| Show it c awa oe eliy we do aliat we do ty M K THOMSON ph D WHY WE TO OUR ive for a lone I 1 recall an years ago while en route in pass alg tC 5 man boarded stops ue with himself for years nis lips were moving most of the time as he sat in the seat ahead of me aery now and then he would talk aloud to himself A lonely person talks to himself for the same reason that a boy whistles in the dark it Is an unconscious cf fort to provide themselves with corn pany which shows how strongly we bythe herding lm pulse any of us are clely to talk to our selves when rehearsing some past ex per lence in which we are thinking up arguments in defense or justification we become so stirred up and earnest that we balte out loud before we real ize what we are doyag the same may happen if we ge too deeply ab sobbed in our day dreams and reveries children often carry on conversa along with imaginary playmates ahls Is more likely in a child who Is alone a good deal all ahll dren talk to their toys perhaps in some cases this childish habit carries over into adult life and a person keeps on talking to himself we talk to ourselves in childhood to provide imaginary playmates in adult life to provide company when we have to be alope a good deil and in vivid day dreams ind soliloquies in which the amounts to that of hiving other people present br catar syndicate 1 |
