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I’ve always wondered. How can I hear my own thoughts audibly Without using my ears?
In: Biology
You don’t hear your thoughts. If you were deaf you could still have the same thoughts it’s just that your thoughts are molded by your experiences so you interpret it as audio but a deaf person might literally see hands signing in their brain, or pictures of their thoughts. Your brain is an abstract place and just appears to be defined but that’s just a trick
It seems like you can ‘hear’ your thoughts, but they’re purely conceptual – which means they spontaneously occur in your brain without having to be processed by your sensory organs (eyes/ears/mouth etc.)
The everyday information from the world around us is processed by our brains through our eyes and ears, but with thoughts they can bypass this as they occur directly in the brain where they are are instantly processed.
The answers here are “correct” but complex.
The best way to explain this is that you don’t hear with your ears, your hear with your brain.
You don’t see with your eyes, you see with your brain.
Your ears, and your eyes are just the gloves that catch information. Your ears catch sound waves, and your eyes catch light waves. Your brain then makes them into sounds and pitures.
You don’t always ‘hear’ your own thoughts. Sometimes you ‘see’ them.
Have you ever had a daydream, or visualized yourself doing something?
If you think about your left hand, you will ‘feel’ it.
If you remember grandma’s cooking, sometimes you can ‘smell’ it.
When you hear, or see your thoughts, that’s just your brain working without your gloves catching anything.
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