By this I mean not only the movies we…

By this I mean not only the movies we watch and the books we read but also the many conversations we have about who did what to whom, our posts on social media, our memories, and own thoughts about what we would do in certain situations. These can seem like little episodes we watch in our minds.

— from The Mind in the Cockpit · Narrative Brain: the Stories Our Neurons Tell by Fritz Breithaupt