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The voice in your head

Discussion in 'Gender Identity and Expression' started by staticinmyattic, Aug 28, 2021.

  1. staticinmyattic

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    When you think, do you perceive your thoughts as a voice? If so, does that voice sound like your identified gender or assigned gender? Any experiences with this that you’d like to share?
     
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    Depends on what is going on. I often hear my mother being critical of me, this is of course in her voice.

    On my own thinking about things going on I rarely hear my thoughts in a voice. I think more in pictures or short videos. Any "audible" internal discussion is more in whispers and so does not really have a masculine or feminine voice. The timbre of my voice actually works better for my true self than it did for my assigned sex so if I did internally hear my voice it would I guess sound like my identified gender.
     
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    I hear my thoughts as a mixture of both. I see movies, while also hearing this more masculine voice, that analyses everything. Same thing happens, when reading.
     
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    No, I think in pictures
     
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    Weirdly enough it jumps back and forth. Sometimes I realise it's more femmine like I wish I could get my voice to be and other times it's my old voice that I still use daily. Initially I didn't even realise but a reddit post drew my attention to it and now I purposely play with it whenever I'm thinking. Especially funny is how if I count in English it's effeminate but if I count in my mother tongue its masculine. Odd right?
     
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    Thats fascinating! Particularly the part about playing with your thinking voice deliberately. I love hearing people describe the practical day to day reality of how their minds work. Thanks!
     
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    You're most welcome. In a weird way I have a fascination with voice actors thanks to Mark Hammil who played Joker so well so I often take on board the voices of whatever media I'm obsessed with at the time. I love Lara Croft from the tomb raider games and her voice and accent often pop up too though the dominant ones tend to be a much more fem version of my natural voice and my natural voice (ugh).
     
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