if you talk to yourself...

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...do you ever listen to what it is you are actually saying?

When I take walks by myself, I often get to analyzing some aspect of my life in my head. Often I will speak words quietly aloud while I'm doing this, but I recently realized that these words have little or nothing to do with what I'm thinking about. The words are English, they are complete sentences and sort of make sense, but do not relate to my thoughts in any obvious way.

Sometimes I gravitate to saying the same phrase over and over. One of them was, "if I take those two numbers and reverse them, then I think I can make this work." This might come out if I was thinking about a problem for work that had absolutely nothing to do with the position of numbers.

Does this happen to anyone else?

this happens to me quite alot and often it will happen when i don't realize it. I have also been know to shout things like "NO he can't do that!" and I might be thinking about something at work

If you talk to yourself... ok, it often happens.
But what if yourself talks to you?

That's what I'm afraid of - and why I won't make eye contact with that guy in the mirror...

i sometimes do but i'm so used to it that i don't half the time.

I talk out loud in the car, usually commenting on somebody`s bad driving skills.

Otherwise I only talk to myself if I am excited about something and the cat isn`t at home at the time to listen.

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I never answer myself, when I talk to myself.

I hate that I talk out loud. It's just so weird. I wish I understood why I did it!

I often repeat things out loud when no one else is around. Like sometimes I'll read the content of my posts aloud to get an idea of what it sounds like to the readers.

I always pay attention to what I'm saying when I talk to myself. I'm like my own therapist, trying to psychoanalyze myself; to work out my feelings.

Its funny, I was talking to my husband about this the other day. Since everyone, at least here in California, has a blue tooth stuck in their ear no one seems to really notice anyone talking to themselves.
I talk to myself a lot when Im trying to do something....like fix the dvd player.

i listen to myself, it is the least i could do for me. i sometimes offer advice to myself, and i usually take it, but sometimes with reservations. i console myself over the vicissitudes of the outer world. i am my friend, and i'm a friend to my friend.

I do that all the time....I hear my grandpa used to say he did it because it was the only intelligent person around. lol.

But to answer the question: sometimes I notice it.

It generally is an echo of a few words in my thoughts that are particularly meaningful to me at the time. Another person probably could not understand it. Occasionally I try to maker it sound as strange as possible.

When I'm around other people I try to keep it to myself, but every once in a while I have an unintelligible outburst.

My dad talks to himself quite a lot sometimes & he's always been like that. Usually muttering about work stuff he's doing. I used to talk to myself quite a lot about things but I mostly do it by myself at home now. At times I keep quoting lines from TV/movies over & over again & I keep talking about the episode or I'm talking about something else that I keep analyzing over & over again for no worthwhile rezone. I'm constantly doing it in my mind & I spend a lot of time daydreaming about stuff like that

I am not being facetious when I say that sometimes I surprise myself by some of the clever things I say to myself. Also, I can recall many of my "cerebral" dreams and I am surprised by how clever some of my dream "talks" are. I suspect I am sitting on more talent than I originally thought I had, but it not a steady flow thing with me. It sort of "leaks out" in self conversations and dreams. If I could be clever on demand, I think I would be a lot better off economically.

ruveyn

I talk allot to myself, likely far too much and I do answer myself. If I know I can't get caught, I use this to practice conversation skills: timing, intonation, facial and hand expressions. Even practice entire conversations I know I need to have, with a type of internal approximation of the people which I know

unfortunately my approximation and their reality, do not always match up very well.

This freaks people out if they ever do catch you, but i do find it helps in actual conversations. I got told by child psychs as a kid that it could help if I verbalize my problems and maybe took it too far

I think I know what you are talking about, usually associated with calculations, trying to navigate somewhere new, building or fixing. Unlike the rest of my self-speech it is never at a normal volume always sort of muttering. Actually listening to what I am saying, kind of ruins the train of though, unlike actively talking myself though a problem but that can be slow.

normally I can either think or talk but not really both at the same time.

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