i think if you know you're talking to yourself, you're okay. it's when you think you're talking to someone and it turns out to be yourself, or someone you made up. then you are looney.
Heheh… I'm constantly telling myself what to do, as in "Ok, now we need to go eat…. what looks good" Or "we got a paper to do, a drawing, a random-ass cardboard thing…" My whole family always thinks I'm talking to them, and I have to exasperatedly say "NO, I was talking to MYSELF." What worries me is that I say "We" instead of "I," even though I don't have other voices in my head - that I know of. I do argue with myself - like "yeah, lets do that - naw, that's stupid…"
I'm a bit freaked out by it sometimes. Especially when I'm home alone talking and singing to and about myself and every object I come into contact with.
if it's crazy than i am a complete nutter. when i'm alone i talk to myself and pretend that i am myself talking to another person, either someone i know or someone i made up. i hold entire conversations that may or may not include arguing. or other interesting things. xD
hey…would it be crazy if you thought of something funny,and then laughed? would it also be crazy if you did this when no-one is talking to you,or even paying any attention to you?
and would you think a person was crazy for laughing at nothing on a bus or something?
this explains why i get alot of funny looks on the subway….
hey…would it be crazy if you thought of something funny,and then laughed? would it also be crazy if you did this when no-one is talking to you,or even paying any attention to you?
and would you think a person was crazy for laughing at nothing on a bus or something?
this explains why i get alot of funny looks on the subway….
I'd say no, but I'm biased because I do that all the time.
hey…would it be crazy if you thought of something funny,and then laughed? would it also be crazy if you did this when no-one is talking to you,or even paying any attention to you?
and would you think a person was crazy for laughing at nothing on a bus or something?
this explains why i get alot of funny looks on the subway….
I'd say no, but I'm biased because I do that all the time.
The stares, they pierce my very soul.
I KNOW!
and then people say "hi"to you like your a five year old or something. stupid blubbering ignorant masses….
To Seira: I think everyone does that, when they're alone. I know I do. I'll be home alone, fixing dinner, and all of a sudden I'll be telling my sausage it's going to die, using my overlord voice. Or I talk to my cat with a crazy Russian accent. I might have mentioned that before. So yeah, as SC said, if that's crazy, I too am a nutter. And I think that most of DD are nutters too then.
To Bobby: That also happens a lot to me. I can be working on something serious, not paying any attention to anything else, and all of a sudden a funny thought will spring to mind and I'll burst out in a muffled laughing fit. People might look at me funny, but I just go "What? I thought of something funny." and be done with it. Although I have done my share of looking funny at people. Then I remember I'm a nutter and I go on with what I'm doing.
To Bobby: That also happens a lot to me. I can be working on something serious, not paying any attention to anything else, and all of a sudden a funny thought will spring to mind and I'll burst out in a muffled laughing fit. People might look at me funny, but I just go "What? I thought of something funny." and be done with it. Although I have done my share of looking funny at people. Then I remember I'm a nutter and I go on with what I'm doing.
have you ever had a person actually come up to you and ask you if you were okay becuase you did something like that?
Even before my parents put me on Anti-psychotics and Anti-depressants, I talked to myself all the time. I'm still on the psychotics but I still talk. For some reason it helps me remember things and strengthens my ideas and beliefs. Kind of like when you read something out loud, you remember it better.
In my experience there are some differences:
Crazy and Insane are not the same, in my Definition an Insane person, is someone who is too introverted, almost to the point where he/she could hurt others possibly because he/she believes that they don't exist.
Crazy? I can live with that. I know plenty of good, hard working people who would be dubbed crazy because of ideas or what not.
ok so its been established that we all talk to ourselves…
but does that really mean we are all sane? well taking into concideration we are a community forged in the name of webcomic-ing for a site titled drunk duck
There's nothing insane about talking to yourself. Sometimes it's the only way to ensure that your thoughts maintain some assemblance of continuity. Ideas sound differently when put to words, they have more weight. So, I guess I would even suposit that talking to yourself can help you maintain sanity.
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. "Talking to yourself isn't crazy; it's the ones who talk to people who aren't there that are a full deck short of a poker game."
It seems more like a personality trait to me than a matter of whether or not you're crazy. Either you do or you don't, a lot of my friends do it. I talk to myself all the time when I'm by myself. It's nice to have a conversation with someone who always agrees with you sometimes.