Inner monologue

Someone decided to take exception to just about everything that was written.
Decided I had been horribly bullied, and I browbeat everyone.

I've just bumped it.
Its called the imp of the perverse, after Edgar Allan Poe wrote about it.

I think in words all the time, but I would nt say it is a conversation.
I don’t really do pictures, though I can if I make an effort.

Many years ago I was in a group where we had to study a newspaper and report back on certain things. I know I was unusual in that I had not looked at or retained anything from the pictures in it. Since this discovery I know I have to make a special effort to see the pictures.
On the same course, we were taken ( with our eyes shut) on an imaginary journey. At the end, there was a prize, a package to open. I was the only person who didnt get a prize. I have no idea what this means. Weird.

I’ve just found it and before I opened it I’d bet myself I’d find a certain poster on there bumping her gums - and I was right . It’s a great thread

What an interesting thread, and how diverse our brains are in how we think and visualise.

I am like you SirC often having those type of thoughts, but they don't concern me because they are just thoughts which I would never act on.

I do meditation, and have learnt that for very short periods, you can train your mind to cut off busy thoughts and inner dialogue, but it does take lots of regular practice.

MOnica one thing DH is good at is remembering meals , he can recall a good restaurant and a meal from donkeys years ago. He’s amazing at mental arithmatic but gets bored easily. I still need to ask him about the visualisation thing.

I once read that to switch off to get to sleep, you just repeat the words then,the,the’ over and over, it does work but crikey it takes a lot to switch my thoughts off to accomplish it.

I have a combo, inner monologue, images, or both-

SirChenjin another who like you has intrusive thoughts about driving into other cars, or stabbing someone when I am preparing food and using a sharp knife.

This phenomenon is called the 'Call of the Void' and if you google it there is a lot of information about it

Thanks so much for that M0nica - I’ve had a quick read and it all makes complete sense now.

Rufus2 I know people who can't even talk and think at the same time

Yep, one of them is currently in The White House

BradfordLass

can have conversations with ourselves
Yennifer I'm schizophrenic too, and I must say our conversations have moved up to a higher level since enlisting with Gransnet!
OoRoo from me and Cheerio from him!

Thanks for that info MOnica I didn't know the phenomenon had a name. It was interesting to read about it, and also good to know I'm not alone!

What is 'bumping her gums'? Sounds painful!

I've had intrusive thoughts. Because I have anxiety I will imagine all sorts of bad things happening just because omeone didn't call or is late. I have to tell myself off x

Bumping your gums means talking with no meaning or value to the conversation

Not an expression I've heard, is it northern? Sounds a bit rude.

I’ve no idea if it’s northern - I live in Edinburgh so not northern England and not northern Scotland.