Hearing voices...

For those who've watched Paul's videos (hopefully everyone), when you read something he's written, does it manifest in your head in his voice? Or, when you're doing something, do you ever hear him 'over your shoulder', advising (and teasing) you about the best, most permie way to do it?

Ha!.... I'm going to have to admit up front that I have not had a chance to watch any of Paul's videos.  However, you bring up an interesting topic that I call the "internal narrator while reading" phenomenon.  I had a co-worker who was an avid fiction reader and mini-series watcher and belonged to a local book club.  One day I began to describe to her my "inner narrator".....how if I was reading Thomas Hardy I might have a male British voice in my head actually reading the words from the page to me, but it I were reading Jane Austen it might be a female voice....something like that of Carey Mulligan or Emma Thompson.  As I was doing this, I was keying away on some project at the computer and had not realized that she had fallen completely silent, no longer tapping on her own keys.  When I looked up, she was staring at me wide eyed like maybe she was wondering if she needed to call security.... (LOL!).....then stating to me that she had no idea what I was talking about!  I inquired if she herself did not have internal narrators when reading and she said "NO!......it's just my own inner voice, irrespective of the topic, author, or anything else.

This came as quite a shock to me actually......so I asked her to do a poll at her book club.  We were both surprised to learn that the book club attendees were split down the middle, with half being dumbfounded at the idea of a separate internal narrator, and the other half finding it as normal as breathing!  (HA!.....even as I'm typing this, it's Jeremy Irons reading the words back to me off of the page!.......Nutty, yes?.......Hmmmm)   :-)

Yup. Accent, speed and cadence belong to Paul. Most things permaculture are in his voice too. It slows me down!

Now that I've heard r's voice, I've found that fiber stuff is in her voice.

In fiction, the sound matches the character.

Yes, sometime I am watching a subtitled foreign language show/movie/anime, with the volume off.  And in my head the characters have a specific voice, but when I finally listen to it dubbed vs reading it dubbed, I usually think wow, that so different from how I envisioned the character voice in my head.

Vaguely similar to reading a book and then watching the TV adaptation and then you experience some disconnect.  

Yup, I've talked to Paul so much that anything written by him sounds like him when I read it. I recently read Lord of the Ring through and had the same with the characters after watching the movies so many times, I heard the actors voices as I read the books. I also remember reading the Harry Potter books after seeing the first couple movies and it was always Richard Harris I heard as Dumbledore and not Michael Gambon, Harris was just perfect while Gambon stated he never read any of the books and his acting reflected his lack of knowing the character.