Do you talk to your dolls.....

My dolls are shells for my characters, so I talk to them like I would speak to the characters. It makes for a lot of interesting "conversation" because I am convinced that unexpected movements from the dolls are their characters showing through. Any "play" between me and the dolls are basically me as the writer/parent talking to my character/kids.

This means I will plead with my playboy character to "Gimme a break and let me tuck it into your pants!". I've also caught me saying to my my tomboy girl: "When did you grow boobs? When did they get that big? You can't fit in your clothes anymore!" This, on top of the usual "excuse me", "sorry", "Goodbye!", "I'm home!" that I usually say. I swear to you, it's like I expect them to answer. Then again... I wouldn't know what to do if they -do- answer. I think I'm going to ask them to write their own stories to save me a bit of time...

 

I talk to mine, but its mostly apologizing because I don't feel I spend enough time with them, I'll noticed some dust and feel immediate guilt and apologize. Also when I am taking them outside, I don't have a proper carrier so Im afraid they feel uncomfortable.

 

I have a habit of talking to all sorts of inanimate objects, so yea, occasionally. Not like a full on conversation tho : D Pretty much what others before me mentioned like "Sorry!" "Excuse me" etc.

 

When I bring my tinies around with me when I go shopping I talk to them under my breath. And sometimes when I'm at home, I'll find myself talking to them while adjusting them/changing their clothes.

 

Sometimes when I'm dressing them. I'm weird enough as a middle-aged man who loves dolls, I don't need to give people any more incentive to mock me. :P

 

I often have the urge to grab them off their shelf and have them sit with me while I do other stuff, but I dont out of fear of someone in my house seeing and being judgmental-- even though I know my roommates wouldn't be judgmental, I suppose it's a personal issue. So, no, I don't talk to my dolls (yet).

 

No, I don't talk to them, but I used to talk to my frog clock and plush toys. I used to also have fake conversations with people in my head. Now I just talk to my dogs.

I like to think my dolls are asleep or dead in their doll coffins (their factory boxes) until I wake them or breathe life into them one day by opening their boxes. I haven't gotten around to it unless I need to sell a doll.

I do like to imagine setting my dolls around a table and having a tea party one day if I do ever play with them instead of keeping them in their boxes because we're probably moving again.

 

I always tell my dolls to behave themselves and clean up after themselves if they have a party when I leave for a trip. Silly, but it makes me giggle.

 

Yes! I argue with them when I am dressing them. Let them know when they are not standing correctly or look wonky in their photos. And I also just talk to them occasionally as if they are people on occasion. Especially when I leave them alone for long periods of time or if Im stressed with work I will vent to them cause working from home means I can have them in the same room with me.

 

kind of, mostly during taking pictures or changing clothes, sometimes i apologize if i make one doll share clothes with another or if i don't have a full outfit for them yet.

 

I didn’t think I would before I got my first 1/4 scale doll, because I never did with the smaller scale dolls and figures I collect. But the day he arrived he just felt like he had so much personality, I wound up talking to him without even realizing it.

I mostly do it when I’m actively interacting with him. I’ll apologize for taking his wig off and promise he’ll get it back once I’ve restyled it, or if I’m holding up a WIP piece of crocheted clothing to make sure it fits I’ll ask him if he likes how it’s turning out, or if he’s refusing to hold a pose I’ll tell him to stop being difficult because the sooner I get a good photo the sooner he can be done and go back to relaxing on his chair. Realizing as I type this that I also talk the exact same way to dogs haha.

 

I definitely do this xD

As a lot of others have mentioned, I scold them to cooperate when they’re being a pain. “Halcyon, stop it” “please cut it out” “why, what is bothering you!!!” and also find myself apologizing when I bump them or do put them “in danger” LOL

I also talk to them about my plans for them a lot, when I’m fixing their wigs or just playing with them. “You’re gonna have an awesome outfit eventually when I learn how to sew. What do you think of that? Then you’re gonna be a badass. Well even more of a badass.” Or “what do we think about this hair? I’m not sure about this wig” and things like that.

