Inner Narrator

Everyone has an inner narrator, even singletons.

I don't experience "voices" of my alts or auditory hallucinations, but my inner narrator has always dialogued rather than monologued.

My inner voice covers many attitudes, opinions, beliefs, and point of views, but even though I know each view represents an alt, it's like ny core being knows it's all me and it's all just my inner voice...hope that makes sense.

Does your inner voice change? Mine sounded like a New Zealander when I was 18 and Russian when I was 12, (maybe I read Tolstoy a bit too young!) And now my inner voice has dropped one or two octaves and is sounding like a mix of New Zealand / British / N. American.

Does you inner voice change as you change?

Do ever speak like your inner voice if it has a different accent than you?

What are your thoughts on how you experience your own inner narration?

I provide my own inner voice(s). But that is very different from hearing my alters. When they speak up they break into my thoughts just like someone else in the outside environment suddenly speaking up. Only the someone speaking up is inside my head.

I experience a wide variation of voices, though I never used to consider them as such because I didn't know that they could be internal, so I never discussed them when I was involved with the crisis- and early intervention team. There were a couple of incidences of external voices but they weren't regular enough for me to consider them symptomatic of what at the time I was considering psychosis. At night I'd have what I described as a radio tuning in and out, which were inner broadcasts of snippets of conversation without context from a range of different people of all genders and ages. For a long time I thought it was psychic noise, as if I might have been hearing all the babble of the people in my city and that it was more audible at night because there was less distraction or electric interference or that they were more mentally loud because they were functioning on different brain waves.

I've always had internal guides of indeterminate gender who broadcast in my head. They give advice and offer insights about various situations. These voices always seemed to me to be some sort of higher conscious and felt like I was accessing part of myself that was attached to supernal knowledge. It has always been helpful and healthy. When I channel entities through writing they are similar in the way they sound.

I have what sounds like my own narrator but I rarely have ongoing monologue or dialogue because I know instinctively how I feel about things and what my opinion is. I did think I had opinionated ranting that was my own but it has always been something I can't stop like a song on repeat so I'm not sure if it's me or someone else, though I don't want to risk assigning everything to alters.

The internal chatter is broadcast, like the night voices, it's like having people speak but you can only hear it in your head. It can be muffled or very quiet or very loud, sometimes so loud I'm surprised it isn't externally audible. After learning about what constitutes voices and researching DID I have attempted to communicate and I didn't get any responses at first. It's hard to define a lot or work out who is who but it's increased since I have identified particular voices and address them specifically.