Nothing new, I say that clearly, when I was young, I had an obsession with walking on one tile and leaving the other one when I walked on the sidewalk. This means that if the sidewalk was paved with a system of yellow tiles and then another red, I would choose one color to walk on until I arrived, and if the sidewalk was paved in one color, I would imagine that it was divided into two colors in the same way, and I would choose a color to walk on.
I don’t know now if this has anything to do with something in psychiatry or if it was just a kind of game and a waste of time. I have recovered from this strange obsession now, but what pleased and surprised me was that I found my obsession when I read the novel “The Midnight Creature” by George DeHamel. The protagonist of the novel suffers from exactly the same obsession and other obsessions that I sometimes thought about when I was young.
Then I was even more amazed when I read from science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke that this idea had often occurred to him when he was young, and then when he grew up he devoted a chapter to it in one of his books in which he discussed in detail the possibility that this hypothesis might be true.
I also often think of an idea for a story, it stays in my head for a while, then I find out the story has been written by someone else! A strange type of transmission of thoughts that occurs over long distances and across time as well! It often happens that two scientists living in two different places come up with the same invention at the same time, without one of them knowing anything about the other. It happens even more often that we discover that our modern theories in politics, philosophy, and science have entered the minds of scholars of ancient times, and we find them mentioned in their traditional books.
The reason seems to be that our minds are designed to think in the same way, just as the scientific rule says that similar beginnings lead to similar results, our minds arrive at the same ideas if the same data is given, So there really won’t be anything new under this sun.
