Have you ever had an object disappear and then reappear in your home minutes or hours later?
One example might be (you're alone at home) and you can't find your TV remote which is usually on your nightstand. You search the whole bedroom and then walk away for a few minutes and upon your return it's lying on your night stand clearly in the open! A Google search reveals that there is even a name for it: "Disappearing Object Phenomena". Some folks believe the item slipped into another dimension, there was a time rift, a ghost was having fun with you, or you really are losing your mind and couldn't see something that was literally in front of you! Have you ever experienced this?
Yes, and I'm a big fan of the idea that the item has slipped into another dimension momentarily. It's certainly better than thinking I'm losing my mind!
I agree with you!
Anything is better than believing you're losing your mind!
It happens to my mother inlaw, and she doesn't think she moved it. There are people coming in and moving it. She has her wits about her, but she does have some of these thoughts.
It happens to me all the time because, I pick up the remote and put it down somewhere. I don't remember where that is, so i search until I find it.
Someone gave some advice on how to not have that happen. They said when you put an item down, take a mental snapshot of where you are putting it. It helps the recall, it works for me when I do that.
funny but true ?
An interesting question. I had that experience sort of misplaced the item.
There is a famous psychological experiments demonstrating the limits of attention. Subjects are shown a basketball court with a few players engaged in a game. The subjects' task is to count the number of bounces of the ball within a specified time period. Within this period, an individual wearing a huge gorilla suit walks slowly across the court. Most subjects are unable to report this event. Surely attentional and short memory limitations are a more likely explanation of the kind of daily occurrences referred to above than objects escaping into another dimension?
I always used to blame faeries for this sort of phenomenon.
There's a quite simple explanation for this. You have misplaced the item at hand, completely forgotten where you have put the item and woolah, later you remembered where you placed the item. No supernatural explanation such as the item "slipped into another dimension". It is merely forgetfulness, no you have not have a senior moment. This is a common human occurrence, no more no less.
True that we forget about where we kept the item and it is basically about the smaller things. Usually they are hard to find at the first glance.
That would be easy to accept for the fact the item shows up in a wide open place like the center of a empty desk or where the person always keeps it to begin with.
They checked there initially and it wasn't there.
by Lisa 11 years ago
Have you ever had accolades disappear?Why do I keep receiving the "Great HubPages Citizen" accolade every day only to have it disappear during the day? This has happened for the past 4 days. Has this ever happened to you?
by L. Spikes 11 years ago
Have you ever tried to duplicate a restaurant / fast food item at home? What item was it?How did it turn out? Worse, equal, better?
by JBunce 11 years ago
Has anybody else ever had page views already listed just disappear?Has anybody else ever had page views already listed just disappear? I just had 12 new page views on one hub ten minutes ago, and now they're not there. (And yet the cumulative total is the same.) That's the second time that's...
by Poppy 3 years ago
Hi everyone. This has happened a few times now. Usually when articles are deleted they stay on the unpublished list, but I wrote a hub about a year ago about common types of scams (mainly tech support scams), how they work, and how to avoid getting duped. I distinctly remember publishing it and...
by Susan Zutautas 12 years ago
Have you ever made something for your garden from an item thrown out, and how did you make this?
by jomine 12 years ago
exist-something with physical presence, that is an object (which has shape) and location.in that sense time does not exist.do not agree?please define "exist"also please tell me what is time.for time to contract and expand it should be "something", right?
Copyright © 2024 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. HubPages® is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.
Copyright © 2024 Maven Media Brands, LLC and respective owners.
As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.
For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy
Show DetailsNecessary | |
---|---|
HubPages Device ID | This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons. |
Login | This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. |
Google Recaptcha | This is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy) |
Akismet | This is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Google Analytics | This is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Traffic Pixel | This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. |
Amazon Web Services | This is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy) |
Cloudflare | This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Hosted Libraries | Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy) |
Features | |
---|---|
Google Custom Search | This is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Maps | Some articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Charts | This is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy) |
Google AdSense Host API | This service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Google YouTube | Some articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Vimeo | Some articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Paypal | This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Login | You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Maven | This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy) |
Marketing | |
---|---|
Google AdSense | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Google DoubleClick | Google provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Index Exchange | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Sovrn | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Ads | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Unified Ad Marketplace | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
AppNexus | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Openx | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Rubicon Project | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
TripleLift | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Say Media | We partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy) |
Remarketing Pixels | We may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites. |
Conversion Tracking Pixels | We may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service. |
Statistics | |
---|---|
Author Google Analytics | This is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy) |
Comscore | ComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Tracking Pixel | Some articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy) |
Clicksco | This is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy) |