dgcate

I know I'm alittle weird (ok, alot weird), but yesterday I parallel parked my 997 for about an hour. Then, as I was walking back to my car, I was on the sidewalk looking down just thinking about some stuff. But, here's the weird part...when I looked up at my car, words cannot describe it...but for just a split second, my car looked "new" to me for the first time...it was like I had never seen it before. From behind, this car is just so cool. So pretty. So aggressive. So "out there", (but in a good way) It's like I thought to myself..."Is THAT MY CAR? It CAN"T be! That thing is absolute georgous! Am I really driving something that NICE?" (Then, obviously, I know it is my car).

I've owned this car now for a year and a half. It usually happens when I park it somewhere where I don't usually go to, so it seems like it happens more when it's viewed from somewhere where I've not been before. And it also seems to happen when I see it from an angle I don't usually see it from all the time. (It's really kind of a cool feeling, kind of like I get a "new" car everytime it happens!)

What's the deal with this? Am I insane?

comments may or may not be appreciated!

Edgy01

You may need some counseling. Or, you need to stop taking those little pills.

dgcate

LOL Going off the meds was a mistake.

OCBen

Daayyaamm . . . it took you that long to get it right? That's some serious OCD if I say so myself.

You know, if you take a driver's ed course, you might learn how to parallel park it in less than a minute.

todd.

Next time that happens see your keys work in a nicer car.

Tinluver

Same thing happens for me.Always look for ward to heading back to the car and staring at that ***

Whisper

Okay, I know that this isn't really the point, but there is actually a neurological phenomenon that acts like this.

It's called "jamais vu", and it's roughly the opposite of deja vu; a familiar object is experienced as unfamiliar. The way cognitive scientists model these is a tiny malfunction in the synchronization between the frontal cortex and the hippocampus.

If the latter races ahead slightly when confronted with an unfamiliar object, you remember something before you consciously "see" it, and thus experience the sensation of having seen it before - deja vu.

If the former activates faster when confronted with a familiar object, there is a moment of seeing that object without having access to memories of it, and this causes a sensation of the object being unfamiliar - jamais vu.

They're both just artifacts of how the brain works, and they happen to everyone from time to time. I think it's kind of interesting to know why, though.

Coochas

Given the briefness of the episode, we'll call it a Transient Ischemic Attack.
I get them too.

abe

Man...the same thing happens to me when I look in the mirror!
abe

OCBen

Most of us generally refer to that as the onset of Alzheimer's.

j/k

Thanks for the interesting post.

Ref.

Sadiq

you too!!??

etmorcus

It might be you have the case of duja ve-the feeling that you have not been anywhere!

Nicolaasdb

I think you need kids....

dgcate

I think you're right

Sharptt

Yeah, after a few kids you'll really have trouble remembering everything