I posed this question to the school thread last night at like 3 in the morning and got some interesting answers, so I figured I'd extend it to the rest of you. What's your thought process like?
Personally, when I'm reading, writing, or about to say something, I hear it in my head. It's not my own voice, it's a voice that I identify as Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes. It's ambiguous. Not really a child's voice, but somewhat akin to a female voice actor providing a voice for a young male. Sometimes, though, the voice in my head switches over to the voice that I identify as Hobbes.
But when I'm just pondering something, I'll see the words in my head. Not words like "and," the important words. It's every other word, or every third word, just in my head, in big, boldface letters.
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i do not think there is a specific voice that i can identify but i don't think in pictures or sounds, i think in words
It really depends on how "awake" my brain is.
If I'm just about to fall asleep I don't have a coherent mental voice at all. I just feel like I forget whatever thoughts I have a second or so after having them.
If I'm not really doing something that requires you to be just mentally engaged enough that you can't focus on anything else (say, sorting something alphabetically), then I can't manage much of a mental voice at all.
But when I get the chance to draw or design I generally have the most coherent thoughts, they're either a very loud and clear inner monologue (which tends to be very much like speaking aloud, thoughts are turned into structured sentences and are in linear order), or my mind is working very quickly (things are out of order, there's not much mental monologue, but I can more quickly find associations between ideas and concepts).
I've never really thought about whose voice it is either, this is me
I also have a tendency to read people's posts in their actual voices if I know how they sound. If not I just make up a pretend voice. I love accents so everyone sounds different too!
What spring does with the cherry trees.
yeah i sort of feel like it's not actually MY voice but i don't think it's any particular person's, mostly
and i think it isn't consistent either
i definitely hate hearing my voice on recordings
Assuming you're not reading something that's specifically already in English, does your inner monologue default to being in Dutch?
I can only speak English, but I always wondered if you had mastered another tongue if you could start thinking in another language, or if you spoke it for long enough that you're switch to thinking in something other than your native language.
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oh that's neat, Wiet!
This kind of psychology (describe what processes you feel are going on in your brain) has always interested me, although from what I've learned it's apparently horribly inaccurate, and prone to biases? I remember being told that it's not all that reliable for understanding how the mind actually works. Hopefully someone here is good at psych and can elaborate on that for me.
I've gradually got used to this but I was like this once, and I'm sure many others were
I often think my thought process is conversational, almost, as if there's a me and a brain-me debating something
And one of me will get vulgar and they'll stop talking to each other for ages until one of me tries to reconcile them
i am slowly experiencing this with german
but it's pretty erratic and only happens with short, common phrases. I need to read more, I think.
ugh languages are hard.
This is why I wish I had been taught a second language when I was younger.
What spring does with the cherry trees.
It does default to Dutch, but between a lot of English words creeping into common day use here and me interacting with English speaking people a lot it sometimes throws me off a little!
AMP'd, this need you have to be the smartest man in the thread is. . .off putting.
Cool!
rolo would you like to know about implicit and explicit memory
tell me more, tam
Also re: the language thing, for me I just understood what was being said to me, I didn't have conciously translate it into english.
Same, and if I do happen to start thinking much I'll realize that I haven't really registered the last few seconds of music.
What spring does with the cherry trees.
Little kid brains are wired to learn new languages! They pick up words like sponges
Aww, don't worry. Are you still intending to learn Dutch?
Learning English was incredibly easy for me. This country is constantly bombarded by the English language. Over here, foreign media is kept as English with Dutch subtitles. We don't do any dubbing like in Germany, so we still hear the English being spoken. Between that and videogames not having a Dutch language option, it means you're constantly exposed to it. It made learning it really easy because of constantly having to interact with it, even more so because I was a kid and picked it up faster.
It depends on what I'm doing. It's impossible for me to read and listen to music at the same time, one audio stream seems to override the other.
But I can draw and listen to music with no problems at all, I find it's easier to pay attention to both sources.
EDIT: god between the post timer and the server too busy errors posting is painful, so painful
Emotional saturation is a really interesting way of putting it
When I listen to music it's as if there's a chemical reaction going off
Atoms of music drifting around and latching on to existing thoughts to form new molecular bonds with my creativity
It's like jabbing a stimulant into my brain, I love doing it while writing
I should like to, yeah. If I went on holiday for a few weeks there I bet it'd help things along, being around it like you are.
If it's simple background music I generally don't pay much attention to it. Otherwise I usually let my mind drift and it starts constructing scenes around the music for some reason. I'm a dork.
Or what I like to think my own voice sounds like
An idealized voice
When I listen to music I tend to either get involved with the beat enough that I don't really have coherent thoughts anymore, or I imagine them being used in movie trailers
Either or
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