Do you like to imagine person from his voice?

I had a job where I worked in Illinois but interacted mostly by phone with people 2,000 miles away at headquarters in Los Angeles.

My first trip out there was really fun, as I compared my mental images with the actual people. I don’t think any of them were close to what I imagined.

Yeah..that’s the fun part.. when you get to meet that person face to face and know how they look in reality and what you had imagined.

Am I right in thinking it was a disappointment when you met them face to face?

NPR.

I listen to NPR a lot in the car and I have all the ‘personalities’ vaguely pictured in my head.
Occasionally I see what one of them actually looks like, and it rarely meets my mental image.

I try not to look because I don’t want to be distracted from the story by trying to picture a specific person doing a specific piece.

I just looked and Audie Cornish is much more interesting than I pictured!

I don’t consciously try to picture people from their voices, it just naturally happens. I remember on one occasion meeting a woman I had spoken to many, many times on the telephone but never met previously. The first thing I said to her was “You don’t look like that!” We both laughed, she knew exactly where I was coming from.

I just looked up David Brooks and he looks just like he sounds.

@adagio – did she look hot than you imagined..))

@bassstorm188 – I won’t say disappointment but yes in most cases it doesn’t match the way you thought of the person to be.Yeah and it’s not a conscious effort but happens naturally most of the time.

@imrainmaker I wasn’t thinking in terms of “hotness”, probably because I am female and heterosexual. She just didn’t look like she sounded. Nice person though.

Ohh…my bad..thought you’re man looking at your profile pic..