Sometimes when listening to some particular song (off Ocean Machine or Ulrich Schnauss' record for example, something super atmospheric anway) I have that attack of strong nostalgia feeling, very odd one since it isn't attached to any memories. Kind of weird, incomplete impression, like data reader in my head was aimlessly trying to read something off the blank disk. It doesn't have anything common with music sounding nostalgic itself, when I've heard OM first time in my life, never hearing anything similiar before I instantly had that odd feeling of recalling nonexistent memories.

Also I have that funny thing with falling asleep on the train - I'm falling asleep and dream about sitting in the train exactly like I do when awake, with only difference train in my dream is swarming with people. Happens to me all the time and doesn't make a tiniest bit of sense. Also have few slighty OCDish rituals, avoiding lines on the pavement (sometimes), starting to read magazines always from checking last pages etc.

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So, do you have such glitches in your head? Small, quirkly little things that feel unusual and doesn't make much sense? Post it for general pointing and laughing purposes. Or not.

Small glitches of one's mind? I guess the only think I can think of right now would be certain OCD things - such as making my bed right before I go to sleep even if I made it earlier, washing my hands before touching my things even if they're clean, making things neat and in order, etc.

I suppose that can be categorized as a glitch, depending on who you are and how you view such things. I personally don't view OCD as a behavior/developmental disorder... but I'm biased, for I have OCD...

Hm, maybe how I sometimes form new words, or say things backwards can be concidered an example of a glitch? I don't mean to, it just happens out of the blue. Someone once suggested that my mouth can't keep up with my brain.

Fun thread though. :)

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The amount of information that all your senses take in every second of your life would suggest to me that the things you aren't conscious of sometimes get stuck in the filters of your mind, and that other stimuli "trip" them through, melding the two disparate things into a singularity. I don't think that's a glitch, I think it's your brain's way of keeping you sane, so that all the detritus of stimuli that you process doesn't overload your brain.

I have far too many echoes in the matrix to list, but I love all of them. In the off chances I get to ponder them, it's fun to reckon what got them stuck there in the first place.

I've reorganised three quarters of a huge shop before they stopped me. Everything in alternating colour order. Red-back-red-black, etc. ANd if there was no difference, they I alternated which side was being viewed.

I've also had cases of what I will fondly call "Fuzz Outs." The entire world just becomes a blur four about a minute. ANd I mean every sense. I've been in the middle of eating dinner and then I can't taste it and I can't see properly or hear anything apart from a white noise, and it feels like my entire body is going through pins and needles, but I'm still perfectly aware of everything.

I've also had times when I think I'm doing something, then have to do it again becuase I was sleeping, or only imagining it, but it was so damn vivid I didn't realise. xD

As a kid I used to get into this weird state alot when concentrating on an object. I would lose all sense of how big things were, like, my hand would look really tiny or the newsman's head on TV would look too big. At the same time voices sounded strange and/or too loud.

As for OCD stuff... I count tyre bolts on cars and busses all the time. Makes me feel good.

I too, get that unwarranted nostalgic feeling sometimes. As we know, time isn't a straight line. When I met my current shnookums (she hates being called that, so I'll say it here) a red light went off in my head-I could have sworn that I had met her before. The first thing I said to her was, "Don't I know you?" I'm fairly shy and am positive that I've never made that mistake before-what are the odds? It reminds me of a feeling I've experienced under certain hallucinogens: That I was simultaneously in 3 dimensions/worlds at once doing the exact same thing, one being in the past, another in the present, and the other in the future. According to string theory it kind of makes sense though there's supposedly an infinite number of dimensions/worlds.

I believe reincarnation self's all exist simultaneously outside of time, (including future one's), there's also connections to probable self's, and counterpart self's, that is people existing on an almost identical vibration as yourself, sought of like partners in incarnation. Maybe what your feeling is something like a 'bleedthrough' of realities.

Exactly...Anyone seen "The Fountain"?

Oh yeah...what a great movie

I've also had cases of what I will fondly call "Fuzz Outs." The entire world just becomes a blur four about a minute. ANd I mean every sense. I've been in the middle of eating dinner and then I can't taste it and I can't see properly or hear anything apart from a white noise, and it feels like my entire body is going through pins and needles, but I'm still perfectly aware of everything.

That actually sounds kind of serious, especially if random?

