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HikingStick
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10/08/2011 12:29AM   (Thread Older Than 3 Years)
I just finished my first solo in late September--five days, four nights. Toward the end of the fourth day and into the morning of the final day, I found myself talking out loud. Not as much to myself than as if I were narrating what I was doing for a non-existant audience (a la Les Stroud in his Survivorman show). For example, when repacking the food barrel for the trip out, I found myself explaining why I was repacking it.

What do you think? A little dehydration? A little crazy? Or, just the mind's way of dealing with the solitude?

I think I want to watch that Tom Hanks movie where he was stranded on an island again. I think even this short little solo will give me a better appreciation for what his character went through in that movie.
 
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mr.barley
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10/08/2011 12:47AM  
I vote just dealing with solitude.
 
PineKnot
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10/08/2011 07:29AM  
Pretty normal...I talk to myself on solos just like I talk to myself at home working in the yard, on the computer, watching TV...my wife and kids think I'm crazy....I think they're the crazy ones...

Castaway is one of my favorite movies with Tom Hanks...
 
10/08/2011 09:32PM  
Talking to yourself...? That's crazy! I talk to the squirrels, the mice, the birds, the trees, the rocks, the wind, the water...but never to myself. That'd be crazy.

Yea, I think it's normal...for a solo :).
 
10/08/2011 09:35PM  
At Wing Night it seems everyone was talking to themselves. I think I'm the only sane one. :)

Really I'm +1 on dealing with solitude.
 
10/08/2011 09:45PM  
i never have, isnt that right jan? well, jan...there was that one time on sturgeon, you actually yelled at me. thats right jan, i remember that now.
 
10/08/2011 10:36PM  
Why not? Who else do you have to talk to on a solo trip? Talking is core to being human. When you are alone, it's normal to talk to aloud ("to yourself"). Why this is stereotyped as "crazy" is beyond me.

(BTW, did I mention that All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy . . . ?)

 
HikingStick
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10/08/2011 11:03PM  
The funny thing, to me, was that I didn't do it at all for the first three days. Has anyone noticed anything similar? Perhaps the body can go without talking for some time, but then feel compelled to vocalize.
 
wetcanoedog
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10/08/2011 11:33PM  
i don't talk out of a need to hear my voice but i will say things like
"bad move Dave" if i run into a rock or burn the bannock or "whats for dinner?" as i go thru the food bag.i don't recall ever having long winded,out loud,conversations with myself.
 
10/09/2011 07:22AM  
quote wetcanoedog: "i don't talk out of a need to hear my voice but i will say things like
"bad move Dave" if i run into a rock or burn the bannock or "whats for dinner?" as i go thru the food bag.i don't recall ever having long winded,out loud,conversations with myself."


So, your memory is starting to go, too...
 
billconner
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10/09/2011 12:49PM  
Reminds me of General Garcia in the In Laws - a great movie.
 
10/09/2011 07:42PM  
I don't really talk to myself, besides the one "Aw Sh#t!, I said once when I clipped a rock with the stern of my Magic.
Other than that I talked to a squirrel, a chipmunk, and the weasel I shared a camp with.
 
10/09/2011 09:11PM  
quote wetcanoedog: "i don't talk out of a need to hear my voice but i will say things like
"bad move Dave" if i run into a rock or burn the bannock or "whats for dinner?" as i go thru the food bag.i don't recall ever having long winded,out loud,conversations with myself."


Other than the long, swearing chat I had with myself after getting my bearings all screwed up and paddling an extra couple of miles into the wind I'm usually like you WCD. I try to keep the conversations short and to the point. One nice thing about my chats is that I'm always right....
 
10/09/2011 11:02PM  
Hah! In my chats, I'm usually wrong! They are along the lines of "you #U<%ing moron, why did you do that!?" The moron being me.

To clarify what I said above, saying your thoughts out loud seems perfectly normal to me and a good way to be a human being.

Having a long conversation "with yourself" as if "you" and "yourself" are two different people is perhaps another matter. I do NOT do things like say "what should we have for dinner tonight, Ho Ho?" "Why, I'm glad you asked, Bill, I'd like the Macaroni and Cheese." "But, Ho Ho, I don't think . . . " etc.

 
10/10/2011 11:29AM  
I spend a lot of solo time in the woods at my cabin as well as my solo canoe trips. I carry on a running monologue, but usually not out loud. After all, I can't hear much anyway, so why talk out loud?

If I don't do the monologue I usually get some song lyrics going in my head. Often it's a song I don't even like. It's better to carry on a conversation.
 
10/10/2011 12:29PM  
quote Ho Ho: "Having a long conversation "with yourself" as if "you" and "yourself" are two different people is perhaps another matter. I do NOT do things like say "what should we have for dinner tonight, Ho Ho?" "Why, I'm glad you asked, Bill, I'd like the Macaroni and Cheese." "But, Ho Ho, I don't think . . . " etc.


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Yeah, I've always heard its ok to talk to yourself, as long as you don't answer.
 
10/10/2011 12:38PM  
quote AndySG: "
quote Ho Ho: "Having a long conversation "with yourself" as if "you" and "yourself" are two different people is perhaps another matter. I do NOT do things like say "what should we have for dinner tonight, Ho Ho?" "Why, I'm glad you asked, Bill, I'd like the Macaroni and Cheese." "But, Ho Ho, I don't think . . . " etc.



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Yeah, I've always heard its ok to talk to yourself, as long as you don't answer."


Answering yourself is not as bad as interrupting yourself.
 
HikingStick
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10/10/2011 03:16PM  
quote AndySG: "
quote Ho Ho: "Having a long conversation "with yourself" as if "you" and "yourself" are two different people is perhaps another matter. I do NOT do things like say "what should we have for dinner tonight, Ho Ho?" "Why, I'm glad you asked, Bill, I'd like the Macaroni and Cheese." "But, Ho Ho, I don't think . . . " etc.



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Yeah, I've always heard its ok to talk to yourself, as long as you don't answer."


It's not whether or not you answer, but what you say in reply that matters.
 
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