Do you imagine

I usually do imagine something to do with how the person looks, but it tends to be a little less concrete than what you're saying. For example, I had an online friend that I always imagined as being made of pure light, largely because of her extreme kindness towards me. Even after finally seeing her picture, I would have that image of her. When I was younger, I was often perceived online as being male. In the chat room where I met my husband (over 8 years ago now) I had a main username and then a couple of others I would switch to when I was in certain moods. One of those he found particularly annoying, and was pretty sure was male. It was only after we were living together that he saw me on that same chat room one day using this name that he realized it was me. So I guess a lot of the things you assume about people online can be pretty far off base. I do find that if people have usernames or avatars referencing specific celebrities or characters (mine is an anime character) it tends to color my opinion or image of them pretty heavily.

I do the same thing all the time. When i speak to someone on the phone or if someone is telling me a story i always seem to have this image in my head of either what this person looks like or how their surroundings look. When someone is telling me a story i can visualize how the story played out. It's kinda interesting.

I do the same. Glad to know that I am not the only one!

I think we all get a mental image of those we talk to on the phone if we are talking more than a couple of minutes. I have met people after talking to them for years on the phone without ever meeting and it is almost always a surprise. I can nail their personalities but I hardly ever get their description correct. One time I talked to a person that very quickly into the conversation explained that she was a woman but her voice sounded like a man and I don't mean a feminine man, she had a mans voice. Naturally images of a burly girl came to mind but eventually I met her and she was stunning. If I met her in a bar I would be tempted, if I was still single, to buy her a drink but wouldn't because I would be way out of her league, but man when she talks you look around to see who said it.

Yes I agree with you. I do often give a image to the person and it does happen that the person does not even match upto the image. This has happened many times.

I think this is very common, I do it as well. And I am always surprised when I meet the person and they looked nothing like what I expected. I expect a man with a deep voice to be big and a woman with a soft voice to be small. I think if we visualize them as a person, it makes them easier to chat with and relate to.

I think you create an image of what you would like them to be, based on voice and personality. Sadly often times it can be a let down to find out that that person is not what you imagined. As I tell everyone who talks to-and meets people-online. Be careful...I really don't think I need to state my reasons why.

Ya I use to find myself doing that all the time until I actually started meeting people and seen how bad my imagination really was!lol

My visual image is real person.Of course,if see me,it is very similar.I do not believe your parlance.

Oh yes we do try to imagine what the person looks like by their voices but normally we are wrong when we meet in person, it is funny how we do do this and I do not know why we put these images in our minds, due to most of the time we are wrong.

I think that i can fairly say that i always paint a picture of the voice on the other end or the face on the other side of my computer connection. Chances are that the picture you painted is what you want that person to look like and you just assume the best. At least this is what i do ... LOL!!!

Well I imagine a lot when I am on internet and when we see that whole image changes

this happens all the time when u speak on phone , when u read a book....etc.We start preparing an image in our mind its automatically done.So nothing wrong with it.

I do the same thing, and am usually wrong. Unless, however, I already know the person, then I get it right! I think we all do this and it's natural and sometimes fun, too!

Yes, I imagine like you. It is the usual habit of people while taking on the phone or over the internet. It reminds us about the person.

it is a nice experience to imagine about something and to create a beautiful picture of that .i sometimes when sitting alone used to imagine about something and create a beautiful puicture of that.

Hey SLANDERSON52 even i think exactly the same as you think and as you feel.Even whenever says me something or when they explain me anything i just imagine things as if they are happening right around me.I really enjoy imaginning.

yea i do imagine what the person might be looking like or doing when respopnding to phone.i dont know about others but i feel others also may be imagining