A post that has nothing to do with Yuletide!

[tzikeh]

Crazy, I know.

[Poll #1321445]

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[umbo.livejournal.com]

I talk to my cats much more often than I talk to myself. I'm not sure if that's better or worse.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

HEE! I'm not making any judgments!

[starwatcher]

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I once saw a quote -- don't remember place or context -- that said, "If you can't talk to yourself, who can you talk to?" I've taken it to heart.
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[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I wholeheartedly agree.

[klia.livejournal.com]

I talk more to my birds than myself, and I do that a lot (including wooing back and forth to one of my doves). I have more actual conversations with my parrot than humans, anymore.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I talk to Artie a lot. She makes a lot of "mrrp!" noises back now.

[klia.livejournal.com]

Aww, Artie. :D It's kind of weird being around something not human that can talk back ("What should we have to eat?" "Want some chicken? Yummy!").

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Usually when I do something REALLY stupid I find myself saying, "Oh, I'm so glad I did THAT!"

[kirbyfest.livejournal.com]

I pretend I'm talking to the Dog of Wonder. It's a pretty thin pretense, given that she's deaf as a post.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Yes. I have yet to make a "Timmy's in the well?" joke, but it's about at that level.

"Mrow?"

"What is it, kitty?"

"Prrt."

"What do you want."

"Prrt!" *walks towards kitchen*

"You *have* food."

"MROW!" *walks towards front door*

"You're not going out into the foyer."

"Mrow? Prrt! Prrt! Mrow!" *paws doorknob*

"FINE."

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I say stuff like that when I do stupid things too. "Oh, good going, tzikeh. EXCELLENT."

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Awww. She probably hears you *psychically*

[nomadicwriter]

I never talk to myself when I'm completely alone. But I do have remarkably inane conversations with the cats when they're around. ("Shall we get you some fresh water? Look, see, water. ...No, it's not food. It's not fooding time yet. Still got an hour to go. Oh, no, don't sit on my foot. ...You're sitting on my foot. How am I meant to move with a cat on my foot? No, I'm still not feeding you, don't get excited...") Cat participation is pretty much optional, though Cat #2 is a fairly good conversationalist and will usually respond to being spoken to.

[pocketmouse]

I find it very interesting that when I talk to myself in my head, I refer to myself as mouse. When I talk to myself out loud, I tend not to use a name, or I use my real name. But lately I've been slipping and sometimes mouse comes out. Fortunately (?) I mostly talk to myself when I'm alone.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

HEE! I've yet to say "tzikeh", but I do use my name when addressing myself out loud.

[kirbyfest.livejournal.com]

If she's looking right at me when I'm talking, she *knows* I'm talking, and her head goes back and forth even though she can probably only hear the stuff in the very high registers. My sweet old girl.

[reginagiraffe]

My husband used to talk to his *deaf* cat.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

My kitty has become much more talkative in her senior years. Maybe she's talking to *herself*.

[pocketmouse]

When I know someone IRL and OL, they have the option to use my real name or my lj name, whichever they want. I try to keep my real name off the net, because of the fun cognitive dissonance, but I don't care if people call me mouse IRL. I just don't want to explain it, for people who don't know.

[abbylee]

Annoyingly, I'm much more likely to talk to myself when there are other people around.

[klia.livejournal.com]

I can just imagine that exchange. Hee.

Casey and I have been watching BoB on History Channel all afternoon, and just now, she said, "Want some tea?" and was like, "Yeah, tea sounds good." So I made us a pot. And she was right, it's totally hitting the spot. *g*

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Hee. I don't know if I'm *more* likely, but I do talk to myself regardless of whether or not there are people present.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

I do it ALL THE TIME.

Although, half the time, I address it to one of the dogs. That's conversation, right? "Jasper, where did I leave my keys?"

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

:D I have never asked the cat anything like that, but perhaps I will start! But I talk to myself all the time, too - and the poll proves out (hah, in a very skewed way from a very skewed audience) the standard belief that many people hang onto the childhood habit of self-talk.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

I was an only child! My self-talking was akin to self-preservation :D

[xenacryst.livejournal.com]

Well, duh. My coworkers think I'm kind of insane, since I work in an open plan office, but they have headphones if they want them.

And of course I talk to the cats. They expect it. I mean, how else are they going to know that I'm delaying their breakfast for a few minutes so that I can dress the fanlet?

[the-shoshanna.livejournal.com]

Once in high school I was considering doing something that I knew was a dumb thing to do, but I was considering it anyway, like you do, and then I realized that I had just said, out loud, "Shoshanna, if you do that I will never speak to you again."

[sunqist.livejournal.com]

I'm actually much more likely to talk to myself in public where other people can hear me than I am to do it at home by myself. I'm sure it's very confidence-inspiring for patients to have their procedures explained to them by a woman who just spent ten minutes muttering to herself over their paperwork.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

[amy_vic.livejournal.com]

You mean...not everyone who lives by themselves talks to themselves out loud?

Oh.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I live with someone. *g* I think most people who took the poll live with someone. I don't think it makes a difference if you live alone or with someone else--most people just tend to self-talk!