Self Talk

[Bowser]

I'm more of an observer--trying not to identify with it. Still, it's difficult to look on the world without an internal commentary.

 

[Confused2]

When I was about 20 I became quite deaf (probably glandular fever). The problem wasn't just the difficulty of hearing there was also the mighty roar of tinnitus. I was a student at the time and used the vacation to visit one of the emptiest places in the UK (Dartmoor). After a week on my own the internal dialog (and tinnitus) got quite feverish - after about 10 days both became almost silent. My conclusion from the experience is that my internal dialog has a lot to do with preparing and sifting stuff with a view to communicating (sharing) it. By chance the possibility of sharing 'my thoughts' became zero and 'my thoughts' dwindled to almost nothing.

 

[RainbowSingularity]

I think I have seen it in its extremes, where people are talking to themselves out loud

The extreme is people having a psychological melt down with violent homicidal & suicidal actions.

the extreme self talk is the belief the voice is of another person giving commands and influencing choices, or soo loud & over bearing that it immobilizes the persons freedom to go out and engage in society's normal processes and actions.

there is a MASSIVE and substantial difference between engaging in self talk as an outward process of internal processing and thought, and the action of falling under the buss of psychosis driven mental discordance of personality disorder.

it is an extremely complex and cutting edge part of human science.

this type of mental health ability is like asking everyone if they are a good driver.
however, the reality of who is capable of engagement, servicing, driving fast or slow and over different terrains, is a big difference.

 

[DaveC426913]

I tend to label objects. If I see a car, I think "car."

This suggests you are more stimulated by the "left"* analytical side of your brain - the side that symbolizes a labels things.

Some people process by words, some by sight, some by touch, some by audio.

*long since debunked as a physical attribute of cognition, but still a useful concept.

 

[Bowser]

This suggests you are more stimulated by the "left"* analytical side of your brain - the side that symbolizes a labels things.

Some people process by words, some by sight, some by touch, some by audio.

*long since debunked as a physical attribute of cognition, but still a useful concept.

Do all people conceptualize the world?

 

[RainbowSingularity]

One night at work I was outside having a smoke (maybe 2 am in the morning), and there was a guy shaking his fist at the sky, screaming how angry he was at life. maybe he was having a bad day? Maybe his self talk had turned on him? I don't know.

humans seek reason as a process of the human minds intellectual mechanisms.

i have seen a women who would shout angrily like she was having an argument with someone but she was shouting angrily at passers by on the street and then when there was no one on the street she would keep shouting like she was going through an argument.

i have met people who have arguments with themselves like 2 different personalities having an argument vocally one then the other.
i have been around people who just talk non stop and direct that at others around them or just keep talking if there is no one there.
i have met people who talk out things taking on characters vocally testing their own response like role-play but vocal thought processing to assure themselves and get used to how they sound.

"pop-science" self talk is nothing like the teal thing
pop-science self talk is directed verbal self assurance to gain an outcome.

unlike how you mention you naming things.

 

[sculptor]

I had an uncle Frederick(fritz) who openly talked to himself.
One day, his brother Elmer was ragging on Fritz for talking to himself.
and, Fritz responded:
"When I talk to myself, I am guaranteed an intelligent and sympathetic audience: It's a pity that I cannot say the same when I talk to you Elmer."

Go Ftritz

 

[DaveC426913]

Do all people conceptualize the world?

I don't know.

If some don't, their thoughts are alien to me.

 

[sideshowbob]

I had an uncle Frederick(fritz) who openly talked to himself.
One day, his brother Elmer was ragging on Fritz for talking to himself.
and, Fritz responded:
"When I talk to myself, I am guaranteed an intelligent and sympathetic audience: It's a pity that I cannot say the same when I talk to you Elmer."

Go Ftritz

It's okay to talk to yourself. It's even okay to argue with yourself. But if you argue with yourself and lose, you may have a problem.

 

[RainbowSingularity]

Do all people conceptualize the world?

I don't know.

If some don't, their thoughts are alien to me.

there are various intellectual disorders that result in alternative conceptualization.
there are also various occurrences that define a different perceptual paradigm

the word

conceptualize

is highly problematic without a good sized paragraph of personal meaning behind it.

their thoughts are alien to me.

that is a thread topic in its self.
the concept of other by intellectual paraphrased self association in subjective comprehensional format.

with xenophobia running riot in the world as a legitimized form of political ideology to counter poor & corrupt leadership and systems, it surely is a gas-lightable subject with no intellectual guide lines for common folk.