Why would I include that as an option if I’m interested in how people who do talk to themselves in front of the mirror address themselves?
You know, and I’m too lazy to start another poll on it, I’d be interested in knowing among those who talk to themselves in front of the mirror, do they address themselves differently when simply speaking aloud? It’s usually first person when I’m sitting around and declare something aloud to myself. Just now, upon walking into the door, and realizing there’s nothing fun to do here, “Eh, I should go to bed.” Of course, I’ve now changed my mind and decided to putz around with my imaginary internet friends.
Maybe I voted wrong. In the mirror, I guess it’s mostly first person. ‘Damn my hair looks awful today.’ ‘Oh good, my hair is finally settling down.’ ‘I should probably be actually paying attention to taijitsu instead of thinking about my hair’ That sort of thing.
I talk to myself in a mix of second and first person.
For the same reason that in polls about women there’s often an “I’m a male” response. It’s relevant and it would allow me to see the results without clicking elsewhere.
I’m always in second person, whether in the mirror or otherwise. I feel silly using it, and have tried to convert to first person.
When I’m talking about losing things, I usually address the thing as if it were real. “Keys, where are you?”
I have used third person plural though: I say “[You’re] looking good. Let’s go.” It just makes sense since I’ve just used second person like there’s someone else in the room. At least, it does in my twisted little head…
I don’t often talk to myself in the mirror, but if I do it’s a mix of 3rd Person singular or 3rd person plural depending on if I’m talking to me or talking about me and how the conversation is going (though I do just tend to address the person in the mirror as “You”, but usually it’s something like, “ToeJam, you… blah blah blah” or it might be “Jeez, Toejam, we really… blah blah blah.” But I don’t always put in my name there (though in the few times I do talk to myself in the mirror I’m more likely to use my name than not).
So I guess I had to vote for the Weirdest of the Weird Option.
I also have a constant internal narrator in my head (JD from Scrubs is one of the BEST examples I can think of as how it’s like in my head, sans all the fantasies- but that constant “dead diary” sorta thinking).
I also do a few other things I probably do that’s weird, as I realized in college at apparently not everyone thinks (like literally thinks, not just about ideas and such) the way I do.
You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? Then who the hell else are you talking… you talking to me? Well I’m the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you’re talking to? Oh yeah? OK.
Oh man, I can’t be the only one who, no matter what the initial question or statement was, leans forward and somberly says: we just cut up our girlfriend with a chainsaw. Does that sound fine?!
Of course, I may also be the only one with a cat named Ash, so there’s that. But tell me I’m not alone.
I voted first person singular, but I really haven’t addressed myself in the mirror much if ever. I’ve “talked to myself” out loud fairly extensively, but it’s pretty much always in the form of a dialog with an unseen third party audience, God, devil, or whatever, rather than truly to myself.
I don’t think I’ve ever talked to myself in the mirror. I’ve seen people do it in movies, but it’s never crossed my mind to do it myself. What for?
ETA, I guess I do talk to myself sometimes, but not in the mirror. Usually I’m cussing myself about about something. I use second person – “way to go, you stupid fuck. You broke it.” Stuff like that.
I’m only in front of the mirror when grooming, so that would be when I’m talking to myself in front of it. I mainly talk out loud to myself as commentary on what’s going on. “Jesus, it’s hot,” “I don’t think I’m absent-minded, so much as my keys are sentient and are hiding from me,” and so on. But while in front of the mirror, it changes from first person to second, as if my reflection is not me. “Don’t bother flat ironing your hair today; it’s too humid.” Sometimes it’s first person plural, or a combination of that and second (“You look good. Let’s go”), but seldom first, which is how I typically talk to myself when not in front of the mirror.
I guess my OP and poll also should have asked if people refer to themselves differently in front of the mirror than they do at other times.
