At work yesterday I spent probably a little bit more time talking than I usually do while actually on the clock. The first half was just talking to my one co-worker, the closer, since the other night cashier does not come in until an hour after I start due to the fact that is in college and takes the bus into the city, and that is just how the timing plans out. Shawn, the closer for the night, told me about an interesting concept.
Let me start with simply saying that I do not believe in ghosts. But I have always been prone to stay away from situations that might end up changing my mind on that stance. I mentioned this to Shawn because he asked me if I believed in them or not, when I was teasing that there must be a ghost in the gas station the previous night, who was to blame for knocking over the Mentos container. He told me that he saw a documentary called something like “What the Bleep Do We Know”, and it was about how the part of the brain that we do not actually use partially controls our reality. Which, I immediately thought of the Matrix and how ridiculous that theory is.
But then he used an example.
The example he gave me was a situation in which a family member of mine should buy a specific type of car, say, a red Volkswagen, and after seeing their new car, I suddenly notice that I see a lot of red Volkswagens… But they were there the entire time. The mere fact that a family member now had one made it significant to me, and now suddenly I would start to notice it.
Which hit home, because recently I have been sort of dealing with this. Just, not really dealing with a car.
But it makes sense, you know?
I really want to actually see this documentary. He said he wanted to see it again, too, so he was going to try to find it, and then maybe I can borrow it. Or I’ll search around Youtube and the like to see if there is any of it there. Either way, it’s interesting.