[NF] Conversations with Self

[The Outsider]

Yes. All the time.

Once I was talking to my friend over the internet, and he had to leave. I told him that it's okay, the conversation will just continue in my head. He was slightly confused.

 

[stellar renegade]

Yes. All the time.

Once I was talking to my friend over the internet, and he had to leave. I told him that it's okay, the conversation will just continue in my head. He was slightly confused.

hahaha. awesome.

 

[Cimarron]

Also agreed. Happens very naturally for me, my mind drifts to it.

 

[Sniffles]

Yes all the time. A man who doesn't talk to himself is somebody not worth talking to anyways.

 

[neptunesnet]

Have any NF's here had experiences where you would have conversations with your friends in your mind? For me, this often happens when I'm taking a shower or getting dressed.

Most of the time I plan out a conversation before it happens. Other times, I will replay prior conversations and try out new responses.

Occasionally I will even laugh at what my friend said as if I were in the real-time moment, only to be thrust back into reality.Then I ask myself "Am I really laughing at my own conscious? Good thing I wasn't in public!"

I assure you, I am not crazy.

ily.

 

[Froody Blue Gem]

I often play out conversations in my head, conversations that haven't happened, some that will never happen, and different things I can say in the scenarios. I think of if I say certain things to certain people, what their response would be. There are certain responses in people that can be predicted if you know them well enough, but they can be pretty surprising too.

When I know that someone will probably confront me about something, or an undesired interaction will come up, I play ahead what I will say in the situation, and what the other person probably will say in response. I figure out how to act, what to say just bouncing things around in my head. Life isn't always cut-and-dried, what to say isn't clear so planning ahead at least helps. If I don't in advanced, my mind goes blank in the moment.

 

[Pionart]

I often play out conversations in my head, conversations that haven't happened, some that will never happen, and different things I can say in the scenarios. I think of if I say certain things to certain people, what their response would be. There are certain responses in people that can be predicted if you know them well enough, but they can be pretty surprising too.

When I know that someone will probably confront me about something, or an undesired interaction will come up, I play ahead what I will say in the situation, and what the other person probably will say in response. I figure out how to act, what to say just bouncing things around in my head. Life isn't always cut-and-dried, what to say isn't clear so planning ahead at least helps. If I don't in advanced, my mind goes blank in the moment.

Yep, that's a very Ni+Fe way of thinking.

Having conversations in your head might not seem like extroversion/Fe, but it actually is. The external environment doesn't need to be engaged for something to be extroversion (in a way, the internal social interaction is taking place in an environment).

Another thing I do that is extroversion-yet-internal is to simulate music in my head (lines from pop songs etc.) which is Se.

 

[Peter Deadpan]

It's just a black void in there.

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Yep, that's a very Ni+Fe way of thinking.

Having conversations in your head might not seem like extroversion/Fe, but it actually is. The external environment doesn't need to be engaged for something to be extroversion (in a way, the internal social interaction is taking place in an environment).

Another thing I do that is extroversion-yet-internal is to simulate music in my head (lines from pop songs etc.) which is Se.

Sigh.