Do you imagine a scenery when in conversation?

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When you are talking or listening to somebody in a room for a number of minutes do you imagine yourself in a different scenery?
For example, does this scenery compose of a town or a place you have visited?

I always imagine myself being in a town or place that I have visited, I don't choose to imagine this scenery yet my mind shows a place that I have visited and displays it like a static photograph.
When I am talking or listening to the person I feel as though I am in this town that I imagining and the person I am talking also blends in with this imagination, it really is a bewildering experiece and sends me drifting off from the place I am standing, it is cinematic virtual relality at it's best..

Sometimes the scenery changes like a slideshow and I am suddenly in different town, the quality of the scenery that I am imagining is very realistic but is difficult to describe because it is like daydreaming and being concious enough to work and concentrate on the person or subject I am talking about.

Can anybody relate to this?

Do NT's experiece this or is it something that only unique people like us can experience?

Well, I am probably AS, but I DO know precisely what you are talking about! Just last night I told someone(Who is ALSO AS BTW) I can basically live 2 lives simultaneously. One in the real world, and the other as you described.

Steve

Sure, basically. anything can go through an aspie mind, at any time.

I'm not sure whether my question was understood properly.

Let me explain further.....

When you are talking/listening to somebody you are aware of the person you are talking to and the room and environment you are in, but when I talk/listen sometimes I no longer become aware of the room/environment and I imagine being in a particular street in a town I have visited or familiar with. This image that my mind creates is a static image like a photograph and I begin to imagine that I am in that scene whilst still listening/talking to the person.

When this experience does happen, like today, I cannot help but feel that I am alone is this phenomenon, and that no one (NT's) or perhaps the exception of a few AS's can experience this..

I need answers...........

Can anybody relate to this experience?

There have been times when I basically did things as you. Almost like the part on battlestar gallactica with baltar on the base star. (He was in a hallway, talking to a cylon, and viewed it as a forest or some such.) Usually it is just something else though. Outside of the statements triggering a nostalgic, enjoyable, or relevant memory, I don't have it exactly as you do. ALSO, the two can seem very real, but I know they aren't, if you know what I mean.

Steve