The voice in your head
Do you have a little voice in your head?
If your mind said yes, then you’ll be interested to know that science is getting closer to understanding where it comes from.
“Psychologists have a long history when it comes to studying the inner voice. Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky suggested back in the 1930s that our internal monologue was tied to our ability to speak aloud. And the technique of electromyography, which measures muscle movement, shows that our larynx is actually active during inner speech."
But it’s more recent research that’s getting us closer to understanding where the internal monologue really comes from. Neuroimaging testing performed in the 1990s demonstrated that parts of Broca’s area - the region of the brain responsible for speech - are also active when our inner voice is speaking to us.
Either way, it’s just weird, though since we all do it to some degree it seems normal, right?
Try this, in your mind ask the question: “Who is hearing this..”
You might find that when you ask yourself that you’ll naturally answer, “I am.”
Well then, what’s hearing your answer? You’ll find there is no primary “listener.” Or maybe their is?
Article:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/aug/21/science-little-voice-head-hearing-voices-inner-speech
http://www.sciencealert.com/where-does-the-little-voice-inside-your-head-come-from
Hearing the Voice Project:
https://www.dur.ac.uk/hearingthevoice/
Image courtesy of Jim Tsinganos
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If you write dialog for a while, your brain gets used to supplying both sides of the conversation. Things get pretty entertaining.
ReplyDeleteActually, that little voice has kept me alive maybe once or twice. On traffic stops under less the. Ideal circumstances something just said "stop" take a pause and call for back up, don't take this one alone. Not a big deal
ReplyDeleteTemporal coherence w cosmic consciousness. An evolutionary process transcribed in our genes and extracted through the language in our brains... lolz
ReplyDeleteFascinating!!!
ReplyDeleteSometimes I go through conversations I may have with someone, or would like to. Inner monologues do occur often
ReplyDeletegood reading.... http://www.julianjaynes.org/bicameralmind.php
ReplyDeleteI'm told I do too much verbalizing, internally and externally. ;)
ReplyDeleteI have asked this question before, do you hear a voice in your head or see graphically when you think? I am a graphic artist, fine artist yet I hear a voice, my own talking, I talk to myself describing and conversing in my effort to consider and resolve thoughts and ideas. I have to make a concentrated effort to see things visually in my mind.
ReplyDeleteI'm a huge skeptic about everything, so my mind developed several inner voices, each of them specialized in different things. One is specialized in empathy, one in rational thoughts, one in compliance, ... They act like counselors to the central neutral voice (the one I consider to be myself) who will make the final decision.
ReplyDeleteThe voice that scares me the most is the primal/instinctive one. It's probably coming from the old reptilian brain.