You hear a voice in your head when you're reading, right?

Re:You hear a voice in your head when you're reading, right? by xyzzyz on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @07:09PM (#11163459)

I lost the internal monologue during puberty. It was initially pretty scary when I noticed that -- it though I'm ceasing to exist, and in a few years the "me" will be gone from my shell, while everyone else around me will be none the wiser. Fortunately, it did not happen (yet).

I think the way it happened was that as I read lots of books, I realized I need to stop processing consciously every word if I want to read faster. Additionally, I started to spend lots of time interacting with English language (which is not my native), and I was sometimes thinking in English before I stopped thinking in words altogether.

I developed a speech impediment because of that: whenever I need to speak, I need to synchronize my mental state with the words coming from my mouth, which requires a little effort.

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Re:You hear a voice in your head when you're reading, right? by shams93 on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @07:50PM (#11163642)

Yeah if I read aloud "in my head" my reading speed is like 50% of what it is if I don't do that. But for fiction and poetry its fun to "hear" the words in my head so for literature I definitely read differently than when I read for information or training.

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Re:You hear a voice in your head when you're reading, right? by landtuna on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @09:17PM (#11164043)

I share your experience (lacking any inner voice), except when I'm staging words to be spoken (or written as a conversation). I'm a native English speaker, and I never remember having an inner voice. Until reading a page linked here, I had thought I had mental imagery, but it sounds like I don't have that as others do, either.

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