Discovered: Another Superpower!

[kaasirpent]

Man, I have a lot of these. I just realized another one that I've been taking advantage of for a long while. At least this one is positive and doesn't harm anyone or anything, unlike KaZot.

If I know something, but can't call it up at the moment, all I have to do to jog it loose is to either email or IM someone else and ask them for the information.

As soon as I press the final ENTER (for IM) or SEND (for email), the answer pops into my head.

For example, today I asked bigmeanie in IM: What is <a mutual e-friend>'s real name? Bob...something. I can't remember.<ENTER>

And then the answer popped into my head. So I immediately typed it, said "never mind" and thanked her for her help.

She's used to this. :)

And it's all about the intent. I don't have to actually ask the question, as long as I state some sort of stand-in for the real information, implying that the other person should help me out and supply the real word/name/term.

For example, today I said to telleestmavie in IM: ...that movie with the nuns and Whoopi Goldberg.<ENTER>

And then immediately typed "Sister Act" because my superpower kicked in again.

I think I shall call this one: E-piphany? Post-piphany? Something along those lines.

Comments

[citabean.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I do the same thing quite often. More odd, I watched Sister Act and Sister Act 2... ok, slept through most of both of them, but I watched them! :)

[craftsman.livejournal.com]

Piphan-ee Since the E comes afther the "piphany"

[etherial.livejournal.com]

Once, at a party, trying to remember a friend's name, I asked, "Leah, what's your first name, again?". Leah was, of course, her first name.

[oxlahun.livejournal.com]

I think the "Word Fugitives" column in The Atlantic found a neologism for this a few years ago.

Must not have been very good, though. I don't remember what it was. And I still remember dozens of sniglets from, like, the early 80s.