Conversations in your head and people's presence/absence

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Pretty often actually.

I usually do that when I'm in bed before I go to sleep, but I usually don't imagine the person's responses in detail because I don't know what they will say. I typically end up not having the conversation in real life.

I use conversations in my head with people, as a coping mechanism to deal with the fact that I'm very bad at consciously trying to figure out what someone is going to do... It's like practice.
I can sometimes let myself... I don't know, maybe it's like I feel the answer.

I know my subconscious picks up all the cues that a person gives off, all the inflections in words, and the hidden meanings... it's just that the interpretation of those cues doesn't just get delivered to my consciousness... And remembering them all to consciously figure out is beyond me.

So, I need to just really let myself... I don't know.. I guess the word is feel... the answers I would get from saying/asking someone something. Sometimes it lets my subconscious feed me the answers.

Maybe it's a form of self-hypnosis.
Hrm... you know... a lot of my coping mechanisms, that I use to manage being social, have qualities like self-hypnosis... I might try to turn this into a thread.