I might describe it as more of a dialogue than a monologue, if you see my point.  Dialoguing with WHOM, you may ask? Good question. It feels like just another facet of the perennial puzzle of "How I can be the thinker and the observer of my thoughts at the same time?"  I admit the results are sometimes quite dark and unsettling—again, very similar to dreaming.  Working in this way leads to a very mixed output, I admit. It often looks like a "group show," but I've had to make my peace with it: this is just how it IS.  Now, in my 8th decade, I find myself moving more toward abstraction, seeking images that  can speak in ways quite different from other visual experiences, like photographs or representational paintings. In the computer/digital photography era, we have a vast array of those kinds of images just a mouse-click away.  I prefer now to look past the surface appearance of things.