is it normal to imagine yourself as someone else ?

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https://junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2019/3/25/imagining-being-someone-else-and-personal-identity

https://junkyardofthemind.com/blog/2019/3/25/imagining-being-someone-else-and-personal-identity
Imagining Being Someone Else and Personal Identity
Some philosophers interested in personal identity have claimed that not only can we imagine being someone else, but also that we can imagine being someone else from the inside or, as it is sometimes glossed, from a first-person perspective (Ninan 2009, 2016).
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https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fighting-fear/201308/be-yourself-vs-being-somebody-else

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fighting-fear/201308/be-yourself-vs-being-somebody-else
Be Yourself vs. Being Somebody Else | Psychology Today
It is often said to someone who is anxious to make a good impression, just be yourself. What that means is, I think you are fine. You do not have to pretend to be someone else. This is…

https://www.reddit.com / r / MaladaptiveDreaming / comments / q450f0 / visualizing_myself_as_someone_else_habitually_for

https://www.reddit.com / r / MaladaptiveDreaming / comments / q450f0 / visualizing_myself_as_someone_else_habitually_for
Visualizing myself as someone else (habitually for years)
I often have this strange visualization of myself as other people, especially when I am in social situations. I sort of see myself talk through other people. Like when people are looking at me when I talk, I imagine they are seeing the face of someone else – like I AM someone else. Maybe it stems from not having a concrete enough self image or …

https://www.reddit.com/r/MaladaptiveDreaming/comments/wx5mg1/constantly_imagining_yourself_as_someone_else

https://www.reddit.com/r/MaladaptiveDreaming/comments/wx5mg1/constantly_imagining_yourself_as_someone_else
Constantly imagining yourself as someone else? : r … – Reddit
I think of these moments more as just being in his mindset instead of really daydreaming. My MD also very much involves the other related characters and their lives apart from those mindset moments. Just wondering because I constantly imagine myself as him and I am a little worried this might be beyond just MD. This thread is archived.

https://www.wikihow.com/Fantasize-About-Someone

https://www.wikihow.com/Fantasize-About-Someone
How to Fantasize About Someone: 10 Steps (with Pictures … – wikiHow
Part 1 Getting Comfortable Fantasizing Download Article 1 Remember that fantasizing about something and acting on it are very different things. Does fantasizing about someone other than your partner mean you are going to cheat? Does fantasizing about someone of the same sex mean you’re a homosexual? unlikely. [1]

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2009/06/23/ability-to-literally-imagine-oneself-in-anothers-shoes-may-be-tied-to-empathy-83132

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2009/06/23/ability-to-literally-imagine-oneself-in-anothers-shoes-may-be-tied-to-empathy-83132
Ability to literally imagine oneself in another’s shoes may be tied to …
New research from Vanderbilt University indicates the way our brain handles how we move through space—including being able to imagine literally stepping into someone else’s shoes—may be related to how and why we experience empathy toward others. The research was recently published in the online scientific journal PLoS ONE.

https://psychologenie.com/what-do-imaginary-conversations-with-yourself-signify

https://psychologenie.com/what-do-imaginary-conversations-with-yourself-signify
What Do Imaginary Conversations With Yourself Signify?
The society does not consider imaginary conversations with oneself, normal. As this is not freely accepted, people who feel comfortable in carrying out such conversations, tend to feel awkward about this habit. However, not every person who talks to himself, suffers from a disorder.

https://screening.mhanational.org/content/types-intrusive-thoughts

https://screening.mhanational.org/content/types-intrusive-thoughts
Types of intrusive thoughts – MHA Screening
If your thoughts are bizarre or paranoid, you might be experiencing signs of psychosis. For example, you might feel like the FBI is watching everything you do, or that someone is trying to poison you. You might even see or hear things that no one else does. Psychosis can be a sign of a mental illness like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.

https://philarchive.org/archive/WIRIOB

https://philarchive.org/archive/WIRIOB
Imagining oneself being someone else 12thJune2014 – PhilArchive
1. Background Imagination is a fascinating feature of our mental life. We can imagine many things, even what is clearly physically impossible. It is probably also an uncontroversial truth that much of our imagining revolves around ourselves in some sense.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362040071_Imagining_oneself_being_someone_else

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362040071_Imagining_oneself_being_someone_else
Imagining oneself being someone else – ResearchGate
Abstract. Sometimes, one can imagine, in virtue of having some experience, that one is someone else having some property. This is puzzling if imagination is a guide to possibility, since it seems … lesoutrali bot