How common is talking to yourself? How NORMAL is talking to yourself??!?

How common is talking to yourself?

How normal is talking to yourself?

Maybe this is a subject for Great Debates! :smiley:

Everyone I know does it. Mostly not out loud, because that’s really annoying.

had the nerve to sit there and tell me that it was out of line. OUT OF LINE? I don’t THINK so. After all she’s not the one who is comfortable tubbing with our friend without a bathing suit, and yet she sits on her high horse and lectures me about crossing a line and being in a position that’s imposing sexuality into a situation that otherwise has no component of intimacy at all I swear to god she is just as screwed up as always and yet insists yeah she insists insists that I have to cowtow to her version of life and self awareness as though she is the end-all and be-all of adult sensibilities, when in fact the opposite is the

Oops :smiley: I could have SWORN I was talking only inside of my head. >grin<

I think that almost everyone runs dialogue internally. God knows I do ( witness today’s Cerebral Rant of the Marriage). I know some people who talk to themselves softly a LOT, and don’t care to censor when they’re around other people who are working. I used to find it annoying as hell but now I have to admit it’s just how they tick. ( pardon the pun, that wasn’t meant as a backhanded slam to anyone with T.S.,so don’t even go there :wink: ).

I do catch myself talking in the car to myself, frequently venting anger. Never knew how funny I must look, until I saw a friend here in town sitting at a stop light, RAVING furiously, alone in the car. Hey, human nature. Better to let it out than keep it in, I’d say.

Cartooniverse

“Sometimes it’s the only way I can get an intelligent response!”

:wink:

Common? Very…

Normal? Very…

Answering yourself? hmmmmmmm Common and sorta normal

Arguing with yourself though… time to start thinking about a mini vacation to the big house:)

I always say: “I figure if you can’t have a good conversation with yourself who can you have a good coversation with?” It took a while for people at my client’s office to figure out that’s how I resolve computer problems…I speak them outloud and occasionally answer.

If I do it in the car I be-bop to the music so I am not that obvious.

Don’t tell anybody—but—

I not only talk to myself; I do it as if I’m a guest on a talk show.

Is that weird? or actually sick?

When I’m really talking to someone I’ve been know to turn to a “4th wall”/audience and make a comment.

You should hear me talking to my cat.

To quote from the immortal J. R. R. Tolkien:

(The Two Towers, book 1, chapter 5, “The White Rider”. Page 127 in my copy)

If it’s good enough for Gandalf, I say, it’s good enough for me.

Actually, in contradiction to Turbo Dog, I would point out that

  • talking to yourself is normal

  • arguing with yourself is normal

  • losing arguments to yourself indicates a problem.

(I am also fond of quoting Gandalf.)

You can always describe it as “thinking out loud”.

So, hey what’s the problem? You do it, I do it, everybody does it. Don’t worry, be happy!

I actually can’t do my math homework around other ppl cause I tend to say each step outloud, and in some longer calculus problems, I end up virtually having a conversation with myself. I ask myself what I should do next, then answer, then if it’s wrong, I berate myself, and if it’s right, congratulate myself. :slight_smile:

Everyone talks to themself. My problem is that not only do i talk to myself, but i also i pull faces, sing and sign to myself. Having grown up in a house with deaf parents it was never necessary that i be quiet and i very often find myself not simply muttering away, but grandly pronouncing my thoughts to the world and randomly waving my arms about. Sometimes it must be some other bizarre part of my conscious that’s doing this because i often find myself saying something about which i have absolutely no recollection of thinking about. I once discovered myself shouting “Purple mayonnaise!” and i couldn’t for the life of me think why i was saying that. Thankfully it’s usually when i’m on my own but i have been caught out many times in public. Problem is, when i notice i’m doing it, i scowl and tell myself off and shake my head, looking even more like a lunatic from the planet Loon.

I also have conversations with other people in my head. Er, that is, real people in whose mouths i am putting words. Not little people in my head. I have arguments with my SO, entirely in my head! I just know what he’d say - he’s like my own personal Jimminy Cricket.

Wierd? yup.
Sick? Probably.

But you should know you are not alone.
I’ve been interviewed by everyone from Conan to Leno to Larry about topics as diverse as my new movie to that nobel prize I picked up.

Tonight 20/20 are doing a 2 hour special on me “at home” in my secret mountain base.

I do it ALL the time.

A former boss of mine used to argue with himself… taking both sides. It was kind of creepy. One side would get really mad at the other side.

Now I talk to myself, but that was just weird.

Does moving your lips when you read count?

(Cartoon of man holding up book in bookstore. He is very clearly alone, although people in the distance are looking at him)

“Hello! What have we here?”
“Why, it’s a book called ‘How to be Your Own Best Friend’!”
“Well, we certainly don’t need anything like that, do we?”
“I should say not. A Wise Economy.”
“Let’s Drink to That!”

– Appeared in “Punch”, I think.

It depends if you are asking yourself why you are talking to yourself in the first place.