Random associations

Originally Posted by Bernard Black

Sometimes my usual associations truly seem random to other people, but I can trace how I brought it up perfectly. It almost sounds like dissociation.

I tend to have a similar, but not identical problem, where I'll latch onto something that someone says and then begin thinking about it when socializing with a crowd. After a while, my little side conversation with myself will reach some form of resolution and I'll announce to the group what I have decided or what my grand resolution was. At which point, I'll find that its been five or ten minutes, and they're not even vaguely discussing the same thing anymore. The most famous of these was a random exclamation of "checkmate!" after people had been talking about favorite scenes in movies. However, by then they had moved on to Goldeneye, or D&D, or something else and it was out of the blue. It often seems totally random later, but there's usually a good reason for how I got there, and its often related to what they were originally talking about, I just don't let it go when they do.

Jam it back in, in the dark.