Ever feel your voice is not connected to your brain/mind?

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Do you ever feel that your voice is not always 100% connected to your brain/mind, that you perhaps hesitate to find words and tend to speak very simply so as to get something out (verbal conversation) vs nothing (being mute)?

Experiences?

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I dont know but many people say my mouth is faster than my brain can edit it out.

Sometimes I want to be peaceful and say Don't do it, please, it bothers me, but my mouth says You **********!

Sometimes I want to speak fluently, but my voice stutters.

Sometimes I know I should say something, but I'm silent. I was on the NIN fans meeting and I wanted to talk with others, but I couldn't. Something blocked me.

When I read loudly, my mind reads faster than I can speak, so I stutter.

Last edited by Valoyossa on 21 Sep 2010, 12:55 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I get this a lot. I also have issues controlling when I'm loud or quiet.

my voice is 100% connected to my mind.
i can not talk about anything else other than what is in my own mind.

i can not ever leave my mind to visit the minds of others and talk about what i see there.

i can only talk about what i think about, and what i think about is isolated from influence by other peoples thoughts.

other peoples thoughts are difficult or impossible for me to register. i hear what they say if i undertake the chore to try hard, but i feel no connection with what they say, even if they say exactly the words i would have used to describe my own thoughts.

i live and think deeply buried inside myself. i say only things that i have personally compiled.

i do not compile what i think with any reference to what i hear said by others.

i know that is a grave inadequacy, but none the less it is so.

all i know about the world in which i live is what i have personally seen, and that is all i can talk about.

Yes, all the time. It's like the part of me which handles real life socialising often just does it's thing without any real conscious thought. Whether or not that's a bad thing depends on what it ends up making me say.

i'm this observer watching myself "acting out" and can't stop it.....once the train is going down the track...whooo whooo ...get the hell out of the way.

Constantly. I also suffer from the stuttering/anxiety over what to say issue.



Likewise. It's almost as though the voice has a mind of its own. When I am asked a hard question (e.g., to explain a complex idea for a class or something), I feel an obligated impulse to start talking right away without consciously considering an appropriate, well-thought answer. It's especially bad during public speaking or interviews. On-the-spot inquiries are the worst.

Casual conversations for me often consist of terse, often meaningless nothings as responses to others. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as it infers my interest to the person who talking to me (whether I actually am or not), but it gets old and it makes me worry that they think I am not as vested in the conversation as I "should" be, and are put off by it.

Last edited by Rineva on 21 Sep 2010, 12:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I have difficulty getting my thoughts across. Like just when I'm trying to explain something, I can't find the exact combination of words. It's tiring...

Sometimes when I'm tired, anxious or in a new situation...I almost have to give myself orders to speak. Like tapping 'ACTIVATE VOICE' into my brain.

Yes.

I never really thought of it exactly that way but when you say it that way, that's definitely what it is. It's just like not really connecting with my own reflection.

Yes. I know exactly how you feel. It feels as though my thoughts are not reflected accurately by the words in which I use in attempt to convey whatever it is that I am feeling. I may sound articulate when expressing myself, but I don't feel as though my thoughts are truly what I feel, like as if I am not speaking from my consciousness but rather my subconscious; it feels as though I am selecting from my subconscious the most appropriate thoughts which best be used to express myself, thoughts which seem to be just soaring rapidly around somewhere in my mind. Basically, it feels as though my thoughts are merely a series of options from which to choose in order to assign them to most appropriate expression for the given situation eg. response to a question, but they are also hard to catch (I have ADD). As a result of this internal chaos, it tend to hesitate when trying express exactly what it is I am feeling, and often I feel as though I instead stated something which sounds most appropriate rather then expressing what it is I actually feel. It's a mad world in here.

Same problem right here!! ! It's soooooo frustrating when I take forever to think about what I'm gonna say, and the other person gets frustrated. They just don't realize that if I start talking I'll spit stuff out that doesn't make any sense, or I'll stutter.