I get quite vivid dreams and i actually remember 90% of them when i wake up. Sometimes I can remember upto 3-4 dreams i dreamt in a single night...very few of them have turned out to be real too (ntg major just some everyday events, but i know the difference when it's a dream and when it's deja vu) and i've been experiencing deja vu more often since a few months....its almost like im snap into the current moment like i'm looking at the moment in a 3rd person perspective because it feels like this has already happened...I wonder does anybody else experiences this often?
Because im starting to feel like....i'm kinda able to predict the next moment when i get deja vu...but it mostly isn't right...but there's a strange feeling that maybe my life has already been decided seeing how the deja vu's connect with the present moment, it's like i'm going down the decided path....or can it be something related to a parallel universe where i get deja vu when i do the same thing in 2 different universes parallely......

Why's India called just India, even though it has many states and USA called as United States of America?

This's been bothering me ever since my childhood...

I have a ton of these stories and would love to hear yours!

Here’s one of mine:

I have abnormally large eyes.

I also have a genetic condition but thought it was completely unrelated.

Turns out underneath my eyes never fully formed now giving them this massive round appearance! Didn’t know this until this past year.

What’s yours?

Honestly, this has been one of my favorite Thanksgivings. I got to spend a lot of time with both friends and family. As I'm tidying up around the house so I can put the tree up tomorrow, I'd love to hear how all of yours was!

I'm looking to find a new hobby or interest. I'm constantly bored with life, and thought maybe something obscure or niche might be interesting to me.

For myself, a random niche hobby of mine is that I sometimes create digital fantasy battle maps and regional maps using map programs (even though I've never played games like DnD that would use them).

I look forward to hearing about others nice and obscure interests.

I have this heavy beaded bracelet I wear all the time because it's weight puts me in mind of a gentle clasping of my wrist that's safe. Like a kind of guidance that keeps me from getting lost--in the world or in my head--too much.

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Idk what it is, but every time I start cooking it n a new playlist, making it maybe like 50-84 songs long, I always go back and listen to it 4 months later and almost get upset whenever it’s In disarray.

For example, I’ve been getting into alt rock, progressive rock, dream pop, Shoegaze, etc. so much so that it’s almost unhealthy. I have a collection of so many artists on my playlists with great music, but now it’s gotten to the point where I just don’t know if they belong together, if that makes sense.

I know it doesn’t sound like a huge thing. After all, it all sounds great together, really not that big a thing. But I was just wondering if any of you have fallen into that pool before.

I have a 2.95 gpa and get great scores on tests but I’m just lazy homework wise. I’m a junior and have zero clue what field to get into I’ve been offered help on becoming a pipe fitter but idk. Cybersecurity sounds cool and so does being a pilot but idk how to even get there or how to fund that. My whole family is military and it’s looking like I have no other choice idk what to do.

Maybe it was from a conversation with relatives during Thanksgiving? Something you've been thinking about ever since. I had a great conversation with my friend's Mom about her experiences growing up as a child in Italy. It was not an easy childhood and their family had to make lots of sacrifices to get by. It definitely made me appreciate my own experience that much more.

...Millionaires aren't naturally better parents because they have more money.

Don't beat yourself up.

One of my children is a grown up now and the other not far behind.

There were many years when we scraped by with what little we had. My kids remember the small things and spending time together not what they received each year. Build family traditions and enjoy each others company.

Peace and love to you all

And, if I let it go, it’ll go on for quite a while. It usually stops if I get sidetracked with something else but sometimes I have to focus and tell myself to stop.

I’m sure this happens to other people but, I’m assuming, it likely happens when they’re alone, which is generally when it happens to me.

That store is still there however the daycare in it has been gone for years now. When I was 3 and 4 my parents would drop me off in there and the store had employees that worked in it and kids colored, did art, etc.

I wanted thank you to everyone who's interacted with my posts so far.

It's been awesome getting to know eachother and understood .

I really want to continue to share these types of opportunities with anyone.

Thank you

I wanted thank you to everyone who's interacted with my posts so far.

It's been awesome getting to know eachother and understood .

I really want to continue to share these types of opportunities with anyone.

Thank you

I've been seeing these comments that just say "[unavailable]" for a while now, and I thought they were deleted comments. Until today, when I refreshed the post and caught someone replying to the unavailable comment.

Turns out, that means the person blocked me! I opened up the thread in a private window and scrolled through their history a bit, trying to figure out why, but I couldn't come up with any posts I recognize.

It's weird. I'm not upset or anything, though I think Reddit could just... not show me that the comments exist at all. But I wonder what I said to set them off, lol.

I’m just listening to a randomised playlist and a song by Gaga and Bruno mars came on which inspired the thought process.

If you could be next to anyone at all (pets included), who would it be? Being with your children goes without saying of course, so if you had to pick one other person?

College is expensive. Many people are struggling under the weight of huge student loans. However, too many high school students and their parents get locked in on the “perfect” school or program and lose sight of what actually matters to most employers, and the return on investment of the degree.

I am a Director at a Big Four accounting firm, leading a large global team. Most of my direct reports have MBAs, two of them from HBS (Harvard Business School). I have a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Psychology from a cheap state school. As a result, I generally do not look at the school when considering candidates for common roles.