I've also had times when I think I'm doing something, then have to do it again becuase I was sleeping, or only imagining it, but it was so damn vivid I didn't realise. xD

Ooh, I have this one too, sometimes I just turn off and when back have completely no idea how long I've been daydreaming. Bit of pain in the ass in work or on subway, when you have no idea where you are for a moment.

I've read somewhere that about 30% of human population (or maybe US population? whatever) have some kind of phobia, personality disorder or another problem with the head. Looks like being completely normal is less unusual than you'd thought,

If personality disorders, phobias, and etc are grouped together, than I wouldn't be surprised that its at 30%.

I have tons of 'glitches' I think. But I don't know if thats just me being all no self confidence or whatever.

I have a phobia which effects me about 90% of the time. So it affects everything I do, choices I make, sometimes even things I say. In turn, it means I HAVE to keep myself constantly busy mentally wise. I can hardly ever fully relax, and sometimes when I do it makes me panic. So, in relation to it, I have some OCD behaviours too I think.
I have interesting mood swings too. Whether it really is a mental condition or not, I have no idea.

But then, I've always 'joked' about feeling insane and strange. I've never ever felt like I've 'fit in' with people. And I've felt that from about 6 years old.

I have a phobia which effects me about 90% of the time. So it affects everything I do, choices I make, sometimes even things I say. In turn, it means I HAVE to keep myself constantly busy mentally wise. I can hardly ever fully relax, and sometimes when I do it makes me panic. So, in relation to it, I have some OCD behaviours too I think.
I have interesting mood swings too. Whether it really is a mental condition or not, I have no idea.

But then, I've always 'joked' about feeling insane and strange. I've never ever felt like I've 'fit in' with people. And I've felt that from about 6 years old.

Hope it isn't too severe, social phobias suck.

I found few days ago about something called "avoidant personality disorder" (didn't know it exists before) on the internets, and it seems to fit me like a glove. Could be a case of raging loserdom though, traits are similiar - I'm still not sure if some disorders weren't invented for people to have excuse for being assholes

I have a phobia which effects me about 90% of the time. So it affects everything I do, choices I make, sometimes even things I say. In turn, it means I HAVE to keep myself constantly busy mentally wise. I can hardly ever fully relax, and sometimes when I do it makes me panic. So, in relation to it, I have some OCD behaviours too I think.
I have interesting mood swings too. Whether it really is a mental condition or not, I have no idea.

But then, I've always 'joked' about feeling insane and strange. I've never ever felt like I've 'fit in' with people. And I've felt that from about 6 years old.

Hope it isn't too severe, social phobias suck.

I found few days ago about something called "avoidant personality disorder" (didn't know it exists before) on the internets, and it seems to fit me like a glove. Could be a case of raging loserdom though, traits are similiar - I'm still not sure if some disorders weren't invented for people to have excuse for being assholes

Haha - It's not actually a social phobia (In a sense, anyway) It's difficult to explain. I suck socially anyway, but my actual phobia is unrelated. it just happens to effect everything. Like dominos I guess.

And I've heard of Avoidant PD before. I don't think it's made up though. Although some may seem it. I guess after awhile though it gets a little hard to class mental disorders and such, due to everyone being different.

And I've heard of Avoidant PD before. I don't think it's made up though. Although some may seem it.

My favourite bit of information about it is that there aren't any sufferers support groups, because sufferers are avoiding each other. Proper Groucho Marx style psychology

hey, haven't posted here in awhile but this is a pretty cool thread

Hmm, glitches of the mind

I don't know if everyone experiances this, but, when I wake up in the morning I usually always put on some music. No matter what medium I'm using whether it be headphones or stereo system, I always seem to imagine the music going at a faster pace when I've just woken up. Doesn't matter what music it is, everything seems to go at a faster tempo than normal. It's only when I've just awoken and lasts about ten minutes. Strange...

I have a tendancy to mix words up alot when I'm speaking or use words incorrectly in a sentance even though I know the word doesn't belong there. I guess because I talk too fast for my brain to comprehend what I'm saying?

When I was young, I sometimes had a strange thought that what if the world as I knew it only existed through my own eyes? I would sometimes trick myself into thinking that everytime I turned my back, whatever was behind me would morph or transform or disappear altogether. Stranger still, sometimes I'd imagine people out of my line of sight would turn into demons that would be slowly sneaking up to pounce on me, but I would always turn my head back in time before they got the chance to strike and they would go back to their original form. Yes, wierd I know.