Would You Want to Listen to Your Inner Voice?

When you first hear about it, the “inner voice” thing sounds kind of like opening a third eye or aligning your chakras. Fortune teller type things. Scary spiritual stuff. The kind of rabbit hole where if you travel down its path, will cost you thousands of dollars in crystals or incense or whatever.

So it might come as a bit of a shock when I say that

All of this begs the question: What is the inner voice, and how do we “hear” it?

If you haven’t guessed already, you can’t hear your inner voice. Well, not really. Let me explain.

The inner voice is essentially the meaning of your brain, well, thinking. It’s kind of like brainwaves forming thoughts and sentences, and those sentences are your inner voice. It’s like thoughts, but a bit more nuanced. The whole thing is mainly reserved for people who are unable to speak or have severe trouble speaking. With modern tech, their brainwaves can be read and through the use of a type computer program, turned into real speech.

But the thing about the computer is that it artificially recreates your voice from past recordings of it, making you sound like yourself with an AI creation of your voice. But your inner voice may sound different.

I’d love to hear my inner voice. Apparently, a human’s own voice doesn’t sound like what they think it does. I’d love to hear a voice of mine that’s actually what it sounds like to everyone else.

That, or I’ll be really, really disappointed at how nasal I sound. But I personally think it’s cool. If I could hear my inner voice all the time, that’s almost like having an alter ego or something. Although I suppose it would get annoying after a while.