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Topic: What's the weirdest, most discombobulating thing that happened to you?  (Read 1589 times)

Offline rachmaninoff_forever

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I was screwing around on the piano with my friend, and he got up to go get a drink.  He came back and was standing behind me.  Eventually, I turned around and I was soooo terrified and confused because there was two of him!!!  At the time, I didn't know he had an identical twin and I was like "what is going on!!!".  I was never so confused, scared, mind fucked in my entire life.

Another time, my piano teacher and I were screwing around on the piano, and without any signal, we were both playing rachmaninoffs second piano concerto synchronized together!  Except of course, I was playing the orchestra part and he was playing the piano part because he already knew it.  I was sooooooooooo confused!!!
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Offline Bob

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Last night I was half-watching a movie on tv.  I browsed the comments a news article.  One of the posters had the same name as the movie.  :o

Years ago I had a dream that someone was going to ask to borrow something at school.  I woke up and got it ready.  That day they ask, just like the dream.  That's one of the strangest.  It was a vivid dream too and reality played out the same way.  Random situation too for them asking like that.
Favorite new teacher quote -- "You found the only possible wrong answer."

Offline j_menz

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What happens to Bob the guru of Bobness when he's doscombobulated?  ;D
"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left" -- Oscar Levant

Offline piano_vs_science

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once i had a dream that my piano teacher told me to learn a song so at night i watched a synthesia video of the song but then everything faded away and i woke up and realised that the song doesn't exist, so that means i composed a complete sonata in my sleep!!! :o
but i completely forgot what it sounded like >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
"e^ix=cosx+isinx"
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