I'm curious: What does your "inner voice" sound like, to you?

[MTL]

My inner voice sounds a bit like Clarissa from Clarissa Explains it All. And there's colors, smells, and music laced into. It's a bit weird because I have synesthesia and its have to explain to people without it.

Synesthesia is fascinating.
I wonder if I have a very mild form of it because different numbers always seemed to have "personalities" to me:


1 just represents any individual
2 is diplomatic and approachable
3 is just a nice, easygoing kid...my youngest sister
4 is insecure and a bit of a backstabber...my middle sister
5 is a loud, obnoxious control-freak and a bully....my aunt
6 has no personality; a random passing stranger
7 is a very pretty girl...who is friends with 4
8 is curious and rational.  (It is also MY number).
9 is a bit of a simpleton, easily manipulated.  Mom is a 9.
10 is the head of the house...Dad.
11 is a sophisticated lady
12 is a wise old Grandfather with a gruff voice and white whiskers.  (I think I associate it with a Grandfather Clock).


On the other hand, maybe I just have an overactive imagination, lol

[BrokenQuill92]

My inner voice sounds a bit like Clarissa from Clarissa Explains it All. And there's colors, smells, and music laced into. It's a bit weird because I have synesthesia and its have to explain to people without it.

Synesthesia is fascinating.
I wonder if I have a very mild form of it because different numbers always seemed to have "personalities" to me:


1 just represents any individual
2 is diplomatic and approachable
3 is just a nice, easygoing kid...my youngest sister
4 is insecure and a bit of a backstabber...my middle sister
5 is a loud, obnoxious control-freak and a bully....my aunt
6 has no personality; a random passing stranger
7 is a very pretty girl...who is friends with 4
8 is curious and rational.  (It is also MY number).
9 is a bit of a simpleton, easily manipulated.  Mom is a 9.
10 is the head of the house...Dad.
11 is a sophisticated lady
12 is a wise old Grandfather with a gruff voice and white whiskers.  (I think I associate it with a Grandfather Clock).


On the other hand, maybe I just have an overactive imagination, lol

Mine doesn't work quite that way…

[Anomalocaris]

Whatever your inner voice sounds like, remember it. It is the ringtone God has chosen for you to remind you to take the next dose of your schizophrenia medicine.

[MTL]

I wonder if I should start another thread about this, but I think I'll just add it onto this one:

This also raises the question for me about "perceptual errors".

I remember reading a part in a book by Anne Rice,
wherein one of her characters described experiencing what she chose to call a "perceptual error":

The character would look at a gem like a ruby,
and imagine if it was dropped into a glass of water,
it would dissolve and stain the water a deep red.

The character instinctively knew this was erroneous,
but experienced the perceptual error, regardless,
every time he looked at any gemstone.

I imagine that Anne Rice must have either experienced this phenomenon, herself,
or heard someone describe it,
because what else would inspire her to have her fictitious character
describe such an event?

My youngest sister revealed that she thought that all wind was generated by cars.

She somehow developed this idea when she was very young,
and as she got older, never had any reason to question it.

When she offhandedly remarked on cars being the cause of all wind, one day not long ago,
we had a good laugh, and she immediately became conscious of how ridiculous it was,
once she consciously regarded the concept, as an adult...

...it would mean that prior to the invention of cars,
there would never have been any wind on Earth.

but it was a perceptual error  that she arrived at, as a young child,
and, never being challenged, simply remained in place until adulthood,
until one day it was called to her attention how absurd this childhood assumption of hers, had been.

This also made me think of a phenomenon I always experienced as a child,
but only when I was sick or running a fever:

I remember perceiving, during those times,
that there was something amiss in my tactile senses;

if I "pinched" something very small, like a single hair, between my thumb and forefinger,
I had the simultaneous odd sensation that I was hugging something enormous,
....like the trunk of a giant Sequoia tree.

I can't say it was a pleasant sensation...it was disorienting;
but it was fascinating.

I've only ever encountered one other person who knew what I was talking about,
and he was astounded to hear me describe it.

But again, this was only when I was sick with the flu or something.

I imagine that Synesthesia is like a more permanent version of this.

Anyone else have perceptual errors, either as a child, or as an adult,
whether when ill, or healthy?

[MTL]

Whatever your inner voice sounds like, remember it.  It is the ringtone God has chosen for you to remind you to take the next dose of your schizophrenia medicine.

I guess I expected the schizo jokes in this thread.

[Lemonvariable72]

Sounds like I'm a bit weird here. Most of my thinking is internal dialogue. I also have have 2 voices that are me. One is me now, the other is me at like 14.

[Gawdzilla]

My inner voice sounds like Morgan Freeman playing Jubal Harshaw.

[Jenny A]

I think mostly in words, and I sound like a flattened version of my voice that never stutters. I have a kind of continuous narration going on unless am very tired, working hard on something that takes both physical and mental effort, or meditating. If I have an internal debate it's just my voice and my voice, but I know which is which.

I also think in diagrams (simplified visual versions of the problem). Figuring out home repair and building projects is often largely wordless and what words there are written labels. I'm just moving the pieces around in my visual imagination.

[Cato]

My experience is the same as Jenny's. I had to train myself to turn it off when reading for the sake of speed.

[ignoramus]

Quick question.
Do people who stutter, think without stuttering?
Since stuttering is usually a mental thing, not a physical thing?