The frost pattern on my windshield looked exactly like a brain scan

Last Tuesday morning I was scraping ice off the work truck before a job in Akron, Ohio, and the frost had formed this wild web of branching lines right across the driver's side glass, like some kind of neural map. I stood there for a solid five minutes instead of scraping it, just watching the sun hit it different from each angle, and my foreman walked over and said 'you gonna paint that or fix that roof?' Has anyone else had a random everyday thing suddenly look like something deep and just froze you in place?

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abby_martin2813d ago

Brain scans show activity in specific areas, not a random web of lines across the whole surface. Still, frost does make a decent stand-in for a map of somewhere neural, just not a real one.

charles_lewis1411d ago

My buddy once watched a crack in his coffee mug that looked exactly like the Mississippi River delta, and he just stood there staring at it until the coffee went cold. Meanwhile @abby_martin28's right, it's all just luck of the draw, but that doesn't make the moment any less weird when the pattern hits you.