I need to know I am not mad...

[Dr. Z]

OK, bit of an odd one and certainly impossible to test for absolutely sure but when you read things, do you "hear" a voice in your head reading out what your eyes see?

I assumed, like you must do with these things that because I don't "hear" anything in my head as I read, thats how it is for everyone else but there is a thread over on ocuk where people are talking about reading things in different voices and stuff. Unless I actually want/try to do that, I don't hear any voices at all, I guess I just sort of absorb the words?

Perhaps this is why I can read so fast? I could read and understand an entire novel in just 3-4 hours if I could sit completely undisturbed for that whole period of time. I regularly used to read one whole book a night as a child. Does the voice inside people's heads slow them down because you can only read at the speed that you could understand speech?

How many people hear voices?