The Voice Inside Your Head Isn't Yours

Read this without saying it out loud — and you'll hear it. The voice inside your head. It narrates your whole life, but who is actually speaking, and who is listening? This is the surprising science of your inner voice: what "inner speech" really is in the brain, how Lev Vygotsky discovered it's built in childhood from the voices of the people who raised you, why a huge number of people have no inner monologue at all, and the unsettling reason the voice can sometimes stop feeling like "you." A journey into the most intimate and mysterious feature of your own mind. Chapters: 00:00 Read this without speaking 01:15 What your inner voice actually is 02:45 Where it came from (Vygotsky) 04:15 The people with NO inner voice 05:45 The voice you can't switch off 07:15 The self that is split 08:45 When the voice stops feeling like you 09:30 Who is speaking?