Is it normal to have a constant personal reflection, a retrospection for everything you do or think? What I mean is a constant personal narrative. Like the show/character Dexter. (minus the theme of Dexter’s personal reflections which are about homicide or dismembering people).
Is his personal narrative inside his mind regular besides that?
I think so. That narrative might be “Me awake now, me eat now, me crap now” but I think it’s there in everyone.
There are lots of things that I don’t think about before I do them; I think it’s these that I normally end up reflecting on the most later on!
Normal is a pretty vague concept, but I don’t think it is necessary to have an ongoing narrative. A constant ongoing narrative even seems problematic to me. If I am fully engaged I generally do not have the available consciousness to take a metaposition on myself except for the occasional comment.
I think its ok, I don’t do it personally, I mean i reflect on everything, but not in a narrative way, I don’t think I’d have the time to do that. Maybe you are part of a TV show…
I’d say normal but not necessary. We tend to spend a lot of time either reviewing the past or planning the future. There’s nothing wrong with that, and it’s certainly to some degree necessary, but I think it’s possible to have a healthier relationship to that dynamic. We think a lot more than we have to. It’s as if our thinking is oversized, like a dinosaur - on one level it’s simply not efficient.
Living inside your head is like a trip. You know where you are, though it seems to be hardly there, you dig?
living inside your head like the ty-d-bol man
-Imp