People who have unusual, or non-existent, inner voices

Re:People who have unusual, or non-existent, inner voices by Bellend on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @05:14PM (#29087456)

Hey! I don't know if I have the voice or not. I seen this on a video (Joe Scott maybe?) a couple of weeks ago and I wondered too. I don't know the difference between thinking and inner voice. Like if I am approaching a road, I don't recall an inner voice telling me to stop but I don't know if that is valid as an example.

The question might be too broad but how do you know you have no inner voice?

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Re:People who have unusual, or non-existent, inner voices by renton_wal on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @05:22PM (#29087547)

Can you speak to yourself in your head? I also think there's a difference between involuntary and voluntary inner voice.

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Re:People who have unusual, or non-existent, inner voices by WJW on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @05:30PM (#29087639)

For me there is definitely a difference between voluntary and involuntary. I can imagine speaking to myself, for example. I do/did that when writing this very sentence. But if I'm not consciously generating language (ie speaking or writing, or thinking about either) then it's nice and quiet in my head :)

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Re:People who have unusual, or non-existent, inner voices by floatingatoll on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @05:20PM (#29087525)

Other people apparently hear perceptible voices talking to them. Those cartoons about a devil and angel on your shoulders aren’t just cartoons, it turns out, I guess. I’m not really great at explaining it :)

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Re:People who have unusual, or non-existent, inner voices by rags2riches on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @06:35AM (#29092901)

The problem is the devil and the angel both talk with the same voice. The trick is to recognize who's talking anyway.

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