I do the laugh at a funny memory thing, but no mental conversations ever.
Maybe it is because I don't really think in words.
No, it is hard to explain. We had a thread here not long ago about do you think in images or something. I think it might have been in the bonfire...Interesting. I think in words and abstract images. When I am remembering a funny memory, it's usually a conversation. Is your memory an image?
No, it is hard to explain. We had a thread here not long ago about do you think in images or something. I think it might have been in the bonfire...
Anyway, I just kind of think in ideas and I almost have lines between ideas in my head where I just follow along the lines from one to the next. I don't really have any words or images really. I can't describe it because it isn't like anything concrete at all.
Even recalling a conversation I don't replay the words in my head. I just recall it as a unit.
Same here.Sometimes I can direct my mind, and other times it just shows me stuff.
Do you speak out loud?
Maybe I should make clear that (at least in my case) this is not about consciously practicing scenarios (like one might practice a job interview) or a method applied to discuss the pros and cons of an issue but something I slide into and only realize I am doing when I´m already way at it.
Another 'all the time' here. When I was younger I used to do it with fictional characters (sometimes ones I'd imagined myself), but it's always real people now. They're much better than my real conversations, which almost always suck. I've always assumed that was why I did it so often, that if I had more satisfying interactions in real life I wouldn't do it as much. But reading all these replies, maybe that isn't the case.
Hi NFs!
As i walked home from the supermarket yesterday I had a long talk with Mark Twain (well actually it was more of a monologue, I´m afraid) about the changes the 20th century brought us and what he would have liked and what he wouldn´t have liked. I tried to explain the magnitude of some events and developements and it suddenly struck me that I had no clue whether doing this is relatively normal or if I have gone mad some time ago.
I should add that I have had imaginary conversations with both fictional and real people, dead and alive, people I know and people I never met, since my teens.
Anyone else doing this?