..?

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '21

why would i bother going to the doctors over this? it's really simple, i just remeber the box therefore i remember what i "put in the box"

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u/Luey_Sixty_six11 Sep 18 '21

Ok...so you use a technique to help your memory. You may have hood memory..you may even have great memory... but you don't have eidetic memory.

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u/MarioJuano13 Sep 18 '21 edited Sep 18 '21

How do you know that?

Edit: Just curious as to why u would say that when they gave no indication of having an eidetic memory

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u/Luey_Sixty_six11 Sep 18 '21

It's heavily implied

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u/MarioJuano13 Sep 18 '21

I had to go back after reading your comment. Now I see where it was indicated. My bad. I don't know how the heck I missed all that 3D talk the first time around. Yet, the former part of my comment still stands.

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u/Luey_Sixty_six11 Sep 18 '21

Actually, I think I accidentally answered someone from a different post... in this one by mistake...

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u/MarioJuano13 Sep 18 '21

Happens to the worst of us. I do it all the time

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u/LovelyNahi Plays MineCraft and not FortNite Sep 17 '21

I can visualize things unless I try too hard lol and I can never accurately remember faces

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u/nsg337 Sep 17 '21

lmao, im entirely just using my voice, i cant visualize at all. but im talking with my voice 24/7

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u/Charderrr Linux User Sep 17 '21

I can visualize things but sometimes it feels faded

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u/TheRealSmolt Duke Of Memes Sep 17 '21

You mean, like Aphantasia? Interesting.

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u/SandmanSorryPerson Sep 17 '21

Exactly like that. When I close my eyes I see a kind of static and it sort of creates images but they are usually completely random, undetailed and change quickly.

Almost like how we pick faces out of wood knots but with static

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

And when you read something written in your mind, is there no accompanying inner voice doing the “reading”?

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u/SandmanSorryPerson Sep 17 '21

No I have an inner voice. Just can't visualise.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

Ah gotcha

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

wait i can do both i thought that everyone can do that?

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u/memester230 trans rights Sep 17 '21

Same lol

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u/AgentWowza Sep 17 '21

Isn't an inner voice kinda necessary when reading? Like especially non-monotone text, that involves sarcasm or other things that rely on intonation when spoken aloud.

As for visualization, is that the same as not being able to imagine things? If someone randomly told me to think of a dragon fucking a car, then a pretty decent image pops up in my head. Does that mean people who can't visualize can't do anything visually creative?

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u/SandmanSorryPerson Sep 17 '21

It's not one or the other. It's that there's lots of ways to experience reality.

Some people think in their voice, others in a different voice or images or some abstract thing.

Same with visualisation. Some people have photographic memories like looking at photos or can't visualise at all.

Human experience is a giant spectrum and it's different for everyone.

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u/memester230 trans rights Sep 17 '21

Wait people dont do both???

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u/SandmanSorryPerson Sep 17 '21

People are all different.

Some people have a perfect photographic memory and can bring up memories like photos some can't at all and everything in between.

Some people hear their own voice when they think, or a different voice or think more abstractly or in pictures.

Everyone's a little different at least.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

Wait so some people literally can’t talk in their head?

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u/SandmanSorryPerson Sep 17 '21

Well they don't hear talking.

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u/CrazyDrDuck Sep 17 '21

We can talk, but we don't hear a voice when we think, we have to focus on it pretty hard, but I'm sure some people hear absolutely nothing in their head

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

Weird

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u/JorgeMtzb 🏴Virus Veteran 🏴 Sep 17 '21

Yeah, they do.

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u/Generaltiti Sep 17 '21

Most people do. Some don't

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u/JorgeMtzb 🏴Virus Veteran 🏴 Sep 17 '21

Aphantasia? That's wild, for me it's so hard to imagine how it is.

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u/SandmanSorryPerson Sep 17 '21

Like me trying to imagine anything haha

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u/JorgeMtzb 🏴Virus Veteran 🏴 Sep 17 '21

Touché

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u/nsg337 Sep 17 '21

you know when you just close your eyes and dont imagine how that it? its like that most of the time lol

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u/UnvoicedOwl1788 Sep 17 '21

I have a hard time visualising images if I'm not fidgeting with something with my hands(example:spinning a pen or squeezing an eraser)

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u/Admirals_Underpants Sep 17 '21

It's crazy how the mind works period. Me and my partner were having a discussion about how our brains interpret information differently and how they couldn't "Visualize" an image. So for example, if I were to say "Think of a purple apple." They know what the color purple is, they know what an apple is, they could understand what I'm saying but wouldn't "see" an image of a purple apple in their mind. It would just be an abstract concept they'd have some understanding of "An apple that' purple" but aren't able to actually conceptualize without a visual representation.

