@other comments on here:
I’m “hot” and I do this to the extreme that I’ll get mad at a real person for interupting my internal monologue with an imaginary future person or remembered real person. It doesn’t have anything to do with what you look like on the outside; I bet there’s some jacked psychology involved. But yeah, focusing on paying acute attention to what you are actually doing at the moment helps, or forcing your thoughts to do a running dialogue play-by-play of the tea brewing instead of remembering a conversation you had when you were 12, going ‘I SHOULD have said this’ then they would have said ‘This’ and I would’ve gone ‘Oh’ all cool like… because then some real person watching you brew the tea will say, “What ‘oh’, did you get the wrong flavor tea?” Then – startled – you’ll say “What?”
Exactly.
