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Here's another piece of randomness:
Does anyone else ever imagine that they are having conversations with someone? I don't mean in a looney-tunes type of way where you think they are actually there, but just setting up a dialogue in your head with an imagined someone that helps you work through your thoughts. I almost feel as though I don't properly articulate what I am thinking/feeling unless I imagine myself telling someone about it. I find lately (since I have been out of school) that I imagine talking to my professors about random details of my life and thoughts that I would never actually tell them in person (partly b/c I don't like discussing my personal life with anyone in a position of authority over me). Honestly, a lot of isn't even stuff that I would tell someone, it is more that that is the way my brain has chosen to process thought--through the mode of dialogue. I wonder if it is partly because I am out of school and really miss having intellectually stimulating conversations--I also wonder if it is because I feel like I need a parent figure in my intellectual life. As I am writing this, I realize that LJ is another form of this "thinking through dialogue." I don't really plan my posts, I kind of just write as I think, but the writing (which I consider to be dialogue) is essential for me to actually formulate the thought. I think it is interesting that I can do this with LJ b/c I have never been able to keep a journal, and I think that the reason is that I feel that I am having a conversation with all of you.
Sorry for the excessive randomness.
XOXO.
Does anyone else ever imagine that they are having conversations with someone? I don't mean in a looney-tunes type of way where you think they are actually there, but just setting up a dialogue in your head with an imagined someone that helps you work through your thoughts. I almost feel as though I don't properly articulate what I am thinking/feeling unless I imagine myself telling someone about it. I find lately (since I have been out of school) that I imagine talking to my professors about random details of my life and thoughts that I would never actually tell them in person (partly b/c I don't like discussing my personal life with anyone in a position of authority over me). Honestly, a lot of isn't even stuff that I would tell someone, it is more that that is the way my brain has chosen to process thought--through the mode of dialogue. I wonder if it is partly because I am out of school and really miss having intellectually stimulating conversations--I also wonder if it is because I feel like I need a parent figure in my intellectual life. As I am writing this, I realize that LJ is another form of this "thinking through dialogue." I don't really plan my posts, I kind of just write as I think, but the writing (which I consider to be dialogue) is essential for me to actually formulate the thought. I think it is interesting that I can do this with LJ b/c I have never been able to keep a journal, and I think that the reason is that I feel that I am having a conversation with all of you.
Sorry for the excessive randomness.
XOXO.