# Do you talk and laugh to yourself? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 17, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-and-laugh-to-yourself/971739 "2022-09-17T22:28:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-and-laugh-to-yourself/971739/21 "2022-09-18T13:41:48Z")
On occasion something (like a bolt of discomfort from the past) will impinge on my consciousness sufficiently that I’ll briefly comment out loud. It helps maintain distance from other customers at Kroger. > [@Princhester](#): > > Given that you people don’t actually exist except in my imagination - yes, all the time. So true. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-and-laugh-to-yourself/971739/22 "2022-09-18T13:53:49Z")
Of course. I’ve been talking to myself (or thinking out loud) my entire life. It helps me work things out. Doing so totally prepared me for a career as a radio personality. I’ve often described being on the radio (as a music DJ as opposed to a talk show host) as sitting in a small room for 4 or 5 hours talking to oneself. I’ve known people who tried for a career in radio but didn’t make it, because they simply couldn’t get over the thought that they were talking to themselves. If you’re lucky, there are people listening, so you’re not really talking to yourself, but since you never see them, it’s a rather abstract idea. However, I wouldn’t do it within earshot of anyone else, but I often try to work something out by conversing with myself while driving. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-and-laugh-to-yourself/971739/23 "2022-09-18T15:47:05Z")
I talk to the dogs all the time. If anyone asked I’d tell them it was to reassure the dog, but in reality, who knows. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-and-laugh-to-yourself/971739/24 "2022-09-18T17:42:21Z")
I talk to the dogs all the time. It’s usually something like excuse me, stay, don’t get up while I step over you (or we would both tumble down the stairs). I curse at the computer. I’m a programmer. It does not seem to help or care. 🙂 Some of the comments in a former programmers code that I see once in a while are a bit… blue. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-and-laugh-to-yourself/971739/25 "2022-09-18T17:50:04Z")
The guy in the next cubicle is constantly singing and laughing to himself. Meanwhile, I’m sitting there wondering what’s so funny. ---
**Author:** ![FrenchDunadan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frenchdunadan/32/5449_2.png) [@FrenchDunadan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrenchDunadan)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-and-laugh-to-yourself/971739/26 "2022-09-18T18:27:17Z")
I talk to myself too, and curse at computers occasionally. ---
**Author:** ![FrenchDunadan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frenchdunadan/32/5449_2.png) [@FrenchDunadan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrenchDunadan)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-and-laugh-to-yourself/971739/27 "2022-09-18T18:28:17Z")
No, don’t listen to him, he don’t talk to himself, he talk with me. 😱 ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-and-laugh-to-yourself/971739/28 "2022-09-18T18:31:06Z")
Yes, I do. And I hum and I whistle and I make noises. I talk to the toaster in his own language, same for the coffee maker. I also talk to my wife onomatopoeiacly, like we used to with the cats. She understands. Or pretends to. > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > […] what’s so funny. Perhaps the guy in the cubicle next to the next cubicle’s guy’s cubicle? On one side or the other. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-and-laugh-to-yourself/971739/29 "2022-09-18T18:48:00Z")
> [@Limmin](#): > > I do. My family thinks I’m weird. But we all knew that already. Same here. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-and-laugh-to-yourself/971739/30 "2022-09-18T19:14:17Z")
I tend to talk passive-aggressively to myself when I do something stupid. _“I’m not one to talk, Tibby, but that was a real smart to do. You’re a real brainiac, you know that? Yep, slicing your hand wide open with that paring knife was the most intelligent thing you did all day. Darwin Award contender, you ask? Naw, that’s for stupid people, not you kemosabi.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-and-laugh-to-yourself/971739/31 "2022-09-19T05:21:04Z")
What’s weird is talking to my two snooty Siamese cats. They openly disapprove and show disgust. Bear will often give a meow that sounds like a curse word. Of course Li’l Meeko agrees. I talk to myself about my Mixed Media art. I’m usually in a pickle about it when I do. And of course I talk in my sleep. I never stutter when I’m unaware of speaking. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-and-laugh-to-yourself/971739/32 "2022-09-19T18:17:55Z")
@Beckdawrek Oh, sleep-talking! When we were kids, my mother said my sister and I argued with each other while asleep! She said we would yell from room to room! Married couples have their own “love language.” Mr VOW’s way of communicating to me when we’d each be asleep, or half-asleep consisted of a pat on the butt. It could mean so many things! “Roll over, you’re snoring.” “Stop grinding your teeth.” “I love you.” “Shut up and go to sleep.” ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-and-laugh-to-yourself/971739/33 "2022-09-19T18:22:36Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > When we were kids, my mother said my sister and I argued with each other while asleep! Last night, I was listening to my husband snore, and the little dog between us was growling in response, in his sleep! It was: RRR _rrr_ RRR _rrr_ RRR _rrr_😂 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-and-laugh-to-yourself/971739/34 "2022-09-19T18:26:55Z")
That’s cute. Pat on butt! Keep that man!! ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-and-laugh-to-yourself/971739/35 "2022-09-19T21:32:27Z")
I’ll talk to pets or, occasionally, equipment that is giving me trouble. I don’t do any of that out loud, although my wife and son each carry on conversations and arguments with themselves while hardly lowering their voices. My general rules: talking to oneself is fine; arguing with oneself is OK; but if you lose the argument(s), you may have a problem. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-and-laugh-to-yourself/971739/36 "2022-09-19T21:59:39Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Last night, I was listening to my husband snore, and the little dog between us was growling in response, in his sleep! It was: RRR _rrr_ RRR _rrr_ RRR _rrr_ 😂 One of my dogs does a tiny little ‘woof’ when in a dream. I think it’s really cute. ---
**Author:** ![amaguri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@amaguri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amaguri)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-and-laugh-to-yourself/971739/37 "2022-09-28T21:14:09Z")
i don’t talk to myself but my husband likes to point out that i frequently laugh at my own jokes (but in actuality i’m usually laughing at his reaction to my jokes, but i suppose the distinction is mostly irrelevant 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-and-laugh-to-yourself/971739/38 "2022-09-28T22:39:19Z")
My cousin and best friend has shared with me that she laughs in her sleep and it kind of freaks out who may be with her. It’s better than nightmares. But might give her amour pause… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-and-laugh-to-yourself/971739.md?page=1)