Inexplicable Weird Feeling About Some Random Words

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StrangerInAStrangeLand

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I am probably 1 of the few best spellers on this planet but sometimes when I look at a word, it does not seem right to me. Sometimes I look it up & confirm it is correct. Sometimes I do not as much need to look it up yet the feeling persists. Usually they are ordinary words not related to each other.
Anyone else experience this?

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As another 1 of the few best spellers on this planet, that hasn't happened to me yet.
 
Yes, it happens.
To me occasionally an absolutely ordinary and frequently used word appears odd (some kind of misspelt), but this feeling goes away once I cross check the spelling, it does not persist.
 
StrangerInAStrangeLand said:
I am probably 1 of the few best spellers on this planet but sometimes when I look at a word, it does not seem right to me. Sometimes I look it up & confirm it is correct. Sometimes I do not as much need to look it up yet the feeling persists. Usually they are ordinary words not related to each other.
Anyone else experience this?

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I'm mild dyslexic and a atrocious speller, probably not ideal example but even with my poor history of spelling I occasionally find I look at simple words like "the" and "and" wonder if they are spelt correctly

I also have problems remembering people's names

Those are two of my best points :)

:)
 
StrangerInAStrangeLand said:
I am probably 1 of the few best spellers on this planet but sometimes when I look at a word, it does not seem right to me. Sometimes I look it up & confirm it is correct. Sometimes I do not as much need to look it up yet the feeling persists. Usually they are ordinary words not related to each other.
Anyone else experience this?

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Generaly western 1st world society is organised by a very stringent class of process.
This is modelled through the passing on and discemination of knowledge.
humans are a creature that has emotions that defy basic cause and effect as an interactive social model to the individual expereincer.
this, you could potentiate as the individual mind.
Religous folk might call it a soul, while easy discription can be defined as "the self"

analog measurement of quantatative data is not qualatative in its binary form.

this form of culture that defines class formed observation allows interpretation to be not only in the now, but also in the past.

if you understand what i have written(& or wish clarification) i will continue.
 
RainbowSingularity said:
Generaly western 1st world society is organised by a very stringent class of process.
This is modelled through the passing on and discemination of knowledge.
humans are a creature that has emotions that defy basic cause and effect as an interactive social model to the individual expereincer.
this, you could potentiate as the individual mind.
Religous folk might call it a soul, while easy discription can be defined as "the self"

analog measurement of quantatative data is not qualatative in its binary form.

this form of culture that defines class formed observation allows interpretation to be not only in the now, but also in the past.

if you understand what i have written(& or wish clarification) i will continue.
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But nothing else is like that. Either I know something is wrong or I suspect something is wrong & investigate. Only with these random words do I have that weird feeling.
I just made a typo in this post, saw it & fixed it. No problem.

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I can usually tell at a glance whether a word is spelled correctly.

My father used to read voraciously but he was a terrible speller. I couldn't understand how he could see a word and not know how to spell it - but I eventually realized that everybody doesn't have that ability. (He would also hear a word and still mispronounce it.)

This computer has spellcheck turned on, so I can just tweak a word until it's accepted. The spell checker is inordinately fond of hyphens.
 
StrangerInAStrangeLand said:
I am probably 1 of the few best spellers on this planet but sometimes when I look at a word, it does not seem right to me. Sometimes I look it up & confirm it is correct. Sometimes I do not as much need to look it up yet the feeling persists. Usually they are ordinary words not related to each other.
Anyone else experience this?

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I have experienced this before.
 
Write4U said:
I think that some otherwise mundane words can have a special meaning in context of some earlier event and become "trigger words" for a specific empathic response.
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Nope it was more so staring at words for several minutes and seeing the letters as weird and nonsensical.
 
gamelord said:
Nope it was more so staring at words for several minutes and seeing the letters as weird and nonsensical.
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Ok, must be a mental thing, perhaps similar to an optical illusion. The brain can come up with some very interesting interpretive solutions to cetain visual stimuli.

This may be of interest;
Synesthesia,
Despite the commonalities which permit definition of the broad phenomenon of synesthesia, individual experiences vary in numerous ways. This variability was first noticed early in synesthesia research.[18] Some synesthetes report that vowelsare more strongly colored, while for others consonants are more strongly colored.[17] Self reports, interviews, and autobiographical notes by synesthetes demonstrate a great degree of variety in types of synesthesia, intensity of synesthetic perceptions, awareness of the perceptual discrepancies between synesthetes and non-synesthetes, and the ways synesthesia is used in work, creative processes, and daily life
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia
 
Write4U said:
Right, I said "similar to". It would still be a mental trick the brain plays on you.
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And we can be fooled about which sense is telling us something. I was walking to work once, with headphones on, listening to heavy metal music. A car turned nearby and I "heard" its fanbelt squeak. After a moment I asked myself how I could hear anything with that loud music playing. Then I realized I smelled burning rubber.
 
sideshowbob said:
And we can be fooled about which sense is telling us something. I was walking to work once, with headphones on, listening to heavy metal music. A car turned nearby and I "heard" its fanbelt squeak. After a moment I asked myself how I could hear anything with that loud music playing. Then I realized I smelled burning rubber.
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If your brain recognizes something it is familiar with , it will try to integrate that information into it's "best guess". This is also how we get the experience of "having been somewhere before", which is usually triggered by just seeing a single object that brings back a memory, such as a picture, a vase, a table, a couch, placement of furniture, a smell, a sound.
The brain has that amazing flexibility in associative cognition. It's all processed by the mirror neural system.
https://www.ted.com/talks/anil_seth_how_your_brain_hallucinates_your_conscious_reality
 
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