Do you ever talk to yourself while diving?

[giddyuptiger]

Do you ever talk to yourself while diving? And if so what do you say? I've only just started diving with other spearo's but in the past I always did it.

I think when I was a kid I started talking to myself (almost as if there was another person there) to trick myself into feeling safe when I got scared- I had a pretty active imagination when I was a kid and the oddest silhouette could look like a shark. Chatting away in my mind subconsciously made me feel like I had a dive buddy and would push me to go further and deeper.

I still do it although not as much and now it tends to be when I'm gearing up for a shot. I have this sort of ritual phrase I say before I pull the trigger almost like a prayer or somethin'.

Weird I know...

 

[Jonny250]

cant say i talk to myself, but i found myself talking to someone else last week - whilst kneeling on the seabed.
"God is so cool"
so yep, like a prayer or something

keep doing it...

 

[Kars]

I find it very difficult to talk under water. Either the regulator is in the way, or the sounds float up in a bubble stream from my mouth.

For sure I have some dialogue going on my mind, talking myself through some of the difficult technical parts, to relax etc. But the best part is usually when the dialogue stops and the silence opens up this moment of blissful peace in every part of my body and mind.

 

[cpul]

I sometimes act was done.and this is actually one powerful way to drive away our fears when we're diving alone

 

[podge]

I mutter away to myself like a man possessed, the odd thing is that I don’t know what I talk to myself about? Even if I think of something while I’m diving when I get out it’s just gone, as if I’d never thought of it in the first place.
Very strange stuff.

 

[spaghetti]

I talk to fish but it's mostly swear words and derogatory definitions of said slimey buggers that don't get close or hole up. Chickens! :vangry

I only talk to myself when I feel I'm going in some danger. And I say to myself: "Spaghetti, don't go in danger!". I need such a clear, straight and simple language when I talk to myself, otherwise the ignorant me wouldn't understand or take too much to elaborate. Uh?

 

[Don Paul]

I do ....

When I hold the rubber belt end in my hand unbuckled; ''there's the surface, your going to make it, really your going to make it''.

When the boat has lost me 100 miles off shore in big seas; '' Please please god, I promise to go to church every other Sunday''.

When diving a Blue Water Comp at O dark thirty laying on a deep submerged pinnacle a mile from the island; '' What am I doing here ?....no that's got to be a bull sea lion....not a White Shark.:thankyou

Cheers, Don

 

[Kars]

You don't need to be in church to pray, nor you need a priest to talk to God.

These days there are too many distractions and to much interference.

I find that the reception is much better under water.

 

[Don Paul]

You don't need to be in church to pray, nor you need a priest to talk to God.

These days there are too many distractions and to much interference.

I find that the reception is much better under water.

I'm in your camp Kars. On many Sundays I'm in gods church swimming through silver bait so thick there is no more water. A friendly sea lion corkscrews past... leaving a blue spiral piercing the silvery liquid. As the seal barks, large bubbles raise and form clear blue columns bringing sunlight to the sand a 100 feet below. I know I am in God place. Back sitting on the deck of my boat I cry and say thank you for my life and this wonderful place.

Cheers, Don

 

[Erik]

Do you ever talk to yourself while diving?

Yes I do. No I don't.

 

[Team Deniz]

"Here fishy fishy fishy..."

 

[Bill]

Like Podge I mutter all the time. All the people around thought I was going senile. Now when I can, I talk to a bird on my shoulder. All the people around know I'm half crazy.

 

[Don Paul]

Like Podge I mutter all the time. All the people around thought I was going senile. Now when I can, I talk to a bird on my shoulder. All the people around know I'm half crazy.

Judging from the long breath hold you still do sounds like it's working mate.

Mahala, Don

 

[Yeti]

.........I don't need to be diving! :head

 

[kelp princess]

seems i can hear myself best when underwater rofl

kp