to pretend to be in a film or tv programme. Quite a lot?

[threeineachlobe]

or perhaps Am I normal?

I was recently Irene Adler walking seductively through London, being all mysterious and red-of-nail. Last night as I poured my chardonnay I was Bridget Jones. I'm often the posh lady who very nearly gets the better of Poirot, but doesn't quite and has a "damn you" moment. In my youth I was rather obsessed with Quantum Leap - I regularly leapt into my own body to somehow save a life / a business / the world.

Externally, I'm just an accountant with a happy homelife. Internally, I'm anything I bloody like.

Normal? Come on, I can take it. I've been a Russian spy with homicidal tendancies. In Asda.

I quite often give interviews on a talk-show while I'm in the car, but my favourite is presenting cookery shows while I'm cooking.

So glad I'm not alone

My sister and I had specific playlists on iPods as teens for 'being superheroes'. Basically they made you walk in a determinedly heroic fashion. Probably in a spotlight.

I'm in Chariots of Fire when I'm running

DH and I go through box-sets like crazy so I find that I tend to become completely immersed and actually take on character traits and speech patterns of the lead characters sometimes. One week it's Betty Draper from Mad Men, then Larry from Curb your Enthusiasm or the foul-mouthed mother from Weeds. Once I was Sydney Bristow from Alias which was a bit problematic for most everyday scenarios but v. useful for my kickboxing class. This week I'm Mildred Pierce but am finding that a bit depressing.

I know I'm not normal .

[saddO]. NOT

Um Popbiscuit, I have changed my mind about flying in with the hot chocolate and squirty cream if you don't mind.

Loving this topic!

Airwolf! :) thats so funny.

Over the years I have become totally obsessed with various TV shows and would spend lots of time imagining myself in an episode or in a sequel or perhapes other unseen scenes in a film.

As a kid I had very complex adventures with the A Team or Robin of Sherwood and with Indy in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
More recently the Bourne films are a popular choice if I am feeling deadly serious and moody. Those Bourne films are a very good choice when travelling on the train and arriving at London railway stations!

The daydreams often get all mixed up though as in my head I am also a new, just discovere talent (even at my age!) film star thats in that show or film too, living that busy international lifestyle.

Usually I am having loads of illict tortured relationships with a huge stable of movie star men while enjoying my new film career. Its all very torrid.

Sometimes I am a film writer new to the industry and I spice it up a lot as things don't always go well for me all of the time in this fantasy world. I am always getting fired and rehired, dumped by by lovers and shot down in flames by directors and critics. I have lots of tense angry exchanges with Steven Speilberg and other big name film directors! Its very tiring!

I do this! I do this! All the time Quite a lot!

Hang on, this isn't an entrapment thread, is it? [suspicious]

All the time, since I was about 10 I think. Usually documentaries about my fascinating life . The whole point of reading/watching thrillers is that walking down the street becomes intensely exciting. I usually pretend there's a few FBI unmarked cars on my tail and that they just miss me as I go into the corner shop to get milk. Usually a wacka-wacka funk soundtrack but then I do watch a lot of 70s conspiracy movies.

GoEasyPudding, you're putting a lot of effort in there aren't you.

I've just been on Masterchef!!

I have just finished making a ham and chicken pie ham hock with roasted chicken pie, in a cream sauce with mushrooms and asparagus.

I'm a bit nervous about what John and Gregg my DH will think of it.

wacka wacka funk joanofar :) .

Frankly, I am going to steal this idea from you. The 1970's is a great idea! My stuff is exclusively contemporary and a need a new approach to my narratives.

I just finished interviewing David Mitchell. I He was witty and intelligent. Our viewers were riveted.

I do it have done since i was little, it started with Quantum leap and star trek

I have spent an unhealthy amount of my adult life being Buffy.

Psammead Was he in love with you by the end of recording?

Quicklookbusy exactly the same here. But one rule is that DH is NOT ALLOWED to join in and pretend to be Gregg or John, if he does, reality bites, I feel criticised and he'll wear dinner.

I also do the whole American Idol Auditions... in the bath, with extremely good results. I'm off to Hollywood baby.

Yay another Quantum Leaper!

I had a really dull Saturday job, sitting at a desk sorting hundreds of papers. Those minutes where I'd just leapt into my own body and had to work out where I was, who I was, who was in danger etc etc,...made it that little bit more bearable. I'm wondering whether there was CCTV tho, there'd be a few worrying moments where my fantasy life may have crept out of my head.

I have been in Buffy too as a supporting character - kind of a Faith character that hangs out with the Trio.
I am very busy in my head. I blame the long commute.

I really have come to right place haven't I.

I do this!
Sometimes I'm a beautiful film star who is only in critically acclaimed films.
Sometimes I'm a wealthy, beautiful young mountaineer famous for my exploits and hard as nails.
Very occasionally I'm a sort of female (and younger) Nick Cave.
These are extremely long-running and have quite detailed back-stories.

I've been in Buffy too! I had a whole scene in my head of fighting like Buffy does and eventually killing Faith. Because I'm clearly a badass.

OK, OP, here's another one:
I have had many jobs, and I always become my job to a strange degree.
For example, when I am a secretary I wear demure yet sexy outfits, and imagine that I have a pair of glasses around my neck. I always carry a dictation pad, and feel ultra efficient.
If I am in sales, I am the hard nosed, fast talking charm merchant, and at the end of my shift I imagine I am about to jump into my cheesy porshe and zoom off when really I get the bus.