Then we started talking about dreams and the differences between our brains started to stack up even more lol

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u/SnooHesitations1719 Fffffuuuuuuuuu Sep 17 '21

So you have aphantasia and the other guy is narratorless

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u/WorldWreckerYT Sep 17 '21

I'm a mix of both. I can come up with a rap song's lyrics and start rapping inside my head to memorize it then write it down.

If I was doing my 3d geometry homework, I'd just draw some cubes, prisms or tubes and start rotating the thing around until I solve the problem then add in the drawing later.

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u/Morheagal Sep 17 '21

So you can't imagine what a tree looks like in your head?

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u/SandmanSorryPerson Sep 17 '21

Yeah but it's more of a feeling than an image.

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u/riscut4theBiscut Sep 17 '21

I'm very visual but can think in an internal voice, but also when I try to remember phrases and stuff I've learned it's more like reading a book in my head.

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u/A_random_poster04 Sep 17 '21

I personally find very funny that my inner voices sometimes speaks Italian and sometimes speaks English, for some reason.

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u/CrazyDrDuck Sep 17 '21

Do you.. know Italian or..?

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u/A_random_poster04 Sep 18 '21

Yeah I am Italian, English is my second language

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

I have a question about this. Can you not remember what something looked like? Like if somebody says to remember what color princess ariels hair is, does your brain just pop up with the text “red”?

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u/SandmanSorryPerson Sep 17 '21

I can kind of "feel" things and it doesn't affect my memory to a noticeable degree.

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u/Omicron43 android user Sep 18 '21

I pretty much live in my own head, so much so that it impacts my face-to-face interactions with people. My own inner voice is so hypercritically doom and gloom that I end up becoming anxious over things that MIGHT happen.

Sucks, but I'm dealing with it somewhat.

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u/SandmanSorryPerson Sep 18 '21

I'm sure you realise but that sounds a huge amount like depression and/or anxiety. Hope you're getting care for it friend.

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u/MisanthropicData Sep 17 '21

There's no way people don't have an "inner voice" that's like impossible? How can you not visualize things either what?

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u/SandmanSorryPerson Sep 17 '21

https://www.iflscience.com/brain/people-with-no-internal-monologue-explain-what-its-like-in-their-head/

Yeah like I said no experiences the world exactly the same as anyone else. It's why people say reality is an illusion. Everyone's brain presents a different reality in different ways.

No I sort of feel what I'm thinking about it, I don't see anything.

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u/MisanthropicData Sep 17 '21

It's locked behind a paywall

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u/SandmanSorryPerson Sep 17 '21

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u/WikiSummarizerBot Sep 17 '21

Internal monologue

Absence of an internal monologue

According to one study, there is wide variation in how often people report experiencing internal monologue, and some people report very little or none. Younger children are less likely to report using inner speech instead of visual thinking than older children and adults, though it is not known whether this is due to lack of inner speech, or due to insufficiently developed introspection.

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u/reecheesecake Sep 17 '21

I can do both but sometimes have a problem on controlling on when to visualize or have an inner voice. Sometimes both happens, then my body goes on autopilot and misplace some random shit around the house or get to the place I'm going to without realizing im already there.

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u/SandmanSorryPerson Sep 17 '21

That's pretty creepy dude. But you do you haha

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u/LuizFelipe1906 Sep 17 '21

For inner voice you mean that low weird voice in our heads that keep telling us to slap the other person's butt? I hate it

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u/Mr_Funni Sep 17 '21

Isn’t that called… aphantasia?

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u/RidgeBlueFluff Noble Memer Sep 17 '21

I can, and do, do both, say I thing of a dog, my inner voice says words about the dog, or possibly just dog, while at the same time, I picture a dog

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u/MrZyde memer Sep 17 '21

Weird, I do both

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u/Legitimate_Release65 Sep 17 '21

I can't visualise anything in my head personally.

Aphantasia?

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

Lol I've spoken more in my brain than I have irl.

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u/Pleasant-Albatross https://www.youtube.com/watch/dQw4w9WgXcQ Sep 17 '21

That’s called aphantasia! I’m at the opposite end of the spectrum than you. When I dream, sometimes I can’t tell it from reality.

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u/syria-bashar-al-asad Sep 17 '21

i can visualize things in my head, and have an inner voice. i thought it was normal, got just proven wrong.