do you talk to yourself?
 

i do but not as much as some people i know. do you? ever said anything outloud when you should not have?

I've never said anything out loud that i shouldn't have (touch wood). I have been caught talking to myself and looked strangely at a few times before.
Mostly when i talk to myself i am saying something that i need to remember to do.

of course i do. everybody does. about 90% of language is used for self-talk, which kind of counters the hypothesis that language evolved for communication (communication might just be an extra bonus). some times saying something outloud is the only way to make something stick out from the cluttler of my attention-deficit inflicted mind.

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also i talk in my sleep

and also i reportedly talk a lot when i'm in the shower-- yell, laugh, etc. however i have no recollection of these events.

I do, yes, but I don't think I'm crazy. Generally I'm thinking out loud, discussing something with myself, or telling myself off for doing something particularly dumb.

yes. i have only me to talk to.

Shh, I wanna answer this.

I didn't say anything.

You just did.

Did not.

Did, too.

You're driving me crazy.

You're driving me crazy.

Shh, you hear that?

What?

You didn't hear that?

I sometimes think I'm saying something out loud that I'm thinking about, bit paranoid, think things up that I don't want to think about, usually end up biting my lip or something

I don't talk to myself so much as I do random inanimate objects (ie: my car and my computer...especially my computer).

at my last job there was a girl who would constantly talk to herself and then answer. it's when you start responding to your self-talk that you know you are crazy (unless you are gleefully unaware like she was).

sometimes thinking out loud or telling myself off when i really need to do something that i am avoiding. when i have a conversation then it's usually just in my head though.... maybe just occasionally one or two words might come out loud, but i never said anything i shouldn't have said this way.

ive held conversations with myself before. usually when i am either very happy or angry. i have been overheard as well and told to 'keep the godamn noise down' even though i was on my own.

the crazy option is more abou the crazy people you see in the street who mumble away to themselves. i usually end up with one sitting next to me on a train or bus as i seem to attract them. also a friend i know who worked in a prison said a good way to spot the inmates that where going to totaly lose it was to see if they talked to themselves a lot.

i do not mean that you are crazy if you talk to yourself.

a lot of those are actually people on cellphones

with the invisible headsets. yeah they are annoying.

i'm not like that, but i chose that oprion anyway.
by the way, i refuse to believe that the majority of the sonic youth board is completely sane.... plenty of nutters around here.



haha... i remember a few years ago when i first saw someone using a mobile phone headset. for a minute i thought the guy had completely lost it, not just having a conversation out loud, but even a phone conversation with himself!

edit: yes, what jon boy said.

I get caught singing to myself frequently.

yes i do & i don't care if that makes me crazy...

i figure when you're thinking about something, you're talking to yourself. and then maybe you decide to carry out conversations. and MAYBE you decide to murmur them at a barely distinguishable level. all in good fun right?

Yes.

i talk to myself, but it's usually "what the fuck is this/where is that damn page" kind of stuff during school.

sometimes i am the only one who will listen to myself...& sometimes i don't even bother listening to myself...

I talk to myself a lot, only when alone though.

Well sure.....it's usually something like:

"Allright you bastard, lets do this."

He he....exactly!

"Well, anything worth doing is worth doing right."

There are times when I think of something and I yell out lout No, Fuck, Shit, or some random comment.

this is a really interesting thread cuz its something i have recently found out about myself, last week i spent 2 days in Manchester on my own (attending a NIN gig) and as i was walking around Manchester i was in full fuckin conversation with myself - i must of looked like a fuckin mad man, i was walking around Salford yik yakkin away to meself trying to find the iconic Smiths location "Salford lads club"... i swear to god i must of looked like i had escaped from a mental institute - then i'd nip into a bar, have 2 pints and yakk on the the barman about shite and continue on somewhere else!
happy days.

I used to actually shout at myself quite a lot when I went running. Somewhere around the 8th mile I'd have to start giving myself encouragement, and around the 9th mile, when I wanted to stop for a rest, it would become accusations of being a lazy bastard.

^then did you go home a flog yourself mercilusly for such laziness?

No, I made do with throwing up.

self inflicted?

No, I gave that up somewhere around my 20th birthday.

good. beacuse its awful.