When I was younger, I used to imagine what each character in a book would sound like. Much as most other people would, I assigned them each a distinctive “voice” depending on their characteristics. None seemed to have any resemblance to any celebrities or actors. Instead, each was derived from what I think of most people sound like, allowing for their sex, personality, and nationality.
However, at some point when I became interested in the cartoon called “Darkwing Duck ” (back when it was on TV, to give you some idea of when this was), the voice-actors’ voices began to invade my reading material. The voice of the lead would sound like Crashpad, most youngish girl in the story would sound like Gosalyn, and Darkwing made appearances now and then, too. I stoped doing this after a while, but don’t know why.
Basically, this thread contains multiple reasons for existing.
Did anyone else do this when they were younger?
Do you do anything similar today?
Any interest in talking about what the voices in your head sound like? Do you have a voices that represents your conscience, or anything else? If so, what do they sound like? Yourself? The radio announcer? Voldemort?
Voices for reading are usually something I try to create in my head to go with what is written.
Unless the book isn’t that great so then I cast a movie version and use the actors voice.
I usually hear negative comments in my head in my brother’s voice. (out of habit I guess) Sometimes it is a former boss who was a total witch. (no offense ment to Wiccans)
On a related note, I just read an article about how men’s and women’s voices are processed in different parts of the brain, which is why aural hallucinations are almost always heard in a male voice.
This sound like another case of a Weird psychology question regarding visualization. Some people can interpret text or memories as mini-movies inside their head. Some can not. Others imagine text as being more like a radio show, or a book-on-tape. Others feel a strong compulsion not do certain things, while others interpret the same things as almost like an actual spoken sentence telling them what to do. All types are natural, and are seen wildly.
::From over Scott’s head, he hears the sound of some large object whooshing over his head. He turns see what it was, and once he does, the sum-total of his reaction it to make a sound of amazement.::
Wow, I have been thinking of starting a thread like this to find out if I was the only loser or if this was a common thing.
I still have voices in my head. I’ve heard of others’ sounding like characters, nope, mine always sound like my voice. If I were to label them, I would call them The Angry One, The Calm One, The Negative One. Sometimes there’s The Dubious One, too. (I was never very good at naming things).
The Angry One and Negative One are obvious…the Calm One & Dubious One usually work out to be my conscience, I guess. They all merge plenty, though.
I would have to say it is most likely a common thing, though putting up a thread that another doper was about to start is most definitely not common.
Oh, and btw, I forget to mention that personally, I experience my own best judgment in the form of my own voice, or rather what I imagine my voice to sound like. No unusual inflection, just making statements of fact.
Seriously, Some people can interpret text or memories as mini-movies inside their head - this is how my head works. It’s one of the reasons I have trouble getting into movies if I’ve read the book - I have my own interpretation of what people look like, sound like, etc.
