existentially silly but profound questions?

Q1 Have you ever woken up in the morning to find a crazy person had come during the night, to steal all your things, and replace them with exact replicas?
Q2 who was sewing in the haystack anyway, and why?
Q3 have you ever had a memory of a future event?

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Hahaha.. Thats like going breaking into some ones house.. and not stealing anything.. and you know for the rest of their lives.. their going to be like.. WHAT DID THEY STEAL… WHAT WAS IT.. :P

Thanks for being hilariously exsistential! You're great!!

<3 and light,
Ashley

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A memory of a future event…
One night I had a dream about some peacock feathers that a friend had given me that I kept in a vase on my window sill.  In my dream I woke uo and read in my Book of Dreams that dreaming about peacock feathers was a bad omen.  When I awoke it all seemed so real that I threw away the feathers, sure that they were bringing me bad karma.
The next day I was telling all of this to my roommate, and when I went to show her the book there was nothing in it at all about peacock feathers.
But it all seemed so real!

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Perhaps they weren't sewing in the haystack, but rather actually sewing the haystack itself.
Just a thought…
;)

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Do you see with your eyes or through your eyes?

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From Rilke's Eighth Duino Elegy:

The Eighth Elegy

The creature gazes into openness with all

its eyes. But our eyes are

as if they were reversed, and surround it,

everywhere, like barriers against its free passage.

We know what is outside us from the animal’s

face alone: since we already turn

the young child round and make it look

backwards at what is settled, not that openness

that is so deep in the animal’s vision. Free from death.

We alone see that: the free creature

has its progress always behind it,

and God before it, and when it moves, it moves

in eternity, as streams do.

We never have pure space in front of us,

not for a single day, such as flowers open

endlessly into. Always there is world,

and never the Nowhere without the Not: the pure,

unwatched-over, that one breathes and

endlessly knows, without craving. As a child

loses itself sometimes, one with the stillness, and

is jolted back. Or someone dies and is it.

Since near to death one no longer sees death,

and stares ahead, perhaps with the large gaze of the creature.

Lovers are close to it, in wonder, if

the other were not always there closing off the view…..

As if through an oversight it opens out

behind the other……But there is no

way past it, and it turns to world again.

Always turned towards creation, we see

only a mirroring of freedom

dimmed by us. Or that an animal

mutely, calmly is looking through and through us…

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Nicole,

I never got around to thanking you for this response, though l must admit I'm still, 3 months on, trying to comprehend it.

an eccentric Aussie.

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Q1~ I believe this is an experience known as surreal displasia (yep, I just made that up).  Sometimes when I wake up, I feel as though I am in someone else's body, rifling through other peoples' things in a lame attempt to understand the purpose or concept of the stuff around me.  On those days, I'm convinced someone just traded out all my things for mirror copies in order to confuse me and mess up my morning.  No evidence thus far suggests I'm wrong. :o Xb

Q2~ Clearly the person who lost their needle was trying to make a skirt.  They were in the haystack hiding their lack of britches and the needle was in a vain attempt to construct some sort of primative skirt in order to vacate the haystack with some sense of propriety.  Unfortunately that person was then startled by a lowing cow and dropped the needle, thus the vain attempt to locate the needle in that haystack began.

Q3~ Yes, actually.  And it's quite strange.  I often have dreams about people I've never met having conversations.  Then when I meet these people later, I whisper the conversation to whomever is with me as the newly met persons carry it on in real time.  It's always very amusing.

Amused,
Centri

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Centri I find your answers more interesting than my questions, thank you, blessings,
Mike
and I think the person sewing the skirt must have been French as they regularly scream, Oh La vache! when startled, shocked or even mildly surprised - Oh the cow! I think you've found the answer to two questions, you are clearly gifted in all things: tayloring, vegeteble & bovine- I can't imagine that a hay skirt would be nearly as becoming nor as comfortable as a grass skirt- unless it would becoming itchy.

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Perhaps the skirt may be itchy, but if one is so inclined as to be herding animals, I can't imagine a better way to get the lardy beasts to follow, can you?

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Oh, I love question three!

Every day, when I'm heading up to my office, I get to walk by this beautiful poster (courtesy of our Explorations catalog) that says, against a backdrop of the Earth rising over the pyramids, ”Visions of the past… memories of the future.” I love this reminder of the crazy and wonderful and surprising flexibility latent in the universe, and your third question reminded me of that, too. :)

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For Q3- I've had several instances of a cross between deja vu and a premonition.  Its like remembering having seen the future while itds happening.  I know I couldn't have been in that exact same place with all the same people standing in the same way, but I've seen it before, maybe in a dream.  Too bad its never anything useful, just random images of people waiting outside class, or tree sap.  Fun. 

As for Q2- probably sewing a grass skirt actually. 

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I always thought the needle in the haystack had something to do with Dorothy's fascination for the Scarecrow's reproductive parts??? 

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Do you feel like you are diagonally parked in a parallel universe?

Why do 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name?

Is a conclusion the place where you got tired of thinking?

Why is experience something you don't get until just after you need it?

Why is it that nobody notices what you do until you don't do it?

Have you considered a clear conscience might be a sign of a bad memory?

Should quantum mechanics be the dreams stuff are made of?

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Bow to the Master Andrew!  Great stuff!

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Ummmm…riiiiiiiiiiight….and while we're at it….

