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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 s
by dsmithatx 11y ago
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.
- finnh 11y agoThe 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.
- odonnellryan 11y agoThat'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.
- eidorb 11y agoAh-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.
- QuercusMax 11y agoYou just described my exact experience; when I'm reading or writing, or just thinking, I experience the words the same.
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- szatkus 11y agoI 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.