You have a voice in your head?

[stickygirl]

I have always wondered what 'thinking about nothing' (when somebody says that) actually is

I doubt it's dark matter in the universe

 

[Ssbbw4u1974]

I have reading comprehension issues, so when I read I need to talk to myself in my head to understand what I've read.

 

[stickygirl]

What I found interesting is that I can attach an accent or even a different gender to the "voice" in my head, however, when I talk out loud to myself especially when I am reading the prose that I wrote, the accent/gender is gone and I just sound like me.

I prefer to hint at accents by a character's choice of words or the word order in a sentence... and then their range of vocabulary.
For example
'I think you're a complicated person'
vs
'I think you are complicate person'
No need for weird phonetic hoop-jumping to imitate an accent and to my way of thinking it's a more revealing method.

 

[stickygirl]

I have reading comprehension issues, so when I read I need to talk to myself in my head to understand what I've read.

That's okay. I think we're all discovering we have different ways of processing language and text. I've found it really interesting.
For what it's worth, I find I often misspell words when I type because I've swapped two letters that sound the same. So for example my hands will type 'beet' when it should be 'meet'. In my head 'm' and 'b' sound similar, even though I don't voice what I'm typing.