Do you talk to yourself?

cloud493 · 23-02-2014 11:06AM #1

I find myself doing it more and more these days. Handy to verbalise simple thoughts.

GenieOz · 23-02-2014 11:08AM

I have full conversations in my head but I never say them out loud. I'd be institutionalised long ago if I did

jane82 · 23-02-2014 11:12AM

I live facing the entrance of a park. The amount of people who yap to themselves walking across the park then stop at the gate was staggering to me.
The amount of people men and women who walk into the park think nobody can see them then start scratching their bits is also staggering.
Go scratch your bits outside your own sitting room window.

passatman86 · 23-02-2014 11:26AM

@jane82 , buy some blinds - your just a nosey neighbour

jane82 · 23-02-2014 11:28AM

passatman86 wrote: »

@jane82 , buy some blinds - your just a nosey neighbour

Yes I should sit in the dark.

Boskowski · 23-02-2014 11:31AM

only way I can have an intelligent conversation

/coat

Big Lar · 23-02-2014 11:33AM

All the time, the wife laughed at me while I'm chatting away to myself.

wazky · 23-02-2014 11:34AM

Just when the voices in my head talk back.

Tilly · 23-02-2014 11:35AM

I sing and curse but never actually talk to myself.

vitani · 23-02-2014 11:37AM

All the time. Usually quietly but mouthing the words. So only people who can lipread could understand.

gugleguy · 23-02-2014 11:40AM

Personally ok, but I did have an adult acquaintance who behaved and functioned to all intents and purposes normal. BUT if you asked him for a personal opinion about whether or not to take a risk/chance, he always seemed to involk this 'vulnerable 5 year old' inside him and give this opinion in childish fashion which was always 'just play it safe'. Some people talk to themselves like that.

Hercule Poirot · 23-02-2014 11:41AM

I'll be walking along the street with my OH and all of the sudden she'll say "sharing is caring" - at which point I realise I've been muttering to myself under my breath and that I have a stupid grin on my face

jane82 · 23-02-2014 11:44AM

Hercule Poirot wrote: »

I'll be walking along the street with my OH and all of the sudden she'll say "sharing is caring" - at which point I realise I've been muttering to myself under my breath and that I have a stupid grin on my face

So thats how you always manage to keep the identity of the murderer secret right up until the end of the episode.

Artful_Badger · 23-02-2014 11:54AM

I only talk to myself inside my head so nobody can hear my secrets.

Daveysil15 · 23-02-2014 11:59AM

I often do. Sometimes there's just nobody else to talk to.

23-02-2014 12:04PM

Yes. It's better than not having anyone to talk to.

lau1247 · 23-02-2014 12:12PM

In my head, yes for composing thought.

Out loud, no cos that's just make me look like a crazy guy.

anncoates · 23-02-2014 12:14PM

Increasingly so

bnt · 23-02-2014 12:16PM

Not out loud, but I do subvocalise things. It's often in advance of saying something out loud - you can "hear" how it "sounds" without actually speaking it.

blueser · 23-02-2014 12:16PM

I have to; no one else will listen to me.

keithsfleet · 23-02-2014 12:20PM

When I'm asked a question I like to play out every possible answer I could give in my head.

A lot of the time people will give up waiting for a response and walk off allowing me to get back to my conversation.

stampydmonkey · 23-02-2014 12:21PM

The whole time. Mainly lying in bed and in the van. Forget sometimes when my girlfriend's in the van and ill be muttering away to myself or making stupid engine and tyre screeching noises.

blueser · 23-02-2014 01:41PM

I once heard it said that talking to yourself is no bad thing. It's only when you answer back that you know you have a problem!

Ted_YNWA · 23-02-2014 01:45PM

It only becomes a problem when you give each of the voices a name.

23-02-2014 01:45PM

Sometimes, mouthing rather than talking though. Sometimes whole conversations that I've had but wish went better

Manach · 23-02-2014 01:46PM

To paraphrase Disraeli, one needs someone intelligent to converse with.

osarusan · 23-02-2014 01:55PM

I give interviews to journalists who are keen to interview somebody as famous as me, in the alternate life I fantasise about.

jobeenfitz · 23-02-2014 02:03PM

We all talk to ourselves. It's just a matter of whether we do it aloud or not.

All of the me's do both.

I think some people talk out loud to themselves and don't know they are doing it. While others do it, know they are doing it and couldn't give two flucks who is watching them, I like these people.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 23-02-2014 02:16PM

I do it all the time but usually as a pretense of talking to the dog. She doesn't have a clue what I'm on about but it never seems as weird if I'm seen to be talking to her rather than to myself.

Muise... · 23-02-2014 02:20PM

I do, but would you ever listen to yourself? I don't.

vitani · 23-02-2014 02:26PM

osarusan wrote: »

I give interviews to journalists who are keen to interview somebody as famous as me, in the alternate life I fantasise about.

I sometimes practice my Late Late Show interview, for when I've written my bestselling novel.

Do you talk to yourself?

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