Sudden thoughts

[Dimensional Transition]

I sometimes hear a word or sentence in my head out of nowhere. It's not exactly a voice, it's more some sort of... sudden thought or so.

For example, today when I went outside, I suddenly 'heard' the word 'schizophrenic dog'.

It's not really a hallucination or voice... Just, a thought. It may be something that I've subconsciously made up, or something I've heard years earlier, it's really strange. Sometimes I remember a dream I had a few days earlier again out of nowhere, it's just suddenly there.

Does this phenomenon have a name or so?

 

[snafupants]

The full etymology of the term evades even the most skilled linguists, but a reasonable consensus has formed, and all intensions have been taken into account and distilled into one concept, a brain fart.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

Good, haha.

I figure if it's common enough to be called a brain-fart I'm good. It's very interesting. What could've happened? Neurons accidentally connecting to the wrong other neurons?

 

[Abraxas]

Are you absolutely positive that you 'heard' the words 'scizophrenic dog'? Or was it just something that felt similar?

Do you (sub)consciously question your mental health (i.e. suspect you have scizophrenia)?

 

[snafupants]

Good, haha.

I figure if it's common enough to be called a brain-fart I'm good. It's very interesting. What could've happened? Neurons accidentally connecting to the wrong other neurons?

Could be, but whatever, the added creativity would be enjoyable. We could put on our House caps and suggest grandiose conditions like Wernicke's aphasia just for kicks, if you would rather take that direction. In a more prosaic sense, it may be something like low latent inhibition, which can be extremely stimulating in its own right. Days when you see number patterns, anagrams and weird associations in everything are usually fun and somehow productive.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

Are you absolutely positive that you 'heard' the words 'scizophrenic dog'? Or was it just something that felt similar?

Do you (sub)consciously question your mental health (i.e. suspect you have scizophrenia)?

I just thought 'schizophrenic dog'. Usually it's the name of a song or a band, or of some person. But this time it was 'schizophrenic dog', absolutely sure.

I have never really thought I had schizophrenia... I'm scared of it though, isn't everyone? It's partially the reason I made this thread, to make sure it's not some creepy shit.

@snafupants: Low latent inhibition is awesome, in the right environment.

 

[Abraxas]

But you have suspected this phenomenon to be some 'creepy shit' even before you spontaneously thought of 'schizophrenic dog'? When introspecting one should be very observant and avoid making sudden conclusions.

My point is that if you're thinking something 'subconsciously' you'll eventually end up thinking about it consciously as well. For example, these songs and band names dwell in your subconsciousness, because they're full of meaning that your psyche can understand in multiple ways. Eventually they'll pop up as thoughts during situations that consciously have no relevance to the i.e. name of the song, but subconsciously it's all over the place. Did you ever play a game as a kid where one of the participants would come up with a word and the other participants take turns in making up words that first come to their minds after hearing the previous word? That's kind of the way the subconscious works, roughly said: one word can eventually create a whole universe inside of you.

If I had to think of a reason behind this unintentioal phenomenon...it might have something to do with the 'mental/spiritual' maturation process that eventually unites the 'un/subconscious' with the 'conscious' part of one's psyche, resulting in zero conflict between them.

EDIT: The reason behind the massive/unnecessary use of quotation marks is the attend to avoid any possible semantic arguments.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

No, I thought it was creepy after hearing schizophrenic dog, as it was more disturbing than usual. I don't really think I've been bothered by schizophrenic dogs in my subconscious lately though, haha.

Don't worry about the quotation marks, I do it all the time too.

 

[Abraxas]

Perhaps not literally, but literal is not the way the subconsiousness works...
Anyways we're people with people's problems and most likely we will overcome them, just like all the other species overcome theirs.

 

[Sosekopp]

I had a similar experience a few weeks ago, but with the words "jaw lobotomy" (which sounds like a great name for a metal band).

 

[digital angel]

Is it possible that you were just bored?

 

[Dimensional Transition]

I had a similar experience a few weeks ago, but with the words "jaw lobotomy" (which sounds like a great name for a metal band).

Sounds pretty disturbing ha.

Is it possible that you were just bored?

I had just woken up. Maybe it was some left-over DMT in my brain from the dreams I had before It may have had to do with alpha/theta wave stuff. (I should look into that more)

 

[Vecho]

"ridicule" firstly I had no idea what it means but it randomly popped up in my head.