How do you know if you dream in color if all you dream about is penguins in the snow?
:-D

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Penguins have to pee you know.  lol

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LOL :-D Classic Steven Wright line :-D LMAO
Oh no…I dream in Technicolor…and Never about penguins :-D
How boring would that be? LOL

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How do you know if you dream in color if all you dream about is penguins in the snow.
Appearently you doubt, which would mean that you should visit the zoo. Life isn't black and white. Ever. And so dreams aren't. besides, is the qeustion even relevant? what needs to be answered?

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do you feel like you are diagonally parked in a parallel universe?
No, I am a collapse interpretation attainer of Quantum-mechanics, parallel universes do not exist.

Why do 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name?
I wonder if they do.

Is a conclusion the place where you just got tired of thinking
If you are good, never. If you are not so smart, then yes. For a conclusion that it is not-solvable is a very normal conclusion.

Why is experience something you don't get until just after you need it?
Is it? I don't get that very often. If I have a need for something I will have to learn. Who am I to think I can just do things without practice? sure many things I can. but just as many I can't. I don't see how this is existentialistic. Perhaps one should wonder if one needs to not look to easily at some aspects of life. and enjoy the moments when we are attaining this 'experience'

Why is it that nobody notices what you do until you don't do it (anymore)?
Because appearantly you are doing it wrong.

Have you considered a clear conscience might be a sign of a bad memory?
I think a sign of clear conscience is a sign of good self knowledge.

Should quantummechanics be the stuff dreams are made of?
As a quantum mechanic, I know it already is ;)

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I rarely dream, like once every five months, and they normally last a few days (i.e. I'll dream one night, and the next night I'll dream of a continuation of the first dream, and so on). But I have had a couple of dreams which ended up coming true. The first I can think of is when a space shuttle was lifting off and ended up exploding, though I can't remember it's name. The second time was 9/11 (when terrorist took over some planes in the US and crashed them into some buildings). Which was creeping since I was telling my friend about that dream when the principal came on the intercom to tell us about it.

And I have to defend my future kind, 99% of lawyers aren't bad Andrew. Just a couple of them… like 85% or something…. Though it's probably becames lawyers take different sides on each issue, so no matter what you believe there will be a lot of lawyers who disagree and will fight against you. We're too competitive for our own good…

-Jenn

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On the contrary Jennifer on the personal level I've found law practitioners to be very nice descent people.

I've had some very entertaining discussions with them.

The secret is to make up your mind not to take yourself too seriously.

All the best lawyer jokes were made up by lawyers.

The courtroom is a stage set up to entertain a jury who then decide which side put on the better performance

(I believe the answer to the question is those 99% are very good actors.)

an eccentric Aussie

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Andrew asked
“Why is it that nobody notices what you do until you don't do it?”-

because they aren't registering noticing, until it stops?


“Why is it everybody notices the mistakes you make,
but are blind to the good you make”?

Selective blindness, maybe?

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Q1: No
Q2: Bertha
Q3: no, a memory is a recollection, and thus needs to be the past. I can only think that my future is exactly as I suspected it to be, and blame it on foresight.

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Why do people look up so little?

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Q3 have you ever had a memory of a future event?

I have never heard anyone ask that question.  Kind of spooks me out, because the answer is yes, I have…and I’ll even share it because we’re all a little weird here, so why not?  I was standing outside during my lunch hour four or five years ago, and the girl next to me was popping her bubble gum and I suddenly –remembered that at some point in the future I will sense the scent of bubble gum, and recollect this place fondly. 

K that’s all I have, but I’m not kidding.  : )

The other two questions–dunno.

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Q1: I can't say that I have, but I did come home one day and find a leaf on my bed.  Maybe some crazy person broke into my house to make the charitable donation of one leaf?

Q3: I have.  One episode of deja'vu was so intense I actually managed to force it forward to see what would happen for the next thirty seconds.  Nothing big happened, but enough to tell me I was exactly right in the memory.

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Q1 Yes, but I didn't mind.
Q2 They were sowing seed because it is fun.
Q3 Yes but I don't remember much then.
Thanks for the great questions.

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“Do you feel like you are diagonally parked in a parallel universe?”

Yes, frequently. (I loved that line!)

Q3:  I do this frequently as well, although usually it is pretty mundane. But, it usually marks a period of time that seems to show me that I'm on a path that I feel is the right one. I'll share my story of the biggest example of this.

Several years ago, before I ventured into the computer industry in my career and I was just learning to use a computer, I had a very vivid dream that seemed quite boring but bizarre. I dreamt I was sitting in an office with lots of computers (cubefarm, before I knew what they were) and looking at the screen in front of me. It was filled with all these strange icons and lines connecting them like a hieararchy of some kind and numbers under each icon. I had never seen anything like this program and couldn't imagine what it was for, but the picture stayed in my mind clearly. Fast forward about 4 years, after I had worked in computer support for a couple years, I landed a job with Boeing supporting their airplane parts & plans software. This stuff was wildly new for me and took me a long time to really comprehend, but when I finally did I was one of the key people in the group. The first day I actually got to sit down & see the software program, I brought up the first screen and there was the exact screen that had been in my dream, complete with the icons that had part numbers underneath & the lines that connected them with the plans. I was dumbstruck. This job was integral to where my career subsequently lead, and I ended up meeting my husband after we both survived 3 different layoffs and were put on night shift together. It was a big demonstration to me that the dream was about a pivotal point in my life, because had I not worked there nothing in my life would be the same. Pretty cool.