Do you experience this emotion?

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Altosphere

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Are you feeling this as me: while I am doing daily works or something, my mind creates conversations which is between me and my friends or persons I know. This isn't in my control, its happening even I try to blocking them.

I want to be an author and of course i love you. Don't die.
 

Gerald

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I sometimes imagine telling people about something before I can actually speak to them, but it's not like I imagine a whole conversation with them...
But if it's during daily work it may be out of boredom - when it's boring work.

I do regularly think in dialogue though. Basically what you find in SK's books too, but not dialogue between distinctive personalities as he often does - like where one voice represents the character's mother and another voice the character's friend etc.

I don't know if thinking in dialogue is something only people with the ability to create stories do. I can create stories and I think in dialogue. Do others here think in dialogue?
To me it seems more like there are always two sides in you. One side is saying: 'I want to go the cinema.' Then the other side says: 'There is no particular film playing I want to see. So why?' etc.
Basically this internal dialogue is just a regular dialogue you could have with another person. But it helps you reach a decision, because in the end you either go to the cinema or not.
 

mal

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Howdy Altosphere, I play out little fantasies in my mind from time to time during the day. In them I'm quite a clever raconteur and am always right. In real life, not so much. Some of the best conversations I've ever had, I've had with myself. I guess fiddling around with all those mental permutations and combinations is a part of working things out in your head. If your head noise is not controlled by you however, then it could be a cosmic sign that you should write down what's said; or, it could be something else entirely. At the end of the day if you want to write then start a.s.a.p. and build up a history. All the best, mal
 

osnafrank

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9 of the 10 Voices in my Head telling me, i'm not crazy.
Number 10 is humming the Melody of Tetris

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