Dear Rosa,
I've looked at Newnames, but don't think I have taken enough information
from your snippets so far to make any useful comments on whether it
fulfilled your intentions. I do however want to comment on the audio
element although I don't know whether what I write will makes any sense
to you, or anyone else who may be listening in.
The choice of a toneless dirge-like background audio to convey the
topmost mental layer of disjointed sub vocal thoughts interests me,
especially as it has become almost a convention on the web to
indicate sub vocal thoughts in this way.It sets me off wondering if that
is how other people perceive those thoughts.
I can't correlate that base voice with my top mental layer of sub
vocal thoughts. I perceive those as being much speedier and associate
them with a higher pitch but in a way that doesn't have anything to do
with aurality. The only time when my sub vocal thoughts verge on of
slow bass is when I am succumbing to an anaesthetic.
Behind my sub-vocal thoughts lies another layer of meaningless
background babble. I only hear this when I am overtired and/or
overworked or when I deliberately clear away the layer of sub-vocal
thoughts. This second layer gives the impression of real sound that
ears should react to. Each of the inane half-started;half finished
phrases in this layer seems to come from a different speaker. The
accents and vocabulary vary. Some voices belong to women's, some to men
but I recognise none of them.
Flashes of useful memory surge through these two top layers. These
surges usually contain information that has eluded me when have I needed
it earlier e.g names of plants or people or an appropriate verb for a
piece of writing, this 'voice', is again one without imagined sound
although I perceive it as a gender free and associate it with a high
pitch .
There is another layer I am only too aware of when it bursts through but
I think the three I have mentioned are enough to be getting on with.
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