Does anyone else experience this?

I often play things out in my head. Like I will sometimes take an event that happened and play out how else it could have gone. I also play out a lot of what ifs like what if the house caught on fire. It's kind of like daydreaming but the content is kind of odd. Sometimes (as awful as this sounds) I almost fantasize- sometimes about killing people, or shooting my dog in the head, or what have you, but you get the picture-- just this weird off the wall stuff. Sometimes I scare myself with all of this. Does anyone else experience this or something similar? If anyone could help me with this or to understand it, that would be great.

during an interview with a psych, he asked me if i ever think about or fantasize about killing someone.....
i said yes and he told me that if i had said no, he'd have known i was lying cuz its perfectly normal and common for people to think about that.

Thanks cottoncandylocks.

I do it too.

Ry

i do the same things--the playing out certain events, talking outloud to myself or to other imaginary people (not hallucinations, just people i imagine) and i have those horrible thoughts, like killing my family members--it's not something i want to do or even think about...anyways, the doc's call these "intrusive thoughts" and it is common in schizophrenia.

My thoughts will also suddenly get very strange and off-topic sometimes, for example, the other day i suddenly for no reason started thinking about the kinds of equipment that fire fighters carry in their big fire trucks...it was weird. Sometimes it's like another voice is thinking things in my head and i dont control it...it's not my own inner voice.

-Becka

Is it a kind of dream
floating out on the tide
following the river of death downstream
oh is it a dream?

-"Bright Eyes" from Watership Down

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during an interview with a psych, he asked me if i ever think about or fantasize about killing someone.....
i said yes and he told me that if i had said no, he'd have known i was lying cuz its perfectly normal and common for people to think about that.

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it;s somewhat "normal" but not when it is constant and uncontrollable.

I think everyone occasionally thinks about killing or hurting someone when they get really, really mad, or everyone might occasionally think "oh, what if i killed someone" but when your thinking constant, detailed thoughts about killing your family--people you love and would never want to hurt, and you cannot control it, it's not concidered "normal"

-Becka

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Don't worry I do it and sum simes I play out whole events and how that mught have gone different had I said or done sum thing different.

Day dreaming of corse even when I'm at school!

It happen to me recently, daydreaming, sometimes passing the road and i imagine the car hiting me in legs and i fall...its horrible, i dont think about killing someone but in my mind i see people killing my family and i see how they do it..i'm really scared.

I've heard that authors of comic books where killing and such takes place on every page often create these works in part to deal with such fantasies. It would be crazy to think that Quentin Tarantino doesn't spend a lot of time doing this too. You are in good company!

I have done the same thing for years.

~Dottie

I often think someone's gonna attack me or kidnap me as i'm walking along the road. I often play that out in my head.