Do you talk to your dolls.....

I usually apologize to them if I messed up their hair or bent their joints the wrong way.

 

Yes, I talk to them all the time whenever I interact with them. I even talk to them just to talk to them.

Sometimes, my partner wonders who I'm talking to, and I just point to the many dolls we have around the house. It helps my ADHD to get out what thoughts I have, it helps me when I'm upset, sad, lonely, it helps me to settle down when I'm having a hyper moment, and even to concentrate when I'm doing something precise. Of course, I talk to them when posing them, photographing them, dressing them, doing maintenance on them or sewing for them as well.

But to be fair, I also talk to my car, to the cats and to my plushies.

Ryu

 

Yes, usually by way of an apology if I am holding them in an undignified way! When I carry them about, as I can only carry two at a time, I usually inform the others that I am returning for them. If I knock one over, I ask if they’re okay and apologise. This sounds kind of crazy when I am writing it, but I have always ‘talked’ to my childhood bears too. My husband once adjusted my doll’s skirt as it was all tucked up when she was sat on the mantelpiece and he said her butt would get cold!

 

I talk to a lot of things, and my doll is no exception.. I know he can’t talk back, but it’s definitely out of habit for me to have little conversations with inanimate objects and animals. If he’s being particularly fussy when im trying to pose him I will scold him a little bit ;^_^ but usually I’m nice lol. When I take his wig off to mess with his eyes or change his faceup, i like to apologize if his bald head gets cold :b

 

Sometime when I dress them, I will complain about how heavy they are!

 

As a kid I used to role play but never talked to them as individuals.
Now I talk more freely to my animal dolls than human dolls as I talk to my cats, bees and anything else. I sometimes bring dolls to my hubby to talk about them instead of directly talking to them since I’m not accustomed to talking to dolls. Sometimes I talk to dolls silently in my mind. Occasionally I greet or talk to them aloud. I hope I can talk to them more openly in the future!

 

I definitely talk to my dolls! I hardly have full on conversations with them, but for me it's like... levels of conversation, if that makes sense?

1. Real human people, full conversation. Even if some folks at the nursing home I work at don't understand or understand but can't answer verbally, it's always better to talk to them like everyone else. Both for things like telling them what you're doing and just for manners' sake.
2. Pets. I know they can't understand most of what I'm saying but sometimes they respond back and it's a fun way to play to just pretend you're having a conversation with them!
3. Dolls. They're shaped like little people! I give them backstories! They have personalities! And if they fall over because I set them down wrong I always apologise. Or I ask them what they want to wear. Or instead of talking to myself if I'm "thinking out loud" I'll talk to them.
4. Fully inanimate, non-human-shaped objects. Ngl, I definitely apologise to my car every time I hit a pothole.

But that may just be me! It's a nice feeling, even if it may be a little silly.

 

I do but I talk to all inanimate objects and animals
So not conversations but I will definitely go "oops sorry" or "ok let's try this wig" or "can you stay put and not fall over so I can get this shot please". Stuff like that. I do the same thing with cars - pat the dashboard or the hood and be like "thank you for starting today" (lol)

 

I do, but I talk also to my microwave and other objects around me XD.

 

Sometimes, but I feel like mostly my 'talking to them' is 'talking for them'/role playing with them. Because they're all representative of characters I'm writing with varied personalities I find it helps to explore dialogue styles/story lines/etc. sometimes.

 

I talk to my dolls more than I would normally care to admit. I especially get vocal while dressing them because i struggle so much to get clothes on them lol. I've even played board games with them... They always win :'3

 

I never talk to my dolls. I don't really see them as living objects or pets. But I do tell them "sorry" when I accidentaly bump into them, but yet, I do that with every non-living objects I bump into (last time, it was a door) so I don't really see this habit as specific to this hobby.

 

I never used to talk to my non-bjd doll collection while setting them up for photos but with my bjds theyre so lifelike and cute that I can’t help it! Lots of compliments when they cooperate with their posing and an “oh crud sorry” when I set them up wrong and they fall over lol.

 

I do, I also talk to just about everything. If I drop a pencil on the floor I'll yell at it to 'get back here'. Same with all other inanimate objects.

I do talk to my dolls a bit more, while dressing them I might mutter, 'let's get your little hand through the sleeve' or while taking pictures 'that's it, hold that pose, just a few seconds, hang in there' or 'now why did you have to go and fall like that?' or if I'm walking past I might pet them on their heads, and mutter something to them, while fussing with their hair. I might tell them how sweet they look, or that I'm going to take pictures of them soon, or something like that.

I don't have full blown conversations with them, but I do mutter at them quite frequently.

 

Not a lot but I live with a lot of people so I'd be mortified if someone overheard me talking to her lol I do occasionally squeal at how cute she looks though!

 

I sometimes say a little hi whenever I see one of mine-- like if I'm going into my room for something, one of my boys is in his box but visible, or if I'm getting something that's next to the carrier a couple dolls are riding in.

I think I talk to my dolls more since the loss of my cat. I'm used to talking to him, and even though I'm still living with family at present (thanks pandemic) so I'm not totally alone, I am lonelier. Especially when I'm on a nocturnal schedule and I see less of the humans in the house, I just find myself greeting them, calling them cute, etc.

 

For me... I guess it's kind of an anomalous thing?

What I mean by that is—I'm kind of random when it comes to what I talk to. I do have conversations with my cat, and have spoken to my fish on a few occasions (mostly things like "hi" and "how are you?"). I also tend to yell or snark at inanimate objects when they misbehave (like "stop falling on the floor!", “hold still!' or "please behave!").

When it comes to my resin crew, it more oftentimes the latter than the former. "Keep your hands to yourself!" if one gets handsy while being handled or during a wardrobe change. "Behave!" it one is giving me particular trouble while posing. "Aren't you being sassy?" if/when I receive a particular look from one of them. Maybe the occasional "aww" if a couple is caught in a sweet pose together, or "is she behaving/being cute?" if my cat happens to be sitting or laying down next to them. Mainly things like that.

There may have been an occasion, two, or more where I have had an actual (short) conversation with one or more of them, but I can't currently recall any specific occasion where I've done so. My resin crew is made up of OCs/existing characters, but I tend to think of them as existing in a different reality from my own where neither interact with one another. I'm an outside observer looking in, so to speak.

( I don't think of them as being alive, for the record. It's more so that I imbue the characters they represent onto them—including their personalities, relationships/interactions with one another, and stories tied to them. I guess it helps me with developing their characters/stories further.)

 

Sometimes I do, mostly when I finally have a quiet moment free from work and I am happy to see them. Or when I dress them up and they will not cooperate lol

 

Short answer: Yes!

Not just complaints when they don't cooperate, but also apologise if I don't feel like I've given them the attention they deserve, ask them if there's something they want (like going out for a photoshoot, getting new clothes or perhaps it's time for a fresh face-up) and sometimes talking with them is how I get inspired for new dolls because they "tell" me of a friend of theirs.

And like many others, I also talk to other inanimate objects (like my car), my pets and well.. even just air XD

 

So to speak, yes!
Like, I'll walk by and just rhow phrases at them, I guess !