Talking to yourself

does anybody else talk to themself in their head? like, "You can do this phil, i know you can! just focus" Why do we do this? what is the significance of it? Does anybody know?

i thought i was Phil! apparently im not? /confusion.

JediXMan never does such things.

[QUOTE="Fightingfan"]Yes, I do it when people are in the room and don't acknowledge me. I also start narrating my life when I'm bored.pygmahia5

Yeah, it'll piss people off because I express myself 100% without thinking about it.

Example, I would say something like this "Damn, Karen's backin' some massive heat in those jeans".

When I talk to myself in my head (never out loud), I just ask myself questions, but never in third person.

I'll think things like "Why can't I do this?" but never "Why can't you do this, Nick?"

[QUOTE="pygmahia5"][QUOTE="Fightingfan"]Yes, I do it when people are in the room and don't acknowledge me. I also start narrating my life when I'm bored.Fightingfan

Yeah, it'll piss people off because I express myself 100% without thinking about it.

Example, I would say something like this "Damn, Karen's backin' some massive heat in those jeans".

I don't address myself by name. If I use "you" instead of "I" it probably means that I'm not confident in what I'm doing at all, and I don't believe in myself. If I say it as if I'm being talked to by somebody else, sometimes it helps with the self doubt. Not usually though. I randomly speak in a british accent to my cat and whenever I'm bored or just feel like being british, and I think that's more alarming than a self-pep talk.XilePrincess

I do stupid accents and vocies all the time, often to myself, so it better be cool or we're in serious trouble. :(

I do not talk to myself in the 3rd person (or 2nd) but talk to people who simply are not there.

[QUOTE="XilePrincess"]I don't address myself by name. If I use "you" instead of "I" it probably means that I'm not confident in what I'm doing at all, and I don't believe in myself. If I say it as if I'm being talked to by somebody else, sometimes it helps with the self doubt. Not usually though. I randomly speak in a british accent to my cat and whenever I'm bored or just feel like being british, and I think that's more alarming than a self-pep talk.DigitalExile

I do stupid accents and vocies all the time, often to myself, so it better be cool or we're in serious trouble. :(

I do that. But the 3rd person thing is rare.

I've done that a few times, lol. Usually when I'm mad at myself.

If by 3rd person you mean talk to yourself while looking at the back of your own head and slightly to one side looking over a shoulder then yes, I think its a problem.

if you sometimes say 'Oh feck *insert own name here* you shouldn't have done that!' then no not so much.

i have this one friend who likes to talk in third person. i find it highly annoying.

I talk to myself, but useally not in the third person...

JediXMan never does such things.

JediXMan7

LOL

Hardly ever unless I'm self-acting for fun.

Nah, the other people in my head are better conversationalists than me.

I do when it comes to deciding what I'm going to eat or my current level of procrastination.

All the damn time, I also have dialogues with other people.

All the damn time. Like, daily.

I randomly speak in a british accent to my cat and whenever I'm bored or just feel like being british, and I think that's more alarming than a self-pep talk.XilePrincess

I do that for about a month after I watch a British sitcom/show, or sometimes a little Scottish gets in there after listening to Frightened Rabbit :P.

On the subject of talking to myself, I might have given myself encouragement or urging, but never have I addressed myself by my first name. That's just weird.