When you are talking to yourself, is there anyone listening?

Do you often find yourself chatting with your inner voice? If yes, you are not the only one. Inner dialogue refers to speaking words in one's own voice, and according to some estimations, people spend one fourth of their life engaged in an inner dialogue. 

While talking to ourselves, we still preserve some dynamics of social exchange by engaging in an internal dialogue similar to conversing with another person. In that sense, someone - an imaginary person - is listening to our inner conversations. Inner talk has a substantial role in creation of ourselves and meaningful autobiographical narratives are constructed through inner speech.