In a dream, do we not remember anything at all,
as if there were another lifeline therein, untouched by time:
born into the dreaming, we die back into this solid flesh.
Tim
8:22pm tuesday, 8th february
I saw "Secret Window" the other day. Johnny Depp has hallucinacions in it. Do people hallucinate by speaking to themselves or is that hollywood theatrics?
Stand
6:41am wednesday, 9th february
No, I actually have videotape of myself doing exactly that. I have also seen other people doing it, too.
Tim
5:20pm thursday, 10th february
So you were speaking to yourself...and you could see yourself? as another person...who looked like you?
Stand
8:15am friday, 11th february
No, it looks like one is talking to himself, but it is actually to other, imaginary people — that only that person can see and/or hear.
Tim
5:35pm friday, 11th february
Ok...the movie just showed Depp at times talking to John Turturro (imagined by Depp)...but later in the movie Depp is shown talking to ...Depp...so I guess when Depp was shown talking to ...Depp...he was really speaking to someone else he was imaging (not Turturro)...I am just trying to get a grip on what is it like to actually talk to/see someone who, in reality is not there...
Stand
6:27pm friday, 11th february
Perhaps I misunderstand, not having seen the movie. But I believe either is possible, talking to oneself in the sense of what is visible to an outside observer, while speaking with imagined people in one's head; or actually talking to a visage of yourself. One of the people I talked to in my mind was, in fact, a version of myself. The mind is capable of much....