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[Masterbainter]

When you are alone do you talk to yourself?

If yes, then what do you say?

If no, then fuck you.

[yelley]

i'm sorry, that was a private discussion. i don't disclose information that was told to me in confidence.

[Masterbainter]

so you do think to yourself out loud when no one is around?  I do.

[celticgeek]

Sometimes I really need to talk to the wisest, most intelligent person around.  Since that is usually me, yes, I do talk to myself. 

[lprkn]

Not a whole lot. I do tend to sing to myself, though. I sound a lot better when no one is around.

[ViciousWarGoose]

More just muttering to myself really, sometimes with the odd pew pew pew laser sound.

[Masterbainter]

heh.. that's good stuff.

Yeah alot of time i'll talk out scenarios in my head(except I actually say it outloud, or maybe I don't.. I dunno).

Like one recent one.

"I should see if anyone else talks to themselves"

"not a good idea, remember what happened in highschool"

"look those people were dicks and immature"

"so are you now"

"fuck you, ass"

"No, fuck you in the ass"

"okay!"

*grabs a toothbrush

[Genbot2500]

i usually reconfirm myself.. Out loud

So i'll go

Me: I should go left
Me²: yeah, left is good

Etc

[Scandanavian War Machine]

i talk/sing to myself when i get really excited. like, if i'm making a sandwich and i'm really hyped about it, i'll make up a little ditty about making a sandwich.

or if i'm having a hard time deciding between one thing or another i will often debate with myself outloud about the pros and cons of each until i can make an informed decision. the problem with this is that it usually happens in stores when i am grocery shopping so my conversations are brief, urgent, and usually whispered which probably makes me look more crazy, rather than less.

[MrBlu]

I don't really talk to myself as much as I imagine confrontations in my head.

I'll plan out how a conversation will happen before it happens.

I'm usually wrong.

[Masterbainter]

I have a real hard time with math unless I talk it out, outloud.

like in gradeschool when they did the little flashcard contest for math.

I would start talking them out like, "Twelve times six is .."

then the other kid would answer and win.  Mostly because I didn't know the answer.  God, I hated the 11th grade.

[Kylos]

I don't really talk to myself as much as I imagine confrontations in my head.

I'll plan out how a conversation will happen before it happens.

I'm usually wrong.

I do that, but to an even bigger extent. I'll imagine all possible outcomes to a conversation, but i'm so scared of confrontation, the conversation never happens.
But it's nice to keep myself occupied.

Also, when i'm in supermarkets and I go down the wrong aisle, i'll shout "noooooo" at myself, and I once made up a song about milk out loud. This behaviour gets embarressing.

[MrBlu]

I don't really talk to myself as much as I imagine confrontations in my head.

I'll plan out how a conversation will happen before it happens.

I'm usually wrong.

I do that, but to an even bigger extent. I'll imagine all possible outcomes to a conversation, but i'm so scared of confrontation, the conversation never happens.
But it's nice to keep myself occupied.

Also, when i'm in supermarkets and I go down the wrong aisle, i'll shout "noooooo" at myself, and I once made up a song about milk out loud. This behaviour gets embarressing.

Have we met? I think I've seen you in my mirror before.

[Hairy Joe Bob]

I repeat conversations I 've previously had but change them to things I wish I'd said instead. I also often imagine events happening to me and having conversations about them.

This leads me to say and think bad things. It is also a form of self-torture. You should have seen me the first time I did acid. Issssssss-uesssssss...

[Shaztastic]

hahaha yeah i talk to myself it's kinda weird like i'll be in the kitchen washing dishes or cooking (this seems to be the main time it happens also when i really have to concentrate) and i'll be like pepper? yeah damn right pepper and then start giggling that i answered myself i also talk to my dog not that i expect him to answer ( i think i'd wee with happiness if he eventually does) also i sing but never know the proper words so start singing random crap to some radio tune it annoys my sister but i love it

[Hairy Joe Bob]

I find reading your posts rather exhausting. Punctuate? Even a little?

