A Strange Deluge of Thoughts
Thursday, August 19th, 2010So, let me begin by saying: the only thing that relates the two ideas I’m about to write about is… my life.
As per usual, I get the jitters about the fall/winter season during the late summer– being more pensive than usual, silly things like Halloween and snowboarding crowd my somewhat-in-the-near-future-agenda. While my friend and me are discussing what costumes might be cool, and which ones might be overrated (Lady Gaga, durrr), she said that she was going to be a dildo.
Which is great, because she’s not at all revolting or perverted, and she’s a cutie, so she can definitely pull it off. Anyway. She said she went into a sex toy store the other day for research purposes– and strangely enough, the week before I had another conversation with other people about sex stores and its products– and lo and behold, today one of my favorite blogs produce an educational infographic explicating several social studies on the use of sex toys:
After the amazement of this article (i.e. the world’s most expensive dildo is 55,000 $$$), I thought, gee, why are all these things about sex shops and toys happening in my life.
And I remembered this PHENOMENON that most everyone has experienced: the obscure fact or detail you learn about at school, or through a friend, has you all of the sudden seeing it everywhere. It’s like some strange iwndow has opened in your life. And this, as you can see, has nothing really to do with sex toys.
There is a name for it, and it’s as wondrous as the thing itself:
the BAADER MEINHOF PHENOMENON.
from an article on damninteresting.com:
The phenomenon bears some similarity to synchronicity, which is the experience of having a highly meaningful coincidence… such as having someone telephone you while you are thinking about them. Both phenomena invoke a feeling of mild surprise, and cause one to ponder the odds of such an intersection. Both smack of destiny, as though the events were supposed to occur in just that arrangement… as though we’re witnessing yet another domino tip over in a chain of dominoes beyond our reckoning.
It’s too bad my latest B/M occurrence had to be about sex toys. It could have been something less…er… bodily.
Graceee
