Constantly. My internal monologue is pretty much just multiple versions of myself arguing different points of views on things. Sometimes shit gets heated.
This reminds me of watching the movie about Professor John Nash in health class. For the next 3 days all any of us could talk about was "what if I'm making you up?"
(For those who don't know, it's a movie about him and his experiences with schizophrenia)
Would it make you more or less frustrated if you imagined you were gym staff trying to explain to someone that they can’t cancel because they never had a membership?
I practice trying to talk a cop out of a ticket, ordering food at a drive thru and then asking for the food to be corrected, explaining why I used the wrong door at work, declining a happy hour invite, etc. Then sometimes later i have to work hard to remember which ones were fake. I catch myself starting to tell a story about something that happened today that didn't really happen.
I have full on, rather extravagant rants in my dumb little brain hole on the regular. They usually start out as one sided conversations regarding some imaginary situation.
Yup, sometimes when I'm dealing with something in real life I imagine handling the conflict in different ridiculous ways. Usually irl it ends up being handled smoothly, but on the rare occasion that the beginning of one of my imagined scenarios come true, I always end up getting a huge spike of anxiety that makes me try to get out of the situation as quickly as possible instead of doing things the way I had imagined