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[darkoshi]

When I accidentally open the same video in 2 browser windows with a slight delay between them, it usually sounds weird. Sometimes it sounds really good.

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Part of that video I still want to post was a real example of me talking to myself while working from home. It amused me, listening to myself talking to myself.

Today I worked from home again, and talked to myself a lot again. I wonder why I do it out loud. Do I like to hear myself? Is it because the room sounds too quiet? Does it soothe me? Does it make me feel like I have a companion?

Often, I'll take on 2 personas while doing it. One, frustrated or discouraged about something, whiny, mopey. The other, practical, optimistic, offering solutions, giving me pep talks. "You can do it!" is something I say to myself a lotttttttttttt.

But a lot of the time, it's simply me verbalizing what I'm doing or what I'm about to do. There doesn't seem any reason to speak that out loud, yet I do it. I also verbalize things I'm feeling: "I'm hungry; I'm tired; my foot hurts; I'm cold enough now, time to turn off the A/C; etc."

When I'm at work in the office with other people around, do I have the same monologue, just inside my head instead of out loud? I'm not sure. I don't know if my thoughts, at least while working on computer stuff, even make it into words when I don't speak them out loud.

Right now, I'm not talking out loud. I'm only thinking these words in my head as I write them.

Comments

[frith]

Like Smeagol and Gollum addressing the Precious. ^_^ "No food, no rest, nothing for Smeagol".

[lhexa]

It sounds like a helpful way of organizing one's thoughts, to me, since speaking aloud makes you put more effort into articulating a thought. I think many people's internal lives include dialogues.