Huh?

The human brain is a mystery to me. While there are many myths and unfounded truths out there about what contributes to the loss of brain cells, at times I truly believe mine just opt to cash in on some much deserved vacation time. For instance, this past weekend while at the library, I decided to pick out a couple movies...one which I have been wanting to see for a long time now. Turns out, once I got home and started watching it...I discovered I had already seen it...and really, not that terribly long ago. At first, it just seemed familiar as though I may have caught parts of it somewhere before. Then, I realized as I got into it more that it wasn't just familiar, but that I had seen the movie in its' entirety before. I wondered what was happening in my brain at the time I originally watched it because I know I wasn't drinking (or partaking in any other of the myriad of neuron-depleting fallacies ). I was truly stumped when trying to come up with the circumstances related to this mental error...and am still stumped now. I have had this happen before, while not with movies, with books. For the longest time, my cousin was telling me I just had to read these two books she had and finally I borrowed them from her. Only it turns out I had not only read them both before...but borrowed them both from her to read before. I realized this shortly after I started the first one...just a few pages in and the same could be said for the second book. Fortunately, they were both 'one sitting' reads for me and I think I had them both read in a weekend. And yes, they were that good that I was able to reread them.

So, in summation...it would seem that I am not the only one suffering from these mental lapses, since my cousin was so eager to lend the books to me a second time. We both had a good laugh about it...but it does certainly leave me wondering just what is going on up there sometimes...or, more aptly put, what isn't!