Hey Seuss,
I have had this experience for as long as I can remember. I don't think I actually ever "hear" voices but I have constant conversations that are largely onesided in which I am arranging and rearranging stories and experiences. Often it is fun, but it is usually triggered by stress and it can become rageful and painful. I can lose the entire day talking alone and I can talk alone in public. My family and boyfriends find it very disturbing, largely because they assume I'm talking about them. My father thinks I'll dissociate one day and never return. But, it hasn't been happening lately. I hadn't even thought about that until I read your post. Maybe it is because I talk all day at work, maybe because I have not had a single drink in months, or because I've changed cities. But, who knows?
I do know that, like you, I find it difficult to find information about what exactly I experience. It's soothing, but it's also addictive behaviour. It is stress related and it can help with loneliness. I dissacociate from people when I feel they have hurt me, when I'm bored and when I feel angry and lonely in their company. And then, I was always a lonely, only and abused child. My half- sister grew up in another city, and she hears actual voices. She has been diagnosed as Pschizotypal. Myself, Bipolar and Borderline.
Mindfulness, staying active and busy have been the only things that have helped me. Largely, staying busy. And never drinking.
Hope this helps.
