Sorry if this has been done before. Last night, as I was getting into bed, I hit my head on the HEADboard, and said “OW”. then i got to wondering why i said that. I didnt need to tell myself my head hurt, i already knew that, and there was nobody else in the room. occasionally i find myself talkin to myself, just narrating what i’m doing. weird.
So what about you?
Sometimes I do.
Yes, you definatly do. It’s kind of odd, don’t you think?
Shut up, no one asked you.
So? I just wanted to be heard.
I HATE YOU! I’M NEVER SPEAKING TO YOU AGAIN!!!
You are over reacting.
AAAAGGGGGHHHH!!!
Apparently I type to myself too.
Oh sure. Sing to myself, too. Luckily when I talk to myself I tend to make short, declarative statements about my current comfort levels ('It’s fucking cold out here. I hate Ohio!") or questioning a course of action (“Are you really going to cheat n your diet, son?”) I notice I sound like a teenager when I complain and an old kindly uncle when I question my own motives.
I talk “to the cat” a lot. Since the cat doesn’t understand what I’m saying, and is often, in fact, asleep when I do this, I think it qualifies as talking to myself. Just dumb stuff to fill the air like, “Hmm . . . should I make lunch now? I think I’ll start a load of laundry first. How does that sound?”
If I have to type a list or a string of numbers something like that from another source and it has to be exactly right, I usually read aloud if I’m alone, or mutter under my breath if there’s anyone nearby.
When I’m torturing myself by reliving an embarassing event from my past,
I have this annoying compulsion to blurt out something that I said during the embarassing incident. As an example, one day I was just totally exhausted out, so I decided to catch a cat nap under one of the tables in the lab. (I’m the only one who works in there, usually.) But of course my advisor picked that 15 minutes to have to come in there to get a book, and there I was, sleeping on the floor instead of working like I was supposed to. He was more surprised/embarrassed than upset, and by way of explanation I stammered, “I . . . uh, slept really poorly last night.” He said something like, “Oh, sorry to hear that,” and hurried out. Recalling the incident, I find myself blurting, “Slept poorly!” It’s really weird. I don’t know if there’s some kind of psychological reason why I do it, or just some dumb thing that’s unique to me.
It’s even worse when I’m around other people when I do this, because it makes me feel like a genuine crazy person.
No, I never do.
Yes you do, sometimes.
No I don’t, you just think I do. I’m really talking to someone else, not myself.
Oh, yeah? Who?
My kangaroo. 
I do it too! What’s more, sometimes I’m fantasizing about what I should have said, or fantasizing about what I would say if…
When I talk to myself, I might be saying just about anything. :o
I talk to myself, often. I’ve had some pretty interesting one-sided conversations no one has ever heard.
I talk to the cats.
I talk to the furniture.
I seem to talk most to whatever can’t talk back.
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who admit they talk to th
emselves and the ones who lie about it!
I don’t ,BTW!
I talk to myself all the time. Any number of situations could call for a conversation with no one…although it usually happens when I am trying to figure something out or put something together. I have had numerous conversations with the motherboard in my computer while attempting to build a new machine, not to mention the many times I have gotten into shouting matches with my new widescreen HD tv. Sometimes inanimate objects simply need to be convinced, generally by shouting and swearing, to work properly.
Is there anyone out there who, when you have purposely walked to some location — a room in your house, or wherever — , and hasn’t asked aloud: “Why am I here?” or a question to that effect.
Didn’t you get the memo from our alien overlords? Doorways are memory wiping devices. 
Re: the OP, yes I talk to myself all the time.
I talk to myself, and also sometimes say “Bippy stop talking to yourself” outloud when trying to stop.
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Actually, sometimes on long car trips, I talk to myself out loud about whatever’s on my mind, and by the end of the trip, I’ll have a whole different perspective. Saying your thoughts out loud forces you to articulate and define them, plus, a cop out that might be able to “pass” in your head sounds so much more like bullshit when you hear yourself say it.
That, or I’m just a crazy person who talks and listens to herself.
All the time. Sometimes, I’m the only person around worth talking to.
But I try not to do it in public. Just like maste…never mind.
Stranger
Don’t tell him anything!
I’ve never seen such a filthy little child!
Absolutely. It’s the only way to be assured of an intelligent conversation.
I remember once one of my friends complained to me about people who walk down the street talking to themselves and I said, “maybe they’re just singing,” and he completely accepted that alternative and it seemed to resolve the whole problem in his mind.
Of course I talk to myself. Sometimes I yell to myself. It relaxes me.
Was wondering how long until that reason showed up.
I don’t as much as I used to. Often when I do, it’s because I’m trying ot work something out. Or I’ll be reading the boards, and I just have to say something aloud (If my roommates are around I try to not say it though–they already know I’m crazy but I don’t need to give them any more proof) Sometimes I’ll talk to thin air, to the TV, to the cat–who then looks at me like I’m an idiot, as cats are wont to do–but I’m more likely to just have conversations I wish I could have with other people in my head.
I’d sing to myself as well, but my roommates complain about that. Guess it’s distracting in the middle of a Strat raid.
Much like Dung Beetle I ‘recreate’ conversations with what I should have said or have conversation about what I would say if… I also use hand gestures when talking to myself so I probably look like a crazy person if people see me walking down the street talking to myself…
Whenever people ask me if I’m talking to myself I always say that I needed someone smart to talk to… picked that one up from my dad who also talks to himself at times.
I suppose the most likely time you’ll find me talking to myself is if I’m working on an essay for a class - I’ll then spend a lot of time debating what I think about something (I’m a philosophy major), and how I should try to formulate that. Somehow it never looks as good once it’s written down though.