do you talk to yourself?

[cacian]

I often do when I am doing chores it is a habit and it is quite therapeutic in a funny kind of way haha still nothing to write home about worry about :D
anyway do you?

[Buckthorn]

I talk to myself a little bit at home and a lot at work (I often have to do figures for duties carried out and I end up reading them out like a bingo caller while I'm doing them "Red 14, white 42").

[Helga]

Oh I talk to myself all the time, I catch myself talking when I am walking outside. My son always asks me what I am saying cause he doesn't know how to respond when I am blabbering on to myself.

I think it's because I spend so much time alone and don't talk to 'grown ups' that much.

[cacian]

Oh I talk to myself all the time, I catch myself talking when I am walking outside. My son always asks me what I am saying cause he doesn't know how to respond when I am blabbering on to myself.

I think it's because I spend so much time alone and don't talk to 'grown ups' that much.

LOL Helga not chance of that with my son he and I are alway blabbering on when out haha
I talk to myself when I am on my own and he does the same too he gets it of me because his dad is very quiet you never catch him talk to himslef haha:D

[Delta40]

I talk out loud. It's a reasoning process with me. The cats are highly entertained by my performance.

[papayahed]

I talk to myself, mostly at work or while shopping.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Yeah.

[miyako73]

I talk to my invisible friends. hehehehe. I just drove out Felina, the singing cat-- too early for Christmas songs.

[YesNo]

I try not to talk out loud to myself especially if there are others in hearing distance.

Sometimes I don't want to talk to myself, but catch myself doing so anyway. When I'm conscious enough to understand what is going on I start repeating a phrase to focus my mind on something more important. I'm still talking to myself. It is just not about gibberish.

[Neo_Sephiroth]

All the time. I even answer my own question. It's like me, myself, and I. :D

[The Kid]

I talk to myself quite often. It's funny, when my parents are home from work usually I complain about them. But when they are at work I get lonely and the house feels empty. So I play loud music, write, clean, trim the hedges, stuff like that. But I am always talking to myself as I do it.

Sometimes when I'm out in public, maybe walking down the street or in the fruit aisle at the grocery store, I talk to myself. Then I notice someone being nosy and listening to me, or just watching me as if I'm crazy. So I laugh at them and I say to myself, "Ha! He probably thought I was talking to myself!" Then it dawns on me that I really was talking to myself. I guess the joke is on me.

[Shea]

I talk to myself a lot more since becoming a mom. I think it has become a habit because I'm always narrating for my boys. :D

[kiki1982]

Wow, would all people who talk to themelves also be assembling on this forum, like the introverts?

Of course I talk to myself! Like Delta, out loud and as a way of reasoning like Neo. Putting forwatd a thesis, criticising it and deciding that, in the end, it's not true anyway.

My hubby took a long time before he accepted that I was not going mad, but just reasoning with myself.

I started talking to myaelf as a child, because I was scared of being alone (ghosts and stuff). It's become a habit.

I do mind that if I do it on the street there is no-one in hearing distance. they couldn't understand it anyway, because it's in Dutch. :D

That about children: they do say you have to talk to babies (obviously, they can't learn to speak if you don't show them how), but I once saw a baby forum post about this, asking what the hell you had to tell them. Clearly someone who lives in silence all the time. :smilielol5:

[Paulclem]

I'm talking to me right now in responding to you/me because you're all aspects of my personality masquerading as separate identities in disparate countries with differing and conflicting and agreeable views on a forum that appears to be on the internet, but is actually a part of my psychological make-up rationalised into a forum....

No?

[Delta40]

I'm talking to me right now in responding to you/me because you're all aspects of my personality masquerading as separate identities in disparate countries with differing and conflicting and agreeable views on a forum that appears to be on the internet, but is actually a part of my psychological make-up rationalised into a forum....

No?

I'm your sock puppet :boxing_smiley:

[Alexander III]

I actually don't. But that is probably because since birth I have always had people around me and lots of people in the house, so even when I was a child if I talked to myself someone would hear it, so I never did it. I think to myself a fair amount. Unless by talking to your self we include swearing when one accidentally bumps into a piece of furniture.

[cacian]

I actually don't. But that is probably because since birth I have always had people around me and lots of people in the house, so even when I was a child if I talked to myself someone would hear it, so I never did it. I think to myself a fair amount. Unless by talking to your self we include swearing when one accidentally bumps into a piece of furniture.

Haha bumping into furniture is bound to make all of us talk loudly oh the pain hahah

[cafolini]

I am two with nature. ~ Woody Allen

[cacian]

I am two with nature. ~ Woody Allen

OK does that mean nature talks haha?

[ClaesGefvenberg]

anyway do you?But of course I do. Every once in a while, the continuous brain storm within finds its way past my lips. I usually get good answers that way, but it does present a bit of a problem when I disagree with myself... :crazy:

[Drkshadow03]

Doesn't everyone?

[Darcy88]

I talk to myself quite often. It's funny, when my parents are home from work usually I complain about them. But when they are at work I get lonely and the house feels empty. So I play loud music, write, clean, trim the hedges, stuff like that. But I am always talking to myself as I do it.

Sometimes when I'm out in public, maybe walking down the street or in the fruit aisle at the grocery store, I talk to myself. Then I notice someone being nosy and listening to me, or just watching me as if I'm crazy. So I laugh at them and I say to myself, "Ha! He probably thought I was talking to myself!" Then it dawns on me that I really was talking to myself. I guess the joke is on me.

Yeah I'm the same way. People think its crazy. Some people used to think I had imaginary friends. I talk to myself and to God. I spend a lot of time alone writing and reading and working out so I like to talk to myself, it makes me feel less lonely.

I find that making music, particularly singing, can be a great alternative to talking to yourself. That and reciting poetry aloud.

[cacian]

Doesn't everyone?

I could not tell you I am not everyone :D although why would you assume so?!

[byquist]

Most definitely, and to my dog. And to trees. According to Chekhov, that is healthy -- see the brother in Cherry Orchard who talks to furniture and mimes and talks re playing pool, of what balls he will place in what pocket.

[cacian]

Ok after reading all posts the question is this:

why do we think we talk to ourselves?

I personally believe I do it for repetition meaning to remind myself of what I am thinking. A bit like brainstorming. Keeping quite whiltst trying to work or type something out does not help me remember everyting hence myself talking out loud to myself. It is not quite talking to myself as such actually but it is a bit like giving my memory a voice in order to help me remember.

[kiki1982]

I talk to myself, because I think that way. If I am really in need of a good think, I go and have a walk and do it, or up the garden and do it (making sure the neighbours don't hear :blush:).