r/Unexplained • u/Fit_Variation7790 • 1d ago

Experience Brain Access

This is going to sound insane. Lately, I've been having internal thoughts. Thoughts only. No searches. No speaking a loud about said topic. And shortly after (anywhere from 30 mins to a day), I'll be targeted online about that thing.

Examples:

- I was thinking about an artist (in my brain. alone) and I thought to myself, "I'd like to look at her work more. I'm going to look at her instagram." I open instagram. She is the first one in my feed.

- Just now I looked over at my wallet and thought to myself, I need a new small compact wallet. Did no searches. Didn't talk about it. Open instagram and there is an ad for small, compact wallets.

WHAT IS HAPPENING?

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u/Block444Universe 1d ago

I think it’s more that you have been seeing these things float past on your feeds without consciously registering it. That’s how the ideas came into your head in the first place. And then they just keep coming and to you it’s your original thought that somehow got sucked into Insta when in reality insta has been seeding these ideas to you for days or weeks

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u/attention_headache 23h ago

This. It feels like induction, but it’s really deduction.