Got a mind like a steel trap. Rusted shut.
Memory is a funny thing. My memory for connecting people's names and faces is beyond abysmal. My memory for performing tasks that are not already a habit is terrible. My memory even for imortant scientific things is shotty at best.
My memory for stories? For books I have read, TV or movies I have watched? Random minutiae of fictional characters I care about and the exact wording of things they have said in a minor scene I saw 25 years ago? Yeah, memory like a steel trap.
So it's incredibly frustrating for me, and a very weird feeling that right now, I have a scene stuck in my head that I can't place. It is a scene that took place in some form of mass media that I consumed in the last few weeks. I know it involves a few people in an old Egyptian style tomb, in the dark, and they find out they're in a trap where the floor is blanketed with snakes, but the snakes are all centuries dead, since the tomb is centuries old. (Why were there so many LIVE snakes in the cavern where the Ark was concealed in Raiders!? WHY?!) One thing that is especially weird about all this is that I don't have a clear mental movie in my mind of the scene in question, just a summary, as if someone had told it to me rather than me watching it.
Here's the rub. I know I consumed this scene is some form of media recently. But I have NO IDEA where! Was it the Terry Pratchett book Im reading now? Don't think so. Was it an episode of Dr. Who? Was is an episode of Phineas and Ferb I watched with Willow? One of the last episodes of Season 6 of Psych?
I find it terribly disturbing I can't place the scene, but at the same time, I find it hysterical that I could genuinely believe it came from any of those 4 sources.
[EDIT: I figured it out, I think. An episode of the Thrilling Adventure Hour Podcast, one of the 'Beyond Belief' segments with Frank and Sadie Doyle. I'm pretty sure that's what it was, which explains my lack of distinct mental picture to go along with the memory.]
My memory for stories? For books I have read, TV or movies I have watched? Random minutiae of fictional characters I care about and the exact wording of things they have said in a minor scene I saw 25 years ago? Yeah, memory like a steel trap.
So it's incredibly frustrating for me, and a very weird feeling that right now, I have a scene stuck in my head that I can't place. It is a scene that took place in some form of mass media that I consumed in the last few weeks. I know it involves a few people in an old Egyptian style tomb, in the dark, and they find out they're in a trap where the floor is blanketed with snakes, but the snakes are all centuries dead, since the tomb is centuries old. (Why were there so many LIVE snakes in the cavern where the Ark was concealed in Raiders!? WHY?!) One thing that is especially weird about all this is that I don't have a clear mental movie in my mind of the scene in question, just a summary, as if someone had told it to me rather than me watching it.
Here's the rub. I know I consumed this scene is some form of media recently. But I have NO IDEA where! Was it the Terry Pratchett book Im reading now? Don't think so. Was it an episode of Dr. Who? Was is an episode of Phineas and Ferb I watched with Willow? One of the last episodes of Season 6 of Psych?
I find it terribly disturbing I can't place the scene, but at the same time, I find it hysterical that I could genuinely believe it came from any of those 4 sources.
[EDIT: I figured it out, I think. An episode of the Thrilling Adventure Hour Podcast, one of the 'Beyond Belief' segments with Frank and Sadie Doyle. I'm pretty sure that's what it was, which explains my lack of distinct mental picture to go along with the memory.]