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Posted: 5/9/2003 11:34:42 AM EDT
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I talk to myself all the time. Usually in my head, not out loud. Sometimes the discussions get pretty heated. I think it's a great way to work things out, or maybe I'm just crazy.
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Posted: 5/9/2003 11:37:24 AM EDT
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My T-shirt says: "9 out of the 10 voices in my head are telling me not to squeeze the trigger. Oops!"
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Posted: 5/9/2003 11:41:51 AM EDT
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yes i do
no you don't yes.. i do no you don't do don't Do DON'T ! [i]sigh[/i] |
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Posted: 5/9/2003 11:50:12 AM EDT
[#4]
So.
While reading this post do you here the words in your head? Who's voice is it? your? or.. mine? Sgtar15 [white]And if it is my voice what do I sound like to you?[/white] |
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Posted: 5/9/2003 11:52:42 AM EDT
[#5]
Quoted: I talk to myself all the time. Usually in my head, not out loud. Sometimes the discussions get pretty heated. I think it's a great way to work things out, or maybe I'm just crazy. I was waiting for a flight at LaGuardia AP a number of years ago when nature called and I had to get to a shitter. As I walked into the bathroom I passed a guy, standing at a sink, talking to himself. I proceeded to sit down to do my business but the guy at the sink just kept talking to himself -- loudly. Moments passed and I realized he wasn't so much talking as he was arguing with himself. As time went on I further realized that not only was he arguing with himself but that he was losing the argument! I finished my business and washed up before heading out of the bathroom and out to where I had been sitting in the terminal, and about 20 mionutes later the same guy I'd met in the bathroom was walking down the aisle and he was still arguing with himself. Years later I was waiting at the South Ferry terminal waiting for the ferry to Staten Island when I met not one but two individuals walking arround the inside of the terminal talking to themselves. They just kept walking in circles talking to themselves and not to anybody else. It's pretty clear that there's a bunch of people hanging on by there fingernails! Later, |
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Posted: 5/9/2003 11:56:10 AM EDT
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Do you consider this normal and healthy? Do you ever argue with yourself...outloud? Is talking to yourself how you resolve issues? Have other people caught you talking to yourself? Were you talking about them at the time? Do you talk to yourself more when you are drunk? Do you load images from previous events while talking to yourself? and............. Whom do you think you are talking to anyways? Is it a seperate part of your brain? Who is it exactly that you are talking to? TS |
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Posted: 5/9/2003 11:57:04 AM EDT
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when I go on long distance runs, I daydream
about things and talk about things silently to myself to avoid boredom, this helps me to endure the miles of running, I may be thinking of what Im going to eat for my next meal or what Im going to do on the weekend. |
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Posted: 5/9/2003 12:08:42 PM EDT
[#8]
Just hold a cell phone to your ear and you can talk to yourself anywhere and people won't even realize it [;)]
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Posted: 5/9/2003 12:19:17 PM EDT
[#9]
I can't talk to myself.
The voices in my head keep interrupting me. |
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Posted: 5/9/2003 12:22:10 PM EDT
[#10]
Well who else would I talk to???
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Posted: 5/9/2003 12:29:56 PM EDT
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When I come home from work, I open the door and say "hey, you ungrateful fucking bitch, I'm home". Ofcourse shes not home, shes living with her little boytoy.
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Posted: 5/9/2003 12:33:02 PM EDT
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I must be talking to myself. I've got 8 employees, a wife and two kids. None of them seem to respond to anything I say.
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Posted: 5/9/2003 12:33:42 PM EDT
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When you have a speech to deliver, whether formal or informal, or are anticipating having to explain something, talking it out for practice is very helpful. It helps you to actually hear what works and what doesn't, much better than just reading a statement in your head.
