RE: Ask me anything - the social interaction experiment. 1SBD prize
I also am a big fan of that particular Fightclub quote(and the movie as a whole). I do enjoy the rambling. I think there should be more rambling in this world. One of the points that stops me talking to groups of people is, on the off chance a subject I am interested in comes up, if I start talking with any amount of real detail about a topic, peoples eyes quickly glaze over (I am a fan of run on sentences too). Small talkers don't want details. I have on several occasions stopped talking mid sentence to see if anyone even notices and usually its a resounding no. I guess you could say that my lack of 'social' skills or my 'shy quietness' does not come from any fear of rejection or similar anxiety, it's from learned behavior. Just as the 'regular folk' have no interest in in depth discussion, I have no interest in discussing 'nothing' although I would quite enjoy an in depth discussion about the concept nothing. Side note, If you call it 'Stream of consciousness' instead of rambling, it has a much more professional sound to it.
Fight Club is one of my favorites movies, I have played it for friends before and they say "it's just a bunch of guys fighting and a shirtless Brad Pitt" and then fall asleep... Painful.
Sometimes I start talking and I see people just lose interest and I think I most be pretty boring to them and I do the same thing as you do, I wait to see how long they notice I stopped talking, sometimes they don't even notice. With time I started to act the same to then, I just lose interest to their boring "normal" conversation, if it isn't interesting or new my brain enterns into hibernation mode (pretty usefull for political and religious fanatics).
I like the "stream of consciousness" thing, sounds much better than rambling, it even sounds deeper, I'll start using it.