How often do you talk to yourself?

[Astealthydonut]

I heard its okay to talk to youself as long as you don't answer yourself.

 

[Hypocritical truth teller]

often, very often

 

[Coolydudey]

Speaking to yourself

I do this from time to time, sometimes I catch myself doing it in front of other people too! Do you guys do the same thing or do you manage to keep your thoughts inside?

 

[kora]

All the time, without realizing mostly. very embarrassing. I live entire imagined conversations with people sometimes, or just voice my train of thoughts.

 

[kora]

Crap. I think I answer myself as well.

 

[lungs]

when i have imaginary conversations in my head theyre usually with other people that i imagine talking back, not myself.

i sometimes whisper out loud when i'm working on something tedious or planning something out, "okay, this. done. okay, what's next, okay, this..*hums*"

 

[Proletar]

I have a thing where if I have an internal monologue at the same time as I remember something really emberassing, the last three words starts to repeat, and sometimes I start whispering them 3-5 times. Usually something like "I am an idiot" or "I hate myself".

I'm strange.

 

[anachronist]

I usually talk to myself when I'm working on something or looking for a misplaced item, to the point that the person in the table next to mine at the office is used to it. On the other hand, I make a lot of hand gestures when I'm doing a lot of thinking and no one's around.

 

[Triginta Septem]

I talk to myself all the time, but especially when trying to understand something like feelings, that I have so much trouble with as an INTP. For instance, if I'm trying to figure out my feelings about someone, or someone's feelings toward me, (because of my low developed Fe -_-') I can talk to myself for hours, some inside, some outside my head... I really should stop this... Learning about the other MBTI types is actually helping. I think all INTPs can benefit greatly from studying the others and their relations.

 

[creep]

I am constantly talking to myself, actually. I'm broken up into a lot of different parts, different types of reasoning and these types of reasonings argue with each other incessantly when faced with a decision. I never do it aloud because I don't like the whole physical movement of talking (jaw movements fuck them), so it's an in-my-head thing.

 

[redbaron]

Whenever I'm alone, I talk to myself. Usually I'm having a mock discussion and I'm replying to the imagined statements of my imagined debate partner.

I do the same at work without realizing. If someone around me comments, I give them an incredulous stare and snort with contempt as though they were the crazy one, before returning to my work. If I reply back, it seems to be interpreted as an invitation for them to interrupt me further, so I avoid it and in turn, people stop interrupting me.

Whether it's because they understand that I want my personal privacy respected or they just think I'm a big asshole and therefore avoid me I don't know. All I know is that it allows me to do what I want without being interrupted.

On occasion I've been asked why I'm so rude to people. My response is that interruptions cause my results to suffer at work, and that I'd prefer to not be interrupted by my co-workers. Besides, shouldn't they be working themselves?

So far total honesty has served me well in the workplace. People know what I'm like and that I don't mean to intentionally upset them, I just like to work on what it is that I (not my superiors) consider important, at my own pace and using my own methods.

I think I've been blessed in that my two direct superiors are both of intellectual temperament. At least insofar as I can tell - one is definitely an ENTJ and the other is most likely an INTJ. Consequently they value and seem to genuinely understand my blatant honesty and logical methods, and even though they are somewhat alarmed by my total disregard for using the plans they set out for me, they are able to see that while I can appear haphazard in my approach, my ideas are well founded in logic and are developed with long-term sustainable success for the company in mind.

In light of this, they are smart enough to know that the best thing they can do is to leave me alone for the most part. They impart goals upon me, but they let me decide on the steps to take, and often consult me on the steps they should take in achieving their own.

I'm not sure why, "How often do you talk to yourself?" became the post that it did, but oh well.

It is what it is, is it not?

 

[introverted_thinker]

All the time. It's the only way I can have a decent conversation. XD

 

[HDINTP]

Yes for long time i do and it is for myself loud when around people then in my head. I have my own world and i activate that when want to usually when there is nothing to do. So i have few so called friends and yes that is great i want to see how far can i get with that. But unlike someone suffering from schizophrenia i still know that is what i create and i can control it just hope it doesn't get too far so i would just live in my mind. I usually solve many problems of mine like that. Well that is it for now in this thread.

 

[Chronomar]

Everyday.

If not aloud and to myself, then probably mentally to myself, or, alternatively, to various mental constructs of other people--those I know, know of, or imagine vaguely.

Edit: and yes, I do know the imaginations of people are not real, but they also do seem very much like life, though much more patient with me talking than I think any real person would be. Sometimes I do get to the point where I don't seem to know what they will say next, or what they will think about what I've said.

I think overall it's a way of (1) generating new thoughts, and, (2) testing "ability to have a conversation intelligently" or "ability to understand other people's thoughts"...like a simulation.

 

[nanook]

whenever i post on this message board.
but i have no reoccurring imaginary friends, besides you.

 

[skip]

Not as often as I sing to myself.

 

[WormSine]

My most recent one:

I had a very bad day at work, where you wake up and go to work and it seems like your boss is just riding your backside like no tomorrow. I go home and I am thinking about the days events at work and find myself reliving it in my head and having and argument with my boss aloud. Like He's there and I got to give him a what for. I talk to myself way too much then I would really like to admit too.

 

[RedN]

wow and i thought i was crazy...

I talk to myself a lot really. but i keep our conversations in my mind. i once talked out loud in front of my bf but he was freaked out by it so... never again eh