Imaginary conversations

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Talking to a friend, I've started to wonder what is 'normal' or not so usual.

We all imagine things, but I'm guessing it's all very different in our heads 😁

I'm wondering how common it is for people to:

1. have imaginary meetings/bump into/conversations with famous people

2. have an imaginary friend (as an adult)

3. go through every word of a conversation (basically play back the conversation) in your head; maybe alter your responses (or what you should have said).

The above are just examples of things people have mentioned; wondering if some might seem a little odd to some and completely normal to others.

Normal for me to relive/ rehash conversations with people in my head over and over and over and over and say what I wish I’d said so the outcome was amazing.
I have an imaginary life. One where I’m happy, charismatic, popular and have loads of energy, friends (inc famous people), money.
oh the life I lead!
I figure it’s just a way of escaping the stresses of my life, by blocking it all out and imagining a new one.

I do it. I have various fantasy worlds with stories that have been going on for years that I tell myself before I go to sleep at night, too.

1. ALL THE TIME.

I've done it since I was a child.

Yes to 1 (although not famous people) and 3. Never 2, but an imaginary friend actually does sound appealing

Yep, all the time. Always had an active imagination! I am confident, successful and gorgeous in my other reality..

I’m a regular Walter Mitty. I thought most people have a whole fantasy life going on in their heads?

Mine changes regularly. At the moment it’s about Geralt of Rivia, who high is nice.

I think we all do a lot of these things. I've found myself talking to myself in the kitchen rehashing arguments.

Are there people who don’t do this?

I have several imaginary lives going on in my head. Some involve me, some totally made up, some essentially fan fiction.
I mean.... isn't this how authors become authors?

Yes to rehashing real life scenarios and wishing I'd said something differently sometimes. I don't have imaginary conversations with celebs or imaginary people, but if I'm feeling anxious about a situation with somebody, I will 'rehearse' what I'm going to say in my mind and what my responses would be to their varying imagined reactions. Sometimes those get a bit out of hand 😂

I am an imaginative person though and have always loved books, so I suppose this is the way I process and work through things.

I assumed we all did, but said friend made me wonder.

I don't do #2 really or talk to famous point but I have conversations in my head all the time. I rehearse conversations with my boss/therapist/whoever. I also have a constant (third person) narrative running through my head of what I'm doing like I'm a character in a book.

Only really the third one for me and more in an over analysing way. I have quite a imagination but don't do the others.

Only number 3 for me.

I don’t, but then I don’t ever remember doing imaginative play and can’t play with my kids unless it’s something like Lego with instructions or a board game.
I don’t have a visual image in my head either.

@Shf I think we’d be great friends

Story of my life

I do sometimes. If I'm worrying about something I imagine the conversation and I do replay conversations. Again, anxiety related (like most things in my life 🤦🏻‍♀️)

All the time since I was a kid

Yes! I don't have an imaginary friend, but I certainly have conversations in my head!

1. Occasionally (more of a fantasy about what happens when I am finally a famous author and attending show biz parties/the premier of the movie version. I have already cast it in my head so I know who will be there - just got to write the novel now.)
2. No
3. Daily! I also have conversations in advance of having them in real life so I'm prepared. It's really annoying when those conversations actually happen and the person I'm talking to doesn't stick to their lines!

I completely talk to myself I have lots of little worlds that I dip in and out of. My husband walked in on me mid conversation with myself one time and I've never er been as mortified in all my 48 years of life

@WantToChangeUsername , do most of these things!! And have done all my life. My fantasies keepe going, especially when days are long. I can be a singer, a prime minister, a model and meet anyone I want.🤗🤗🤗

I think it’s normal to rehash conversations, day dream and also rehearse what you would say to someone in a certain situation….we all practice interview questions or presentations etc! I’d personally find having an imaginary friend a bit strange.

I do the first one with famous people or characters in books and films. I also retell stories and continue films after their endings and imagine myself as one character so I can have conversations with the others.