# Routine Talking to Myself, and You\_Know\_Me **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 10, 2002, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/routine-talking-to-myself-and-you_know_me/102848 "2002-04-10T15:24:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Another\_Primate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Another\_Primate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Another_Primate)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/routine-talking-to-myself-and-you_know_me/102848/1 "2002-04-10T15:24:13Z")
I assume that everyone talks to himself silently. Things like “bread, eggs, tomatoes, bananas, kleenex, … and what else?”; things like “set the snooze for 20 minutes”… stuff like that, in his own voice. I’ve noticed that lately I’ve been adding "hmmm"s, and "no, maybe not"s to my inner yacking. But last night I startled myself. I was going back to bed, and thinking about whether I wanted to lie down on my back, or on my right or left sides. And I heard myself silently saying to myself, “well, you know me, usually the right side first”… **You know me???** I’m in my own brain, talking in my own voice, to my own self… Am I getting older, getting lonelier, or headed toward insanity? :eek: Then, this morning, I take a looksie at SDMB, and there’s the “welcome to our newest member” and it’s “you\_know\_me”. Wow. Cool coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![Arwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Arwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arwen)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/routine-talking-to-myself-and-you_know_me/102848/2 "2002-04-10T15:35:15Z")
Insanity. Definitely insanity. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![iconoplast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3d9bf3/32.png) [@iconoplast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iconoplast)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/routine-talking-to-myself-and-you_know_me/102848/3 "2002-04-10T15:40:03Z")
I’ll vote for getting lonelier, with a side of insanity. ---
**Author:** ![Another\_Primate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Another\_Primate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Another_Primate)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/routine-talking-to-myself-and-you_know_me/102848/4 "2002-04-10T15:46:54Z")
Thanks, **Arwen** and **iconoclast**. Yikes! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/routine-talking-to-myself-and-you_know_me/102848/5 "2002-04-10T15:59:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Another Primate \* > \*\*Am I getting older, getting lonelier, or headed toward insanity? > \*\* How about _Delightfully eccentric_?? It sounds more socially acceptable. I’ll not go into how much talking to myself I do or to what degree… :o ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/routine-talking-to-myself-and-you_know_me/102848/6 "2002-04-10T19:24:29Z")
So let’s see… You’re talking to our newest Doper as you’re getting into bed. Sounds like another engagement thread! :: throws confetti :: If it helps, I don’t think you’re weird. That would make me utterly bizarre, and I can’t have that! ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/routine-talking-to-myself-and-you_know_me/102848/7 "2002-04-10T20:22:42Z")
I do that too…:eek: ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/routine-talking-to-myself-and-you_know_me/102848/8 "2002-04-10T20:45:11Z")
i have been doing this for ages, too, do not eeven remember when or why i’d started.I have mantras, and everything. One of my former bosses even gave me shit for talking to my self. Such a PUTZ!