Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Explicame

I need to document this before I forget. I mean, I probably will forget, not because it wasn't an important piece of life, but because my memory has been failing me more and more often as of late.

Anyway, earlier, about half an hour ago, I was riding the bus to work and something odd happened. We hit a bump in the road, a little bubble formed on the top of my coffee cup (it rose from the sipping hole on the lid) and all at once I felt the strangest pang of...something.

It's difficult to describe. The best way I can think of to explain this mini phenomena is to liken it to deja vu, but it wasn't deja vu. It was the complete opposite, really. Deja vu is when you feel like you are going through something you've been through already. It's like you are reliving the past, but it's really the present. You just feel like you've done it all before. This, however, was like I was living the future before it happened. It was so incredibly odd. I've never felt that way before. There was a rush of excitement and knowledge. I can't quite explain it.

A quick Wikipedia search is showing me all kinds of things related to deja vu, none of which compare to what I am talking about. The term jamais vu is closest, meaning "never seen", but it's still not right. It's more like, "not seen...yet".

All things are weird and strange before we find their explanation.

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