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like talking to a wall 

Talking without receiving any kind of reaction or response from the person you're speaking to; Or talking to someone and they react or respond as if you never said what you just said to them.
"I poured my heart out to her and she just stared at me with a blank expression on her face. It was like talking to a wall!"

talking to a brick wall 

Talking to a brick wall means that you are talking to someone who can't comprehend what the person is saying
I'm fr talking to a brick wall rn, nvm.

like talking to a dead bear 

When you talk to someone and they either; don't care, don't listen, don't understand or didn't hear you correctly, or at all.
God! That (insert name of dusty old teacher past retirement) doesn't listen, it's like talking to a dead bear.

You're talking to a mirror

An insult used to argue with hypocrites, whose words also affects themselves.
Ugly person: wow, why are you so ugly?
Normal person: sorry to tell you, but you're talking to a mirror.

Talking Screws To A Hammer 

Putting too much effort into explaining something not pertinent to the listener.
This guy was explaining plumbing to a random web designer. He was totally talking screws to a hammer.

He just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt, it was really quite hypnotic 

Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise

???

He just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt, it was really quite hypnotic (hypnotic...)

Incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic