Thread: How do you interact with yourself?

I wasn't really sure how to phrase this title. I was debating something like, do you talk to yourself?, but that is too narrow and an easy yes or no question.

Last night I was laying in bed talking to myself, having external conversations with myself and people that weren't really there (yes, I knew they weren't), and got to wondering. I wondered how many other people just out loud talked to themselves, or talked to themselves and hosted another party talking as well? If people don't do that, how do they interact with themselves, if at all.



I just can't imagine someone not having full on conversations with themselves. I mean, what do most people do when they're alone and quiet, when there is nothing going on. Or when they are in the shower, there is nothing going on, it's a perfect time to have a two sided conversation about a subject on your mind, or rehearsing a situation that may or may not be something real that could happen in your life.

So my question to you is this, and please, explain in detail, how you interact with yourself on an intellectual level, if at all?

Well I never really talk out loud, but I do analyze stuff in my mind all the time, including talking to myself, counseling myself, like, "you shouldn't have done that" (that being something that happened yesterday or whenever in the past), "you should do that", "he's an idiot", and generally judging situations and people on the go in my mind.

When I'm researching or analyzing something I tend to hash things out loud, I will ask myself a question like How do we know...? Then I'll answer my own question, then I'll ask my self critical questions like so if ... then why is ... Eventually I hash out the whole problem in my mind by answering my own questions with my own reasoning. Another thing I do is play out hypothetical situations in my head. It normally happens when I'm bored at work or trying to fall asleep but what I do is think of something that could happen, then imagine what certain people that would be there would react and then how I would react and so on. No real direction I just let my mind wander and it happens. I think that is what you were asking.

Hmm, well all i see is bad stuff in my life this year. Alot of things have gone wrong. Hmm, why my $1000 ukulele broke. My sister stepped on it. I left it on the side of the bed. I wish I didnt leave it their. Breaking up with my girlfriend. Hmm, wish i wasnt being such a player, and like being truthful in the relationship. Hmm, wish that i never took out my race car out that night I got in the accident, hmm, I broke my transmission on it. Hmm, went to the club, wish i didnt park outside, cuz thats where my car got stolen. Hmm. Lots of stuff, I wish I did different. Wish i took out my storage earlier. So i didnt have to pay alot for it. Wish i didnt pawn my laptop, cuz i passed the due date, and they sold it. Fck, my life sucks balls! I wish, I could just hmm, I dont know, feel like jumping off the eBridge! This is what goes over my head all the time, oh yeah, I ran out of unemployment this year, and cant extend, so I have no money. I was living the good life a year back. I had lots of money, nice cars, lots of hot chicks, going beach, all that, now Im fcked dowloading torrents. Lol. :p Nah I always loved downloading, but havent spent this much time on the pc at all.

hahaha! love this topic!

It depends what mood I am in.

1. See something sexy I'm probably going to interact with myself for about five minutes if you catch my drift.

2. Mad - cursing at myself or at what I'm mad about or who I'm mad at.

3. Happy - I'm none stop about things I would like to accomplish.

4. Drunk - Yapping about my life and the world.

5. Sad - Missing Mom.

Pretty much for me there is some sort of interaction with myself for everything. I'll admit, I accidentally answer my own questions, which of course makes me feel like a dumbo. But, honestly, if I was the only person on Earth, talking to myself and answering my own questions would be sane.

I do often talk to myself, or other imaginary people, but that's due to a mixture of Tourette's and Asperger's Syndrome.

I have been caught a few times mumbling something to myself when in deep thought, however i never realise i'm doing it. Otherwise I think mostly visually, I create a virtual landscape in my mind with all the 'characters' playing their roles and i am like a God observing and manipulating and sometimes inhabiting some of the characters in each scenario. This role-playing is probably why i mumble out loud without realising.

the thing is whenever we think that we are not doing anything or not thinking anything .. we still are thinking the thought of thinking..if you understand..the brain is always up to something or the other... that just particularly depends on us how to respond to our subconscious brain .. so some of us start thinking about that topic and some just flash away from it.. so it happens to everyone that he/she might be thinking about something or the other but not bringing that thing to the foreground and really analyse it.. or ponder over it..........well about me.. i might just talk out loud when ther's no one around..like eg driving alone in my car with no sound etc..but generally when i am alone lying on my bed in the night i do think of many a things and i really do argue with 'i don't know who' but i think its my part itself...i argue with him.. try to give reasons to myself and the good thing is that 'he' also argues at my other way of thinking...i mean thats amazing .. i first talk to myself and then i argue my own views .. its a really nice thing as i have got solutions to many problems in my life so its a real good thing to have..and remember ..everyone has it.. just bring it to you foreground.. just do not wade it away..

So far no-one has stated the obvious, get therapy man Just kidding, I too do this a lot more nowadays after an assault I was a victim of, due to constant self-questioning of myself and the world around me....and yes I am in therapy

But I also use this as others do prior to sleep to get out anything on my mind so I can drift off, and I have noticed that instead of singing in the shower, I do go through situations in my head that may be coming up...

Apart from that I am 100% abnormal.

*** Insanepinoyboy keep your head above water and swim like sh!t...eventually you will land on the right-side of life again...I have been there a couple of times, and it does get better, so long as you don't ever give up ***