That Voice In Your Head

[Yassen]

As you're reading this right now, you're thinking the words "outloud" in your head. While thought is quite an abstract term that can be made up of memories and feelings, we also use words even inside our own minds to describe these feelings rather than just feel them. And of course, it's easier to take in what you read when you speak them in your head. But during a thought today I started thinking about the way that voice sounds. I realised it actually sounds different depending on what I've been doing. It even takes on a different accent if I'm watching a foreign show for example.

How would I describe it? Basically my voice but slightly higher tone. I noticed though that if I talk to someone in person long enough and then leave, my inner voice takes on their mannerisms, but the tone is still my real voice. It even changes after I read a book, it becomes more descriptive and rapid, and I start using more words instead of just feelings.

Describe your own voice in your head. Have you ever had a case where the voice was actually someone elses? How does it usually sound?

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

There's a joke here, but I can't find it.

OT: The voice in my head sounds like me, it never takes on anyone else's voice or accent, it's just me in here, however I don't speak just in my head, sometimes I talk to myself out loud, which can be a little off putting to those who catch me in the act. Sometimes it also feels like I'm channeling another person (in my head), however they are still speaking with my voice, it just seems like something I wouldn't normally think.

 

[Rawne1980]

OT: The voice in my head sounds like me, it never takes on anyone else's voice or accent, it's just me in here,

Pretty much the same.

My head voice is boring and only ever sounds like me.

Except when i'm doing housework, then my head voice reminds what I need to do while sounding like my wife.

Although i'm not sure if thats head voice or her nagging echoes.

 

[Brendan Stepladder]

It sounds like my voice, but changes in pitch depending on what I perceive of the author. IE: More feminine tone if written by female, groveling tone if written by angsty wreck, etc.

 

[CODE-D]

Mine seems very sad calm and mean but I guess its my voice.

 

[dudycat1]

i hear voices in my head all the time, i just ignore them and carry on burning things.

ot: i suppose i hear my own voice in my head but calmer than usual.

 

[Relish in Chaos]

When I?m thinking to myself, it?s my own voice. When I?m reading something by (presumably, as it?s practically the ?default? gender) a man, it?s a random male voice. When I?m reading something by a woman, it?s a random female voice. It changes depending on tone and mood.

 

[Jackalb]

There many voices.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

I find that using the Ice Kings voice is very pleasant

 

[DeltaEdge]

Huh, mine sounds nothing like my actual voice most of the time. The only time it occasionally resembles my voices is every once and a while when I am typing, like now, but it kind of fades in and out between my voice, and my head's usual voice. The voice in my head doesn't really sound like anything. It sort of sounds like a whisper, no distinct person talking, it sounds more like someone is programming the information directly into my head (wait, I guess I am the one doing that at all times XD). Long story short, a voice without a voice that can be understood, but not properly heard like a normal voice. I'm probably just insane is all. "HEE HEE HOO HOO HAAA!!! CACKLE CACKLE!! CAKE!!!!" *Explosion SFX*.
But yeah, I've thought about it like you OP and that's when I realized it didn't sound like anything, and was more understood than heard.
Edit: Oh, I've got it. I feel the voice! (that sounds really weird and stupid) But yeah, my mind's voice doesn't really sound, but whenever I read, I get the same feeling as when I mouth something out without actually saying anything, like lip-syncing. That way I can feel exactly what was said, but don't have to have an actual voice narrate it. I hope that makes sense.

 

[Infernai]

The voice in my head sounds mostly sounds like Sean Connery, although it can sometimes change to my own or others depending on my mood and by circumstance. I am unsure if that's a sign that my mind is awesome, or of my growing insanity. On the other hand, my mind sounds primarily like Sean Connery so i fail to see the downside to that.

 

[Fijiman]

I can't even speak in same accent for more than twenty minutes sometimes so my brain thinky voice thing is always changing. Sometimes my thinking voice sounds like some of the accents I can't do, but other times it's the voices of various characters from various shows, movies, ect. Like I said, it's always changing, mostly depending on what I'm doing, thinking, feeling, ect.

 

[Dags90]

It pretty much sounds like my spoken voice, or at least what I think my spoken voice sounds like. I think it might be tiny bit deeper than my real voice.

What really blows my mind are people who think in different languages. I honestly can't comprehend how you would go from thinking in one language to thinking in another.

 

[White Lightning]

I had a voice in my head once... BUT I ATE IT!

 

[zelda2fanboy]

When I read that first paragraph, the voice sounded like Daniel Stern narrating Wonder Years. Usually the voice in my head is more or less my voice. If I'm thinking sarcastically and coming up with jokes or a humorous monolog, it's the voice of Randal from Clerks. A lot of the time, it's more my normal voice, but in a slight whisper... often because I actually whisper some of this stuff to myself when I'm alone.

 

[Twilight_guy]

That voice is the voice I hear when I talk. Since your voice sounds different to yourself then it does to anyone else, I suppose it technically sounds different then my normal voice. I also emote more in my head. If I'm listening to someone else's voice for a long period of time, such as a narrated movie or a book on tape or something, my inner monologue takes on that voice for a period of time.

 

[Drummie666]

It sounds like how I think I sound, but not like how I actually sound. I don't know what else it would sound like. I can make it a different voice, for example, I'm reading this aloud in my head in a female's voice, but it normally sounds like me.

Also, I don't really know how to describe my voice. That'd be weird.

 

[thejackyl]

It sounds like me without the speech impediment that comes from having Dyslexia.

*Random Tangent
You wouldn't know it from hearing talk conversationally, but if I'm reading out loud my words blend together and I often see(and say) words incorrectly. Though reading to myself I'm perfectly fine.
*End Tangent

If I'm reading a book:
The narrator (in 3rd person books) is me, and the characters sound how I think they should sound based on description.

 

[Bestival]

Even though I'm Dutch, my inner voice speaks English, I think in English, and have gotten to the point where I know the English words for something, but for the life of me can't remember the Dutch words for what I am thinking.
The negative effect of living almost entirely in media.

Sometimes the voice is German, when I'm trying to practise that language a bit. The voice is always my own, unless I'm quoting something/someone mentally. (I AM CORNHOLIO! I NEED TP FOR MY BUNGHOLE!)