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[Kaila]

Do you sometimes hear a forum poster's words, repeating in your head?

 

[StarSong]

Sometimes, but not nearly as often as I hear my mother's. Do you think the depth of the impressions in are brain are due to our young ages when we heard these things, or the sheer repetition of them?

 

[Kaila]

How many times were they repeated, each one of those?

Could you give an example of a fairly accurate number, for some of them?


If not a total number, could you tell us how often?
Such as one time per year, or once a month, or every day, or every 5 minutes,
for how many years of childhood?

Then, we could ASK in this thread, for someone to do the math!

 

[Kaila]

How many times were they repeated, each one of those?

Perhaps ignore the rest of my previous post,
and just count my initial question, for this thread?

In other words:
How many repetitions were there?

 

[Tish]

Repetitions of what exactly?

 

[Zone]

Yea, of what exactly?

 

[StarSong]

How many times did I hear, "If you don't have it in your head you have to get it in your feet?" (Meaning, if you forget something you have to go back to get it.) Hundreds of times over the course of my upbringing.

So now, whether I forget something in another room, or forget it at home and have to drive back for it, I sigh to myself, "If you don't have it in your head, you have to get it in your feet - or your gas tank."

Don't you have similar bits of parental wisdom echoing through your brain now and then?

 

[Tish]

Yes, I do, then I say, who let my grandmother in?

 

[Kaila]

Do you hear any reply, @Tish ?

 

[Kaila]

Not very much, myself, but
I often hear lines of poetry or song lyrics or quotations,
that I picked up during childhood and adulthood...
Do others of you?

 

[Zone]

Is this not programming/conditioning recall?

 

[StarSong]

Isn't it more like an ear worm?

 

[Kaila]

Why would I have or need one of those,
when I do it all by myself?

 

[Patch]

Wouldn't having worms crawling around in your ears cause significant itching or tickling?

 

[Kaila]

I wouldn't want to find out, would you?

And could we move on quickly, from that unpleasant question, please?

 

[Tish]

Hell yeah, we can, so what were we talking about?

 

[Kaila]

What would we like to talk about?

 

[Zone]

Is everyone ok to share we do in our free time?

 

[Kaila]

Isn't it obvious what we do?

 

[Kaila]

What do you mean by free?

 

[Zone]

Isn’t free means when one is not busy?

 

[StarSong]

Isn't freedom just another word for nothing left to lose?

 

[Kaila]

Do you look for items you lost, in your free time?

 

[Patch]

Why would I look for something I misplaced if my memory is so bad I can't remember I misplaced something?

 

[StarSong]

Generally don't spend a lot of time searching, unless it's something I need at that moment. Haven't you found that you usually stumble over misplaced items in due time?