Talking to Yourself.

[shiels]

yeah right enough, no point in conversation then, close thread

 

[version]

I talk to myself. I say things like "Right, what am I doing now?" then list all the things I'm supposed to be doing. If I'm thinking of doing something I might say "Do I reaaaaally want to do that? I dunno".

 

[shiels]

I think the critical and authoritative voice in the head is universal. It’s one of the first ways we make sense of the world because typically our parents are telling us what and what not to do, good and bad before we even understand what the words mean, so
very deep

And because like Phillips says there safety is more important than desire, it’s crucial for survival and gets internalised early, brain as get- out-of-way threat avoidance machine, that voice is useful and strong and should be somewhat honoured but as we see with so many of us it gets out of hand, and it feels unnatural to work against it, especially if you’re Irish or British! but sometimes it helps to see it as one position, one voice amongst many.

Of course. I’m not advocating some inane positive thinking here, not pretending it’s not there, not killing it either, but seeing it as a thing that has its function and some grounding in reality but just one position that can be refuted by eg talking out loud to yourself about how brilliant you are

 

[version]

I'll sometimes reason myself out of a problem by talking to myself, like say I read a news story about someone being kidnapped and set on fire... I'll go through the reasons why it's unlikely to happen to me and why it's a silly thing to worry about.

 

[shiels]

And the core insight of seeing it even in its worst incarnations as a maladjusted protector stemming from our need to be loved

 

[WashYourHands]

if the alarm's gone off, you've had 4 x 10mins on snooze, sometimes i have to say out loud "get up you lazy cunt". Doing shit on bike maintenance helps to talk your way through parts & sizes of wrenches or you can get lost quickly. If anything the talking bit is quite meditative, even with the tunes off. Oh no, i am that landlord.

talk to the dog, missus has commented on this, but he listens & is cool with introspective cinema & pork scatchings.

 

[pattycakes_]

Caught myself doing this the other day. Got thrown off for a min but realised it was just thinking out loud. No big deal!

 

[version]

I just read about a study on "illeism" - thinking and speaking about oneself in the third person - and how it can improve decision-making. It makes sense. You can see things more objectively when you can stand outside yourself like that.

 

[entertainment]

I just read about a study on "illeism" - thinking and speaking about oneself in the third person - and how it can improve decision-making. It makes sense. You can see things more objectively when you can stand outside yourself like that.

there's entertainment, online talking with his internet friends again. he's got work early tomorrow and should probably go to bed soon. maybe a chapter of that book he'll never finish and a quick pornhub search for that weird thing he's into and we'll be good. he's doing great. great job entertainment!

 

[luka]

Early stages of madness. Lockdown still a novelty.

 

[luka]

Now we're all in the deep end. Surrenderd to full insanity. Drawn a face on a football, Gavin, your new best friend.

 

[woops]

'new normal'

 

[entertainment]

i have had a few moments (or periods punctuated by moments of awareness about it) of deep de-realisation during the past months.

it's really amazing how your social world keeps reality in check, keeps it fixed in a stable consciousness. conversations serve this purpose in a profound, maybe forgotten way. to constatly verify, validate, negotiate your cosmic position. what means something, what's irrelevant, what should you think about, what should you cast away, which impressions have value, which are dumb.

 

[luka]

 

[luka]

I only did the talking for a few days I don't do it any more. It was just a phase. A truck stop on the highway to hell.

 

[entertainment]

i hope that it doesn't go that far!

a nice "dabbling in detachment" rather "descent into madness"

 

[entertainment]

i never talk to myself, it seems silly

 

[constant escape]

I can sit/stand in front of a mirror and talk to myself for over half an hour, maybe even over an hour. Seems to trigger some kind of strange feedback loop, like certain social instincts kick in, even though I'm just interfacing with a reflection of my own face.

Usually, perhaps always, taking the form of some discursive rant.

 

[constant escape]

I can enter a sort of cerebral flow state by doing this, although it only really happens when I find myself looking in a mirror, rather than seeking out a mirror with the sole intention of doing this.

 

[luka]

Do you use your normal voice or put on a strange Professor Venkman voice?