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Re:You hear a voice in your head when you're reading, right? by dsmithatx on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @06:53PM (#11163379)
Ok this is very strange. When I read I hear the same inner voice or steady stream of consciousness I hear all the time. It's my own voice. The article says some people find it scary or distracting? So when they have normal thoughts and are not reading does that mean they don't hear their own voice like me? Is it scary and distracting when just having normal thoughts and not reading? This is amazing if this hasn't really been discussed much and studied before.

I'm really curious to hear other people's answers to this.

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Re:You hear a voice in your head when you're reading, right? by finnh on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @07:06PM (#11163447)
The majority of the time when I'm reading, I don't hear anything at all. So, you'll probably be unsurprised by my answer to your second question - I generally don't hear my voice (or any voice) when I'm thinking. That does happen sometime, but only when my task is particularly language-focused, like when I'm writing.

When I'm writing _english_, that is. No voices, no language when coding.

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Re:You hear a voice in your head when you're reading, right? by odonnellryan on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @07:10PM (#11163467)
That's interesting, because I was wondering "what must it be like to not hear a voice when reading?" and until you said the bit about coding, I didn't know.

Then I realized the same thing. I don't hear a voice when I'm coding or reading code. Odd.

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Re:You hear a voice in your head when you're reading, right? by eidorb on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @03:35AM (#11165341)
Ah-ha! This was a great insight for me. I can't not subvocalise when reading. But I too certainly don't subvocalise when reading code. Now I know what it's like.
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Re:You hear a voice in your head when you're reading, right? by szatkus on Thursday February 25, 2016 @06:44AM (#11173790)
I usually read with "my" voice, but some texts are different. For example I read comments of some people on the internet with deep voice. Don't know why.
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Re:You hear a voice in your head when you're reading, right? by QuercusMax on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @07:09PM (#11163464)
You just described my exact experience; when I'm reading or writing, or just thinking, I experience the words the same.
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