If you’re like me, and do “thought multi-tasking”, then you’re familiar with the concept of setting a thought aside when something else comes to focus.
This happens sometimes hundreds of times a day, depending upon how busy things are and what’s got priority at the moment.
So here I am, in a typical day, just puttering along doing stuff, with the usual background noise of thoughts buzzing along and shifting for attention.
Then some random song comes on my last.fm playlist and BAM! I’m completing a thought I had set aside…
…set aside from sometime back in 1974.
I know it was from back then, because I also recalled where I was, and what I was doing at the moment. Apparently I was listening to the same song back then because that was the trigger for me to pick this thought back up and finish it.
Funny thing is, I can’t remember what that thought is now. I was so surprised by this realization that I dropped the thought as soon as I completed it to ponder on how strange this was.
O the irony.