I talk therefore I am!

I do it too, and there was a time that I was ashamed of it, I thought it was odd, but now I've learned to embrace it.

I witness it on my little one as well, self-talk is his preferred way of internalising new things, learning. It's a big part of his pretend games.

My wife died it all the time. Without it, I think she'd go insane! lol.

I believe that the ability to verbalise all the impressions we're confronted with is what thinking is about. They all go hand in hand. This is why when speech is banned, people's ability to think gets automatically reduced...