Conversations in your head
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Ubersonic
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Yes I have conversations in my head all the time. They go so much better in my head than in real life. I know everybody probably does this from time to time, but I'm doing it constantly, which I don't think is normal. Also the only time I prepare things to say is when I'm going to a job interview.
lyricalliaisons
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I don't have entire conversations in my head, but only because I have no idea what the other person's side of it would be like. But I do plan out everything I'm going to say, as much as I can since I don't know exactly what's going to happen or how things are going to go.
What I do do, though, is plan in my head, everything I think is going to happen, pretty much step by step. Even though things rarely happen the same way in real life as I've planned them to go in my head, just doing it gives me a little of the courage I need to actually go wherever it is I need to go or talk to whomever it is I need to talk to.
I basically just have t pretend that I have as much control over the situation as possible, even if I actually have none.
What I do do, though, is plan in my head, everything I think is going to happen, pretty much step by step. Even though things rarely happen the same way in real life as I've planned them to go in my head, just doing it gives me a little of the courage I need to actually go wherever it is I need to go or talk to whomever it is I need to talk to.
I basically just have t pretend that I have as much control over the situation as possible, even if I actually have none.
Agitprop
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Yep, I have conversations both with myself and with other people in my head. I suppose sometimes I just make a conversation instead of thinking normally. As for your other question, I generally have some conversation topics prepared beforehand if I know I'm going to be talking to a friend just so I have stuff to say.
NormanBates
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Nobody from work really talked to me other than in my imagination.
I do the same with a lot of people in my family or even friends.
I always just tell them "I'll be with you in spirit"
Cuz it sounds all poetic but true since I'm not really with them physically
I do the same with a lot of people in my family or even friends.
I always just tell them "I'll be with you in spirit"
Cuz it sounds all poetic but true since I'm not really with them physically
AdmiralSirJohn
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That SO describes me! Not only have I had conversations, but I've played out newscasts in my head (one of which completely blew me away when, several hours later when I actually watched the news, the anchor man actually said the words I'd imagined!).
Of course, as a writer, a lot of these conversations end up on paper (or on my hard drive) and are with fictional characters, but more than a few are rehearsals of things I'll actually say to people, such as reading my doctor the riot act about my weight...
Of course, as a writer, a lot of these conversations end up on paper (or on my hard drive) and are with fictional characters, but more than a few are rehearsals of things I'll actually say to people, such as reading my doctor the riot act about my weight...