Random Query

March 16th, 2007
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When you read, if you know the person who wrote it, do you hear a voice reading it? And if so, is it the person who wrote it or yourself? Just wondering. I hear myself reading things I wrote, but if I know someone well enough for my brain to reconstruct the nuances and inflections that they habitually employ in speech, I hear their voice reading it naturally. This has jack squat to do with Japan. I was just being curious. :-)

Feel free to answer and respond with random queries of your own.

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  • Megan
    Yes. I definitely hear the voice of people I know well, especially when I chat with them online, or leave emails.
  • Um, thanks for that, "S." I can't help it either? Ha ha. Dunno what to do with that. Right.
  • S
    Deas, the voice that 'appears' in my head when I read anything by you is that of a 5 year old girl, I can`t help it.
  • Clay - awesome. Or frightening. Not sure. Ha ha. Do you never hear what you're reading? Not in the sense of an auditory hallucination, obviously, but like an aural memory that you're recalling?

    Nikki - that has happened to me only once, and I didn't care, because it turned out I just hated the author's writing in general - let alone who was reading it in my head. The subject matter was dull. It was like eating cardboard, or having it fed to you. Either way, it's not appetizing.

    Normally when I pick up a book for the first time, never having heard the author before, I create voices in my head for each of the characters (as well as the narrator), and play it out like it's a film. I skip the "he said" or "they went" parts and just envision things happening as they are written on the page - but the dialogue is always acted out. I just wondered. I hear sound effects and imagine lighting effects too - I love reading really good fiction, cause my brain creates far more realistic (ok, actually, completely unrealistic, but more believable or convincing) scenarios than major motion pictures can. Just made me curious. In fact, as I type this, I am hearing myself speak. Odd? Oh yes. Common? Like breathing for me. Just wondered if it's different for everybody.
  • Of course.


    I tend to hear voices in my head a lot.

    I have this one author that I really like -- I heard his books on cd first so now when I read them I can imagine his intonations and phrasing-- although I have to admit, I prefer reading them myself than having him read them to me.
  • nope. But I did read the last 300 pages of Steven King's "The Tommy-Knockers" one night without sleeping way back in the fifth grade. As I got ready for school, I was thinking in the third person omnicient (eg "Clay poored the frosted flakes into the bowl. He really wanted captain crunch. 'My it's odd how I am thinking like a book,' he thought."
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