[HowDareThey]

I have a habit of going off in my imagination and playing out conversations. Either they've happened or I'm going over what I think might happen. The intensity of them is the same as if I was really having the conversation, until I snap myself out of it.

I'm sure a lot of INFPs and enneagram type 4's get this. Out of curiosity, I have this idea to watch my imagination for 5 minutes (give or take) to see how many times I slip into an imaginary conversation. If anyone else thinks this is a good idea, would like to have a go or has suggestions for improving this idea - comment!



A lot of these conversations are negative or play out the sides of our personalities that we repress. This leads to procrastination or we believe deep down that they've already happened.

I guess the point of this, is to show how much we lose ourselves. Also - to bring extra awareness to every moment of our being.

I am an INTJ and I have lots of imaginary conversations and envision lots of hypothetical scenarios. Sometimes I find myself getting really mad, as if the hypothetical conflicts I envision are real. I think I have the hypothetical scenarios in my mind about conflicts because of something triggering old memories of old old conflicts or arguments, and then my imagination takes it from there.

[Mooselord911]

I do this too. I think a lot of people do it. But what strikes me as odd is how intense the conversations are. I have very real emotional responses from imaginary conversations. Like if I am imagining an argument, after I snap out of it I will be really pissed. I don't know if its just me XD

[CamillaVanilla]

haha no its not just you

[HowDareThey]

I do this too. I think a lot of people do it. But what strikes me as odd is how intense the conversations are. I have very real emotional responses from imaginary conversations. Like if I am imagining an argument, after I snap out of it I will be really pissed. I don't know if its just me XD

Totally. I mean for me, too... the conversations and various things I envision are so intense, and I get really really angry at times. I find myself in a bad mood for extended periods-- i can't tell, tho, whether the bad moods are caused by the scenarios I envision, or whether i start envisioning negative things intensely when I'm already in a bad mood. I think something in my environment triggers it, something in my interactions happens, that brings up some unresolved issues for me. Then, my mind goes to town. Word for word snotty conversations with some rude jerk, someone who won't listen, won't give me a chance.

I have noticed that I've gotten progressively less of the helpless feeling as I've become more skilled in real life in being able to deflect bizarre and unpleasant things said to me. But these hypothetical imagined scenarios are as real to me as life, sometimes more is going on in them than in life. But, of course, i daydream a lot too, by choice, and do some creative writing. All that practice with creativity probably just adds to the vividness of the intrusive thougts I sometimes have.

[Absurdist]

I piss myself off so much for how intense my own thoughts and imagination can be, if i try to express something to another person i end up sounding so dumb. I can't articulate these conversations verbally, makes me wish i went to school to write not invent.

[Rez]

I just had one

[HowDareThey]

I piss myself off so much for how intense my own thoughts and imagination can be, if i try to express something to another person i end up sounding so dumb. I can't articulate these conversations verbally, makes me wish i went to school to write not invent.

Well, you can certainly still write... and can approach that in any number of ways... either take further schooling in writing, or join writer's workshops, or diligently apply yourself to writing on your own!

what kind of inventing? did you study engineering?

[gaudy316]

I have a habit of going off in my imagination and playing out conversations. Either they've happened or I'm going over what I think might happen. The intensity of them is the same as if I was really having the conversation, until I snap myself out of it.

I'm sure a lot of INFPs and enneagram type 4's get this. Out of curiosity, I have this idea to watch my imagination for 5 minutes (give or take) to see how many times I slip into an imaginary conversation. If anyone else thinks this is a good idea, would like to have a go or has suggestions for improving this idea - comment!

A lot of these conversations are negative or play out the sides of our personalities that we repress. This leads to procrastination or we believe deep down that they've already happened.

I guess the point of this, is to show how much we lose ourselves. Also - to bring extra awareness to every moment of our being.

I too use imaginary conversations, whether it's out loud or in my head, and I use these conversations frequently.

1. Before getting a girl's number
2. Talking with an ex
3. Talking with someone I have a crush on
4. Getting prepped for business presentations
5. Talking with a hero
6. Praying
7. What to do during the day
etc...

They do help

[Cloudy]

I do a lot of these.... and also u can see me talking alone ... sometimes I think it's scary I believe that maybe one time I will forget it was just my imagination and starting believing it was truth....
I am very intense during these conversations, I have them with my friends... sometimes with m

[Alediran]

I do them all the time. One of my most complex imaginary conversations involves creation as many duplicates of me that choose to defend one side of an idea when I haven't decided yet what I stand for.