 

I do in the way I talk to most inanimate objects... asking them to cooperate, making general comments about how pretty I might think they are, verbalizing what we're doing in that moment ("I'm going to put you over here now..."). But I don't have what could be considered conversations with them. I certainly don't expect them to talk back.

 

Yessss, I talk to them about my day or rant about stuff I'm mad about, and inform them of future plans for them.

 

I always talk to them when I'm dressing/posing them, but I am one who will talk to anything. I talk to our Roomba and the scanner at work, the slow coffee pot....basically anything that's getting on my nerves will get a speech from me, LOL

 

I sass my dolls while trying to do faceups, wig, clothing, poses ect. Really any slight on their part and I’m talking to them like they’re a misbehaving pet.

 

I talk to my dolls quite a bit. I scold them lightly when they don't cooperate during posing, I say excuse me to them when I move them to get something, I even say sorry and ask if they're okay if I bump them or if they lose balance and fall over. I didn't use to do that as much, but now since I've started using them for videos on my YouTube channel, I've started talking to them more and treating them more like living beings. I guess giving them personalities on paper and starting to show it physically is making me see them as alive. It's seems weird, but that's just my creativity melding with my kind nature, I guess.

 

So I mentioned elsewhere that I tried the Crobidoll-supported game called Nameless - The One Thing You Must Remember. Started it as a joke after watching Asenva play it on YouTube. Y'all. This game gave me the penultimate stereotypical mother-in-law of guilt trips.
So yeah. I talk to my dolls all the time now. All the damn time. Everyone is getting washed, face-upped, and dressed as fast as I can (and when I can tear myself away from the 'puter, lol).
Just throwing it out there, if you are thinking of playing it - there are BAD (violent) endings, and the dolls that come to life have past trauma. It starts silly, but it gets dark real quick. I had to stop playing after Yeanho. That one messed with my head.

 

I talk to my dolls when they refuse to cooperate with me or when I find them extremely cute. It's kinda the same thing I do with my cats :'D

 

This but with dolls.

 

I certainly talk to my dolls !!!! I always talk and talk to everything , the sky, the road, the tv, my shoes ... TV does funny things I ask it "why are you doing this now?" , shoes hurting me I say "Ok stop this right now!" , road is full of cars can't cross it I say "Seriously again ? You must be kidding me!" so it's only natural that I talk even more to dolls ..... At the end of te day I talk far more to inanimate things than to people because people get bored of me talking and they ask me to shut up everything else not lol

 

I’m totally a talker! I talk to my dollies a lot, especially when I’m doing things like dressing them or putting them to bed

 

Usually I say stuff like "Please ! Please fit this dress ! Please don't fall ! Please maintain this position !" I wish they had better posability.

 

I talk to and for my dolls a lot! Mostly to them... sometimes I find myself promising them I will play with them later LOL. I also like having one sit with me at my desk while I work. I work from home so it feels like someone else is "checking" my work as I go.

 

I do. Kinda the typical stuff when I'm interacting with them. Weather it be dressing or posing them and they decided not to cooperate with me, lol.
Or just recently I took Quatre out of the glass cabinet and bummed his head. I apologized to him.

 

Oh yeah, constantly. Whenever I have a resin boy nearby, I’ll ask how he’s doing, how he likes his wig, his outfit, etc.

That said, I’ll talk to a sock on the ground, so….

 

I use to talk to them when I'm dressing them or brushing their hair. To me it's something normal since I've talked with all my dolls since I was a kid.

 

I have a tendency to talk to myself and narrate what I'm doing, especially since I started living alone, so yes. But when I talk directly to my dolls, it's usually begging them to cooperate while I change their clothes, rather than telling them about my life or creating stories.

 

I don't think I'm talking to the dolls, I'm kind of asking them for favors, because the things I usually say are things like, "Okay, just hold still for a second, I'll be done in a second," or "Please can you hold this pose for three minutes, let's just get this done and go home," or "Right, thanks for a great day." X°D

 

I do. I have a tendency to talk to myself when I am alone, so of course everything that's going through my head while I'm handling a doll will be said out loud (not that loud!) as well:
"We'll be changing your clothes today." or "This new wig looks very nice on you."

