I had to park in the back of the good lot, which is in someplace further than the next lot. It made no sense to me at all. Why would people get up early on a hump day and go to work. Well, the answer, I believe, is a mysterious force that connects everyone.
There are a lot of books and movies that attempt to describe the concept and some get closer to others, but it is a very vague idea. I think the best way to know it is to experience it and notice it when you think it happens. In the movie waking life, there is a discussion of the rough idea, here is the transcript:
I like that. It's like there's this whole telepathic thing going on that we're all a part of, whether we're conscious of it or not. That would explain why there are all these seemingly spontaneous worldwide innovative leaps in science and the arts, you know, like the same results popping up everywhere independent of each other. Some guy on a computer figures something out, and then almost simultaneously a bunch of other people all over the world figure out the same thing. They did this study where they isolated a group of people over time, you know, and monitored their abilities at crossword puzzles in relation to the general population, and they secretly gave them a day-old crossword, one that had already been answered by thousands of other people, and their scores went up dramatically. Like 20%. So it's like once the answers are out there, people can pick up on them. Like we're all telepathically sharing our experiences.
Their conversation deals more with knowledge in the collective memory that people subconsciously tap into. While extraordinary, this is very subtle and you could do it everyday without knowing it. What I'm trying to get at is the real time version of this phenomenon. Today, hundreds of people went to work at Thomson earlier than usual. I have no idea if there are any statistics on what days people come in the earliest and it might be a coincidence. But I don't think so, mostly based on the fact that I never get to work that early. There was some pull that got me out of bed and in a rush to work. And I think it pulled a lot of other people here too.
Think about this: have you ever been doing something or feeling a certain way and talk to someone who is doing or feeling exactly what you are? It's kind of creepy. But it happens, a lot. Its a common group mentality that any given group will all have roughly the same emotion. There is rarely a split where a group of people are very happy or very sad. Last week I went to a bonfire with my friends and we were all surprisingly happy. It was surprising because we all had been not been doing anything exciting for the past two weeks and so for us to suddenly be okay was out of place. In the moment it was perfect though. Because when you have a unexciting week, you just want to be happy and so by our joined will, we were.
This also happens in very strong relationships. Not just romantic relationships either. I guess connection would be a better word to avoid the confusion, but I think that two people's connection is a part of their relationship. Best friends rely on each other to be there and the reason that that best friend is the best is because your relationship/connection is strong. I've had a lot of recent experiences where I'm doing or thinking something and I will tell a friend and they say that they were thinking or doing the exact same thing. It seems strange, but it also seems very fitting that they are my friend. It's like, oh yeah, that's why were close. Because we not only think alike, but we feel alike across unsaid distances.
If you have felt this way, then be proud of it because a lot of people don't understand just how strong our connections with others are and seeing that important.
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Yes yes yes yes. I know exactly what you mean.
ReplyDeleteI could write a really long comment, but instead I'm not going to say anything and understand that you know what I mean without me having to say anything.
The idea of a subconscious collective $something seems a little woo-ey for the part of me that wants/needs some scientific backing before I believe something.
ReplyDeleteThat said, the idea of a connection between two people being really strong on a sort of unconscious level makes a lot of sense.
I'm not willing to attribute it to the subconscious collective (band name?), but instead to the idea that people who are similar are drawn to each other. Maybe both consciously and unconsciously, but generally, people who think/feel alike, run into each other.