Self Talking (What Happens in the Brain?)

[Konopkov]

Sup everybody, just registered here,

 

I'm just interested in this topic and would like to research it a little bit. I wasn't sure if I should put this in Neuroscience or Psychology, perhaps it can be both depending on the specific situation.

 

I've caught people self talking before (at work haha) and also I do self talk every now and then, a lot of other people admitted they do it, including my doctor.

 

A lot of articles put self talking into a positive perspective, and I'm always cautious when things get put into the positive for the sake of being positive. The main idea is that self talking organizes the mind and the thoughts, and that the majority of self talking people would be thoughtful and intelligent people.

 

On the contrary I do think that when self talking becomes intense it can and will disrupt a person's life negatively. Gesticulating is for my judgment intense, the person can easily lose his focus on what he wanted to do and WASTE his time with self talking during the day. It could also happen to him in public which could be very embarrassing to the person and creepy to other people. I've read that most people just speak from the inside when in public, with a closed mouth but a slightly moving tongue, which can take away ones attention from the environment and could be seen as a negative disruption of ones day life.

 

Stress is seen one of the main causes of self talking, while I agree with this, I don't see it as a necessity, self talking can very well happen with a relaxed and healthy life style e.g doing sports, eating healthy, drinking water, getting sleep etc. WHILE reading books and dealing with educational material, MAYBE the mind tries to organize the gained knowledge.

 

Drinking coffee does make self talking more intense - does someone know the exact reason why?

 

Other than that I couldn't really find any helpful material, I'm really interested what in the brain happens and what the causes are, that's why I put it under Neuroscience btw.

 

If you have any valuable information/resources that you could link me to I'd more than appreciate it.

 

Thank you.

[Mr Skeptic]

Well thinking to oneself is fairly important. Talking to oneself is very similar, albeit now additional, indirect neural pathways are involved (thought --> muscle movements --> sound --> thought).