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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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twentysevendresses · 25/05/2024 19:48

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 sings too...definitely an X Factor winner! I couldn't sing as well out loud, say 🤣

twentysevendresses · 25/05/2024 19:50

WallaceinAnderland · 25/05/2024 13:40

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

Nope! I have actual conversations with my inner voice. They are fully rounded and often argumentative! It's a 'voice' - thoughts are much more random and incomplete.

GreenShady · 25/05/2024 19:53

If I've been watching Peep Show mine sounds like Mark or Jeremy.

IwishIdidntlikesugar · 25/05/2024 19:54

Mine has different accents. Sometimes I am a scouser, sometimes quite a rough Scottish woman, sometimes in the summer I am a suave Spanish man, it all depends really. When Im waking in the street or on public transport it ramps up and i get numerous comments going on about people I see or I go one step further and do their voice in my head, generally just a short one liner related to what they think of themselves or what’s on their mind. It is quite tiring but it keeps me company.

Tadpole10 · 25/05/2024 19:55

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

Mine is singing Do you like pina coladas? on repeat. Always has a song on the go.

Last week I was imagining I'd invented a medication to stop inner voices from singing. I'd make a million I bet.

MushMonster · 26/05/2024 09:27

WallaceinAnderland · 25/05/2024 13:40

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

LOL yes, we can hear our thoughts in our own head. Not everyone thinks in the same way. Some people can "hear", "see". Others, apparently, just have concepts. I actually wonder how that works....

GreenShady · 26/05/2024 12:44

For me the voice and the continuous soundtrack are two separate things - the soundtrack is always playing in the background!
Now that I've just read the piña colada thing that's started running in my brain now 🤯

GreenShady · 26/05/2024 12:45

But alternating with Summer In the City, for no apparent reason.

jellybe · 26/05/2024 12:48

Mine constantly sings. Changes accent with my mood. Also brings up my most embarrassing moments on reel just as I'm trying to fall asleep 😂

ArchaeoSpy · 26/05/2024 13:26

sometimes its more like a potential flashforward of events other times its more a message that overrides the thoughts eg your telling yourself x but when running over it in your mind its like it switches to a different thought

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