My inner dialougue oftnen takes the form of me writing a journal entry trying to explain my life. At other times its a dialougue. But mostly it likes to babble.
yeah, lately mine has sounded a little like an lj entry i know i'll never write:) i wonder if everyone has the tendency to try to explain him or herself and the situation in their head.
when yours is a dialogue, is it you providing the voice of someone you know ("and if so-and-so heard me saying this, they'd say...") or is it just another you voice?
Mine does some of the things yours does; it also repeats the same phrase, or variation of it, over and over like its making excuses for me to other people. I'd tell you the phrase, but ... I don't know, I'd feel like I was telling a secret.
i don't blame you for not wanting to say:) like what i said about being glad people can't read minds. it's nice to have some things that are just yours...
I have three inner voices, and I exploit them in my journal entries. Poor things. They actually don't talk much, only when they're really pissed about something or when I sit down and tell them to talk or when I want to go to sleep. And they like to repeat catchphrases again and again.
ok, your voices... insomnia is the only one i remember specifically named in your lj. am i just being a bad friend and forgetting others, or are they integrated in your narrative?
and what are their catchphrases, if you don't mind being so revealing:)
Heh, no, I would forget them if I blinked. Switzerland and Lauren are the others. Lauren is the sort of dumb one who writes everything, though. And there aren't any "defining catchphrases." I meant more that one day, Insomnia will be mumbling "irrational exuberance, irrational exuberance, irrational exuberance, irrational exuberance" and another day it will say "quagmire, quagmire, quagmire, quagmire" and it doesn't like to make sense out of its phrases, just say them over and over.
ah:) kinda like i have days when i think at everything i find mildly displeasing, "you make me wanna puke." i went shopping the day after thanksgiving for an hour or two, and man, i wanted to puke like eighty times. maybe it was cause we kept walking by abercrombie...
My inner voice writes poetry while walking home. It also sings quite a bit, picking up the last song it heard. It's really fairly rational, aside from the poetry - I think it just tries to describe and explain everything.
poetry--that's interesting. i suppose it's like when my brain writes stories. it tends to leave off the plot part, though:) i get the symbol system all worked out, imagery, ignore characters and plot. *sigh* stupid brain:)
describing and explaining things... i can only assume when you say that, you mean/think the same thing i do. i wonder why we do this? doesn't it seem a little superfluous, since we can see things, experience them? why do we need to write it out longhand, so to speak?
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when yours is a dialogue, is it you providing the voice of someone you know ("and if so-and-so heard me saying this, they'd say...") or is it just another you voice?
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The voice is my own, it could be a more cynical side of me, against a less cynical one. Or a sane side trying to calm down a less sane one.
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They actually don't talk much, only when they're really pissed about something or when I sit down and tell them to talk or when I want to go to sleep. And they like to repeat catchphrases again and again.
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and what are their catchphrases, if you don't mind being so revealing:)
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And there aren't any "defining catchphrases." I meant more that one day, Insomnia will be mumbling "irrational exuberance, irrational exuberance, irrational exuberance, irrational exuberance" and another day it will say "quagmire, quagmire, quagmire, quagmire" and it doesn't like to make sense out of its phrases, just say them over and over.
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describing and explaining things... i can only assume when you say that, you mean/think the same thing i do. i wonder why we do this? doesn't it seem a little superfluous, since we can see things, experience them? why do we need to write it out longhand, so to speak?
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