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.
I have an inner voice, but when I’m reading, if I’m reading something that meshes well with my brain, the inner voice is silent and I have a little movie going on in my head instead. This can be inconvenient, when my linguistic processing catches up to my imagination and I realize that there was a bit of clever wordplay or delightful phrasing I want to appreciate on its linguistic merits I have to go back and re-read it in inner voice mode instead.
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.
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 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.
Some people don’t have an inner voice?!?!??!? Wait some people can’t do any of that? How do they read?
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.
I have an inner voice, but when I’m reading, if I’m reading something that meshes well with my brain, the inner voice is silent and I have a little movie going on in my head instead. This can be inconvenient, when my linguistic processing catches up to my imagination and I realize that there was a bit of clever wordplay or delightful phrasing I want to appreciate on its linguistic merits I have to go back and re-read it in inner voice mode instead.
Interesting, I don’t get to choose. Both happen regardless.
I have this too, it makes me a fairly slow reader
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.