Thread: Do you talk to yourself?

Where would you categorize the aspect of self-writing? Perhaps that is not the proper term to describe what I am thinking of but.....I have a habit of writing out 'conversations' and 'interactions' with characters I control in a story, a 4th walling exercise I do time to time when attempting to write or rp and have hit a dry spell or nasty episode of writer's block. This sort of thing can range anywhere from a few sentences 'exchanged' between myself and my charactermuse to get them back on track or progress into mini stories of their own to which I 'engage' the muse of my character at length on a topic. It might seem strange if not out right creepy but I sometimes discover new things about the character I am 'conversing with' as these episodes are no different than me, sitting here and typing out a response to another individual sitting behind a keyboard. Maybe I simply possess an over stimulated imagination or hold some odd ability to multitask in the most unusual sense with my brain able to keep two separate trains of thought going simultaneously yet intersecting verses running parallel to one another. Maybe I've just a knack for 4th walling with my writing. Granted some muses are more resistant to the 4th walling than others. The only reasonable explanation I can pull together for this warrants how close to my own personality and values I designed the muse with in the first place aside from my original inspiration for the particular muse. I've found the stronger the spark which ignited the idea for the character in the first place the stronger my level of 'interaction' with them is when working on a story or rp. It's one of the main reasons why I do not like creating new characters to play as on a whim from rp to rp, without some semblance of connection I find it very difficult to write let alone bring the character to actual life in the scenario verses going through the motions of something. The longer I have had a character's muse, the more I use said muse, not only the more developed but the more life like the muse becomes. Now as to if I actually talk to my self.... not really. I will often repeat or parrot things aloud as a means to commit them to memory but that is about it. I do not hold any kind of conversation with myself aloud albeit sometimes the situation at hand sparks the appearance of a particular muse, said character 4th walling inside my mind. Obviously this occurs thanks to the level of that particular muse's familiarization with such a situation or pertains to the personality traits I have given them. As far as talking to the TV or talking during a movie....I'm guilty. I'll certainly whisper things under my breath during intense moments of suspension or during a brutal combat scene despite the fact I know the characters in the show cannot hear no understand me. Stereotypical things such as nononono how blind are you, you're trapping yourself don't go in there! To Oh come on that was so obvious that was going to happen! I will restrain such reactions when in public such as at the movies. I will also reframe from doing this should I be watching a movie with someone else who is seeing it for the first time as to avoid distracting them from the events and causing them to miss things. When I am by myself or re-watching a movie with someone who has seen it prior I'll make remarks here and there depending. We both will its fairly common place.