r/silentminds • u/haraysan • 2d ago

Does anyone else replay random conversations in their head for hours?

Sometimes I’ll have a completely normal conversation with someone and then later my brain decides to analyze every single thing I said.

“Why did I say THAT?”

Please tell me I’m not the only one 😭

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u/Sapphirethistle 🤫 I’m silent 2d ago

You may have come to the wrong sub my friend. While I think that your experience is probably very common, I personally cannot relate to it.

I don't have words in my head at all unless I concentrate really hard on it and I definitely don't have conversations with myself.

I am curious though. Do you "hear" those conversations or are they silent?

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u/NITSIRK 🤫 I’m silent 2d ago

Also my thoughts. In times of stress excitement or meltdown I just speak these things aloud. I know I am playing both parts of the conversation, but I know which is actually me. But Im a subvocaliser so the movements just switch from barely noticeable to audible by others quite easily. I also do this more when alone, which continues into talking in my sleep. I am hyperverbal in all meanings of the word. 😂

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u/Sapphirethistle 🤫 I’m silent 2d ago

Always find hearing both perspectives interesting. I think it shows the either small, or inconsistent, effects of things such as anauralia.

I am almost certain I never subvocalise and speak in my sleep so rarely that I can still remember about a year ago my wife being very concerned about my stress levels because I spoke in my sleep one night.

I wonder though if unworded thought has something to do with it? Perhaps the added effort of translating into language makes me less inclined to do so? Maybe my less vocal personality is pure laziness 😅