Laughter and soliloquy

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I'm interested to find out whether any of you guys also do this on a regular basis. For me, almost every night before bedtime I explode in uncontrollable laughter for no apparent reason, sometimes even in a social setting. Or something I've experienced suddenly, for no reason at all, recurs in my mind arousing giggles and/or wild guffaws.

And I also talk to myself. Not just a random word here and there; I 'm talking about ENTIRE conversations. mind you. I'm terribly embarrassed to do this in front of anyone, so I always make sure I'm all alone, then let the thoughts take over. I find it very difficult to remain silent when I'm all alone. Sometimes it's almost as if I'm possessed. This has been occurring practically all my life.

Yeah that happens to me. Though when it comes to laughter it's usually in situations where laughter is not really allowed per say. Like I remember having to go up and look at the corpse during a funeral and I really really wanted to laugh for whatever reason. So I had to run outside real quick and everyone was giving me stares, but I kinda couldn't really care less. It wasn't my idea.

When I talk to myself I also do it in an accent. Don't know why.

I find things like that cool, so I don't really try to suppress it unless one of my parents will punish me for doing it in a situation where they say it isn't allowed.

I do both of those things, all the time. Whole joke conversations even. I love being around me

PS superpentil: I laughed so hard just now at your story about laughing at the corpse.

Although, it was somewhat disturbing when I found myself laughing uncontrollably at my own granddad's funeral. Anxiety response maybe? I don't know. I loved my granddad. I'm 99% certain he was an undiagnosed aspie.

Lol that is a funny story, superpentil. You had me laughing too.

I burst out laughing at my grandfather's funeral too, when I was about 16, just because my cousin was crying and the way her face looked all contorted made me laugh. I think it was an anxiety response or overload. I think I had been crying too, right before I started laughing. I remember I felt so guilty and embarrassed about doing it, even as I was laughing! It was all very embarrassing.

Possibly funerals are funny for us because they're soo serious to everyone else?

What accent, may I ask? I like to imitate a British one or if I read something really simple, I try to do a southern redneck drawl until I laugh to tears. I also make up imaginary dialogues when no one's around.

I find myself talking to myself quite a bit, certainly more when I happen to be alone. I also dig around in my closet for stuff I haven't worn or am not sure what to wear it with and try stuff on so I have ideas of crap to wear if I happen to go somewhere. And then if I put something on and it looks stupid I can laugh and than wear it around the house lol.

I also sometimes laugh or feel like laughing at so called inappropriate times, that does not always give the most wonderful impression, doesn't help when people take my awkwardness/quietness as being conceited or something like not wanting to take part as well, when I'm just quite awkward.

Also, I'm the queen of sentence fragments and soliloquy. I never do entire conversations or other characters. For me, it feels like I'm constantly re-evaluating and re-sampling recent conversations and threads of thoughts and ideas from my day-to-day experience. But what's weird is that the remembering sometimes brings up such intense surges of emotional response that I find myself blurting the words that I am thinking and reliving. Somewhere I lost the ability to repress the urge to proselytize to myself.

Yes - maybe being privy to this broader perspective makes it harder for us to know how to act in this type of complex situation.

speaking of characters, I have echolalia (repetition of previously heard phrases etc), and from time to time a line from some movie will play in my head over and over for no reason, usually accompanied by "irrational" laughter, but no one understand why I do this.

Used to talk to myself alot.

I don't "laugh for no reason", but thoughts creep into my head that cause me to laugh out loud at work sometimes. Jokes I heard years ago. Stuff like that. Unrelated to what going on at the job site.

Well, to NTs it may seem to be for no reason. But I totally get that, naturalplastic.