The Voices in Your Head

[Seamus123]

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[TheeGoatPig]

All of the above. If I know what the voice of the person sounds like, I hear their voice. If I don't, it's just that soundless voice. Sometimes it's a random woman's voice. Sometimes it's mine.

They are all in there all of the itme telling me to do things anyway, so it's all good.
(listen to the voices, the voices are always right )

 

[cloudy]

I read too quickly for there to be a voice.

 

[Trombonus]

I hear my own voice, but I find that it changes when a character is speaking. I do do some voices, so that tends to play out in my mind as well. Also if the character is one that I know, and recognize how they sound on TV or whatever, then I hear that voice sometimes too.

Then there's Frank, but I try not to listen to him because he tells me to burn things...

 

[FatDino]

I'm pretty much like Trombonus. I hear my own voice when the narrators speak and alt versions of it when I hit the characters' lines. I sometimes imagine voices of the people I know as the characters' too, if I can find any similarities, that is.

 

[Trombonus]

I'm pretty much like Trombonus. I hear my own voice when the narrators speak and alt versions of it when I hit the characters' lines. I sometimes imagine voices of the people I know as the characters' too, if I can find any similarities, that is.

Copycat.

 

[FatDino]

Copycat.

I meant people I knew as in my friends, my teachers, my relatives, etc. not people on TV.

Besides, it's not like you can sue me.

 

[Trombonus]

I meant people I knew as in my friends, my teachers, my relatives, etc. not people on TV.

Besides, it's not like you can sue me.

I don't usually encounter people I know when I'm reading stories on Lit. J/k, I know what you mean.

Now where is that patent pending notice?

 

[FatDino]

I don't usually encounter people I know when I'm reading stories on Lit. J/k, I know what you mean.

Now where is that patent pending notice?

On my desk somewhere. You know how people don't work on weekends.

 

[Guest]

genderless, soundless yet full bodied with an accent.

i can keep it on the down low...'susan', my inner bitch gets really jealous.

 

[Trombonus]

On my desk somewhere. You know how people don't work on weekends.

Aw nuts.

 

[Grushenka]

I nearly didn't open this thread but as I did not recognize the author (e.g., Amicus and ilk) I thought I'd take a chance.

This may be the most interesting question I've read on this forum. Seriously.

At first I didn't understand it, even after reading the responses. I reread the first post. Nickel dropped.

I don't hear any voice in my head when I read. None at all. I read words and see them on the page, intellectually translate however required, put 'em together, keep reading, keep making sense (or not). Sometimes (it's becoming rarer) there is an emotional response, even the odd gasp or 'Fuck me'. But no voice. No physical thing like a voice.

Thinking on it, I believe I'd go insane if I began to 'hear' any voice at all while reading.

Now I shall go ask my nearest and dearest about this subject.

 

[FatDino]

Aw nuts.

LMAO...

 

[JamesSD]

When you're reading something, which voice is in your head? Yours? The (imagined) voice of the character? Or some omnipresent, voiceless words?

What about you?

For Dialog I usually "hear" a voice. Otherwise it tends to be omnipresent, voiceless words.

 

[The_Fool]

whispers...


I see movies in my head when I read.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Mostly I hear the character's voices, unless I'm reading too quickly.

 

[glynndah]

Listening to the voices is too distracting so I try to ignore them when I'm reading. If the text isn't that interesting, then I tend to pay attention to what they are saying and sounding like, rather than the story they are telling. If the story is interesting, I see the words in my head, faster than the voices can keep up and they go away.

 

[Frank Noir]

Someone asked this question in a seminar a while ago, and I sometimes go back to thinking about it:

When you're reading something, which voice is in your head? Yours? The (imagined) voice of the character? Or some omnipresent, voiceless words?

I try and think about it and come up with an answer, but every time I try and analyse just what the voice is, I force it too much and it's something unnatural, whatever it happens to be: my voice, or something else. Not a proper answer.

What about you?

A bland version of my own voice, I think.

I even get confused if the characters have special speech patterns, like the street talk in George Pelecanos novels.

When I was a kid, I remember seeing a face when reading narrative - like some kind of generic news guy.

 

[R. Richard]

Someone asked this question in a seminar a while ago, and I sometimes go back to thinking about it:

When you're reading something, which voice is in your head? Yours? The (imagined) voice of the character? Or some omnipresent, voiceless words?

I try and think about it and come up with an answer, but every time I try and analyse just what the voice is, I force it too much and it's something unnatural, whatever it happens to be: my voice, or something else. Not a proper answer.

What about you?

The only voice I ever hear in my head is a soft one that suggests, "You could cheat on your income tax and get away with it!" Then there is a much louder voice that says, "They'll throw you in jail if you try!"

 

[N0madS0uL]

It's all random. I mean, most of the time its a female voice, sometimes a male voice, then I get a feeling that I'm talking to myself. Its pretty wierd, the stuff that goes on inside my head and I can't quite figure it out myself LOL!

 

[oggbashan]

I read too quickly for there to be a voice.

If the story works for me, it's like a fast motion movie, far too fast for any words. An average length commercial novel takes about 45 minutes.

Og

 

[Grushenka]

whispers... I see movies in my head when I read.

If the story works for me, it's like a fast motion movie, far too fast for any words. An average length commercial novel takes about 45 minutes.

Yes, that's more like it for me. Whether fiction, history, biography or other story-telling texts, images come forth rapidly, whole scenes (depending), panoramas, close-ups, pans, etc. I think the possibility of voices translates into visuals.

Relieved, Gru

 

[Quiet_Cool]

At first I didn't understand it, even after reading the responses. I reread the first post. Nickel dropped.

Ditto.

I read the title and opened the thread because I thought he (I assume Seamus is male; the name sounds more masculine than feminine) was hearing my voices too.

As for when I read... Dunno. Never really thought it out, and can't come up with a clear recollection thinking back. I hear my characters speak when i write, and it's always their own voices, if that's worth anything as a response.

Q_C

 

[English Lady]

I hear characters voices, and if there's a narrator type voice, it'll be kinda upper class English. It's why I don't like to watch films of books I've read -they never sound (or look) right.

 

[Chantilyvamp]

Its more for me the different voices in my head takes turns reading to me. Not like for each character..but there is a soothing female voice that reads soft things to me...and I'll stop the descriptions of the voices there as gets a bit personal. Some are voices of friends some are voices of the imagination.

The only thing with me that does not get read in a voice is the stuff out of one of my classes and not one bloody voice in my head will have the decency to read it to me so I can stay awake!