# Do you talk to yourself? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 17, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-to-yourself/295002 "2005-03-17T16:36:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-to-yourself/295002/21 "2005-03-18T01:16:52Z")
I am highly suspicious of people who claim they _don’t_. :dubious: Of course I do. Mostly not out loud, though, as I was an only child and therefore pretty quiet. But internally - a constant conversation. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-to-yourself/295002/22 "2005-03-18T01:22:40Z")
I talk to myself. Sometimes I give myself advice out loud. I review things I’m going to write out loud. Sometimes I sing songs and conversations to myself. I try really hard not to do it in public. Sometimes I’ve considered wearing headphones most of the time I’m in public, just so I can get away with it. Some days the strain of appearing a “normal” person who does not talk to herself really gets to me. Doesn’t it, dear? ---
**Author:** ![sweetfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@sweetfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweetfreak)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-to-yourself/295002/23 "2005-03-18T01:25:35Z")
Yes, I do. It’s not the talking to myself that bothers me. It’s the fact that I keep losing the arguments. :smack: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-to-yourself/295002/24 "2005-03-18T01:31:32Z")
I talk to myself…sort of. Rarely do I actually talk to myself, but rather to other people who aren’t there. Real people, people I know, and I say things that I might (but never actually do) say to them. I usually don’t do it in public, but when I do, I scold myself. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-to-yourself/295002/25 "2005-03-18T01:51:50Z")
Yes, I do. And I really wish that I didn’t because I always give my mom hell for talking to herself. Family ties run deep for us, I guess. I talk to myself in stores a lot, especially when looking at food. “Now what do I want?” and “Dang, that’s expensive!” are phrases that I often find myself muttering. I feel like a retard especially if someone else is around. I catch myself humming songs under my breath all the time too. I usually try to stop doing it but most of the time I don’t realize I’m doing it. There was this really weird girl that I used to go to school with that would always hum under her breath and I’m scared that if other people heard me humming that they would think I was weird as well. I talk to the cat, talk to the dog, talk to the fish. I’m all sorts of weird. ---
**Author:** ![violacrane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c57346/32.png) [@violacrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/violacrane)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-to-yourself/295002/26 "2005-03-18T02:03:58Z")
All the time! I talk to myself, the computer or whatever I’m working on, the cats. Actually reading this thread has reminded me how much I miss one of my cats. I had such a rapport with her that she always\*\* looked \*\* as though she knew just what I’d said and she agreed with me – \*looking out of the window first thing \*, “Ugh, don’t like the look of that rain.” \*Watching a soap character making a typically foolish error of judgement \*, “She’ll be sorry she trusted him!” . The weirdest work related one was as an archaeologist excavating a Roman graveyard, talking to the skeletons. Didn’t like to think to closely about that. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-to-yourself/295002/27 "2005-03-18T09:53:41Z")
> [@raz](#): > > I talk to myself in stores a lot, especially when looking at food. “Now what do I want?” and “Dang, that’s expensive!” are phrases that I often find myself muttering. I feel like a retard especially if someone else is around. > > I catch myself humming songs under my breath all the time too. I usually try to stop doing it but most of the time I don’t realize I’m doing it. There was this really weird girl that I used to go to school with that would always hum under her breath and I’m scared that if other people heard me humming that they would think I was weird as well. > > I talk to the cat, talk to the dog, talk to the fish. I’m all sorts of weird. Who are you and why have you stolen my personality! 😃 If I am not you then I am the weird girl you went to school with. Humming in the supermarket is stupid and embarassing yet I do it anyway. :(. I catch myself speaking to myself in public (quietly!) far too often. I’m a smooth mover though…I just pretend I was singing/humming, much cooler :D. I am completely bonkers it seems. The abuse of smilies shows this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-talk-to-yourself/295002.md?page=1)