[tania]

i do pretty much the same thing as pete. i am 100% okay with it, but i try to make sure i'm alone when i stat talking because i'm pretty sure it scares the shit out of my housemates whenever they overhear me doing it.

[axerton]

I talk to myself all the time. Sometimes I narrate my life out loud, or behave as if I'm showing a guest around, I do this mostly when I'm at my parents property - working to stave of the insanity that would otherwise ensue. At other times I'll plan out ridiculsly unlikely events, most of them morbid such as if I were to get hit by a car and I would rehearse the conversationts I would have with people. I'm sure I do other things, but despite the fact that I'm the only one involved in the conversation, even I'm not listening to me.

[Tybalt]

I tend to overthink a lot, usually conversations I haven't had.

Often I'll just make noises at my cats.  This is one of my worst habits.

[Masterbainter]

I don't have cats. 

I make cat noises.

Then I say, "oh you are so cute kitty!"

then I stop staring at the corner, and continue my day.

[Elizzybeth]

I get the sense that the whole "replaying conversations in your head and coming up with better answers" thing is pretty common--there's even that French phrase, "l'esprit de l'escalier" (wit of the staircase, thinking up comebacks only after you've left a conversation).  Regardless, I do that constantly, and I agree that it's debilitating to one's social confidence.

I don't really talk to myself much out loud, in general, but I do sing to myself when I'm happy.  And I laugh at socially inappropriate moments sometimes?

[Eris]

Yeah, I do the whole "replay a conversation" when I finally come up with the perfect witty line that escaped me at the time. Normally that is at least 5 minutes after the person has walked off, though.

I also talk to inanimate objects a lot. I tell my plants how well they're going; tell the kettle it is almost boiled; make encouraging noises to my car when it is having trouble starting or getting up a hill; Lecture my phone when it turns itself off; Yell at the TV (but I think most people do that one). Oh, I also will mumble along with a book if I am really into it, like, if there is a passage describing what someone said and an action, I will mumble the words and make expressions that fit and wave my arms a little or something. I don't think anyone has noticed that yet, apart from me.

[Hat]

More just muttering to myself really, sometimes with the odd pew pew pew laser sound.

[Liz]

I talk to myself all the time, either when I'm stressed, cleaning, or trying to work something out. Oddly enough, when I sew I talk to myself with a fake English accent. No idea where that comes from but it amuses me greatly when I am hemming a pair of pants and find myself saying "oh bloody hell I've run out of bobbin thread."

[Lines]

I will say things to myself, but I do not hold conversations with myself. And sometimes I will sing what I'm saying just because. I've also been told that I make sounds when I'm thinking and I don't even realize it.

[RedLion]

I don't really talk to myself, but I have this strange habit of sometimes silently mouthing the last thing I said in a conversation after I've said it. I don't even really realize I'm doing it! It's kind of weird. Also, when I have a song stuck in my head, I can't help but mouth the lyrics or kind of whisper the song itself. So I imagine that I sometimes look like I am talking to myself.

[Lila]

Well, I sing along with my ipod, but that doesn't count (it's gotten me weird looks from joggers I didn't see coming).

If I can't figure something out, I talk the problem out and count things on my fingers. Usually the pros are on one hand and the cons on the other, but I also do it with geometry a lot.

And if I'm unhappy I make general "meh grar agh sigh" type noises, especially if I'm tired.

[sean]

From my memory I think I am rather quiet when I am alone. But something tells me that this is probably incorrect. I'll think about this thread next time I am alone in my house.

[Darkbluerabbit]

I mainly just curse at things.  Like if I am out of clean spoons and have to wash some, I'll say, "man, fucking spoons" as if it is the spoons' fault that they are dirty.  I also verbally abuse my cat, but in a sweet, baby talk voice so he can't tell.

