What science has to say about talking to yourself in lockdown | Charles Fernyhough

Camille remembers the first time she noticed talking to herself out loud. “It was almost like, ‘Oh, that’s my voice’, in a way that I wouldn’t have thought of it if I’d been speaking in a meeting. I was usually reporting on what I was doing. I might say, ‘Go on, take an onion; take an onion and chop it up.’ I think it reminded me of certain kinds of play.”

For all that the pandemic has taken from us, it may have helped us to become more aware of some aspects of our everyday mental processes, like the fact