Sonic Youth Gossip - Do you have imaginary conversations in your head?

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Originally Posted by cagedbird

i talk to other people in my head waaaaay after i've left them physically. my grandfather who is 93 talks to people from his childhood in another country by himself. i have a theory about this. ahem. when we talk to people who aren't there we are praying to them. sorry for the religious notion. but that's all i could do to express the link between conversations with no one and conversations with real people. maybe it's not religious at all. short-term memory adjustment? idk.

No need to apologize, though I have a separate idea. . .

I think that talking honestly to people is a great fantasy that we have. Not only that, but when we have great ideas, it is wonderful to throw them out in your head in a conversation. . . you speak eloquently. . . the other person doesn't talk, they just hear you out.

In reality people are quite rude and interrupt you and question you and don't let you get to your points. . . or you feel threatened by their presence and stammer on your words.