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Besides beiing able to "see" most people have a inner voice that says things "out loud".
Now I'll give you one better, apparently there's levels to this too. One day I surprised my partner by saying that I can "hear" my throughts in any voice I wish, even accent (provided I know such accent).
Like when I remember or imagine anthing I have full visuals and audio. I still lack skill to acually articulate any of these things, so I still suck at pretty much everything I haven't practiced a lot.
Some people don't have an inner voice?!?!??!? Wait some people can't do any of that? How do they read?
I have this too, it makes me a fairly slow reader
Interesting, I don't get to choose. Both happen regardless.
There's actually quite a variety of what goes on in people's minds. Some people's internal worlds are similar to each others', and some are drastically different. I think of it as one of the cool things about being a social species: people think differently, so we can solve different problems to benefit the group. I think that as a species, some of the worst things happen when we all think alike because people who all think exactly alike are easy to control.
The words I read make sounds in my head but when I'm just thinking I don't have any inner monologue, I just kind of think the thing directly instead of vocalizing it in my head.
Huh, neat. I can't turn it off, keeps me up at night sometimes.
And they can't even talk to themselves in a vampire voice.
I can kind of shut off the voice when I'm reading, so I just look at the word and know what it is. It's harder with unfamiliar words, those have to be sounded out.
I always thought "inner voice" was a figure of speech
I have an inner monologue, but it isn't active when reading (besides, perhaps, to critique). I just see symbols and know what they mean, I don't have to say the word in my head.
I once played a Tabletop RPG where one of the NPCs was an annoying, opinionated AI who refused to do work beyond what he calculated his level of keep was, but who would freely criticize the plans and opinions of anyone he found it amusing to in a gratingly sarcastic way.
Eventually, I stated having thoughts in his voice commenting on my actions unbidden. It was rather surreal. Truly though, I'm a bit sad it ceased some months after the game ended.
The main narrator voice in Disco Elysium started reading stuff I was reading for a while.
That's cool as hell
his voice is so smooth, you're lucky
One of my favorite little moments in Disco Elysium was arguing with the narrator. I liked the option of saying "no, that's not how I feel" or "no, that's not what's just happened" and have him either argue back or just concede with irritation like an irate Dungeon Master.
I can do pretty good impressions, both capturing what someone would say and how they would say it. half of this is that I spent a lot of time as a kid playing with my vocal cords, so I know how to move them, but the other is that I can modulate my internal monologue to copy other's mannerisms and consider how they view the world. Apparently most people lack this ability.