Do You Have an Inner Voice?
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Let’s try a little experiment.In your head, I want you to yell the sentence “I like crickets”Don’t say it out loud!Just in your head.Good, now do the same thing, but this time instead of yelling, whisper “I like crickets”in your head.VO, closeup of top of head and wall.Vanessa is saying sentence in her head.Now, was the actual volume of your inner voice different when you yelled versus when youwhispered?It may seem like it, but…You can’t change the volume of the voice in your head, just the tone and pitch.That’s because you aren’t actually hearing that voice at all.Your inner voice can feel like you’re hearing yourself think, but it lives in a completelydifferent part of the brain.And it gets weirder.When you’re just going about your day, thinking ...
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Let’s try a little experiment.In your head, I want you to yell the sentence “I like crickets”Don’t say it out loud!Just in your head.Good, now do the same thing, but this time instead of yelling, whisper “I like crickets”in your head.VO, closeup of top of head and wall.Vanessa is saying sentence in her head.Now, was the actual volume of your inner voice different when you yelled versus when youwhispered?It may seem like it, but…You can’t change the volume of the voice in your head, just the tone and pitch.That’s because you aren’t actually hearing that voice at all.Your inner voice can feel like you’re hearing yourself think, but it lives in a completelydifferent part of the brain.And it gets weirder.When you’re just going about your day, thinking ...
