Making Connections

[Riley]

Does anyone else make connections between two or more completely different things? I wanna see if I'm the only one or not. Also: Can you tell me if I already did a thread like this?

My connections:

• Season 3 of American Horror Story bears a vague resemblance to the House Of Night series; Mostly do to the leads both having "Zoe" as/in their names. I also compare Coven to the obscure children's series The Worst Witch.
• Speaking of Ryan Murphy: His television series Scream Queens, in hindsight, is quite similar to (in)famous book series The Clique, as both center around a group of popular girls. Only...Ya know...They're college age, so Murphy wouldn't get jailed.
• The Emperor's New Groove, Zootopia, and Suicide Squad are the same species. They all feature singers (Eartha Kitt, Shakira, and Jared Leto), they're famous for cut material ("Kingdom Of The Sun," the shock collars/Wilde Times, and all those deleted scenes), and what not.
• Directors Michael Bay & Joel Schumacher, to me, are reality's answer to Daggett and Norbert Beaver from the classic Nicktoons show The Angry Beavers.
• Wuya from the obscure 2003 cartoon Xiaolin Showdown was the female counterpart of Lord Voldemort.

 

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[Judge]

In other forums it's a common duty of mods to merge threads created on the same issue or theme. Maybe Brent can authorize permissions for the mods to do this.

Effectively reducing the creation of multiple threads on the same subject. Much less confusing. Seems to me a single generic thread called "Fictional Film and Literary Characters" would do just fine within the Obsessions and Interests category.

 

[jamesaldrin]

Yes.
Dusk Maiden of Amnesia, Elfen Leid, and Air are three animes with 13 episodes about a supernatural girl, and each of the girls has a hair color different from the others (purple, pink, and blonde, respectively).

 

[Bolletje]

Yup, you already made several posts like this.

 

[Sylar]

Can you tell me if I already did a thread like this?

Yes you did, you brought up the Ryan Murphy Scream Queens and American Horror story thing in this thread.

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[Shawn D]

I am constantly making obscure connections between seemingly unrelated things. It's automatic and frequent. It's one of the reasons it's hard for me to engage in casual conversation with NTs. They'll say something and I will instantly think of something else entirely that, in mind, pertains to the topic, but comes across as non sequitur and weird to others.

 

[abby normal]

I always seem to be tellin' folks, "gee... that reminds me of ......... "

 

[LyricalMuse]

Yes... I do this! I'll be having a conversation with someone and they will say something that will spark a chain of connection, then I will say something that appears to be completely unrelated. When this happens, I will often tell them how I got from "A" to "C", or even "D", "E" or "F". Fortunately, my husband is always fascinated by the way my brain connects information and he loves to hear how things are connected.

 

[Karen S.]

I do it all the time, if I bring it up, they look at me like I have two heads. Then they wonder why I don't talk much! I believe it is due to our hyper-active brains, always searching for answers, very quick, desperately trying to succeed at something!

 

[tree]

"Apophenia is the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena."
apophenia - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com

"Although all living things recognize patterns, humans may be the only ones to assign symbolic meaning-sometimes deeply nuanced or with powerful emotional content-to those patterns.

Apophenia is a normal human experience. It's not usually pathological..."
11-11-11, Apophenia, and the Meaning of Life

Being Amused by Apophenia

 

[qwerty]

Apophenia is so beautifully illustrative of humanity.

 

[Uhura]

Here is my opinion. I focus on details a lot. So there are times I have taken a detail of what someone is talking about and connect it to a detail of another topic. So to me, the two topics match perfectly because the details do. But since the main ideas of both topics don't go together, most people see what I am thinking as 'off topic'.