How does this inner voice compare to a real voice?<p>Given that the scientists link that with auditory hallucinations, I&#x27;d expect that for at least some people it&#x27;s indistinguishable from a real voice (one of the earliest known example would be Socrates&#x27; daimonion).<p>I hear a voice usually when I&#x27;m reading but it is of some kind of soundless intensity. I think different characters in books have slightly different voices but it&#x27;s possible that my brain knows that different characters should have different voices and it just tricks me in believing it.<p>I only have an inner voice for my thoughts when I try to articulate something. Otherwise I only think in concepts, structures and visualisations.<p>This is also how I tackle programming or solving problems in general. I visualize the problem and build a &quot;problem structure&quot; and then try to make it collapse into a simpler structure.