Do you ever talk to yourself?

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Song Lyrics provide an endless stream of awkwardness. The one that will get stuck in my head is always the one I should most likely not be singing.

I was once caught singing Tool's f**k me like an animal in the supermarket of my small conservative hometown.

Another time it was the "naked, drunk and horny - adore me" chorus from the Yellow Note song.

I talk to myself all of the time. Sometimes I talk aloud, sometimes in my head... it makes me laugh when I catch myself mouthing conversations I am having with myself in my head.

Every day (I think).

I talk to myself, all the time when I'm alone in my apartment. I work my way through my problems by doing that.

Not as much as I used to, though it occasionally happens when I am trying to solve a difficult math problem or prove a nontrivial theorem. Typically if I say what I am going to do out loud, I can catch the flaws in the logic better.

Oh yes I do talk to myself. I talk to myself when I'm walking the dog. I used to talk to myself when I was walking to school that one neighbor asked me who I am talking to. I often talk to myself at home and mom caught me at it few times and asked me who I am talking to. I talk to myself when getting ready to go to work.

when i ask myself a question, i usually think "work it out yourself", so i rarely give an answer.

Family and Friends constantly call me out for talking to myself. I became paranoid about it for a while because I had difficulty controlling the behaviour and felt as if I was constantly betraying myself. My thoughts are none of anyone else's business. It's hard to reconcile this fact.

My Family are big "talk to selfers". My father reads to himself or talks to himself when working. One time I didn't tell my family there was a PD Day at school and stayed home. My father went to work late and he spent the whole morning walking around the house talking to himself without knowing I was there. It was amazing. He constantly gave me crap for talking out loud and there he was doing it on a grand scale. My grandmother did this as well. She would carrying on entire conversations under her breath while cooking or watching tv or just sitting. I called her out on it one time when I was little and she said she was telling me things "for my own good". Unfortunately, I have no idea what she was saying because it was always in her native tongue which I don't understand. Something tells me she was just talking with herself though.

ditto

I always have, and it drives even ME nuts! I'll hold back and forth interview type conversations, so I know how I feel about something or someone. I've been doing that as long as I can remember. It can get like a bad trip sometimes and spiral me downward.
Songs too. I'll have a song stuck in my head and start obsessing on it and tune everything else out.
I usually end up singing to myself quietly in public.
I've grown to enjoy my own company.

A step in the right direction

Yes, quite often. I'm talking to myself right now in fact!

I tend to replay social situations in my head and subconsciously recite everything about the conversation that I remember. I sometimes even continue to hold an imaginary discussion where the original one ended.

I also practice talking a lot, even for events that have already passed, just in case a similar situation comes up in the near future.

Plus I often think "I should have said this instead of that" and the words I "should have said" often come out hours later without warning.

The most embarrassing thing though is that I laugh at seemingly random times. Just today I was sitting in my office with a couple of my coworkers. There was a lull in their conversation and my mind wandered to something funny that someone had said weeks ago. I laughed right there on the spot and then had to awkwardly explain why i was laughing.

Well I write stories. And when I'm writing I create voices for my characters. So in the end I'm having conversations with my fictional imaginary characters.
I mean it makes sense and it seems normal. But embarrassingly enough people look at you when you do it. I really don't see why.

I also tend to talk to myself when driving or doing any other task. I make up voices, sounds, my own language, etc.

One time a girl I liked caught me talking gibberish to myself, but unknown to here I was making up a random language. How do you explain that? That wasn't awkward at all.

I find that I'm a very imaginative person. And that I like to act out scenes with my mouth. Whatever is in my head I just kind of have a conversation about it with myself.

Yes I'm the only person I know who can put up with me! and know what the hell I'm gong on about

heeheeh.

well, i whisper to myself...and have arguments in my brain....or just mimic stuff...or run through scenarios i make up. i dont usually talk out loud unless it's to my pet snake

I do this all the time, especially when walking. SInce I usually walk in the very early morning or late evening not too many people notice. But it's horrible when someone does. Some of them assume I'm talking to my dog but most know that I'm not. I also know that NT's talk to themselves. But not in the same way that I do, they seem to talk not to themselves but just to the air. They don't seem to carry on conversations to themselves like I do. But when I really get into my mood while walking (if the circumstances are right) I feel as though I'm a philosophy major. It's like I finally understand the world. But it dulls down once I get home...

But anyway, talking to yourself is a much better thing than talking to other people... at least in my opinion.