HOW DO THOSE PEOPLE READ SO MUCH
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’ve never heard it put like that, and it makes sense. I don’t think I vocalize most of the time, but I definitely do it when I’m reading something complicated and I really want to understand it.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de @mckinley@twtxt.net Yup, some people do. I tried several times to figure out whether I also have some imaginary voice in my head or not. And I can’t really tell. My best bet is that it depends. Generally there is no voice or just a very faint one. For very complex stuff I think my brain plays some audio. But it’s very hard to tell. If I try to think about it, it feels super weird in my head.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I definitely have a little voice in my head! 😳 As I read you reply I could hear it in my mind 🤣 – Not sure if this is due to my losing most of my sight ~20yrs ago or I’ve always had this 🤔
@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net I tried to think about it once more today, but still no luck yet. However, I reckon that when I try to grasp something in a very focused way, then I imagine how I would loudly read it (but actually don’t) and hear myself. I’m quite certain about that. In more extreme cases I even noticed my lips slightly moving, but not creating any sound. But most of the time I don’t think there’s a voice. The tricky thing is, if I don’t think about how it works in general, I don’t know. And if I try to think about it, it feels like introducing tons of measuring errors. I just found Schrödinger’s cat in my brain.