Psychology is one of the most common and therefore least valuable degrees. Just calling a spade a spade. There are far more Psychology graduates than there are jobs in counseling or research. However, between the cheaper state school tuition and getting leadership roles like RA, I graduated with very little debt.

The most valuable classes from my degree ended up being the Research Statistics classes, because those taught me how to think in probabilistic terms. Helpful for risk analysis. So that’s what, 2 classes? 6 credits where I feel like what I studied had an impact on my career. And to be honest, even if I did become a Psychologist, that number likely wouldn’t be much higher. My employer would still care more about my experience and my manner with patients, rather than my knowledge of the early work of Carl Jung. Academics care about that, and it’s important. It’s not important to your average social worker.

Here’s the dirty truth that private school administrators will vehemently deny: College has been commodified, and most of what you’ll be forced to take has absolutely zero bearing on your future career prospects. Outside of the Ivy League, or unless the job you want is in a niche field, the value of the school you go to is in its network. And even that might not be worth paying $50k a year for. Are the professors at Villanova better than the professors at my State school? Sure, almost certainly. But the quality of any given professor will have a negligible impact on the worth of your degree.

The absolute WORST thing you can do is start at an expensive school for your “perfect” program and then drop out. Then you have all of the debt, with nothing to show for it. Higher education is big business, and while there are tons of talented academics who are passionate, they all have to answer to the eggheads at the top whose job is to squeeze every last penny out of you. It’s not personal, it’s just their job.

Often times I find myself in situations at work where I thought something was basic information, but it turns out very few of any people know what I'm talking about. How often does this happen to you?

I m currently asking myself frequently which genre people should a general whole prefer- fantasy or science fiction.

Now I appreciate both genres are incredibly broad and since some overlap, with that in mind I’m more curious as to what people prefer. I’m thinking epic fantasies like The Lord of the Rings and A Song of Ice and Fire , versus things like Star Wars, Mass Effect, and Warhammer 40K.

Just curious what people think.

Been enjoying this song a bit lately....and looked up what it's about (see: https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-moody-blues/question). This to me seemed like pretty thoughtful songwriting for a 24 year-old. By 'songwriting' I particularly mean the lyrics...but maybe someone more musically inclined than me can explain the transition from a fast song to a slow song and then back again--what is that?! It makes for a full meal of a song.

P.S.: Please focus on this song and not "Knights in White Satin" so this can remain a 'casual conversation' topic....because that is one of my least favorite songs. 😂🤷‍♀️

Group chat 💬 up and running.. a great way to meet new people and discuss daily life and hobbies etc :) anyone interested can be added. Have a nice weekend

I feel like go karting is the best activity to do when you have nothing in mind. Absolutely love drifting around in that little piece of machinery. Someone needs to make it a bit affordable tho. P.S. don’t drive a car after go karting xD

With the rise of artificial intelligence this decade, which has the potential to be the greatest invention of the 2020s, let’s discuss what the greatest inventions would be in the last 100 years starting the 1920s to the present. Whether it’s space exploration, television, the internet, or smartphones, I’d be curious to hear what you think the greatest inventions of the each decade would be.

I’m just cleaning up the house after my parents visited for Thanksgiving, so hopefully you guys are having more fun than me! 😂

I always find this time of year really interesting because of the short period between Thanksgiving and the Winter holidays. Almost feels like we’re all on pseudo-vacation!

So for context, I've been a gamer since a very young age. I've played on several different systems, gone through series after series, and it still amazes me each time. From simple games that you can play on any console to the most complex, I always get drawn into that world.

The feeling of wanting to relate to the characters, experience the same hardships and victories.

A few of my favorites are Dynasty Warriors, Final Fantasy, Xeno Saga, Super Mario, Horizon, etc.

by going out it could mean to fairs, events, malls, coffee or even trips, etc.

I'm not particularly extroverted (or maybe I have streaks of it, meeting new people is great but I also like the comfort of going out with people I already know even a bit beforehand), but I often find myself not finding anyone to go out places with, so I end up going by myself. I'm generally fine when I finally do go by myself, but it would be nice to get someone to come along.

(I know some people end up paying others to accompany them, and that may actually be a valuable service for the really lonely or in-need of it, but I'd like to get them to come along more "organically" and without resorting to money just yet I guess)

Obviously nobody cares after high school and in retrospect we all recognize how utterly ridiculous it was, but back then it used to be the coolest thing ever and equivalent to being extremely high status and If you were well known by the entire school it was seen as the coolest thing ever even though none of our lives even started and it was incredibly insignificant in the grand scheme of things

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A friend wanted to make a random group chat with random people so if anyone wants to join you re welcome

Hi,

I wanted to day thank you to everyone who's interacted with my posts so far. It's been awesome getting to know and understand people and having them share a moment of their time with me. I really want to continue to share these types of opportunities with anyone and give people an outlet if needed to just let it out. I know that happens a lot on here already, but I want to contribute however I can. Sometimes having that one person who you can speak to makes all the difference.

Thanks you,