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Your inner voice, internal dialogue...

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LongLostSock · 24/05/2024 22:02

Does it tell you to set things on fire too? 🤣

But really, does your inner voice sound like you? Mine has a Welsh accent for some reason, I even dream in a Welsh accent. But I've never lived in Wales or even been there much. I don't understand why my inner thoughts are Welsh 😅

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JusWunderin · 24/05/2024 22:06

Mine is really posh - and given I have a Bristol-bound accent I find it really weird 😂 my inner monologue is very well-to-do.

Mine doesn’t really tell me to so many awful things. But it never, ever shuts up. Even after I’m done thinking about something I’ll just carry on having a conversation with my inner monologue and I can’t ever switch it off.

Its exhausting tbh and I wish I was someone who didn’t have one 😂

maudelovesharold · 24/05/2024 22:07

Mine’s not really a voice with an accent, more just my thoughts, really, so sounds like me, I suppose!

LongLostSock · 24/05/2024 23:00

JusWunderin · 24/05/2024 22:06

Mine is really posh - and given I have a Bristol-bound accent I find it really weird 😂 my inner monologue is very well-to-do.

Mine doesn’t really tell me to so many awful things. But it never, ever shuts up. Even after I’m done thinking about something I’ll just carry on having a conversation with my inner monologue and I can’t ever switch it off.

Its exhausting tbh and I wish I was someone who didn’t have one 😂

Oh I'm like this. I can literally have an argument with my inner voice because it won't fucking stop when I've had enough. It's like a perpetual 2 year old banging on about Bing.

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CM97 · 24/05/2024 23:02

I think I need an inner voice ti keep me in check... do you think I can develop one?

Montgomerymmoose · 24/05/2024 23:05

Mine sounds like my voice . It never shuts up .

AsMyGranWouldSay · 24/05/2024 23:06

Mine's singing "There are worse things I could do" from the film Grease, on repeat, this week...no idea why

DildoHarding · 24/05/2024 23:06

I don't have one :( everyone else in the house does but they all also have ADHD or AuDHD

twentysevendresses · 24/05/2024 23:10

Mine often has a Welsh accent too...very bizarre 🤣 but most of the time it's just a 'Posher' version of me.

ConflictofInterest · 24/05/2024 23:13

I don't have one, it's just imagery/video in my head, no voices talking to me.

WallaceinAnderland · 24/05/2024 23:19

I don't have one. I have thoughts but I don't hear them outloud.

Goawayquickly · 24/05/2024 23:27

Mine's American, go figure!
I wish she'd bugger off sometimes with all her 'Awesome!' and 'You guys'

Seriously though, my head is a jumble of thoughts, voices, music and sometimes it drives me mad. Conversely I think I'd miss it if it suddenly went silent, I'd just like a little space from time to time.

LieutOliviaBenson · 24/05/2024 23:33

Mine has an Australian accent. I don't know why, I'm not Australian, I've never been there and I don't know anyone who is Australian. 😆

JamSandle · 24/05/2024 23:39

Mines mean and loud.

Greengrapeofhome · 24/05/2024 23:45

Mine has my own accent. I can’t imagine life without it and it’s weird to think some people don’t have it. It must be quite peaceful!

EBearhug · 25/05/2024 00:12

Mine takes on voices of people I know, usually when thinking over particular problems, but I think it's just me thr rest of the time.

Though currently it's single a couple of lines of an ABBA song, over and over, which might send me mad.

Lilacdew · 25/05/2024 00:14

I'm intrigued by these inner voices with different accents!

the80sweregreat · 25/05/2024 08:15

My inner voice is definitely my own , but it's incredibly critical and over thinks everything.

DustyFire · 25/05/2024 08:17

I love that other people’s sing too! Mine has Total Eclipse Of The Heart on loop right now.

dudsville · 25/05/2024 08:21

I'm usually on an ear worm loop, currently "can't read my, can't read my, no you can't read my poker face..." I haven't heard the song in years. And this is interspersed with random barely conscious thoughts that I would struggle to voice if i were asked, but it's me.

TheAntiHero · 25/05/2024 08:25

DustyFire · 25/05/2024 08:17

I love that other people’s sing too! Mine has Total Eclipse Of The Heart on loop right now.

Mine makes it's own remixes as well. It's currently doing a Taylor Swift 'My Boy Only Breaks his Favourite Toys'/that awful Ed Sheeran and Elton John Xmas song mash up 😫

MushMonster · 25/05/2024 08:27

Mine sounds like me, 100% of the time I am awake is there.... it does not bother me.
The one that can get rather shitty at times is my to-do-list brain side. It is like a damn loop, going on all the time in the background. Sometimes I am all happy sitting down with my coffee, and I get this panic: oh no, I did not send that email, turn that thingy on/ off, blah blah blah. That sounds helpful, but at times my loop brain forgets that I have already done it..... and it makes me anxious without any need!

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 25/05/2024 08:44

Mine doesn't have an accent. It's hard to describe, but it conveys words in a non sound-based way. A bit like when you read words (i.e. without sounding them out in your head). I do also get songs playing in my head a lot too though, which obviously are sounding out.

Hillrunning · 25/05/2024 08:53

Mine sounds like me because she is me. Unless I am reliving an interaction with others, then i have my voice and thier voices. To the poster above, what do you mean about reading? When I read, my inner voice absolutely sounds out the words. As I type this she is saying the words in my head.

For the poster thay said they only think in images, what happens when you are thinking of a conversation yoy need to have later in the day? Of one you already had?

WallaceinAnderland · 25/05/2024 13:40

Are people confusing 'thoughts' with 'voices'? 😂

coastergirl · 25/05/2024 13:46

Mine is a cross between an internal monologue and an internal jukebox, and I really wish I could switch it off and have a rest! It's been very loud lately. Although, I am quite sound-sensitive in reality too, and that's been much worse lately, so I wonder if that's connected with me perceiving things in my head to be louder too? Hmmm...

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