Movies in your head
I don't remember if I've replied to this or not or if it was a similar thread, but yeah I have this. I never figured out how to turn it off and never really thought to turn it off. The idea that others don't have this constant series of stories/movies of their own creation in their heads to entertain them is something I am aware of but then MY mind thinks 'what replaces it or is it just not there and if so isn't that empty and boring and too quiet and on and on'. The idea of not having it for myself unsettles me as I've done this as far back as I can remember. I think it started partly from imagining characters taken from books and TV/movies plus ones I created myself as singing in a band when the radio played in the car as well as the usual 'make up a story to continue past the end of the book I'd just finished reading' that I think a lot of people do or at least the people that write fanfics likely do. I rarely have success writing these stories down as my brain does not have a pause function or rewind once things get going. If I try I can reply a small bit over and over before it has a chance to grow into much more than the start of a story - like the bit of a TV episode shown before the title plays.
This is a large part of the reason I enjoy role playing online, especially if allowed to control the story and make up the story universe or use one I'd made years ago in my head(my stories are less like movies and more like long running TV shows without titles, credits or commercials). I accept that I may come off as a bit odd or confusing.
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I started doing this when I was around 15 I think. I was obsessed with the kids' site Neopets, and made up stories about my little family of pets all the time. When it got too hard to keep track of where I'd gotten in my story, I started writing them down and have been creating short stories for almost five years now. I have 42 of them and counting, 40 of which are finished. Every once in a while I'll go back and revisit my mental stories because the characters are far more vivid there, but it's been a while.
I also create music videos in my head when listening to the radio; my characters sing and dance and do all sorts of interesting things.
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I do this fairly often. I just think of random, crazy events happening with some people from my life and a lot of made up characters. They get put in some kind of ridiculous scenario, like a gang fight or a war battle (The scenes are usually pretty violent and dramatic). I also think of various ways in which an upcoming event I'm involved in could turn out, and they're always really exaggerated or unrealistic, and don't ever really come close to what actually happens.
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I have those "making movies in my head", but never in a level which I can make it a book or screen play. New scenes are creating in my mind once in a while. But usually the same scenes run over and over in my head, when it change a little in each time. Or I just think about the protagonist. How he looks, how he will react to one situation or another. Usually situation I find myself in. And I don't know, just feel what he feels.
It can be on random characters, but I also kind of have a story contains three generation which I was quite obsessed with.
It also happen to me when I read. I really see the scenes in my head, and when I re-read the book the same scenes run again added by new ones. Therefore it is usually quite hard for me to see a film based on book, when it formed like a movie in my head when I read it before.
Sometimes when I really get really disconnected, I just dream of people flying. With wings, broomsticks like Harry Potter, or in null gravity like in Ender's Game.
Also when I hear powerful music some scenes run through my head, or if I'm listening to the same song over and over it is really forms into clip.
It sometimes bothers me, when I need to be concentrate. But many times I perform tasks which I don't need much concentration... and I can let my mind go....
I'm really curious - how on earth did you manage to switch it off? I find it extremely difficult to switch off stories that I compose in my head like this.
I don't really remember. It was just necessary otherwise I would fail.
Then I became social (I hung out with people but still didn't say much) and completely left the world behind. Now I'm semi-social plus have many different interests that I don't have to switch it off. It's still on in a way but it's not just my screenplay in my head. It's those social rehearsals or usually me being interviewed for some sort of self-advocacy.
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Yeah. Imagined Colonel Graff from Ender's Game was played by Mike Dupod (Canadian actor) and I never really accepted the fact that it was Harrison Ford playing him. He was totally wrong anyway. Graff was supposed to be likable and sarcastic but also cold at times - not cold at all times. He's been in a few of my films. So has Michael Shanks. Sometimes I turn real actors into my characters. Those two are possibly playing roles in my screenplay.
What made me finally like the film for all its changes and what it left out was reading the 2005 screenplay. Both different from book and final film and some parts were just ridiculous. Jet propulsion packs on their backs in the Battle Room. Some parts did explain more but they spoiled the ending early. There were lots of Ender's Shadows references. It was an interesting interpretation. There was far more violence too.
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I literally just found this forum a few minutes ago., after trying to figure this out for my whole life. Never been diagnosed with anything, but I have definitely experienced this exact same thing for as long as I can remember, only in my case it is usually accompanied by some involuntary stimming. I'm male, and my main characters were usually male too. I too borrowed from cartoons and other movies when I was a kid, but now I use my own characters and evolving story lines. Some of my earliest memories are of putting Tigger and Pooh Bear in the star wars universe for whatever crazy reason.
I do this ever since I can remember!!
God, and if I put some music I start to imagine them so vividly that it goes to the point that, if I'm walking on the street for example, it can be dangerous because of how much I get absorbed by my imagination.
I love doing this!
I also love to create trailers for my favorites movies and games that fit with the epic/symphonic or whatever song that I'm listening.
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