"Does Everyone Else Know This?"

[Eldanen]

Sometimes I find myself thinking about something amazing, or perhaps something simple. After a while of parsing X thought over and over, my psychic censor kicks in and asks, "What if the thought you're thinking isn't all that amazing or original, and everyone else knows about it to the point of being automatically understood? And you only just caught on to it. And if you tell anyone else about it, you'll probably look silly because you'll make something they already know overly complicated."

Anyone else ever thought like this?

 

[ThatsWhatHeSaid]

Everyone thinks that at some point in their life. It's nothing new, Eldanen.

 

[Eldanen]

Everyone thinks that at some point in their life. It's nothing new, Eldanen.

*crawls onto Edahn's head and gnaws him for all eternity, as per anime*

 

[INTJMom]

Sometimes I find myself thinking about something amazing, or perhaps something simple. After a while of parsing X thought over and over, my psychic censor kicks in and asks, "What if the thought you're thinking isn't all that amazing or original, and everyone else knows about it to the point of being automatically understood? And you only just caught on to it. And if you tell anyone else about it, you'll probably look silly because you'll make something they already know overly complicated."

Anyone else ever thought like this?

Wow. That's a really cool thought.
I've never thought of that before.
Seriously, though.
When I think of a "new idea" I don't worry about whether other people have thought of it.
It's enough that it's new to me, and perhaps new to some or most of the other people I know.
When I share new ideas, I hardly ever have anyone say they had already thought of that before.

 

[Eldanen]

Wow. That's a really cool thought.
I've never thought of that before.
Seriously, though.
When I think of a "new idea" I don't worry about whether other people have thought of it.
It's enough that it's new to me, and perhaps new to some or most of the other people I know.
When I share new ideas, I hardly ever have anyone say they had already thought of that before.

Yeah, it's kind of weird to think about because it's ultimately an unknown. "Does everyone else know this and just assume it's true, and they just never talk about it because of that?" Pretty existential and postmodern xD.

 

[ThatsWhatHeSaid]

Pretty existential and postmodern xD.

Yeah, obviously.

 

[nightning]

Wow. That's a really cool thought.
I've never thought of that before.
Seriously, though.
When I think of a "new idea" I don't worry about whether other people have thought of it.
It's enough that it's new to me, and perhaps new to some or most of the other people I know.

Same. I just get excited that I figured out how to make something work. The thought of somebody else coming up with the ideas first or what they think of it never cross my mind.

 

[LostInNerSpace]

Sometimes I find myself thinking about something amazing, or perhaps something simple. After a while of parsing X thought over and over, my psychic censor kicks in and asks, "What if the thought you're thinking isn't all that amazing or original, and everyone else knows about it to the point of being automatically understood? And you only just caught on to it. And if you tell anyone else about it, you'll probably look silly because you'll make something they already know overly complicated."

Anyone else ever thought like this?

Funny you should pose this question. Yes!