Talking To Yourself and Being Able Expressing Feelings

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Do you find that when you talk to yourself (i.e. having imaginary conversations with an imaginary person) you feel like you are able to express your feelings and get abstract concepts across better than talking with someone face to face?

All the time. I think it's because you know how the 'other' person is going to react.

Well, when I talk to myself I seem to be able to get my feelings across out loud (which is why I frequently digitally record these skull-sessions with myself), but I still have no idea how to convey or understand abstract ideas/images. It's beyond me. I've tried and failed. I'm way too literal, even with myself.

Yeah I definatley feel like I'm more intelligent when talking to myself.

I talk to myself often, try not to in public it helps sort my thoughts out, usually also read aloud, easier for me to process that way. But not really to an imaginary person, I just do I wouldn't say it helps me express my feelings, but by writing the down or talking them out, kind of helps put them in a more sensible order, if that makes sense

yep, my co-workers most likely see me as a inept mumbling creature most of the time. i tell most of them that i talk to myself a lot and they just stare at me like Okay...
i'm also pretty messy and often wander off to do something before i'm done with what i was doing previously. they know me as accident prone. so i'm aloof, unorganized, and slightly slow(only because no i've not been taught everything yet). i've been working there a month and apparently i should know everything already.

there's a whole lot let less mumbling when i talk to people that i really know.

Yes; it's definitely easier talking to my imaginary friends than to real people.

yeah, I hate it when I think about some conversation I had earlier and suddenly come up with the best, wittiest responses, when all I could do at the time was giving someone the blank stare or saying something they didn't get at all. aaargh!

Yes, because it's the only time I'm alowed to be me.

Yes. Partly, I think, because I can get my thoughts accross half as pictures and concepts in my head, without putting eveything into words as would have to be done in a real conversation.

Not for me. I need the language and cultural input from another person to figure out how to present that idea to another person.

I mean, I always understand myself, but most people rarely understand what exactly I want to say. I definitely need the input from an external source to phrase arguments in such a way that others understand what I want to express.