[lolwut]

i don't function well if there's no noise so yeah, i tend to talk to myself, and confirm myself like mentioned above, and talk at things as if they can understand me

it keeps me sane

[Blue Kitty]

Sometimes I'll talk to myself when I'm alone, even rarer times I'll use different voices when talking to myself.

[pwhodges]

If I talk to myself, I'm certainly not listening.

[Gilead]

When I'm writing scripts or comics or stories I say the dialogue out loud to make sure it sounds like a real conversation, I also read out loud when I'm memorising a script for an acting job. It gets me weird looks when I do it in coffee shops.

[jeph]

i have got to stop all those rapes

[Genbot2500]

i do the whole make up a comeback after i had a conversation.. I also do it before a conversation and i  do it about conversations that happened years ago and nobody but me remembers..

[Dollface]

Me: that door is shut.
Me2: yup thats shut allright
me: well if it is shut it isnt open
me2: you just won some beer
me:fuck yeah but remember i do the talking, last time we got almost raped

etc etc

[Kylos]

I don't really talk to myself, but I have this strange habit of sometimes silently mouthing the last thing I said in a conversation after I've said it. I don't even really realize I'm doing it! It's kind of weird.

My brother's done this from a very young age.
It creeps me out.

[tweetles]

I have a great tendancy to have arguments in my head then saying the end of it out loud
it works out great when the rooms been silent for ages and you yell out "no you shut up, you dont even know what the fuck your talking about" good times

But usually I had a myriad of conversations with myself and others inside my head.

[valley_parade]

I almost constantly have inner conversations going on in my head.

My inner self has a decidedly scouse accent, it's strange.

[Krina]

I talk to myself! Mostly in the supermarket though - "Ok, I got the milk, not i got to get...". When I wait at the checkout, I sometimes make calculations how much it's all going to cost. The other day, an old lady came up to me and told me she was glad she wasn'T the only one who did that.

Also, sometimes when I'm walking outside, I suddenly notice that I'm going in the wrong direction. Then I'll loudly say "Fuck!" or "No!", stop in my tracks and walk back into the direction i came from. I sometimes get funny looks for that.

[Patrick]

Cultural acceptance of self-yappy is low here, I guess, because it freaks out Albanians just a little bit when I talk to myself.

[tweetles]

While I think most people do talk to themselves, but like many things when its done it public people are unnerved

[Aztex]

I usually talk to objects before i use them, stairs are usually the biggest culprit.

[tweetles]

My only talks with stairs are when ive triprd on them and im abusing them for doing it on purpose

I like having big conversations with the little lizards that come into the house though. Theyre so damn cute.

[SirJuggles]

It is just coming to my attention that I talk to inanimate objects constantly. Especially my car. I will always thank my car for getting me somewhere and keeping me out of any accidents. Or even when I'm late and freaking out, I try and calm down and console my car that it's not its fault, it did its best. Strangely, I'm one of the few people people I know who doesn't name all their stuff, I just call it by what it is.

Oh, and I just remembered, my friends find great amusement in my tendency to give inanimate objects commands. Whenever I put something down, I'll stop, point and it, and tell it to "stay". And then wait a second to make sure it does.

[Katherine]

I don't necessarily address myself when I talk to myself, I just announce things that I am doing as I am doing them as though there are people around who want to know what I am up to.

[pulpfiction21]

I don't have discussion with my self, but I do talk to inanimate objects when no one is around. Usually involves alot of cussing for some reason. IDK i get excited.

[tweetles]

Whenever I put something down, I'll stop, point and it, and tell it to "stay". And then wait a second to make sure it does.

I do that all the time and get so disapointed when it doesnt listen

[jhocking]

I routinely answer out loud when thinking questions.  Like, I'll think "hey joe are you upset today?" and then respond "No." out loud.

[Blue Kitty]

My inner monologue is starting to sound less and less like George Takei.  I don't know if I should be happy or sad.