Double Flee A

me: Did you just ask me if I was hearing voices?
wife: No.
me: Well I guess that answers that question.

That was the first thing I said today. It got a laugh.

It started me to thinking that some people can, using their imaginations, construct a series of conversations, imagining many voices that interact and make up jokes with one another and become successful comedy writers, while other people who have a similar experience are chronic schizophrenics. What's the difference between these two examples of uncommonly nonboring people?
How does one person keep it real while the other fails to?
Why are some of the voices funny and others tragically mordant?
Is my assessment that a comedy writer hears voices way off base?

posted by dale @ 7:53 AM