My husband has just caught me doing something terrible and embarrassing...

[PrettyRicky]

My DH came home unexpectedly and I was in the kitchen doing something I probably shouldn't have been doing but which I do every time I'm home alone.

I was having an imaginary interview on Radio 4 Woman's Hour about my new, hugely critically acclaimed novel.

DH walked in just as I was saying to Jane Garvey "That's an interesting question, Jane. The book's really a reflection on womanhood at times of crisis".

He was just stood there at the kitchen door and said "What is? Who's Jane?" and then looked around the corner to our dining table, presumably expecting to find someone called Jane who'd popped around for a brew.

He just looked at me blankly and said "I'll leave you to it then"

I think we have the same DH

I have found my people.

Arguments in the shower - I may or may not have to driven myself to tears of frustration on occasion tick
Fantasy of choreographing the Royal Ballet to greatness - tick
Winning the lottery and telling family - tick.

Although I'm slightly mad and have been accepting of that for quite some time.

I do it in the car aswell.
I am hoping that eeing as my phone is not visible, and I don't have an earpiece on, people think I have some super-duper brand new invisible high tec Bluetooth car system.

They probably think that I'm just a nutter, talking animatedly to myself.

Back when dh and I were engaged he walked in on me doing a live tribute act to Britney, in front of two million people, cameras and the worlds media. Including costume, and floor show.

I was in uni halls, wearing half a pyjama set.

I don't know how long he was there before I turned around saw him and started screaming. So did he. It was awful. Possibly the worst bit was I was doing it with headphones in too, so he couldn't even hear my amazing concert, just my voice and terrifying dance moved.

He married me anyway, but Christ it was embarrassing.

I pretend I have someone staying with me from the past. Sometimes the 60s, sometimes Victorian, sometimes Elizabethan. "So, this is a television, and this is what we call a com-pu-ter. Yes, in some ways you will find society has changed a great deal, and in other ways not so much. You'll probably need a pair of jeans."

When my ex got in touch a few years ago completely out of the blue I started to imagine all sorts of scenarios where we bumped into each other. I was, of course, always immaculately groomed and often on my way to something incredibly important.

Most of the time I look like a bag of shit so it's good that he lives about 100 miles away.

TheLivingAsheth How the actual fuck have I never done this? That sounds absolutely amazing.

I have conversations with all sorts of people in my head, as well as working our how I'd write a post on it (and then usually don't.)

I try to keep it in my head, because if I do it our loud, I'd start doing it at work, and I really, really shouldn't let all those imaginary conversatons out.

I do this! It's a great escape. I love pretend arguments but can end up quite pissed off as a result for no reason. I also appear regularly on the chat show circuit. I'm a hoot on Graham Norton.

My boss caught me flapping my arms up in the air..I was head singing "Gonna fly now" (Rocky's theme)

If I go cycling by myself I pretend I'm on a ride with someone whose never been to the area before. I narrate bits like "we're about to come up to a big hill, it's about 20% at the bottom but then it gets easier".

I have no idea why, or who the person is. Nor should I really be trying to speak when going up a hill.

The best threads on MN are the ones that confirm that being as mad as a box of frogs is completely normal.

I am an Oscar winning actress/sell out tour singer/world expert/playwrite and insightful Booker prize author, depending on the day of the week. I am constantly followed about by a film crew in my head Occasionally I see what it sounds like out loud. So far I haven't been caught

I am also a lot thinner and a good deal more good looking in this twilight world I inhabit turns mirrors to face wall

If I've cleaned the whole house ill pretend that I'm an Estate Agent showing viewers round, like walking into the bedroom and saying out loud "this is the master, you'll see its a good size with duel aspects"

If Im cooking ill pretend I'm on a cookery show and explain what I'm doing.

I also sometimes pretend I'm on Jeremy Kyle and play out some imaginary scenario, luckily I normally do this in my head not aloud!

I think it's a pretty common thing to do isn't it

middlings Yes, yes....I've done the imaginary telling the family I've won millions on the lottery too! So good...

occasionally being a character in Buffy The Vampire Slayer Usually another Slayer but sometimes in a Giles-type role. And sometimes Giles' GIRLFRIEND. SQUEEEEEE

So glad I am not the only one! I have a starring role in various tv shows and films...

That's fantastic. Sometimes when I'm in the car singing I'm pretending to be on X factor and then in my head I'm having a little interview.

Op thanks for this thread, it keeps on giving!

I talk to myself all the time, sometimes my husband hears me and asks who I am talking to. I pretend that I'm singing but he looks at me like this and tells me it sounded very much like a one sided conversation to him.

I went through a worrying phase as a child pretending that Price Charles was my dad and I would have conversations with the whole Royal Family. Except the Queen Mum as she was deaf and mad.

I love you all.

Right now, David is narrating naptime. 'The mother must time her move to perfection. If she puts her offspring into the cot too soon he will start doing the wall of death around the sides. Too late, and she risks bottling it and just sitting and rocking him for the next hour...'

The tension is killing me

I've actually been interviewed on radion about my new novel...and when I listen back to that interview it's mostly cackling (me), the interviewer trying not to laugh, and a strange noise which I can only assume was my nervous, spit free mouth attempting to get words out.

Imaginary interviews are better. Shameful, but easier.

Radion. Not radion. I've been interviewed on many things, but I've never taken radion...

He he! Brilliant...When I cook, I pretend I'm a TV chef and explain what I'm doing! Haven't been caught yet

Radio! Stop it!