Sock toe, Sherlock and deja vu

 Thank you to the three people who recommended Sherlock as my next evening viewing. I started Season One, and it's good.  Cumberbatch is as irritating as ever, but Dr Watson is excellent and the landlady just so good, a great foil for Sherlock's affectation. 

Parts of the plot were very evident including the identity of the man who seemed to have kidnapped Watson, and the main criminal, but still fun.

The second sock is underway, and I'm showing you the toe here, as you see still on two needles, that's how this form of short rowing to shape the toecap works.

That dark yarn is a provisional cast on, done by crocheting stitches onto a knitting needle. Next, I'll pull out that yarn as I pick up stitches on two more needles, which results in a completely seamless and comfortable toe. 

The crocheting makes it possible to unzip the dark yarn while catching live stitches. If this is Minoan to you, just know that whoever invented shortrowing as a shaping mechanism was an anonymous genius.

In Aeon magazine today, check it out, very thoughtful writing, there's a stab, by researcher Anne Cleary,  at explaining the brain mechanism that's working when we experience deja vu, the sensation that we've been here, in this place or situation or conversation before. 

The writer points out that it tends to fade with age, and I think that's true, based on my own experience, but she tries and fails, I think, to explain the experience of, not just sensing this has happened before, but, more mysterious,  knowing what is going to happen next.

That was often my own experience, even when the speaker was about to recall a scene I could never have experienced. I simply flashed on everything they were about to say. Before I discovered that this completely unnerves and frightens some people, I'd blurt it out before they said it.  

I suspect it's a form of mind reading, where  people's brainwaves get into sync without our knowing it. I think this faculty may have kept me safe more than once as a young girl. But judging from the current article, it's still not explained by invoking memory, because it's about what hasn't happened yet. 

I wonder now if Oliver Sacks studied it. I must check that. I had a great correspondence with him, acknowledged in the paperback edition of Musicology, about synaesthesia. I suddenly wonder now if the future-knowing deja vu might be related? Certainly I have very active synaesthesia, a lovely component of experience. I wish he were still around to ask.

Anyway,  do you have experiences like these? Let us know, if you'd like to.  Some people prefer not to.

Or just do a puzzle. 

Here's the fishy scene underway, thanks to a bit of help from Handsome Son, between bites of granola bars, and fixing the setting on my car which insists there's low tire pressure after it's fixed. He's a treasure.

Happy day, everyone, puzzle on with jigsaw, knitting or mind reading!