Okay, this is a safe space… you can admit to us if you talk to yourself or not. After all, we have no way of seeing how you vote in our polls.
According to WebMD, 96 percent of adults say they internally talk to themselves, and 25 percent say they talk out loud to themselves. Which category do you fall into? Or neither? Both?
We think talking to yourself is perfectly normal. The only time things could get weird is if you’re in a tightly packed RV park with all your windows open… Hmmm…
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My son made a sign and put it outside his bedroom door 30+ years ago: “It’s OK to talk to yourself, and it’s OK to answer yourself, but if you say ‘Huh?’ you know you’re in trouble.” 😆 –Diane
Especially when I need expert advice
Years back after I had retired the first time I got bored I took a job at wally world. One day one of the managers came into my hardware department where I was working and spurting to myself and asked if I always talked to myself. I told him it was the only way I could get a intelligent conversation around here. He sort of laughed but not sure if he liked it.
I find that talking to myself usually produces the answers I want to hear.
I talk to myself, no big deal. But I have seen the most severe case of that behavior. New to the job, I was warned not to be surprised by the lab technician to whom I was to deliver samples. I was told he had worked there 30+ years alone. Upon reaching the lab, he was not there. I went to use a nearby restroom and found him sitting in a stall. Not knowing it was him, I heard him telling a joke. This was before cell phones. After telling the joke, he laughed then said “Oh you stupid S*B, you told me that joke last week”. Needless to say I beat a hasty retreat. I kid you not.
Not only to myself, but also to inanimate objects like the seat I was going to install in my street rod. After several minutes trying to access a mounting bolt and pinching and banging my fingers, I let out with “Oh, Come On!”. The socket immediately found the bolt.
At times I do think out loud. On the other hand my wife talks and reads out loud a lot. I’ve missed many bits of news and dialogue on TV due to her ramblings. Still love her to death though.
Not worried until I answer myself!
Yes, often, but usually pretend I’m talking to my dog.
Of course, and I answer myself! I was a carpenter all my life, I figure things out that way.
Zig Ziegler said, Sure I do, I like to talk to intelligent people, and I like to listen to intelligent people talk!
No but my wife does quite often and it is very aggravating.
So does my wife, she says if she wants intelligent answers she always talks to herself. She’ll be in another room talking and when I don’t understand what she says I’ll respond and she says never mind. That’s the aggravating part.
Do I talk to myself?! Talk to, answer, sing to and otherwise entertain on a regular basis, of course.
Yep; agree. & have a good time in my own mind!!
You have to get smart answers from an expert!
Yes. Loudly. And it’s mostly cuss words.
ROFL at the responses and stories! Love them all and I’ve done all of those things…including saying “huh?” to my own discussion with myself!
Yes, of course, I’m the only one I can talk to without arguing.
I always talk to myself. That way I can talk to a better class of person and get a more intelligent answer…
yep, I do. I always agree with myself, it would be bad to argue.
Smart man! 😆 Have a great day, Tom. 😀 –Diane
Most times I’m the only person intelligent enough to understand what I’m talking about…
My grandmother once told me “it’s okay to yourself. And it’s okay to talk to yourself and answer yourself. But when you talk to yourself and answer yourself and then say “what” you know you have a problem” Words that I live by.
I talk to my Dogs all the time. They are such good listeners.
Plus, they don’t talk back. Yep, since I lost my dog a few months ago (first time in 75 years I haven’t had a dog), I don’t have any excuse to be talking out loud in my house now, but that hasn’t stopped me. 😆 Have a great day, Vicki. 😀 –Diane
I even yell at myself.
You talk to yourself when you want expert advice.
Wow, every time I see an old woman pushing a grocery cart down an aisle talking out loud to herself (no obvious blue tooth device on) I can’t help but think “Poor lady!”. It may be fine to think things, but talking out loud to oneself is not good.
Yes! And constantly to the pets.
Usually just when I’m aggravated.
I like to consider it thinking out loud
Ohhh, I like that much better. Thanks, Tami! Have a good evening/night. 😀 –Diane
I particularly “talk” to myself when I err. The greater, in my opinion, the error, the more I “talk” to myself.
I do. Sometimes I say ‘huh? ‘
Most times I say “doh!”