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Talking to yourself?

epath13 said:
I'm doing it right now :D personally I think talking to animals can be a form of talking to yourself, can't it? :)
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I talk to animals all the time, as if they totally comprehend what I'm saying. I like doing that and I like how they stare at me and pay such close attention when I speak to them. (Dogs, cats, etc.) Just as I would when addressing another person in spoken conversation.
 
Intemporal_Reverie said:
I talk to animals all the time, as if they totally comprehend what I'm saying. I like doing that and I like how they stare at me and pay such close attention when I speak to them. (Dogs, cats, etc.) Just as I would when addressing another person in spoken conversation.
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If we're talking seriously (I've just been kidding around) I think animals base their decisions about what has been told on a multiple things: person's disposition, intonation, their own instinct, memories of previous experiences etc. I think they can learn to understand a few words, but I don't believe they understand language fully. I think the way T. Grandin explains animal perception makes sense to me. Personally I think animals are more intuitive because of the way they perceive environment, we often silence our intuition by overthinking everything, we can't hear its voice because of all the noise our minds are making. Maybe intuition is a form of the primal, animal perception.
 
I'd like to know if my tendency of self discussions alter due the amount I've been socialising. Hypothesis being that people talk less to theirselves after being in a group and having real communication in case if self discussion is a substitute, but if it's just intrinsic feature it'll be quite about constant all of the time. It's pity that I can't really observe this authentic by myself. Maybe someone else has noticed some?
 
I've noticed that my brain talks more when I have a problem to think about. As a result, it talks less when I'm around for instance my sister, because I have no problem being around her. (It's not that she doesn't judge; it's that she is not afraid of direct communication. That's how you get from growing up with me.) When I am around strangers or people who might as well be, my brain can't shut up, sometimes analysing the person/people, and when that fails, simply distracting me with talk about something completely unrelated, like a comic. Really good at shutting out things I can't handle, my brain is.
 
Ylva said:
I at least understand what I mean, most of the time.

Just found I even growl at myself. At some of my thoughts, anyway.

Has anyone noticed that thoughts are a lot like dreams?
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I have found I growl at my self too. The thought and dreams part... I think I know what you mean.
 
I so talk to myself quite a bit. Like many of you have said, through times of anxiety or when trying to figure something out. That voice can be negative at times, and have had many arguments. I've also noticed during times of great stress I've trained my voice to talk me down and remain calm. Meditation has really helped with that, but I've never learned how to properly meditate though, and don't want to, but feel I need to, to start helping me control my symptoms better. If my inner voice sides with love, I usually do really well throughout the day. When sides with the darkness though... It can be rough, but enlightening. I have noticed though, there are 3 distinct voices. Mine, and 2 others in my head. I guess the best way would be like 2 angles on your shoulder. I still consider demons as angels, because that is what they once were. Weird, I know.
 
It ends up being that way. I try to make conversations and I get ignored, so that's when I resort to Facebook... which is what 98% of my posts pretty much are. :mad:
 
Same here, I have been talking to myself since I was a kid. I was bullied for it and the more isolated I became, the more I spoke to myself, the more I was bullied. So now, I am very aware of it and I stop myself when I catch myself doing it. Part of it is because I am really lonely, if I had a choice I would probably always have someone with me, but that's not an option, so I am the crazy lady.
 
I have always talked to myself too. As a kid, I started practicing saying words backwards and writing backwards although I don't know why.
 
What level are we talking of "talking to ones self?" For instance, just normal verbal problem solving / singing / laughing ? Or actual conversations with people that are not there or the extreamly rare fragmented personallity ?

For the first is actually pretty normal and by no means a determining factor in organic mental health challanges ..
 
In talking to myself, I can't really say I'm speaking to people who aren't there, since I am there.

Really. Wherever I go, there I am.
 
I talk to myself sometimes, however it's only out loud when I'm on my own (usually at least..). When I'm not alone, I do it 'inside my head' and don't speak it because I don't want people to think I'm weird. Also, when I'm with my boyfriend I talk with him instead of to myself.
 
Yup, i talk to myself aloud sometimes. I do that usually in the night when i'm in my room and am not able to sleep. I have this issue where i can't really pin point the things that are actually bothering me so i just speak out to myself about ho i feel at the moment and the things that are scaring me. I try to also say some encouraging things to myself. I think it's something i have to do because i can't sleep with thoughts buzzing around inside my head. In a way i suppose it would be a lot better if i had someone beside me to hear me out but since i don't have that option at the moment, i talk to myself.
 
I talk to myself out loud all day. Even if it's just saying what I am doing/going to do. Like, "I'm just going to make a coffee. So better grab that, put that in the machine.." etc. It's pretty annoying actually. Sometimes I have to tell myself to shut up. It doesn't last, so usually I just end up making noises or singing. I also yell a lot when I am mad. I verbalise my frustrations intensely. Sometimes I don't speak much at all, to anyone. But I also speak out loud by accident. I often say huh? for no reason or repeat a tune over and over out loud, usually when it gets too much in my head. Sometimes I get a word stuck in my head and it drives me bonkers so I will say it out loud, but there is not always an opportune time to do so. I am stuck with me and my incessant voice ;)
 
Talking to myself... hmm... almost never.

There are several "others" who all have badly stereotyped accents, but hardly ever to "myself." I know, they're all me, but I think the different trains of thought developed as personifications to make it easier to think with them, since they all tend to have different approaches to things from "me" as I usually am, so I can think outside my own box. If that makes any sense at all.

Southern: present in time when a problem needs fixing in an un-orthodoxed manner without any of the proper tools or even understanding of the exact nature of the problem.
Chinese: usually the one who comes up with more vaguely racist or weird remarks.
British: used when there is an unexpected yet insignificant problem, such as a breaker tripping when you have the TV, hairdryer, toaster, and microwave running.
Russian: solves all the truly mysterious problems which require meticulous investigation and hard thought over several hours, especially when programming. Him and British Guy tend to argue and have vastly differing ideas and approaches to problems.

I have had people come up on me unexpectedly while I was having a three or four way conversation with myself with several of the above accents, and they were... perplexed, to say the least. lol

There are probably more, but they are the most common ones.
 
I think I have always talked to myself. I often have long running conversations like I'm taking to someone else. I enjoy it. The conversations help me work out thoughts, and it's a form of company when I'm the only one home at the time.
 
I don't talk to myself out loud, but I often have full on conversations with myself in my head almost like I am talking to to somebody else.
 
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