Speaking to yourself

Gordon

I was walking to work the other day, as I usually walk to work every other usual working day. It's a nice walk, up a quiet canal. Anyway, I was thinking to myself and talking to myself and looking at the other people walking their usual walk down the canal to their usual work, wondering about these people...

I love talking to myself, I make up different accents and types of voices. Sometimes I even talk out loud and laugh incessantly, if people heard me they would think me mad. (Well my workmates do, so maybe I am - but my psychology teacher always told me "The only people that are truly 'sane' are people that have recovered from a mental problem and obtained a clean bill of health, you have to have been mad to be sane"). But still, maybe I should buy a dummy mobile phone headset so that people think I'm on the phone!

So basically I'm wondering... do you talk to yourself or am I just completely hatstand?!

azezil

Originally posted by Gordon
I love talking to myself, I make up different accents and types of voices. Sometimes I even talk out loud and laugh incessantly

All of the time! Full blow conversations, different voices, personalities views you name it! People frequently comment on my spontanious laughing habbits

Never alone with voices in your noodle.

bombidol

i do the odd time, i do really stupid stuff.
ill be thinking of a bit in a film when im walking down the road but ill be acting it out with my hands and stuff , but i dont realise im doing it.
im sure ive given a few people a good laugh with my bruce lee impression walking down griffith ave.
i go into a little dreamworld and my body will subconsiously react to what my mind is doing, i could be thinking of playing a solo on guitar or something and then i realise im playing queen style Air Guitar in front of stopped traffic.
its really funny actually:D

phaxx

I get a bit of this too. Usually when I'm doing something boring that doesn't require any concentration, I'll act out possible scenarios for something that I'll be doing later, or something like that, making facial expressions and hand movements.
Then I realise I'm doing all this looking out the kitchen window, or looking at the shelves in front of me in work, and think what a fecking tit I must look like.
Glad I'm not alone!

pauldeehan

Do the voices in my head count as talking to myself?
I talk to myself a lot, probably because I'm insane.

ando

i tend to talk to myself in the car, especially if I'm thinking of a thing that I will be doing in the next day or so

Winters

I am insane and we all know it.

Ruaidhri

hehe it's good for your memory to talk to your self

Karl Hungus

Yeah, I do that all the time...

A lot of times tho I kinda go over conversations I've previously had, and kinda think what would have happened if I had said such and such a thing, or if I had blah blah blah. Or what the conversation is gonna be next time I talk to such and such a person. Anyone else know what I mean?

phaxx

Yup AW, exactly what I do most of the time.

azezil

Originally posted by AngelWhore
Yeah, I do that all the time...

A lot of times tho I kinda go over conversations I've previously had, and kinda think what would have happened if I had said such and such a thing, or if I had blah blah blah. Or what the conversation is gonna be next time I talk to such and such a person. Anyone else know what I mean?

yep, even dream out alternative endings to the days encounters



i think i'll be quiet now.... !

Kalina

If I get really really annoyed with myself I sometimes berate myself. Or on the other hand if I'm really thrilled about something I congratulate myself. Sad really but there you have it!!

LegacyUser

i talk to myself in work and on thetrain becayuse no one else will talk to me

plastic membrane

Blackadder: Its the only way i can be sure of intelligent conversation.

Talk to myself all the time. Nowt wrong with that i can see. Except for the one that tells me to burn things and steal womens knickers.

cujimmy

yeah I do, I think we all do to some degree ie in our heads or out loud its no big deal and a sign of positive mental health

Moriarty

Yer all craaayzeee! Stay away from me!

Honestly, i never speak out loud to myself. I dont think i ever have either.

BuffyBot

I know it certainly helps me sort things out - I plan and debate things with myself a lot

Thanx 4 The Fish

Do it quite a bit. Most of the time at work, I'd finish coding something then think to myself

"How is the boss gonna make this project fall on it's arse"

Am a bit of a sceptic. Do it sometimes when reading aswell, trying to sort out plots etc.

Winters

I find it does help a lot. Ya finish a loade of codeing and ya think
"If this dont work ill call gates and tell him to go f**k off and make the asp easier"
and when it dont work you think
"Damn you f**king bill gates this is your f**king problem not mine all my scripts are right and there are no bloody errors like you feckin tell me"
Then ya spot the littke quote ya leave out

Na. I find it does help ... even if i am crazy

KdjaCL

think everyone does it but not all out loud.

I lose argumnets with myself?????


kdja

Thanx 4 The Fish

Originally posted by kdja
think everyone does it but not all out loud.

I lose argumnets with myself?????


kdja

Of course you do, there is only you and you in it, and both of you can't win...

Karl Hungus

Originally posted by azezil

yep, even dream out alternative endings to the days encounters

YES! That's exatly what I'm on about!

