Is it normal that i talk to myself in my head

There's so many times throughout the day that I think to myself. Not about anything important, just meaningless thoughts. If I do have something important to talk about with family, friends, co-workers I think to myself all the different ways I can talk/respond to the topic at hand and also what/how they would respond to me and back and forth all to myself. I even visualize it.

It is really annoying, and it takes up a lot of time. I just can't come out and say what I want or how I feel. I think it may be fear of confrontation.

Sound familiar to anyone?

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  • Seven

    I have the same thing, but I do it CONSTANTLY. If there isn't something to think about, like some major conversation that I royally Effed to hell, then there is one that I made up. Seriously. The other day I spent like four hours walking around thinking about what I would do if there ever happened to be a zombie apocalypse. It made me realize that I needed to buy a gun, just In case. I will never actually buy the gun, but now I am imagining some senario in which having the gun would have been REALLY GOOD, like, in case of a robber breaking into my house with a gun of his own. Mabie I will buy it after all.
    The point is the I do it to, but Someone is always dead or gravely injured in my fantasies, usually me. I think it's because I feel underapricciated, and if I weren't here, or stuck in a wheelchair or something, people would treat me better, and see al of the good that I do. Just my thoughts, and sporty for ranting, I'll try to be shorter in the future!

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  • Isn't this what everyone does?

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  • CrazyLaugh7

    OHMY! YES!!!!

    so im not the only one!!
    but sometimes i even think it OUTLOUD!
    and i creep myself out too sometimes and i thinkk im crazy or something..
    ahah

    so i think its normal!
    i hope it is!! :)

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  • Simply_Abnormal

    Completly normal - I hope! It's always good to be able to communicate with yourself...I mean who else is going to understand you.

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    • smileatme

      yes i do this all the time.. mostly at night though when im laying in bed i lay there and these thoughts just seemed to go through my head. and i set and ponder on them very annoying cause i loose alot of sleep.

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  • chicgeek195

    This is me to the T. I feel as if I'm trapped in my head a lot of the time. I attribute it to the fact that, well, we all really are trapped in our own heads. I allow myself to dwell on things that I really wanted to say but didn't. For instance, I was recently on a train. A very long train ride from Upstate, NY to Philadelphia, PA. I brought my I-Pod along with me so I'd have something to do. I had two seats to myself and I sat on the inside by the window. A middle aged woman had a seat adjacent to mine, and also, sat by her window. For about an hour, she was russling with a bag of some sort of crunchy snack. It was at the point where it was driving me insane. I put my headphones in, turned them up loud enough to block out the sound of her gobbing and russling. Shortly after, she gets up, and waves her hand in my face and very rudely asks me to lower the volume of my headphones. I of course, said "Oh, I'm so sorry. Not a problem."

    Not what I wanted to say. I would have liked to have said "Listen here bitch, I paid 58 dollars for my ticket, and made damn sure that I didn't sit in the Quiet Car this time. If you'd like, I can point you to said Quiet Car, where you can continue to stuff your fat face with your 800 calorie chips."

    Pointless story, but you get the picture. The point is, I think a lot of people sugar coat a situation, not for fear of confrontation, but because it's not always necessary to make a big deal out of small things. Sometimes simply agreeing with someone, or saving face, is the way to go. Just try not to dwell though. Keep yourself occupied with hobbies and stuff. Or take a step at a time by gradually saying what you want to say. Just don't let it overwhelm you.

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  • Bunny420

    Hmm, is daydreaming normal? I do it, but I think it is very unnatural. lmao

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  • Sometime i have sex with myself in my head

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  • yep! I do the same thing!

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  • SoldierAP

    yes i think its normal. im always talking to myself in my head. if im alone or bored i think of things that have happend and tell myself how else it could of happend. i always can make up things in my head too like a good story. just means u have an open immagination. sometimes i do it too much tho.

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  • YEAH THATS NORMAL I TALK TO MYSELF ALL THE TIME

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  • xino00

    completely normal!

    and keep doing it
    cuz i do it all the time

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  • dreamer_aye88

    i can totally relate. 100 percent! i have that same problem i keep thinking over things over and over and over. It gets really annoying. I think of all the responses that i could have said and then at times i laugh out loud and im sitting alone here. So it probably looks crazy to other people. I'm not sure if its normal or not but its certainly different. I kind of enjoy it, i do wish i would do it less but i do enjoy it

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  • GalacticEgg

    Haa, I can relate, especially if you habitually invent situations/conversations in your head and "live" through them (kind of like acting out a play involving people you know, but in ya maaaaind lol)

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  • hotchickie81

    Sounds like me!

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  • Manarutos

    Sounds kind of like me, but I do it fast, and I respond fast. I don't do it before confronting, I do it while I am confronting someone. It doesn't take me a long time to respond, infact, it's pretty instant. I usually think of 3/5 ways something can go, and pick the best one.

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  • Iku_Nagae

    I am just like that. I always visualize what I want to say then say it. So you aren't the only one out there that does it.

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  • kandytheembezzler

    I only scream to myself in my head. I SHOUT to myself humongous criticism and because I'm female, cliticisms all day, every day. Sometimes I playvthe air guitar to accompany my mental screaming, especially when I'm in a crowded elevator in one story buildings.

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  • katyd

    I believe based on your age this will decrease but that it is normal. I used to replay stuff I should have said bit as I get older it does not bother me as
    Much

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  • AND CRAZYLAUGH I agree with you (caps sry) i thought i was the only person who talks to myself(my friends well most of them moved or i don't have their number)

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