Do you talk to yourself? How?

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Monologues are my main thing, but dialogues do occur more often than I'd like - usually when I'm in a very bad, self-destructive mood

I used to talk in monologues quite often when I was younger. Nowadays I tend to get back into that habit only when I feel the need to hear my own voice.

There are days when I don't get to utter a single word since I'm not around other people very much, and while I do try to avoid doing it so as not to seem insane (to myself, since there's no one else around to begin with ), it's better than alienating myself from the sound of my own voice.

I talk to myself, but in my head. Sometimes it's a dialog, sometimes it's a monologue. It depends on the subject.

I sometimes talk to myself but very quietly.

I read many years ago that only 1% people don't talk to themselves.

Talking to your self is common, answering less so, but without small children and us, the voices of the stuffed and imaginary would never be heard, Free Speech for All!

Actually now that I think of it sometimes I talk in a dialog type way not expecting me to answer though, and yeah it's usualy when I'm mad at myself, like I'd say, OMG what where you thinking, your not fit to be doing that.

I tend to have conversations with people I know or know of, and this dialogue will continue unabated in my mind, with little prospect of finding a solution to whatever the topic. I remember about halfway through middle school, I decided I was an atheist. I really wanted to tell somebody about it, but my simulated conversations never went well, so I gave up and never said a word until several years later. I don't have many imagined characters up there, but they do include an omniscient being and a psychiatrist.

A friend of mine said the dialogue in his mind is comprised of one positive voice and one negative voice, which attempts to refute the former's statements, and I definitely follow the same formula. Anyone else do this?

I prefer dialoguing, but I only dialogue in writing. If I ever verbalized my dialogues, I think my co-workers might think that I've flipped. I don't mind verbalizing my monologues though.

My two main characters tend to be myself and a character that's my alter-ego. I tend to be nice and positive, and my alter-ego is quite rude and negative, so I guess they fit the "one positive voice and one negative voice" mentioned by BrutalRhubarb.

I wish I could do internal monologuing and dialoguing. I've tried it before, and I made a little progress, but it doesn't come natural, and sometimes I just can't do it at all. Interestingly, I think a descent portion of my conversations with people online and IRL is an attempt to pull my thoughts out of my subconscious and into my conscious. In other words, I'm using my friends as tools to hear myself think. It's kind of selfish. I'm trying to cut back on that. Does anyone else do this?

When I'm excited about a creative project I "pitch" the idea out loud. Or when I'm excited about useless triva I want to get out so as not to bother anyone.

And when I'm practicing impersinations, does that count?

I sometimes make up for the absence of nagging parents or significant others. Example:

me: "Should I get this?"
me2: "Don't you have something like that at home?"
me: "Well... this one has more features."
me2: "So...do you really NEED two of them"
me: "I could sell one."
me2: "But will you?"
me: "Oh shut up, what do you know anyways."

Thankfully I do it silently or I would have been committed long ago.

Big time. I also have this idea of trying to convince someone through a monologue, and I periodically take a mental step back and see if it makes sense.

I like to try and understand complex, causal, "geometric" relationships this way. I tend to pace, and sometimes look in a mirror so I can see my face as I speak so I can practice recognizing facial expressions.

It's weird, I'm like 2 people, like my brain is speaking, and my face is another person reacting.

Sometimes I converse with myself... mostly to practice what I want to say to others.

But only when I'm alone.

yeah, i'll often talk to myself.

and yeah, people do look at me like i'm crazy .

i'll say something to myself when an idea pops into mind and there's no familiar person around to tell.

Best conversation I have all day is with myself. Mostly I relive a conversation and throw in gestures and faces, or make up a conversation with both. I recently got caught going into work having a conversation with myself, talking, making gestures, but I was anticipating email responses to a dilemma…

I do this a lot while driving…