When I thought I was gonna be famous/Jesus I used to simulate conversations between me and the radio shows for months on end cuz I thought they’d be interviewing me on the radio. I did this for a couple years every day.
I do it a lot, and I get very animated and engaged in these fake conversations. More than one person has told me it makes me look crazy, so now I hold my phone up to my ear while I’m talking. Then it just looks like an intense phone conversation.
Call holding or call forwarding something like that maybe as a cover?
Like oops sorry I got a call incoming or on hold and then change and answer the call
Just a thought. I do close to the same just with no talking I do sign to myself sometimes or I have the talk inside to myself when I have I end up locking up to the outside both ways Cannot be covered up
I do that quite a bit. It becomes consuming, distracting at times. When it becomes overly intense that tells me I might be about to become very sick. Doing it a little is no big deal, though. It just sucks that I can’t control it.
YEs. Constant dialogue in my head. I never really gave it a 2nd thought until _ had come across list of symptoms. I find myself talking to myself, rehearsing conversations, observing conversations in my mind… very different than i hearing voices but more like conversations qith myself, as if I am a friend. Or also lke i am talking to myself as a seperate person.
I think it’s often a coping mechanism for loneliness. There is a lot of psychological research merit behind the role of “Wilson” in Cast Away. But of course it can be other things, too.
I have a pretty expansive internal fantasy world, complete with characters (some that have been around in my mind for many years), places, history and story development, etc. It’s like a form of art to me, I guess. Some people have the means to take such fantasy things and turn them into books, video games, art, films, etc. My fantasy material just stays in my mind, just for me. But I still develop it and immerse in it and enjoy it just as much as an artist would do in preparation for making it into a movie, game or book.
So yeah it makes me look a little crazy when someone catches me hehe, but I was also quite the talented LARPer back in the day.
I whisper to myself, too. And sometimes I use facial expression (blink of eye) or gesture (finger) to answer back to myself when suddenly there is somebody around.
It’s like the voices talk through me to me and other voices while suffering from the pressure of somthing moving around in my head. Anyone else feel something like that?
I kind of have the same thing.
I also have imaginary conversations, with myself, people I know, people I made up, and the people in my brain.
I rarely speak out loud, even when I’m alone. I usually talk in my head, but with gestures, or in a whisper.
It helps me figure things out, and get through my day.
I speak out loud when I am by myself in my room but the next door neighbour’s can hear me, I get pretty loud but I never do it in public. I tried to give it up but they actually speak through me and I can’t stop them. It’s painful.
I talk to myself in the car. I have really sad apologetic conversations, the reason I do it is because I try to get it out of my system. When I’m expected or it is hoped I’m not so emotionally fragile I try to get.all the emotional stuff out when no one is around.
I have real conversations with crowds of people in my head. There’s no reason for me to talk to anyone imaginary because there’s a bunch of different people in my head. Mike Singletary is one of my mentors, and he actually listens to my needs and tries to understand what I’ve been through. I guess that he knew who my grandfather is because they went to the same college or something. They both played college football. I’m trying to avoid talking or having myself be subjected to more torture I just am unresponsive. I hope that you just go out and make some friends instead of talking to imaginary ones you can have alot of fun you know??