I also talk out problems that I'm having, sometimes, and it also helps me to see the solution as talking it out forces you to organize your thoughts in a manner that is easily communicated. But I certainly don't argue with myself or talk to myself in public. Nor do I walk around in circles. I at least APPEAR to be perfectly normal. CJ |
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Posted: 5/9/2003 12:45:19 PM EDT
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Quoted: Just hold a cell phone to your ear and you can talk to yourself anywhere and people won't even realize it [;)] I keep getting a busy signal! ED |
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Posted: 5/9/2003 12:52:41 PM EDT
[#15]
What? Yes, I like Ice Cream.
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Posted: 5/9/2003 1:01:47 PM EDT
[#16]
Does talking to this screen count?
I've learned to not talk to myself for I always get in an argument and beat myself up. Kind of like Durk's avitar. Tj PS: Sarge, we gotta find you a job! |
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Posted: 5/9/2003 2:14:20 PM EDT
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I spend a lot of time during the day alone...
2 weeks ago I went out of town for a week to hang out with my family... several times a day it was made apparent to me that I talk to myself a lot , as the people around me kept saying "what" ? thinking I was talking to them... so I realized that I have a pretty much constant running mumbling dialoge going on... currently trying to break the habit... t |
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Posted: 5/9/2003 5:43:12 PM EDT
[#18]
It doesn't matter what the voices in my head say, I only listen to the dog.
BISHOP |
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Posted: 5/9/2003 5:47:50 PM EDT
[#19]
... and my dawg keeps teling me to stay home and clean my guns!
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Posted: 5/9/2003 5:58:51 PM EDT
[#20]
yes it's loads of fun.
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Posted: 5/9/2003 6:01:54 PM EDT
[#21]
It's called, "Internal Chatter" everyone does it.[whacko]
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Posted: 5/9/2003 6:01:54 PM EDT
[#22]
The little guy on my shoulder whispers in my ear.[smoke][:o)]
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Posted: 5/9/2003 6:02:43 PM EDT
[#23]
I talk to myself in my head. I've also noticed that if I'm reading a good book (not at that second, but perhaps just finished reading some) I think in that author's writing style.
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Posted: 5/9/2003 6:04:57 PM EDT
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Someone once told me it's OK to talk to yourself.
Also to answer yourself. You run into problem when you start saying [b][red][size=6]HUH[/size=6][/red][/b] |
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Posted: 5/9/2003 6:12:29 PM EDT
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My 13 year old son talks to his turd's, and sings on the crapper. I have been meaning to have a "discussion" with him about it. However, with the absence of anything that could be construed as "weed" or "rolling machine" during my last tossing of his room, has led me to believe that he is simply mentally ill like the rest of us.
[x] |
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Posted: 5/9/2003 6:26:31 PM EDT
[#26]
Talk to yourself...ok
Argue with yourself...Questionable Loose argument....We have a problem [whacko] |
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Posted: 5/9/2003 6:34:32 PM EDT
[#27]
Quoted: I talk to myself in my head. I've also noticed that if I'm reading a good book (not at that second, but perhaps just finished reading some) I think in that author's writing style. I do that to. Sometimes I also think in narrative form (does that make sense?). In 9th grade social studies I was 'the kid that talks to himself'! [:D] [whacko] |
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Posted: 5/9/2003 7:07:45 PM EDT
[#28]
[b]I'm schizophrenic and so am I.[/b]
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Posted: 5/9/2003 7:15:03 PM EDT
[#29]
I once had a First Shirt who sent me to the head shrinker, because he saw me running PT, after hours, and as I was running I appeared to be talking to myself. So I went to the Shrink, and she asks me if I was talking to my self, and I said that it was possible, I did have a lot on my mind the evening before, and that I often used my evening runs as a time to reflect on things. She tells me that is actually pretty normal and not something that they (head shrinkers) generally look for when determining mental problems, but she was worried about me, due to the fact that I was running after hours and didnn't have any NCOs mad at me, she thought that was very unusual behaviour for a young PFC who was not in training for some kind of athletic event, nor having problems passing a PT test.
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Posted: 5/9/2003 8:05:55 PM EDT
[#30]
I use it to solve problems also. I have kind of a weird methodology for solving problems in my head too. I act as if I am set on one choice and then hear one side whine about how stupid it is. Then I do the same for the other option.
