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#1 2005-03-01 17:54:47
- Palomar
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Re: Parapraxis
*Or "Freudian slip." I encounter them a lot in the course of my typing throughout the day. The timing of the "slip" is what puzzles me the most.
For instance, 5 minutes ago I was thinking about fictional characters in a story: Husband and wife (very much in love), initially separated by fate, then reunited.
A moment ago I had to type "Overlake" (a proper noun): I typed Lover instead. :-\ Which is, of course, the first 5 letters of the word "Overlake" switched around.
Earlier today the perpetrator in a national crime case was in the back of my mind. I had to type the word "rate"; what came out instead was "rage."
Some of these occurrences are trivial, some are surprisingly complex. But what really gets me is the timing; it's as if my mind is subconciously looking out for an opportunity to type out what really is on my mind. But that's still not an adequate explanation, because it (the convenient word which will be "switched") usually appears currently -- not 30 minutes later; now.
???
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#2 2005-03-01 18:14:49
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Re: Parapraxis
For me it's most apparent in dreams. At least three times over the last 15 years I have figured something out in a dream and woken up to say "That's it!"
I think it's sort of like trying to remember something and you just can't. If you just go on and don't think about it for a while it usually comes to you without you even trying.
There's something there, in our subconcious. I think's it's smarter than we are and trying to gently show us the way.
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#3 2005-03-02 12:08:37
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Re: Parapraxis
"Meddle East" comes to mind, a typo here a few months back. Overall though most of my typing slips are neither mumourous nor seem to have any other meaning. Just bad typing.
EDIT:: Case in point, what the hell is "mumourous"?
There's something there, in our subconcious. I think's it's smarter than we are and trying to gently show us the way.
Possibly. I must admit that one of the best pieces of advice I've ever gotten came in a dream. Who can say how the mind works...
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Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
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#4 2005-03-03 08:21:57
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Who can say how the mind works...
A neurologist.
If that is the best advice you've gotten, that goes a long way towards explaining your point of view. 
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#5 2005-03-03 09:44:32
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Hmmm... Cocoa beans, heehee!
(see another thread)
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#6 2005-03-03 09:51:27
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Ringtones generated four billion dollars in sales around the world in 2004
And cost what to produce?
Snake oil will finance humanity's expansion into space. Who knew you could burn the stuff as rocket fuel?
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Give someone a sufficient [b][i]why[/i][/b] and they can endure just about any [b][i]how[/i][/b]
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#7 2005-03-03 09:52:44
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Way to be on topic, Mr. Administrator.
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#8 2005-03-03 10:13:42
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Way to be on topic, Mr. Administrator.
Free association from Rxke's sig. . .
This is a psychology thread, correct? I was merely giving an example of how the mind works.
Give someone a sufficient [b][i]why[/i][/b] and they can endure just about any [b][i]how[/i][/b]
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#9 2005-03-03 10:19:57
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Hmmm... Cocoa beans, heehee!
(see another thread)
*Rik.
Teehee.
Good point, though. But I was just a wee lass (bonnie, though -- a *bonnie* wee lass [and still bonnie as a matter of fact]) in the mid- to late 1960s (and therefore -not- guilty of any excesses or illegal stuff in the pop culture of the time).
Cocoa beans forever.
Speaking of chocolate, I'm eating some right now. 
<Looking out for my next Freudian slip>
--Cindy
P.S.: Another strange thing about FS typos: Sometimes none occur for days, then suddenly 1 day they happen in droves. :-\
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#10 2005-03-03 10:24:46
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I was merely giving an example of how the mind works
Or dosen't, as the case may be.
Free association, eh?
Then explain why I 'associate' you with a big top hat, ivory cane, and broad charming grin slightly concealed by a roguish snow colored goatee. Laughing out loud, gesticulating with your free hand towards the sky, "step right up, step right up, and embark upon a journey of the mind, an adventure of the soul, where dreams are dreamt and hero's made!"
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