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Imagining conversations

Char Aina

02:38 / 04.06.04

well, do you?
do you rehearse important ones? out loud?
how about ones with friends?
do you imagine many that come to pass?
have you ever imagined a conversation you werent a part of?
what was it about?
do you sometimes imagine offline versions of online people?
do you banter with them while you surf/post/do the washing up?

i've done most of that.

you all say the most witty things, and i especially like eyeryone's laugh.

who's in your head?

marwood

09:33 / 04.06.04

Humm. I often have conversations with myself outloud.
Generally pep talking and sometimes mini rants.

Only problem is, when I stay with my family the walls are thin and they can get quite concerned.

Sax

11:13 / 04.06.04

Some years ago, I caught a friend curiously scrutinising my face, which was apparently contorted in a rictus of rage.

"What were you doing just then?" she asked.

"Imagining I was having an argument with the editor of The Sun," said I.

Why, I have no idea. But it was a good argument. And I won.

Mourne Kransky

18:57 / 04.06.04

Marching to and from work, walkman burbling away and insulating me from the distraction of real world noise, I have many interesting and animated conversations with people who are not physically present. The really good ones require out-loud cuss words as I sashay by the stationary rush hour motor cars. The Today programme affords many opportunities for reducing such as David Blunkett, or any serving official of the Chinese government, to tears, in my head.

So yes, I talk to myself, and I answer back. All the time, Pal, as Taffey said to Deckard on the subject of buying snakes from the Egyptian.

8===>Q: alyn

21:22 / 04.06.04

I have this really absurd habit, picked up from some cockamamie self improvement pamphlet of my youth, of composing long paragraphs or conversations and then trying to memorize them on the fly. It's supposed to improve your memory, but I get so busy with crap like that that I forget to charge my phone.

Jef396

23:13 / 04.06.04

When I want to talk to somebody about something, but I feel it would be too much trouble to stop whatever I'm doing, I talk to them in my head. Usually it's when I'm laying on my bed after school or some physically exerting thing. The conversations are interesting, but nothing is really changed because of them. Unfortunately, sometimes that stops me from actually talking to the person.

Nobody's girl

00:21 / 05.06.04

When I'm furious with someone I rehearse what I want to say to them in my head.
Eventually I realise how stupid and pointless all this anger is and let it go, it's very cathartic.

electricinca

01:06 / 05.06.04

I totally imagined a conversation with a girl I know earlier today and the result was that I chose not to ask her out on a date as I already knew the result. Yet obviously I fucking didn't really know and now I am full of regrets. I think the full moon has turned me literally into a lunatic.

Jef396

04:24 / 05.06.04

I totally imagined a conversation with a girl I know earlier today and the result was that I chose not to ask her out on a date as I already knew the result. Yet obviously I fucking didn't really know and now I am full of regrets.

That's what I meant, although in different situations, but I think you said it better.

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