psych 101

i think i'm psychic.

and i'm not saying that just because i've attended 2 psych lectures+tutorials and loved every bit of its interestingness.

i fought for justice to be upheld on wednesday (basically we had to draw lots and i shall not get into it right now). DrTay&partners asked us to individually pick a topic to base our thesis on. i picked memory. don't say that i've been watching too much ALIAS because of all my talk about the use of fingerprint identification systems and scanning the pupils of students' eyes [to enter the student lounge]. argh, fi-ne. maybe that was a bit over the top. by the way, notice i did not use the word 'tad' over the top because i think it sounds pretentious and stupid. hah. anyway anyone who watches ALIAS will know about the memory retrieval theme throughout season 3.

it fascinates me. long term memory loss. short term memory loss. memory retrieval. is it even possible? how a person can suppress a memory for years only to remember it with details in tact years later. how our brain stores our memories. i'd like to think of our brain as a goldfish bowl (that's the imagery i get ok). once in awhile, we remember something. then back it goes into the ocean of memories, to be forgotten until something triggers it once again. it amazes me how i can remember things from 10 years ago, with little details like what i said, and the clothes i was wearing, all untouched. i remember a television movie, i think it was called the 'neverending story', and with every new memory the boy made, he lost an old one. i wonder if that's how our brain works. also, the brain somehow conditions our memories. realise how much sweeter a memory is than the actual happening itself?

back to my 6th sense.

have you ever felt like you KNEW someone was going to like you or potentially fall in love with you, the first time you meet? have you ever witnessed a friend looking at someone in a certain way just once and KNEW that he/she liked the person? have you ever done something without knowing why, only to find out later on that there was an actual reason for it?

i have. i have. i have.

some call it women's intuition, i call it my secret 6th sense. i think we all have it, some way or another; the ability to predict something with perfect accuracy without any basis or evidence. you know, kinda like picking up the phone before it rings. whatever it is, i like it :)

i feel like an X-men. heh.