Daydreamer
Scatterbrained Creative
I do. When I'm dreaming or imagining a situation, the voices of people are either distant and indistinct (a haziness, as if the sound was going through a tunnel) or sound exactly the same as my voice.
This is also why I struggle to do accents. I lack a mental catalogue that I can refer to. No frame of reference to copy from. For example, I might know what a comedian sounds like but I can't hear their voice in my head. While I recognise their voice whenever I hear it; when it's not there I can't describe or imagine it so I can't replicate the sound.
I have a vivid imagination, but it does have weak spots. My mind is predominately visual, but smells and sounds do play an active role. However, I find atmospheric sounds (such as rainfall, birds chirping, leaves crunching, a gate squeaking) more memorable than the sound of someone's voice. The atmospheric sounds are often linked closely with the visual information.
When I think about someone talking to me, I find what they said much more memorable than how they said it. In fact, sometimes I forget what accent someone talked to me in, but I'll remember how they flicked their hair whenever they were self-conscious, how the fabric of their coat rustled when they moved their arms across a table and the smell of dirt on their shoes. My sense of smell is really sensitive.
It is a tad strange that I can easily lucid dream in exact visual detail, touch and smell, but I can't do the same audio-wise with voices. Still, I am used to it so it's not that jarring.
This is also why I struggle to do accents. I lack a mental catalogue that I can refer to. No frame of reference to copy from. For example, I might know what a comedian sounds like but I can't hear their voice in my head. While I recognise their voice whenever I hear it; when it's not there I can't describe or imagine it so I can't replicate the sound.
I have a vivid imagination, but it does have weak spots. My mind is predominately visual, but smells and sounds do play an active role. However, I find atmospheric sounds (such as rainfall, birds chirping, leaves crunching, a gate squeaking) more memorable than the sound of someone's voice. The atmospheric sounds are often linked closely with the visual information.
When I think about someone talking to me, I find what they said much more memorable than how they said it. In fact, sometimes I forget what accent someone talked to me in, but I'll remember how they flicked their hair whenever they were self-conscious, how the fabric of their coat rustled when they moved their arms across a table and the smell of dirt on their shoes. My sense of smell is really sensitive.
It is a tad strange that I can easily lucid dream in exact visual detail, touch and smell, but I can't do the same audio-wise with voices. Still, I am used to it so it's not that jarring.
