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    It sounds like how I sound to myself when speaking, but not how I sound listening to a recording of myself.

    It also sounds different if I’m reading someone else’s words.

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    8 hours ago

    I sound more confident in my head than when I actually say things out loud, I wish my outer voice was just as confident as my inner voice

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    16 hours ago

    It sounds like how I think I sound, so nothing like what I really sound like in recordings.

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      10 hours ago

      I know this is impossible to describe like explaining vision to a blind person, but how does that work? I can hear mine and can not hear someone if I’m thinking hard enough

  • GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip
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    It doesn’t sound like me, It (usually) sounds like a man, (which I’m not) but it also sounds female sometimes (but also not my vocie) It must have something to do with the fact that I don’t like the sound of my voice. The inner monologue also goes back and forth between the languages that I know.

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      Same here to some degree. I can make it lower-pitched, and it still feels natural, but not higher-pitched without focusing hard for some reason.

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    It’s mine, always has been. Always knew it wasn’t god speaking to me.

    Unfortunately it’s also self-loathing. I’ve spent years retraining it / myself.

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    Mine takes on elements of whoever I’ve been hearing a lot of lately. Had Dexter’s voice when I was watching the show. Had Serj Tankien for a bit. It varies.

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    our head voices are only ever versions of ourself. we’re not hearing presidents or celebrities when we think. only when things around us are really bad do we think-talk over each other.

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        Place your hands in front of your ears (pinky against your temple palms facing ears) while you speak and you can come close to how it sounds on a recording.

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          I used to work with video production for a while and a lot of voice over artists do that to preview what they sound like.

          I think my inner voice sound like I think I sound.

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    I’m trans. Born male, transitioned female. I’ve always had a female inner monologue. Nothing like what I sound like out loud.

    • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      2 days ago

      That’s interesting. I’m also transfeminine, and my inner voice sounds like however I think I sound at the moment. Like, it transitioned with me, and also changes when I’m sick.

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    It usually sounds like me. I can hear it in someone else’s voice if I’m thinking about something they said or might say. I can use other voices too, or make one up, but that takes more effort.

    There’s also one that feels like a ghost of my real voice. That’s the fastest one to think in. It’s very neutral and colorless (for anyone else who thinks of voices in terms of colors).

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    My internal monologue has no sound, it’s just raw words. Not text, just the concept of words.

    My thoughts can have a voice if I give it one, but not by default. Usually things only have “sound” in my head if I’m playing a song in my head or something.

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      For me no inner voice of any kind. It’s just sort of there. No minds eye either.

      If anyone wants to look them up they are called Aphantasia (no pictures in mind) and Anendophasia (no inner voice).

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        I have a minds eye and can give my thoughts a voice if I choose, but they aren’t there by default. Interestingly though, I am a parent to a child who appears to have aphantasia.

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        This is me too. Though I can generate an inner steam of words, those words have no audio qualities and are purely conceptual. They also come “after the fact”. I’m thinking of words, rather than words being the medium of my thoughts.