Have you ever forgotten that you are not alone in the room and then started singing or talking to yourself, or doing something that you would do if you were alone?
Tell me about it while I think of an example for me…
Sometimes at school, if I am alone in the hallway, like if I am going to the waterfountain during class or something, I dance down the hall. I hate it when someone comes around the corner to see me pseudo-tap dancing and singing along under my breath.
Not exactly the same situation as the OP, but close enough.
Once, my SO at the time and I were in a store looking at boxers. I said to him, in a voice at full conversation volume, “Why are we looking at these? You don’t even wear underwear!” Then I realized that at least three other people were well within hearing distance. He was so embarrassed that we had to leave the store. :smack:
I believe it’s called “being caught in a private mood at a public moment”.
Don’t worry, Mirror Image, I do the same at my job, in a crowded computer room with thirty other people. Everybody else is beet-red faces, steam shooting out the ears from the stress (very high-pressure job), I’m waltzing along humming “Strangers in the Night…” But at least I have a good enough attitude to laugh and be happy when I’m working! Everybody else would rather be biting each other’s ears off.
Just the other day, for no apparent reason, I started humming “Hot Hot Hot” at my desk. I don’t even particularly like the song, but I guess my brain was “Feelin’ hot hot hot!”
I knew the song was in my head, but I didn’t realize I was actually humming it until my coworker started giggling!
I’ve watched TV Al Bundy style at least a few times when I’ve forgetten that people are in the room.
Having grown up in a house where no one could hear but me and therefore without the normal “don’t make weird noises around other people” etiquette, I do this all the time. I talk to myself in public. I’m always muttering while I walk along. I look like a crazy bag lady.
Usually this happens to me when, as I’m listening to music in my car, I pull into a parking lot and get out without my brain telling my vocal chords that hey, dumbasses, everyone can hear you wailing COME ON EILLLLEEEEEEEN! at one trillion decibels.
I do this all the time. I’m really worried I’m gonna be that crazy old lady behind you in line at the supermarket who mumbles constantly. I’m really trying to stop sub-vocalizing all my thoughts.
Plus, (yeas, I guess I am already nuts), I talk to animals. Ususally, just something simple like “hey, there big, fat dog, how’s it goin’?” (it’s not like I expect them to answer back or anything:)) And then I realize someone’s standing right there and I feel like a total moron.