LegacyUser

erm... /me very afraid...very very afraid...
slowly walks to window...closes blinds and decides never to walk , anywhere, ever ever again, it's just not safe with all the loonies out there talking to themselves and acting out movie scenes as they walk down the street, alone...
/me shudders at the thought...


hehehe, sometimes I laugh to myself as I wonder through the thoughts in my mind...then I realize I am alone and laughing to myself... then beat picks up phone and calls friend to tell about the amusing thought I just had, or
gets online to tell the other boards members about it...
inquires about the particular thought, just to make sure that I am not the only one who does these things...you know, just so I can feel assured that I am not *alone* and not really going nutty...

And you cant forget to leave out the smiley face...it really says it all...does'nt it

:rolleyes:

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LegacyUser

yep that was me...

forgot to log in...

having a long night...

very tired...cant keep eyes .. o p e n

irishgeo

i gnerally talk to myself not aloud all the time but sometimes. i think to myself what i should have said, what i should have done in the days events even things that have hppened months ago. I frind it good to to talk to myself as it clears my mind.

I also try to imagine how say a conversation might go and how things or people might react if i say or do certain things. I do this mainly when i am talking to women.

Funky

i speak to myself alot , seems easier to make up your mind if you actually hear the words or something

usually its only when im brooding over something that happened a day or two earlier though

LegacyUser

Yeah i tend to quote pieces of films to meself a bit the latest are

"every kid is different you see mini me loves chocolate while Scotty Dont!"

and "i`m From holland isnt that vierd

oh yeah and i shout redrum now and then

darthmise

This is all a bit abnormal imho. Yeah i have convesrations with myself in my own head.., its called thinking, but i don't talk out loud to myself, and i certainly don't "rehearse" conversations i may or may not have with other people!


Odd. Very odd.

RopeDrink

I generally just 'Think Out Loud' but when I'm emotional, enraged or excited I walk around the house discussing things with myself.

I've become very forgetful lately and have developed this 'Conversation With Oneself' thing due to immense boredom, and the fact that previous family issues in my life have made me question myself a lot.

Things I've done, what I want to do etc are topics often discussed with no-one but myself, and always in private. When Im on my own and bored I could be making a cup of tea and find myself blurting out rubbish.

Dun

I used to do it just a little, but when I went to college, I started practicing my French or Spanish out loud. The easiest way to do it was just to talk to myself rather than make up the silly "The pen of my aunt is in the garden" sentences. That was five years ago and now I can't stop

Mind you I'd never do it if I knew anybody was within hearing distance. When I have been caught nobody knows what I'm saying and "practice" is a really plausible excuse

po0k

I've got tourets syndrome and as a result, no friends. So aside from screaming random abuse at people on the street, I've only myself an my plants to talk to.

Caesar_Bojangle

occasionally i might muffle something under my breath if i did something stupid or even if i am nervous to shake off the nerves but its very common. Everyone does it, just watch ppl when they hit their head, arm or foot off something "ahhh i hit my fLlcking head" even though they know it already it just comes out naturally or even if you forgot to lock the front door "ah ****" and ppl just look at you.

i talk a lot in my head especially before i fall asleep sometimes for an hour even more, assessing what i did that day or what i am going to do tomorrow, even plans for the future, normal? who cares.

the weirdest look i ever got from someone was when i was walking down the street and burst in a fit of laughter, i was thinking of a story my friend told me which he had to go poop in a plastic bag in the back a van because he had the runs and their was no vacant toilet or bush nearby. they must of thought i was crazy. which is open for discussion.

i talk in my head a lot but never fullyfledged conversations in different dialects, thats were i would draw the invisible line as it may be the last straw between sanity and insanity. think of the strange look you would give someone sitting ina haonar (alone) chatting away about the mick/roy saga "no, i think roy was right" "be honest pat, ya always gotta side with the manager". you may laugh or assume they iz karazy.

anyway do what ya want and beat ppl with spoons who call ya a karazy loony, as its the only way to prove you are sane.

Caesar_Bojangle

people pray to god in their heads.

if you feel relaxed and enjoy your own company which i do and no i aint a recluse you will more than likely do it more often than ppl who cant stand a little introspection.

BEAT

Originally posted by SyxPak
I've got tourets syndrome and as a result, no friends. So aside from screaming random abuse at people on the street, I've only myself an my plants to talk to.

are you serious? if so, wont you start a thread about it?, I would be interested to hear more about this.
sorry for getting off topic here.

The Sweeper

For some reason I commentate on myself.

"Right, right, got to get up now and go over to the kettle, pick the kettle up, woah there's nothing in the bloody thing, off to kitchen to fill it, doobie doopie doo, la la la, where's the bloody lead, over there, fine, grand, got it, dum tee dum..."

Ah I suppose it'll be a handy thing to reassure other people if I ever get turned invisible in a freak accident.

:rolleyes:

azezil

hehe i sometime comment on myself too... take the piss outta meself n what have you. I'm a freakin loon aren't I

OLDYELLAR

yeah i talks to meself a bit , just kinda like a 2nd party reminding the me me , that i have stuff to do , an just kinda plan out stuff properly ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,oh my god when i see this wrote down , i realise i am a nut , help me !

LegacyUser

what really gets on my noodle is people that think to themselves out loud in my presence...

for example....

