Have you ever had this happen to you?
You are googling something or following a link from somewhere and you find this article or forum post that really grabs you and draws you in. "Nice job!" you think and then you are startled when you realize that you wrote it.
No, not plagiarized, you wrote it and your name is on it and you put it wherever it is and you just forgot about it.
So then the question naturally comes up: is it really that good or does it just seem good because the writing resonates so well with your mind - why wouldn't you like your own writing style?
I've been writing on the web for many years and this has happened to me a few times. It's a very strange feeling to mentally congratulate yourself and then to wonder if you deserved it :-)
I've never had that happen, but many times I have researched a topic and later had several friends send me links to the same articles that I had read, less than two weeks before... and not because they knew I was researching that topic.
by thirdmillenium 14 years ago
I for one, always go through this phenomenon. All the time. Another very unexplainable thing happens to me. Say, I am trying to remember the words of a long forgotten song and I come across it within a short while in quarters very unexpected. Does this happen to everybody?
by ManlyPoetryMan 15 years ago
I just did...and although I'm not spooked by it...It was pretty vivid for the moment I was in...I'm going to be watching closely to see how details of my day turn out. I feel like there might be a connection to "Deja Vu" moments...and things that we dreamed of ahead of time. Just a...
by Jplanet 14 years ago
What causes a deja vu episode?
by Tonja Petrella 14 years ago
Have you ever experienced Deja Vu?What was it and why do you think it happened?
by thisiknow 12 years ago
How often do you have Dejavu? What do you think it means?It seems that everyday I have dejavu. I will see something that I could not have possibly ever seen before… yet as I look at it, I remember... in detail. Or as I am having a conversation , I know that I have had that exact conversation...
by aoiffe379 15 years ago
Is there a distinctive difference between coincidence and deja vu?I was asked to deliver a box to someone who lives near my job.As soon as I entered the yard,the caregiver could not believe her eyes. She told the person she cares for that I was the lady in her dream.Her dream was that the sea...
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