The world is a creepy place.
So, anyway, I'm fairly certain that the world is constructed for my sole benefit.
I believe that other people are, well, people, and that their lives are mostly more important than my own.
HOWEVER, it seems to come up shockingly often that I'll be talking with somebody about something, and then not more than a week later, that same theme will come up, again and again.
Recently, it was talking about bungalows, and then bungalow was the word of the day.
This time, it's throwing shit out. After cleaning the office, Lisa and I are planning on doing a purge of our own stuff. Randomly, the Martha Stewart site had this article:
http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?type=content&id=channel2560058
This is not only exactly relevant to what we were talking about, but says many of the same things in the same way. (it also talks about some additional things, which I found quite interesting).
I know that this phenomenon is explainable in other ways. I know that the human brain tries to pick patterns out of chaos, and that this is an illusion. But it happens CONSTANTLY, and I find it alarmingly irritating.
<sigh>...
My foot's feeling better today, though. I can hobble around better than I could yesterday. :-) Horray! It's starting to bruise, too.
posted by Shawn Vincent at
3:12 PM
2 Comments:
This happens to me too. I'll often learn about something by chance, and then a week later it turns out to be really useful for something. Like you say, this is probably just an example of our brains finding patterns in chaos. Learn some new fact amout emus, and for a short while afterwards you'll be sensitized to anything to having to do with emus. Also, our memories are kind of selective. We remember interesting coincidences. We forget boring non-coincidences. :-)
Oh agreed. It just happens often enough to be irritating.
And, of course, if the entire world was a fiction constructed for my benefit, the same effect would be observed, eh? :-)
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