[searrard] is watchin tellly
[friend] mumbles "might just hang out the clothes then go for a shower or maybe......yeah"
[searrard] thinks "i dunno...whatever!"
[friend] mumbles "hang out clothes, get somthing to eat, whats on telly later....*sighs*"
[searrard] thinks "are we having a conversation? do you want an answer, some response?"
[friend] mumbles "sheffs later, maybe forum......"
[searrard] loses the head and takes the piss out of the friend for 5 minutes

10 minutes later

[friend] mumbles "clothes done, had some food, i'll go for a shower..."
[searrard] fumbles for pellet gun

end of example

repeat this for every day.....
as usual my tolerance is kicking in and i'm starting to ignore it

for the record; i'll think in words to myself when around other people, and say it under my breath when i'm alone....

LegacyUser

yep thats me ^^^^^^

Saruman

The 2 people who said no are either in denial or did not understand the question and picked the wrong answer! Its part of the way the human mind works... no one can say they dont think to themselves and hold conversations in their mind... Probably not out loud but absolutly with their mind... if they dont then there is something wrong with them!!

Its perfectly natural... maybe you dont notice it but its part of decision making... "I wonder will i order take away tonight or make something myself?" who are you talking to when you think that?? Yourself obviously... Thats one example.. everyone does it... its fine and perfectly healthy... however its when you start thinking you are talking to someone else that you have a problem... probably how multiple personalities start! Hell im doing it right now while im typing this.

LegacyUser

I often talk out loud to myself, especially in stupid voices and accents (I like to impersonate people you see). I think I only do it when I'm alone though.. not sure if I do it on the bus, walking down the street, in the office etc. (though Gordon might beg to differ on this as he once has the misfortune to share an office space with me)...

Gordon

Well, you were back facing to me and a small distance apart... but! I do have a recollection of incessant mutterings and twitchery!! You would occasionaly hum "dum tee dummm, tee dee dee deeeeeee" etc. Very funny, I guess either you thought I wasn't there or you just wanted to share, either way it was a humerous pass-time to listen in! hehe

(You should hear the new financial controller Carina, he talks out loud even more than you did, if only he'd let slip the bank account codes in his mumblings ).

pauldeehan

Now that I know everyone else does it I feel less special.

Caesar_Bojangle

If you want to feel extra special, book dinner for 2 at any restaurant. Turn up, order two meals and start a debate between yourself and yourself. Just watch the reaction.

The only thing that could possibly beat that for sheer "specialness" would be to hire a dwarf and pay him to wear a cowboy suit with hat/boots and of course make sure he jumps up into the air with his pistols in each hand shouting "whoosh whoosh whoosh, i shot the sheriff".

So its settled we talk to ourselves for cogitation purposes than lack of companionship.

McGinty

I do it all the time, mainly I talk out loud to remind myself of something but then I usually forget anyway or if I am in a bad mood, I curse and swear out loud, I get a few weird looks and plenty of wide berths.

On a postive note, I read somewhere that to avoid being mugged, talk to yourself and act slightly crazy, muggers fear people who act insane as they are an unpredictable target, so I say keep on talking.

Hobnail Monkey

Its a fair cop Gov, I do it too. Mainly when I think I'm alone, I'll talk outloud and discuss with myself what has happened in the day so far or what happened the night before. And the hand twitching part seems to come naturally too, its like my hand forms shapes of things, or if I think about when I was out drinking, my hands sort of makes a grab for something the size of a drinking glass etc. I run previous conversations through my head too, and try to work out what would have happened if I had acted differently or said something different, its like getting a best-possible-scenario or worst-possible-scenario out of a situation.
I find that if I talk to myself about stuff too, it helps me remember things better.
I try to curb it when in Public though, but sometimes I sort of drift off into a daydream (like if waiting for a bus or to cross the street) and when I come too, I'm murmuring something.

WhiteWashMan

i think i have turets syndrome

but i often sing to myself even when i know im in compant, perticularly in the office.

it amuses the rest of the people here anyway.

im not too worried

Chowmein

I talk to my self alot of the time. But mainly when i am worried about somthing or thinking about something ill be doing in the next few hours or the next day.

TacT

Yeah mumble to myself on occasion, don't see any problem with it, everyone does it, whether intentionally or otherwise. Anyone that won't admit it probably still believes that talking to one self is the first sign of madness :rolleyes:

Dave

Originally posted by Minesajackdaniels
For some reason I commentate on myself.

"Right, right, got to get up now and go over to the kettle, pick the kettle up, woah there's nothing in the bloody thing, off to kitchen to fill it, doobie doopie doo, la la la, where's the bloody lead, over there, fine, grand, got it, dum tee dum..."

Ah I suppose it'll be a handy thing to reassure other people if I ever get turned invisible in a freak accident.

:rolleyes:

Ha Ha, I do that too, only when i'm alone though and doing nothing. I do it when i'm pretty drunk aswell.

Mossy Monk

i talk to myself, sing to myself etc. etc. i find that it keeps me sane on those long walks home. i get some strange looks at times but hey, who cares