For many years, during my grade school and middle schools mostly, I always seemed to be able to predict the exact episode of television shows.  I usually experienced this during classroom discussions, day-dreaming and empty-headed.  In that state of mind, I always drifted to the television shows I'd seen in the past, then think of something I liked or a moment in time that I recalled at random.  Cut to coming home later that day, or the very next day, and I was usually always right.  I never read the newspapers or TV guide. Nor was I dumb enough to have watched the promos and forgot or maybe subconsciously something was going on.  None of that stuff, I can be sure.

I wouldn't be able to do this at will, or if I concentrated, or even if I tried not to concentrate - if that makes any sense.  It didn't happen every day, sometimes it was a month or so between, sometimes I had weeks where everyday seemed to be a hit.  It always came to me of moments of sleep deprivation, or complete boredom.  And being a child of the 80's, all I had was TV.  List any random sitcom or cartoon from the 80's, and usually at some point I'd have another hit.  It became so  common, I had completely forgotten it until just the other day and wanted to see if anyone else experienced this.  It's very similar to thinking of a song you love and turning on the radio to hear the song you were thinking of... just if it happened to you a lot.  

It's been years since I watched TV with any real interest, and I stream any of the good stuff, so this never happens to me anymore.  I can only say that it probably happened dozens of times and stopped when I was around 16.
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For many years, during my grade school and middle schools mostly, I always seemed to be able to predict the exact episode of television shows.  I usually experienced this during classroom discussions, day-dreaming and empty-headed.  In that state of mind, I always drifted to the television shows I'd seen in the past, then think of something I liked or a moment in time that I recalled at random.  Cut to coming home later that day, or the very next day, and I was usually always right.  I never read the newspapers or TV guide. Nor was I dumb enough to have watched the promos and forgot or maybe subconsciously something was going on.  None of that stuff, I can be sure.

I wouldn't be able to do this at will, or if I concentrated, or even if I tried not to concentrate - if that makes any sense.  It didn't happen every day, sometimes it was a month or so between, sometimes I had weeks where everyday seemed to be a hit.  It always came to me of moments of sleep deprivation, or complete boredom.  And being a child of the 80's, all I had was TV.  List any random sitcom or cartoon from the 80's, and usually at some point I'd have another hit.  It became so  common, I had completely forgotten it until just the other day and wanted to see if anyone else experienced this.  It's very similar to thinking of a song you love and turning on the radio to hear the song you were thinking of... just if it happened to you a lot.  

It's been years since I watched TV with any real interest, and I stream any of the good stuff, so this never happens to me anymore.  I can only say that it probably happened dozens of times and stopped when I was around 16.
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