I also have a strange thought process which is much like a conversation with one person...I think of linked events/things, take for example this: I think of ARs ---> So I think of the jamming issues ---> So I think of stuff that doesn't work ---> So I think of Mexicans and laugh to myself ---> So I think about illegal immigration --> So I think about 'Ranch Rescue' ---> So I think about what kind of gear they would have ---> So I think about what guns they would have ---> So I think about ARs again It often goes in circles like this. |
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Posted: 5/10/2003 7:45:01 AM EDT
[#31]
Quoted: I use it to solve problems also. I have kind of a weird methodology for solving problems in my head too. I act as if I am set on one choice and then hear one side whine about how stupid it is. Then I do the same for the other option. I also have a strange thought process which is much like a conversation with one person...I think of linked events/things, take for example this: I think of ARs ---> So I think of the jamming issues ---> So I think of stuff that doesn't work ---> So I think of Mexicans and laugh to myself ---> So I think about illegal immigration --> So I think about 'Ranch Rescue' ---> So I think about what kind of gear they would have ---> So I think about what guns they would have ---> So I think about ARs again It often goes in circles like this. yes...the never ending circle |
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Posted: 5/10/2003 8:23:38 AM EDT
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I'd say the weirdest thing I do in my head is when I'm trying to do some sort of difficult geometry problem. I close my eyes and see the figure in my head, then use my hands to rotate/flip it (literally, my hands out in front of me, like each hand is holding something attached to one side of it). People look at me funny, but it works wonders. It's almost like a 3D CAD program in my head. Also, say if I wanted to look at a hexagonal prism, I'd 'hold' the hexagon with one hand and 'stretch' it out into a prism with the other.
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Posted: 5/10/2003 9:00:26 AM EDT
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I wonder if the unabomber talked to himself aloud in that one room cabin?
I generally don't talk aloud, sometimes to myself. What I find scary is in the summer when people have their windows open and I walk by I hear a lot of people talking to themselves, and from what I over hear, it's mostly about a bad day at work with the boss. |
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Posted: 5/10/2003 9:49:25 AM EDT
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I don't normally talk to myself aloud, but I will start mumbling incoherently when meeting new people just to make an impression. [:)]
Silently though, it never stops. I constantly have ideas running through my head in either verbal or graphic form. People that call me on the phone and when I answer they ask me if they either inturrupted me or I was sleeping because I usually sound annoyed by the inturuption or was in a kind of trance thinking things out. Sniper_Wolfe - you are lucky you grew up with computers... For math problems, I have a mental chalkboard instead of your updated 3D screen. I used to do long complex math problems in my head that way and amaze instructors.... They would ask how I did that without writing anything down or taking the 20 or so steps necessary, when in fact I DID write it down. - just in my head. |
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Posted: 5/10/2003 10:05:11 AM EDT
[#35]
I talk to my dog Debo more than I talk to myself. He likes me more than I do.
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Posted: 5/10/2003 10:07:10 AM EDT
[#36]
I talk to myself and talk when doing it I love doing it in the front yard I will just walk around having a conversation with myself.
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Posted: 5/10/2003 12:16:02 PM EDT
[#37]
Depends on the circumstances.
Some people can't handle confrontation, and will simply just not deal with *any* issues that cause stress. I know a few people like that, and instead of arguing with them about anything, I'll just go off and ramble my points to myself just to get it off my chest so it doesn't eat at me all day long. I find that to be somewhat therapeudic, as it allows me to vent and put an issue behind me, while at the same time avoiding a potentially nasty situation when it really isn't worth it. |
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Posted: 5/10/2003 12:41:28 PM EDT
[#38]
I talk to my dogs.
