February 16, 2011

Googling What's On The Tip Of The Tongue (GWOTTOTT = GOTTIT)

Last night there was a song floating in my head.  I googled it.  I googled the stray information that I picked up from the radio, HEB, Mark's garage, Kaley's room or something.

It's interesting how we absorb stuff.


The first line of that song is:
Little supernovas in my head
Do you think that refers to "brain zaps?"

Could it be that my brain actually used Google to find stuff out that it wanted me/it to know?  Could my brain wake me up at 4:00am and have me googling?  You know that whole deal where something is on the tip of your tongue and you can't think of it - well could the brain just say, you know, it'd be easier to google it?  Maybe my dreams aren't good enough for parsing the events of the day anymore.  Maybe my brain needs to google a bit.  I *did* go back to sleep after googling.  And as far as the brain is concerned, you that "conscious will thing" has been satisfied.  Maybe as far as the brain is concerned, google is just an extension that it's picking up on and is part of our social evolution.

It's too bad "Bozac" wasn't googlable.  Redbud lingo is just outside Google's reach - but not anymore ;-)  Hit this link

This makes me wonder if instead of sleep walking, a new phenomenon of "sleep googling" may sprout up.  Of course, for a lot of people "sleep googling" is just another term for work.

1 comment:

Kim said...

Ha!Ha! :-)