For example, if I'm thinking about a project I need to work on, I'm visualizing all the steps that need to be accomplished, and how I will go about working on them (as well as visualizing mistakes I might make a long the way and working out alternative approaches that have a better chance of success).

It's not so much a conversation as playing out mental animations of everything in my life in an an attempt to discover where faults may occur and to try to discover the correct path.