It's probably not normal or healthy. I NEVER argue with myself, that's what the wife is for. I do talk to myself when I'm drunk, but I can't be understood because I slur. |
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Posted: 5/10/2003 12:46:33 PM EDT
[#39]
Quoted: I don't normally talk to myself aloud, but I will start mumbling incoherently when meeting new people just to make an impression. [:)] Silently though, it never stops. I constantly have ideas running through my head in either verbal or graphic form. People that call me on the phone and when I answer they ask me if they either inturrupted me or I was sleeping because I usually sound annoyed by the inturuption or was in a kind of trance thinking things out. Sniper_Wolfe - you are lucky you grew up with computers... For math problems, I have a mental chalkboard instead of your updated 3D screen. I used to do long complex math problems in my head that way and amaze instructors.... They would ask how I did that without writing anything down or taking the 20 or so steps necessary, when in fact I DID write it down. - just in my head. I do the same sort of thing. In fact, I have in the past (and most likely will next year with Alg.II) had points taken off or have had teachers assumed I copied because of this. I don't write stuff down. If I do, I always scratch it out, or do not show what problem it's from. A little quirk, I suppose. It just bothers me to have some sort of written way for me to have done my work. Lots of times I come up with shortcuts, too, that we're not taught. |
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Posted: 5/10/2003 11:35:35 PM EDT
[#40]
Quoted: I do the same sort of thing. In fact, I have in the past (and most likely will next year with Alg.II) had points taken off or have had teachers assumed I copied because of this. I don't write stuff down. If I do, I always scratch it out, or do not show what problem it's from. A little quirk, I suppose. It just bothers me to have some sort of written way for me to have done my work. Lots of times I come up with shortcuts, too, that we're not taught. Yep. I even got sent to a math tutor once because i was failing math. The instructor was failing me for not showing my work ( I hated the ones that did that). I spent the first 1 hour session showing the tutor some shortcuts and she told me not to come back. |
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Posted: 5/10/2003 11:54:59 PM EDT
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I usually pray out loud. About whatever. If something is bothering me, I'll tell whoever up there who is willing to listen to me. Mostly when I'm alone in my room.
Or I talk to myself when I know that my roomate can hear me. He thinks its funny but I do it on purpose. When I ride my ATV I'm usually not silent either. Usually yelling something random. But I don't have conversations with myself. I actually did a sociology paper on a guy in NYC that was talking to himself on the subway. It was a long ride and I was within earshot and listened to his whole conversation till I got off the train. I got an A for analyzing his ramblings. |
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Posted: 5/11/2003 1:17:23 AM EDT
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When I'm home alone sometimes I sing. Does that count? [8D]
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Posted: 5/11/2003 1:34:56 AM EDT
[#43]
Quoted: So. While reading this post do you here the words in your head? Who's voice is it? your? or.. mine? Sgtar15 [white]And if it is my voice what do I sound like to you?[/white] I'll have to get back to you on that when I figure it out. |
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Posted: 5/11/2003 3:29:03 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: I do the same sort of thing. In fact, I have in the past (and most likely will next year with Alg.II) had points taken off or have had teachers assumed I copied because of this. I don't write stuff down. If I do, I always scratch it out, or do not show what problem it's from. A little quirk, I suppose. It just bothers me to have some sort of written way for me to have done my work. Lots of times I come up with shortcuts, too, that we're not taught. Yep. I even got sent to a math tutor once because i was failing math. The instructor was failing me for not showing my work ( I hated the ones that did that). I spent the first 1 hour session showing the tutor some shortcuts and she told me not to come back. I've never failed a class because of it. Usually I 'break' the teacher into not caring by refusing to do it yet showing I can. Most get mad when I correct them or show them shortcuts. Luckily this year my teacher is great and gives us bonus points on the tests/quizzes if we do stuff like that. I've heard the 'horror stories' [;)] of the teacher I'll have next year, though. |
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Posted: 5/11/2003 3:33:00 PM EDT
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Quoted: My 13 year old son talks to his turd's, and sings on the crapper. I have been meaning to have a "discussion" with him about it. However, with the absence of anything that could be construed as "weed" or "rolling machine" during my last tossing of his room, has led me to believe that he is simply mentally ill like the rest of us. [x] TMI!! |
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Posted: 5/11/2003 3:36:09 PM EDT
[#46]
I talk whatever it is that i am typing
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