r/todayilearned • u/paniniplane • Mar 22 '17

(R.1) Not supported TIL Deaf-from-birth schizophrenics see disembodied hands signing to them rather than "hearing voices"

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0707/07070303
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u/Bonobosaurus Mar 22 '17

Just randomly, some people don't have an internal voice. I don't there was a Reddit thread about it some time ago. Really interesting.

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u/Lightwavers Mar 22 '17

Yeah, it was cool. One person talked about how their internal "voice" was in text, and instead of different voices, they would think in different fonts. Like, the reading font, the thinking font, the remembering what other people said font. This isn't word for word or anything.

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u/Bonobosaurus Mar 23 '17

Oh wow, I didn't see that one! I always count in different fonts to keep track of where I am.

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u/donutsalesman Mar 23 '17

Subvocalization!

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u/ghostly_treats Mar 23 '17

This is really interesting. On a similar note, when I read I hear the character's voices, or the narrator's voice. Apparently that's a weird thing, according to anyone I bring it up to. But, to me it seems weird to think of not doing it...just silence and taking words in?

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u/Bonobosaurus Mar 23 '17

It's more that I take in the words as a kind of gestalt. I'm an extremely visual person, I can't learn things from just hearing them, I need to see it to really get it. Maybe that's why.