Talking to yourself

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I also talk to myself in public and could really care less who hears it. It helps remind me of what my plan is and keeps me on track. What about talking to your animals? I do not have conversations with them but I'm always talking "at" them. Anybody else do the same or is that normal?

I talk to myself all the time. When planning future conversations or just randomly and I often have monologues with myself just to ease my mind. I only do it when I'm alone though. Which happens a lot.

I do it all the time. When I have nobody else to talk to I talk to myself who else to keep me entertained when alone but me? I also do it to remind me of something or post a mental agenda as well. Sometimes I ask my self a question and think then I answer to myself back. It does get awkward when other people walk in when you think you are alone and notice you talking to yourself though. They look at you weird and ask what are you doing? are you talking to yourself?

I talk to myself all the time in private and sometimes in public.

I catch myself doing this all the time. Looking like a crazy person.

I am always playing around with conversations in my head. Revising. Thinking of what I should have, or will, say.

Sometimes talking to myself can be a lot more fun than talking to others because who else can agree with what you say or think than yourself? I just realized my prior post is almost the same as my first post dang it im getting repetitive again. And that last line is what I said to myself out loud in this post followed by this one.

I talk to other people constantly - but their not there - it can drive me crazy and I hate being caught which happens a lot

i dont know if it is always a sign of old age I have talked to myself since I was a child.

I do this all the time. I've done it ever since I was young. It really helps when I need to focus or when I need the answer to something.

I don't really practice conversations ahead of time per se, but I'm "thinking out loud" quite often.

I do this too, every time I'm alone. It's something I only recently started doing, when I was i child I didn't talk to myself, I was barely speaking at all. Now that I'm starting to be more social (or at least I'm trying to be ) talking to myself is almost a necessity.
One of the things that I find more difficult doing when talking to someone, is to maintain a rhythm, the flow of a two way conversation, because usually my thoughts are not (entirely) verbal; practicing conversations beforehand is a good way to learn how to translate my thoughts in words.
Another reason why I started talking to myself is that, since I've always been very laconic, I need to improve the use I make of tone of voice and expression : )

Ha, I tend to practice conversations as well. The drawback with that is that if, during the actual conversation I've been practicing for, something goes wrong or something I haven't planned comes up I get all confused and can't really say what I wanted to say anyway. That ever happened to you?

I'm talking to myself sometime too. Mostly silently, in my head, but sometimes in voice.
I think it's pretty good, when you don't have any friends to talk with, bu want to speak with someone.

Just wait until you get caught talking to yourself.

I think that's quite a weird interpretation.

My flatmate got worried about me talking to myself too much. And, well, I've done that all my life and I tried to suppress it and she does not get that suppressing it makes my life even more difficult.

All this obsession with "madness" is pretty ridiculous. Being scared of "madness" and suppressing everything that could possibly hint at madness creates the madness in the first place.

From time to time it happens, but when I practice talking to myself I also make up many different answers both to look at the same topic/situation from different points of view and to minimize the chance of not knowing what to say; this works only to an extent (you can't plan beforehand every possible turn of the conversation) but I find that adopting different points of view while practicing conversations is a very good way to be able to shorten the time it would take me to answer an unexpected question : )