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When thinking to yourself (talking to yourself in your head) what name do you use to refer to yourself?

Asked by farmer (371points) October 23rd, 2016

For example, you’re running late for work. Do you think:

“Ok, [ your first name,] better get moving.”

Or

“Ok, Self, better get going.”

Or

“Ok, Me, gotta run.”

Or

“Ok, We better hurry up.”

Or

“Ok, You have to leave now.”

Or

“Ok, I need to go.”

Or something else?

I think I usually call myself by my first name, or else I use “you,” almost as if there’s another self in there that I’m talking to. It’s not something I normally think about, but I heard my girlfriend muttering to herself using the “me” to talk about herself (“Ok, me, better go now.”) which I know I never use. I think the only time I use to word I is when I’m communicating to other people, such as right now, but never when I’m talking to myself.

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20 Answers

Seek's avatar

Depends on the context. Regular, boring, working me is Alyson. Fun me is Uasal, which is a name I chose for myself in the context of a LARP/historical thingie I do sometimes.

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

“I have to”

Mimishu1995's avatar

“We”, because I’m a lot of people combined. I prefer the idea of teamwork too.

SavoirFaire's avatar

I always talk to myself in second person (e.g., “you have to leave now”). If I need a name for myself, I usually go with “dummy” or one of its many synonyms.

BellaB's avatar

I skip the naming bit most of the time.

Gotta hustle.
Get that combo right!
Turn left, not right.
Well, that was dumb.

zenvelo's avatar

I am like @BellaB , I don’t address myself by name. If anything, at most, it is“I”.

Sneki95's avatar

Either “you” or “I”.

filmfann's avatar

Dumb ass.

ZEPHYRA's avatar

Moron, idiot or just “you”.

Bill1939's avatar

I do not talk to a persona. When thinking, I imagine multiple points of views with each “voice” impersonally addressing the group of individual perspectives and each having an equal opportunity to respond. Nouns or pronouns are not referenced.

ucme's avatar

I use several of your examples, I…You…& my first name Alan.
If i’m angry with myself & feel the need to chastise, i’ll call myself cuntwagon

Bill1939's avatar

@ucme, I had not considered the “voice” that chastises me when I have done something stupid. I refer to myself with a number of invectives. While it is always in my voice, I suspect that I am channeling my mother’s reproaches.

ucme's avatar

@Bill1939 I’m getting Norman Bates’ mother’s voice from that, for your sake, I hope not :(

MrGrimm888's avatar

I refer to myself as “we.” I’m not an “i.”

I’m a conglomerate of an uncountable number of cells.

Bill1939's avatar

@ucme, although I may be nuts, fortunately my relationship with my mother was nothing like his. Mother was bipolar (a diagnosis that did not exist then) and could be a wonderful person one moment and and something else the next. Her criticisms were intended to make me a better person, but made me a bitter person during adolescence. Although I have resolved these immature feelings, I continue to foolishly feel that I should be perfect.

ucme's avatar

@Bill1939 Well, the final line in Some Like it Hot…nobody’s perfect should resonate with you

ibstubro's avatar

I’m plural. Possibly royal, lol.
“Let’s”, “We”, etc.

Interesting question. I had to actually think about it for a spell.
I don’t talk to myself, as it turns out. I speak to the group, but in my head, for seamless transition.

ibstubro's avatar

Finally reading up, I GA’d
@Mimishu1995.
@filmfann
@ZEPHYRA
@Bill1939
and @MrGrimm888.

We’re awesome.
Ta.
:-)

Kraigmo's avatar

I call myself idiot in my head. Gotta be fair. Seeing as how I think of most other people as idiots, as well

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