Is your thinking voice the same as your speaking voice?

[Reverend Gooner]

I posted this on another forum so I thought I would post it here and see what our thoughts are

Does the voice in your head that you use when thinking sound the same as the voice that comes out of your mouth for everyone to hear?


I think mine possibly does but I am not sure. I guess I get my thinking voice through hearing my actual voice but then I swear my thinking voice is softer than my real voice and is more BBC than my very slightly South Londonesque projected voice.


In fact whenever I hear my voice back to me through videos or recordings it never sounds like what I think it does (I am quite suprised how different I sound to what I thought) and I hear many people say the same thing. Is the reason I think it sounds different because it is not the same as my thinking voice which I most associate as my voice as I think alot more than I speak?

Consider 2 parallel universes, in one world a man is mute and never utters a word his whole life, in another the same man speaks freely like everyone. Is his thinking voice the same in both worlds or do you think not?

You can manipulate your thinking voice to sound like others through memory (like a film or cartoon character) if we want to but we have a default thinking voice (which you are probably using reading this post back to you). That is what I mean.


Thoughts? Do you think they are the same or different?

[StLGooner]

I don't think my voices are even the same thing. My thinking voice is a little devil on my shoulder, saying "do it, you know you want to".

[Leody]

Depends on which voice in my head you're talking about... I have many, lol

Seriously though, no not really.

[Reverend Gooner]

Seriously though, no not really.

Not really that you don't think they are the same? How do you think they are different?

Alot of the people who said they were different on the other forum said their thinking voice is softer and posher than their speaking voice, would you agree?

[Git]

My thinking voice is quite a lot softer. When I hear my self on recordings I'm amazed at how deeper my voice sounds.

[Git]

My thinking voice also speaks a lot slower and is a comedy genius.

[Arsenal Tone]

I sound like the 'Green Army' Aviva advert!

[Leody]

Seriously though, no not really.

Not really that you don't think they are the same? How do you think they are different?

Alot of the people who said they were different on the other forum said their thinking voice is softer and posher than their speaking voice, would you agree?

Yeah probably... I think it has alot to do with how I hear my speaking voice. When I hear myself in recordings I don't think it sounds at all what I hear myself as.

My internal voice is probably a bit softer and smoother sounding.

[Massa]

I sound like the 'Green Army' Aviva advert!

UP YOUR VIVA

edit: oh right aviva, sorry

[Reverend Gooner]

Softer and smoother sounds like the majority vote although some claim they are exactly the same.


What do y'all think of the parralel universe example I gave? Would you say that the thinking voice would be the same in both worlds and that your speaking voice has no influence on how your thinking one sounds?

[Git]

what sort of bullshit talk is this who cares what there thinking voice sounds like

This is the single most important aspect of my entire life.

[Psycho Gooneress]

what sort of bullshit talk is this who cares what there thinking voice sounds like

Wow my thinking voice just said to me they thought they heard the squeaking of unbroken voice box trying to engage in a philisophical discussion and failing so therefore dismisses the whole thread by saying its bullshit! The 'yoof' of today don't even try.

[gzagee]

Whenever I hear my voice replayed to me I cringe. It sounds nothing like I imagine it in my head.
Then again, the ladiez do tell me I've got dulcit tones.

[Trina]

well f**k you assholes i am not coming back here again

Damn right, your only 12 years old. Cya.

[Rockin' Robin]

I've often thought about this kind of thing, also about stuff like whether cats think in English or whatever, but that's another story. I think your thinking voice is made of memories of what you've heard - you can do impressions of people in your head from what you've heard them say, but when you try and say it, it comes out horribly wrong.