Conversations and repeating things in my head

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Sometimes. When I do it though I'm usually bonding with the imagined person in my head to some sort of ideal that i want, and I don't apply the conversation to real life ever. I will play it multiple times.

I will connect ideas and things in my head too, and I know that if I don't replay them the idea will not stick though, and i don't want that to happen. I recently started thinking this was me being manic. It always happens at night it seems, wakes me up and the mood stabilizer I take prevents them.

At this very moment I´m actually repeating a conversation, I just had - trying to rephrase - as if the other person could hear it

Aside from computer programming, which is kind of a dialogue with the machine and the algorithms, I guess there are two places.

One is repeating stressful potential situations, like interacting with the police. Actually police encounters are not much of a potential, but I am pretty afraid about things going badly in them. Then again, I live in the USA.

Second, if someone is saying something important to me, I'll repeat important words from their speech to myself to net it out and help remember it. I try not to do it verbally but sometimes I do in a high-stakes conversation. Again, it seems to come from being afraid of misunderstanding or mis-remembering and having repercussions.