Holding Conversation With Yourself

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echoplex Joined: Jan 26, '10 Status: New User	2010-01-26 13:39:09
	Hi I was just wondering if anyone else does this.. I hold conversation with people in my head, however its people i know or people i know of (ie a friend of a friend). I will imagin their words and speak out loud my reply. I do it all the time and subconsiously, and i will just snap out of it and carry on day to day. These conversations however make me happy and seem to get me throughout the day. Ive searched all over the net to find some sort of relation to this but nothing.
Fatality Joined: Jul 14, '09 Status: Senior User	2010-01-26 15:29:58
	Yup i do this, only difference is my own reply isn't necessarily out loud.
xkjgfjk Joined: Jan 17, '10 Status: Junior User	2010-01-26 16:07:57
	i do that too, in my case it is part of the daydreaming trait of my schizoid personality, i play out situations in my head rather than live them. but i don't know what your case might be, i think it's normal to talk to yourself sometimes, you shouldn't worry about it unless that's all you ever do.
Norvinha Joined: Jan 25, '10 Status: New User	2010-01-26 19:03:13
	i do it almost all the time. when i'm driving its nearly non-stop. often catch myself really getting into it, facial expressions and all. if someone is around i get odd looks >.
Obsidian Joined: Jan 22, '10 Status: New User	2010-01-27 01:19:58
	Hehe, makes me think of J.D. I think the part with you speaking out loud makes you stupid, not disordered. :P
moonprayer Joined: Jul 28, '09 Status: Junior User	2010-01-27 05:47:34
	hihi... I thought I was dumb, but I catch myself doing this often. It's always subconscious. and I tend to whisper, not really out loud...
haart Joined: Oct 17, '09 Status: Senior User	2010-01-27 05:53:43
	Yeah I do this too, but I don't talk aloud.
echoplex Joined: Jan 26, '10 Status: New User	2010-01-27 09:57:14
	Thanks guys, I had a schizophrenic dad so i think i was being over worried!
deodand Joined: Jan 27, '10 Status: New User	2010-01-27 14:54:25
	It's normal, when I do it though I don't even use "real people", but fictional characters. But these are not hallucinations, these are fictional characters I have created for various short stories, novels, games, etc. It's just fantasizing or daydreaming. I would only be worried if I thought it was real. :)
moonprayer Joined: Jul 28, '09 Status: Junior User	2010-01-28 09:24:12
	hm, i dont recognize it as a fantasy novel.. I create dialogues with "real" people, and real situations, and I think what the other would say, and what I would reply. This goes on continualy, every single minute I have nothing to do. It's sub consious. I have been doing this my whole life, never thought of it as weird, but last night I told my boyfriend... his reaction was that it was everything BUT Normal... he found it completely insane, and thought it might be because I am in real life really bad with conversations, and that I might be insecure and felt the need to practise my respons before I make a fool out of myself in a real conversation... That does make sence... But then again, i don't feel insecure, and I cannot bother if I make a fool out of myself in a conversation, everyone in my life knows i'm really bad with words, and I just tell that to new people, that I am bad in explaining things clearly. not day dreaming, or talking to objects. not talking to myself, no voices in my head, just conversations with people I know, Or know i'm going to meet and what I would do in wich situation, but i never remeber it if i am really in such a situation, nor when I get confrontated. when i am in a confrontation, i say nothing, i don't reply, and i am not able to.. Words the other say, just echoe..but they don't really come trough. like a beat up dog I will stand or sit with my tale between my legs and response not at all.
xkjgfjk Joined: Jan 17, '10 Status: Junior User	2010-01-28 17:20:48
	i never asked anyone whether this was normal or not because i thought it obviously was but now that i think about it... i started doing it at a very young age, like really young in pre-school, 6 to 7 years old. i would imagine myself as a grown up woman who was pretty and popular and dated people i saw on TV and make up a story in my mind that i would spend hours imagining and would always give a continuation every day like chapters of a novel in my head. but as i grew up these imagined situations became less fictional and more according to my reality. this is so weird now that i think about it.
erinro Joined: Nov 13, '09 Status: Senior User	2010-01-28 17:23:41
	are you a woman? for some reason i thought you were a dude.
xkjgfjk Joined: Jan 17, '10 Status: Junior User	2010-01-28 17:52:53
	lmao i'm a girl son don't make things seem even weirder lol.
ryouinsane Joined: Jan 28, '10 Status: New User	2010-01-28 18:49:43
	I converse with myself, in my head. Usually it'll be with my own voice though. I don't attach other people to the conversation. I'll just have two or three different opinions voiced in my head. What really sucks is that I'll have a perfect response in my head and then when that response is needed in a real conversation, I'd be unable to say it.
ru6ydragon Joined: Jan 29, '10 Status: New User	2010-01-29 04:26:40
	This is officially called "self talk". It's completely normal and starts around age 3. It's a developmental thing. I do it too, have elaborate conversations, facial expressions etc. I've only caught myself mumbling out loud a couple of times in my life. Personally, I re-live conversations that were stressful and pre-live conversations I am scared to have. I think it's a way we deal with stress or boredom, depending on your personality type.
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