While interacting with people I’ll sometimes get a ‘pseudo-deja-vu’, per se, where the moment starts to feel cached or trope-y enough to be ironic. Most of the time this makes the situation feel funny. Often this happens when I’m talking, and the feeling is distracting enough that I’ll end up involuntarily pausing my sentence, deciding I probably can’t convey this odd feeling without sounding slightly crazy (and so instead I just inexplicably smile or laugh), and then attempting a restart in a non-cached way.
The issue is that this almost happens too often, and I think without having good ways of turning this noticing into something useful it can be unhelpful. I think I started getting this feeling around two years ago after reflecting for a while on particularly cached or trope-y conversations, and since then it’s sort of been baked into my mind as a blinker with a frustratingly high false positive rate. What you’re describing sounds like a much more positive product from a similar mechanism, which is encouraging.
Hey, I think I relate to this! I didn’t expect to see this phenomenon described anywhere, and I’m happy that you took the time to describe it.
I think I was able to improve on this (or, the aspects of this that were an issue for me) by coming up with new ways of expressing what I think and feel in lossier/less-precise/more vibe-driven ways.
While interacting with people I’ll sometimes get a ‘pseudo-deja-vu’, per se, where the moment starts to feel cached or trope-y enough to be ironic. Most of the time this makes the situation feel funny. Often this happens when I’m talking, and the feeling is distracting enough that I’ll end up involuntarily pausing my sentence, deciding I probably can’t convey this odd feeling without sounding slightly crazy (and so instead I just inexplicably smile or laugh), and then attempting a restart in a non-cached way.
The issue is that this almost happens too often, and I think without having good ways of turning this noticing into something useful it can be unhelpful. I think I started getting this feeling around two years ago after reflecting for a while on particularly cached or trope-y conversations, and since then it’s sort of been baked into my mind as a blinker with a frustratingly high false positive rate. What you’re describing sounds like a much more positive product from a similar mechanism, which is encouraging.
Hey, I think I relate to this! I didn’t expect to see this phenomenon described anywhere, and I’m happy that you took the time to describe it.
I think I was able to improve on this (or, the aspects of this that were an issue for me) by coming up with new ways of expressing what I think and feel in lossier/less-precise/more vibe-driven ways.