Mental Quirks

(Two interesting observations I've made in the last couple of days.)

I've been listening to a lot of Chopin this week. (That's a good thing.) But I didn't realize how much it affected me. We have metal poles in our (full) basement that support the main beam across the floor, and when they're hit they have a loud metallic ring. Last night we were down there playing and one of them accidentally got hit and it rang out a specific note. Immediately--without waiting for a "that reminds me of" or anything like that--my mind starting playing Chopin's Revolutionary Etude, of which the metal pole had played the first note.

And just this evening I conciously heard my brain talk for the first time. I've been able to form my thoughts into words for as long as I remember, but this was the first time I had a thought--coming from my "subconsious," as Freud would have said--that came to me in an already formed sentence, like hearing someone talk. Of course, what it said was, "Well look at you, now--you're not so bad, are you?" which made me laugh.