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Until today, I didn't know one could read a text without the internal monologue voicing it as well. I certainly can't. It also seems to explain why I'm a slow r
by oxplot 11y ago
Until today, I didn't know one could read a text without the internal monologue voicing it as well. I certainly can't. It also seems to explain why I'm a slow reader and why I tend to retain with precision, text that I've only read once. Definitely helps with understanding tech specs and manuals. And also why I dislike reading fiction because I find the language too verbose and inefficient.
But I don't actually hear a voice when reading and hence no detectable accents or tone. However, if I try to remember a line from a movie or a visual, like a scene, I can actually hear and see it, as if temporarily my brain routes my memories through my visual and auditory path, and sometimes it's unsettling even though I'm expecting it. As for the visual, I seem to have two distinct sense of vision, one from my eyes, and the other one that is so called the "mind's eye". For me, it lacks color and even shades.
As for remembering things, I can instantly tell a movie by a single frame of it even if I've watched it once and I'm yet to come across someone who can do that.
- xenadu02 11y agoI have the internal voice while reading but I also read faster than almost everyone I know. The "voice" is disembodied and doesn't "sound" like anyone I know. It doesn't sound like VoiceOver at high speed, but the sensation is more like my brain is fast-forwarding time so the voice and the understanding of the words are happening at an accelerated rate. I recognize word shapes while reading but that doesn't seem to affect the voice. If the real sound of the word differs from what I thought it was when I first learned the word it is extremely difficult to change the internal voice and consequently how I pronounce the word. My internal thoughts also seem to be expressed this way, though not necessarily all the time. Doubts or alternate viewpoints are often alternate voices and I can "hear" the arguments.
- lucaspiller 11y ago> why I'm a slow reader I can glance over text quite quickly to understand what it's saying, but can only "read" it is as fast as the voice can talk. Typing prose is the same, even if I type text without looking at the screen the voice still speaks to me and I can only type as fast as it speaks.
- icebraining 11y agoThat's interesting. Can you type while talking to someone else? (I mean actually engage in conversation, not just pretend to listen). I've typed full emails while talking to others, I can't imagine doing that while sub-vocalizing what I'm writing.
- pussinboots 11y ago>As for remembering things, I can instantly tell a movie by a single frame of it even if I've watched it once and I'm yet to come across someone who can do that. hello friend, I can do that too. 1 frame will tell me if I've seen something before, though it sometimes takes several more to get a title. I like to call it cinematic memory, it's like photographic memory but shittier because if I try to reconstruct a photographic memory it comes out blurry :v)
- lsaferite 11y agoI am like that for movies and similarly for music. Within a bar or two I can almost always tell you if I know the song. Sometimes it takes a few moments for the name to surface, but it's there.