Talking to people in your head

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It is my head, and I think it would be both rude and foolish not to speak to beings found wandering around.

It is one of the few places I can speak my mind.

I rarely involve people I know, but characters in a story come talk, I write, they tell me what I missed about them. Through the magic of print they get in other people's heads.

This, knowing they are not real, I apply to flesh people, they exist, but the characters in my head have a purpose. So a greater reality. The pen is mightier than the sword, so good writing beats reality.

Define reality? Science is finding things that did not exist yesterday, that today are true for all time.

I am consistantly self, but the background and other players changes.

Reality does not have sharp edges and well defined borders.

Please excuse me, my friends wish to discuss this idea.

I do this all the time, and it was one of the things that first got me reading more in-depth about AS. Sometimes, I'm running through so many little "scenarios" in my head that I can't sleep :/

No.

However, I've found myself talking to other people outside of my being without actually talking to them physically, and then thinking that it was weird when they wouldn't respond or they'd ask me why I didn't talk.

I have quite extensive mental dialogues. I have an imaginary friend on top of that. But I know he's imaginary, and that the people I talk to aren't real, so I think it's ok.

I do the same thing all the time and have for most of my life. I usually see people/places/things in my head as part of a 'scene,' though, i don't speak to the characters directly (because I see myself as part of the scene), and I watch these scenes play out in different ways (from all angles). Like you, I'm horrible at socializing with others and a lot of the time these scenes I play out in my mind were my versions of how conversations 'should have' went or how they'd be if everything went my way. Other times, these scenes are just stories. I have one long-running 'mind movie' that I've added to and enhanced with various characters since I was fifteen years old. I've recently written it all down (in 2003) and have rewritten it into a novel. It's still being edited and some scenes are being swapped out (not 'realistic' enough for fiction, if you can believe that) and once I'm done, I intend to publish it. I've read of several aspies who have imagined entire worlds in their minds that they visit whenever they're by themselves and have time to think.

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I often have imaginary conversations with people I know when I'm alone at home. It gets really funny when I'm in the middle of an imaginary conversation and forget whom I'm talking to.

I guess I am one of those aspies that have entire worlds in my mind. This is probably why it is so annoying to have random people speak to me unexpectedly, because it's like they're yanking me out. Also, the internal dialogues are always quite interesting, another reason it's so annoying to be interrupted, just for some meaningless social gesture.

I have conversations in my head ALL THE TIME. Some of it is practicing for the real thing, most of it is, well...I guess I just like to debate issues in my head. This can be quite entertaining.

Yes, most particularly "special interests".

I do the same thing but I have conversations with people in my head 24/7

dont do it but i constantly run songs in my head when ever im bored

Yep.

I didn't think that counted. I call them my "toys." I had one that got up to 300 pages. I know they would never sell because there's no serious drama, no Darth-Vader-type bad guys and no real ending. Just a happy little should-be world that makes me feel better. If only everyone could be nice, like me.

I did that as a child. Disconcerting.

As a kid I'd also sometimes repeat a word or phrase, while not looking at the person, and appear to be muttering to myself. But in myself I'd have the feeling that I'd told that person something directly and plainly, and be suprised to find that the information hadn't been transmitted.

I still have lengthy conversations in my head, but usually select an imaginary character to converse with to avoid any later confusion. I also rehearse anticipated real conversations excessively, and sometimes think I ought to learn to stop -- I wonder if I get thrown off in real conversations because of it, even more than I would be without the rehearsal, because the real conversation never follows the pattern.

My mom has lengthy conversations with me while I am not there, and then expects me to know all the things she told me in them. Couple that with my frequent problems with zoning out on people when they are speaking, and we get some amazing communication problems.

That explains a lot. I think that's what my spouse has been doing.

Agreed. I do the same and what irritates me is when I go off somewhere to be alone and think, and just when I'm really absorbed into my personal "Otherland' someone almost always comes along to bother me.

Yes, that's just how it is with me. I often talk to an imaginary person, because I'm in a rambling mood about my "special interests," and nobody is around to listen. I also calm myself by talking aloud and going over what's going to happen throughout the day. I also have invented characters that I sometimes act out scenes with.
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