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[turps]

I've been having an interesting discussion over email lately, which led to a question I wanted to ask other people.

At night, or when I'm in the car or even just sitting when it's quiet, I tend to tell myself stories in my head. Nothing I'd ever write down, just things/people I like and think about. I do that with words and occasional images. So it's like a book with illustrations as opposed to say, watching a movie.

My question is. When you think, do you do so in words, pictures or some other way? Or maybe you don't do the story thing at all and think I'm a big old weirdo. In which case, feel free to smile and back away.

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I never really thought of it in terms of telling myself a story, more like day-dreaming even when I do it in bed before I fall asleep. Mostly because I do it pretty much anytime I'm alone; walking to work, walking home, sitting on my couch, etc.

Also, why I'm using the term day-dreaming is because those stories have a somewhat dream-like quality to them. Sometimes it's just random scenes (movie-like), sometimes it's dialogue, feelings, words, any combination thereof. Most of the time it's not in chronological order, always jumping around, mostly because I'm impatient and jump forward to the good bits and jump back to other bits and stuff like that.

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I think day-dreaming is a good way to describe it too. I use telling myself a story because I tend to use words, which to me is like having a mental book that I can add to at will.

Yeah, I do the jumping around thing too. Often I think about my favourite bits over and over. So I get what you mean about having that dream-like quality.