Life's Parralelisms

[neobi]

Ok there's something I've noticed my whole life and was wondering if other people noticed it too.

For example, yesterday on TV I watched a thing about savants and they had this small section on asian math kids using abacuses really fast...blah blah blah Today I go in the Pav's Picture topic and there's an abacus.


That's just one example but it happens all the time. I'll mention something to a friend that I haven't talked about it years and then the next day I will see something about it on TV. OR I'll learn a new word I've never heard before and the next day I'll hear someone use it.
It's weird cause it's always things that are rare or hardly talked about and as soon as I mention it/learn of it, it starts popping up everywhere.

Anyone else notice this.

And is it because of me saying it that another person says it to another to another and it somehow gets around, or that we watched the same thing on TV, OR is it like some overall mindset that people use based on current situations in society that cause things to pop up more prevalently OR is it just that I notice it more because it's something fresh in my head?

[Red Dragon]

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Parallelisms? Sorry to nit-pick on grammar, God knows I am horrible at it too.

Actually I get that too. Of course Abacus man is a long running (im guessing) joke. I understand where you are coming from. I am prob going to see Parallelism some time today.

[hitogoroshi]

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RD, check the RPGMwiki for the scoop on Abacus Man.
And -, I know exactly what you mean. I've seen that all the time: thinking of some obscure topic, and your friend calls you about it out of the blue.

[Ryner]

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Clearly you're all psychic.

[Red Dragon]

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I do have foresight.

But a short term memory.

It really sucks.

[Chad]

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I've had my fair share. I think one that stands out the most is that the second my friend said on AIM, "My friend Danny says," and a song by Less Than Jake came on titled Danny Says.


Also, the first song I heard in my car after being kicked out of my house was all about how this kid was finally leaving and how he was saying goodbye to his mom and dad. That hit me.

[Zieg Rauros]

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RD, check the RPGMwiki for the scoop on Abacus Man.
And -, I know exactly what you mean. I've seen that all the time: thinking of some obscure topic, and your friend calls you about it out of the blue.

I'm really sorry, but does anyone else find it weird typing "And -" or "Hey -."

Oh yeah, and I think it's just a mental thing actually. You learn something, you notice it, you talk about something, you notice it.

[Owl of Parliament]

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This happens to me too. For example, I'll be thinking of an episode of the Simpsons and it will come on with in days. It's really weird though, seemingly it happens to often to be coincidence. This happens all the time, and everytime I don't make a note of it in my head.

[neobi]

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I'm really sorry, but does anyone else find it weird typing "And -" or "Hey -."

You can call me neonash still; I changed names to try and avoid persecution. Baaah didn't really work. Some people have lightened up a bit though :-)

Oh yeah, and I think it's just a mental thing actually. You learn something, you notice it, you talk about something, you notice it.

Well that's instinctively what I think. It's just that your more apt to pick out that word or whatever when you've recently come across it. But sometimes it's just too coincidental to be that way. Like what Owl was saying with the Simpson's episode. There's HOW friggen many of them, and you watch it all the time and you never see this one episode, then you think of it one day and BAAAM! the next day it's on TV.

It's weird.

Possibly it's the fact that we think and talk about so many things all the time that these occurrences are just bound to happen, and when they do we notice them, not thinking of the 1 million other things we thought of that it didn't happen with? OR it's some supernatural intuition showing we have a slight degree of psychic powers lol I like the psychic powers one but I'm a little more rational then that.

[DYRE]

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Maybe you're just insane.

[Tex Ritter]

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Yesterday, I was talking to my dad about the benefits of making bacon in the microwave. We talked about the microwave bacon rack + splatter protector.

Today I was encouraged to fundraise by selling items, one of them being a microwave bacon rack + splatter protector.

[Alex]

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You're making something out of nothing. Coincidences? No, of course not.

Parralelisms.

[IRC]

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Yeah it's totally weird, I'll go to a porn website and then as if by magic, I'll get an email with poor syntax offering me pictures of naked coeds that are hot for me.


Seriously, I think it's just that we tend to notice similar things. If you see a tv special involving abacuses and then see abacuses later on you make a connection. If you hadn't seen the special would you have placed any special signifigance on the pav picture?

[John Mora]

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Our brains are wired to make patterns out of random data. We specifically remember the parts that we can impose order on and forget the details that are just random.

[Kefka Jr.]

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I dunno. I think the 70 to 80 percent of our brains that we're not always using seep to the front sometimes.

I believe that deja vu is either an occurrence of an event that your mind foretold, or your consciousness synthesizing a memory of the event to highlight it and make it seem as though it happened before.

Or at least I'd like to think that. :3