Oh FUCK - husband just overheard me having a conversation with myself!!

[DyingOfShame]

I am SO embarrassed right now.

The imaginary conversation was between me and a singing idol of mine. We were collaborating on something together when he suddenly announced that he had feelings for me and could no longer work with me, didn't want to cheat on his wife etc.....

I thought my husband had come up to bed 10 mins earlier and only realised when I got upstairs, that he was actually sat in the room off our kitchen!

FUCK!!! This is mortifying. He hasn't mentioned it but he surely heard me!

AIBU to run away and never come back?!

Colditz thats hilarious. Some of mine are sinister. I have been the fleeing queen of a country and been captured for execution. I have been a coldwar spy. A suffragette. A man. Pretty much most professions. I have beencaught in the worst disasters and am hailed a hero frequently for my life saving work 😂

Does anyone find that they watch a TV series, or read a book, and when it ends you are so gutted that you feel the need to continue the story (with you as a new main character of course)?

Does anyone find that they watch a TV series, or read a book, and when it ends you are so gutted that you feel the need to continue the story (with you as a new main character of course)?

All the time. Frankly, my versions are better.

Martha that is amazing! I need to expand my repertoire. Mine are rather bland compared to yours.

Haha op you and coditz are my kind of people 😂 i never knew it was so weird i thought everyone did it. I read once creative people do this all the time.

I was rather shocked at the first half a dozen posts, insinuating that I was some kind of oddball. I honestly thought most people did this and if they don't, they are missing out!

I'm definitely creative so I'll blame it on that

TheHulks Of course, it's a great chance to fix any bits you don't like.

We should be in a weirdo club 😂 yeah i was shocked by the first replies you got because i read it and laughed and thought i do that too. Im creative as well so we are clearly artistés

Goody LOL yup. Actually if the show or book doesn't leave me daydreaming a bit, or give me a character to daydream about, I generally end up bored with it and stop watching/reading.

It is a good marker isn't it? You want the world created to be so appealing that you can't resist putting yourself into it.

Hallmark of a good story is that I go to bed with my head fizzing with further imaginative possibilities

LOL Cold - I've just read your post about being the lady president

You accomplished so much! I can imagine it was a satisfying fantasy.

I feel robbed that mine ended so horribly. I actually had hot flushes when I got upstairs and realised he was still downstairs!

Goody Annie Proulx has complained about all the people writing to her with "better" endings for Brokeback Mountain. So I guess some people get a bit too carried away!!

Some people just have bigger inner worlds than others.

It's not weird, or crazy and it doesn't hurt anyone. I don't know why people have been so rude about it.

It's all very 'Burn the Witch', isn't it? :o

It's amusing as an adult to see the secondary school attitude of "Ugh, weirdo" is still playing out with some adults. At the core of it is fear of the unknown, I think. Why is that person doing that? I don't know and it must be bad.

But like I said, I've totally come to terms with my weirdness. I play in a brass band, for goodness sake, that's very weird behaviour!

I do this a lot before going to sleep!
I think it is for me mainly practicing for real life events.

So if I have say a doctors appointment the next day I endlessly go through about a million different scenarios that get increasingly far fetched - by the time I go to sleep I'm normally doing something totally u realistic like somewhere escaping the apocalypse which has for some reason happened while I was at the appointmen

I have always done this !

It's so 'burn the witch' on here, I see it a lot. So I shouldn't be surprised this this attracted some negative attention.

But fuck it, I enjoy doing it, so who cares. I'd rather have kept it as my private, secret behaviour but c'est la vie

Yes I agree - it’s othering!

I couldn’t care if others dream out loud or use beakers by the bed or whatever

But then I’m a fully paid up unconventional type myself

There was a very very long thread about similar a couple of years ago. It was quite lighthearted and funny and the conclusion was that it's very common to have a kind of second inner life where people imagine scenarios and conversations. Some had been going through the same second life for years. It's was amusing and interesting. No cries of "weirdos!"

How times have changed. It does remind me of school Cold.

I talk to myself when I’m cooking or cleaning etc but I don’t role play with myself that’s a little loopy

I think things have been very different here for about the last 2/3 years.

I think AIBU has a leak.

PSA eveyone is different, we like, do, think different things. So long as isn't harmful to anyone them what does it matter? Why make someone feel bad about themselves? And honestly, I recommend the occasional imaginary conversation. It's very cathartic. Those who think it's weird, try it, you might give those unused empathy muscles a stretch.

Oh apologies. I am in AIBU. Don't know how I wandered into here.

The thread I was talking about was in chat I think. That could explain the difference.

yep you're in AIBU enid!

To the people on here saying it's not at all weird to have a conversation with somebody famous, (and pretend you're having an affair,) or to pretend you are a famous rock star, or you have a secret second life in your head; I will ask this......

If it is perfectly 'normal' behaviour, then why not tell everyone you know - neighbours, family, colleagues, and friends, what you do??? Why not tell them all about your 'weird little world in your head.'

I am not saying it means someone has a mental health disorder, but no way is it normal behaviour. The fact that the OP is mortified that her DH heard her, and a number of other posters said they would be mortified too, shows it CAN'T be normal behaviour. Otherwise, why not tell everyone you know about your 'weird other world.'

If someone is living out another life in their head, and imagining scenarios far removed from their real life, that is definitely a sign that something is missing from their life, and there is definitely something missing from their relationship, because this is just very weird behaviour....

And the 'hey I'm well quirky and a bit mad LOL!' line that some come out with is tedious and tired.

This thread is, (IMO,) a lame attempt at trying to get into 'classics.' yawn........