Nice to read that so many other people do this as well.

 

I talk to my dolls but it is predominantly in my head. But I do enjoy taking my dolls out with me to venues and we have a good time together.

 

I was putting Candell in a difficult pose a few days ago and I told her "fa' la brava" (please behave). Every time I talk to my dolls I confirm my theory that dolls are actually kittens. Same vocabulary, except for the bits about dresses and wigs (my cat is grateful).

 

I posted in this thread before... Nowadays, the thing I say most to my dolls is: "don't fall." That is an order. Most of the time they're obedient, but occasionally someone doesn't pay attention...

 

I use them as a sounding board. I talk through my ideas about things, what clothes I’m going to make them all that sort of stuff.

 

Like so many here I talk to everything including myself so my dolls are no exception……actually that’s a bit of a lie, I don’t talk to everything as I try to avoid talking to most people as a general rule! Dolls are better company than a lot of humans even when they’re uncooperative.

 

Yup. I talk to them, much like others have said: please stop wiggling, don’t move, get yer foot into that shoe already. Who are you? What’s your style? How can you not love all black clothes?

I’m glad they don’t talk back.

 

My dolls guilt trip me to make them more clothes. They get jealous of each other. I should keep them in separate areas so they don't conspire with each other.

 

I'm another one of the people talking to all sort of objects and animals, so yeah, also dolls.
Sometimes in my head, but also out loud, the classic sorries of "oh sweetie, I'm sorry" if I bump any of the boys or they topple over etc. or bantering and complaining if they are not cooperating while posing or getting dressed.

 

Another "Mainly inside my own head" talker here, though like many others I do verbalise when we're actively doing stuff together, like posing or wrestling with outfits XD

 

I do! I treat them as how I would treat an actual person.

 

I usually just say that they are beautiful and ask if they like their new outfit, shoes, wig, or whatever I got for them. I think talking to them just makes it feel real that they are mine and know that I love them.

 

Sometimes, guess it's according what mood Im in .. sometimes I tell em stop kicking when I'm trying to dress em lol but

 

Sometimes when I'm interacting with them, I don't hear voices in my imagination or anything, but some of my dolls certainly speak to me with their actions
*Doll shifts out of position* are you tired dear? Let's take a break for now.
*Doll's wig pops off for the 917th time despite all efforts to keep it in place* okay, I get it you're tired of this one. We can go to the dolly salon.
*Doll got color transfer on the toes* long day at work, huh? How about a foot scrub?
Yeah, they're a bit spoiled

 

If touch could be considered a language then I feel like I talk to my dolls through the way I hold them. I talk to them in my mind, and in the way I pose them, and where I display them - where I can appreciate them every time I glance their way.
But I don't talk words to them out loud.

 

i talked to my vinyl dolls a little but boy do i talk to my resin strung dolls, mostly when im trying to dress or pose them because they move on their own sooo much im pretty much just arguing with them the whole time

 

I don't hold conversations or anything like that, but I often feel compelled to greet them when I enter a room where there's one or more BJDs, or say "Good night!" to the ones in my bedroom when I'm going to sleep. It feels like it would be rude not to!

They definitely have more of a "presence" than any of my figures/statues. Various humanoid faces looking at me throughout my home is far from new and I've never felt the need to say anything to an anime figure (except to apologize if I knock one over or bonk it on something while moving it, maybe) but the BJDs are something different. I think it's the eyes. They have a lot more "life" in them than the average humanoid object.

Besides, when I inevitably pass on one day, I don't want my BJDs to be "haunted dolls" So I make sure to treat them with courtesy and show them appreciation, just in case there really is something immaterial that rubs off on objects like them.

 

I put my dolls in my bedroom so anytime I pass by I'll just stop to appreciate and coo over how pretty they look.

 

I honestly don't like talking overly much, so it's nice to be around the quiet folk.