How do you refer to yourself when talking in your head

[ocean poem]

Since I was a kid I developed this what I think can call a habit where I refer to myself as we, but only when Im talking to myself in my head.
And I was curious of how others interact with themselves when they're talking in their minds.

 

[WornOutLife]

I guess I feel as I had two people living inside of me because the conversations with my mind go like this:

Inner Self: "So, what are you gonna do today man? You know you gotta work right?"
My real self/my body: "Damn, but I don't feel like doing anything, bro."
Inner Self: "CTB then"
My real self: "I don't have the guts yet"

 

[ocean poem]

I can relate to that a bit, by that I mean that there is this persona that only lives in your head which only does the massive thinking and the other one that only has to act on certain tasks in real life.
Often there is where the dissociation happens for me.

 

[Makko]

I never talk to myself in my thoughts. I only talk to my daydream characters.

 

[Some1's_Wasted_Fetus]

I never talk to myself in my thoughts. I only talk to my daydream characters.

Same. I've kind of adapted to the harsh realities of life by distracting myself with imaginary scenarios and daydream characters to kind of imagine how my life would be if I was perfectly satisfied and happy. I've been doing it for so long that the imagery feels so sharp sometimes

 

[Ame]

"Hey, 'Ame' you stupid bitch!"

Usually like this or some variation thereof ha ha. I like to rotate the colourful epithets when I am engaged in conversation with my inner self, just to keep things fresh.

I can relate to that a bit, by that I mean that there is this persona that only lives in your head which only does the massive thinking and the other one that only has to act on certain tasks in real life.
Often there is where the dissociation happens for me.

I really relate to the separation between the thinking self and the acting self. It's a bit unsettling at times because if you fail to consolidate the two, a crisis of identity can creep up. Who is to say which one is the real self?

I never talk to myself in my thoughts. I only talk to my daydream characters.

Same. I've kind of adapted to the harsh realities of life by distracting myself with imaginary scenarios and daydream characters to kind of imagine how my life would be if I was perfectly satisfied and happy. I've been doing it for so long that the imagery feels so sharp sometimes

"Maladaptive Daydreaming" has been my personal opiate for most of my life, but even my inner life has become dull and devoid of colour in recent year -- I guess that I've just about run out of copium. Ah well, it was fun while it lasted.

 

[EraseRewind]

I usually use derogatory terms in my inner conversations, I used to have a constant critical monologue but that has stopped recently. Maybe I'm getting better . Once this lockdown is over then I can see an end in sight.

 

[BandAddict]

I never really thought about this specifically. I guess I alternate between "I" and "you".

"You piece of shit, fuck you"
"I'm disgusting, I shouldn't exist."

When it's not an internal dialogue with myself, it's just like a bunch of televisions on at once playing random memories and disturbing flashbacks that repeat themselves. My mind feels noisy.

 

[Antigonish]

Her, Him, She, He, I, [nickname]
"She's mean, but He's such a sweet heart." "I like sweets but she hates chocolate." "That's just not [nickname]"

 

[almaranthine]

This is so interesting to me to see other's replies. I can definitely relate to the maladaptive daydreaming- often I would go into these meditative states, detailing scenarios I wished for myself in the future, usually these involved some form of love relationship- the only thing I found pleasurable enough to distract me from the inherent horror of life. Generally the subject was a real person I knew, so I would project my feelings onto this character in my imagination, and it would feel so visceral, like I was loving them in real time. These exercises would only contribute to intensify my eventual despair, because in real time, the people I genuinely loved were the ones who ripped me apart the worst. Other than those daydreaming states, my mental conversations involve, "I", "you", and even "we". Also, this may be a result of my past manic conditions, but sometimes I converse with an "other" in my mind.

 

[Deltrus]

I also refer to myself as we often. I think of it as the person talking and the listener. My inner voice is wispy wispery and if I focus on it then it disappears.

 

[xaea13]

I've lost count of the times I've said "bro wtf" to myself after doing something stupid

 

[GenesAndEnvironment]

Almost all of my thinking is done in the background and I have no idea of what's going on in there lmfao.

 

[Lmd]

I don't talk to myself. I barely have conversations, there are just things happening inside my head. When I daydream I pay more attention to how I feel and the "ambient" instead of dialogues. Even when I think about people I create they don't talk to me. We just do things.

 

[Lucien]

Whatever assigns the labels 'me' or 'I' operates under the hood. I may get a flash of the visual representation for me or another person. Perhaps it's more like a scene that I explore, but even that's a sequence of frames (or cluster of neurons firing?) so close enough to a 'flash'. That's how it appears but trying to observe it for long will probably contaminate the experiment.

 

[Symbiote]

My inner critic sounds like he just discovered 4Chan lingo and decided to use it everyday on me. "KYS faggot!" "Do it for the lulz" "do a barrel roll".

 

[Makko]

"Do it for the lulz"

This is my motivation for getting up in the mornings.

 

[EmbraceOfTheVoid]

I almost never talk to myself, my mind is really blank. Tin Man mode engaged 24/7.

 

[Marktheghost]

I usually refer to myself as we when I'm talking to myself.

 

[Mentalmick]

We or you're.

 

[Trisolaris]

I also refer to myself as "we" sometimes, sometimes as "I". Don't know what it depends on.

 

[ocean poem]

I also refer to myself as "we" sometimes, sometimes as "I". Don't know what it depends on.

I analysed my mind a bit and noticed a pattern of how Im thinking.
And even though the pattern might alter a bit, once Im aware of it, the key point seems the remain the same for me.
Whenever Im about to go and do something that is in my daily routine, it doesn't matter if the act is beneficiary to me or not, my mind seems to support itself by saying we, as in it got so tired of these daily habits it started to trick itself by thinking multiple people are doing the task at once.
Buț the moment I try to break this daily routine and do something new I find myself saying I.
I start to feel lonely all of the sudden and it seems like my mind implores me to go back to its comfort zone.
I don't know how much sense I made the way I explained it but that's at least what It depends on for me, or thats what I think it is for now.

 

[ansiedad]

I when Im not bad.
You sometimes.
We in bad moments.
My name in the worst moments.