Name: Mary Rose P. Nanas Course and Year: BSTM 1F Your self is your basic personality or nature, especially considered in terms of what you are really like as a person. A person's self is the essential part of their nature which makes them different from everyone and everything else. I want to explore and get in touch with my inner self. What is the real meaning of self? Your self is your sense of who you are, deep down — your identity. When you let someone else know you well, you reveal your true self to them. If the subject of your thoughts is you, you're thinking about your self — or, alternately, yourself. ... Self comes from the Old English, in which it means "one's own person."