Explain This and What Caused It. Read This!

[TheTalkingCat]

Okay we have a few options here.

• I'm lying.
• I'm mistaken.
• I'm delusional.
• It actually happened.

Here is what happened.

One day I needed to go to the store to pick something up. I had my mom drive me to the store and on our way there I realized that I had left my wallet at home. So we head back and my mom pulls up to the drive way curb. She takes the keys out of the ignition and hands them to me.

These keys had a huge name tag with my Moms name on it. It was like leather with the name burned and pressed into the leather. They had the house keys, car keys and a small amount of miscellaneous keys around the ring. A decent sized set of keys with one big leather name tag on them basically.

So she hands me the keys and I unlock the door and put the keys on the in table next to the door. I go to my room, grab my wallet and head back out the door. As I was shutting the door I reach around and turn the lock so the door would lock behind me. I run down the drive way and just then realized I had locked the house and car keys in the house. I slow down and approach the car and lean in the window on the passenger side. My mom had her hand outstretched across the seat. I told my mom, "Look, I'm sorry mom, but I locked the keys in the house." Something to that effect. My mom gets this put-out look on her face and then all of the sudden we both hear this muffled clank and look to see that the keys I just locked in the house are now in my moms hand.

Explain this to me please. This is a true story.​

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The Talking Cat​

 

[Bob]

Well... I do not really know what to say to this.

There are a few things I would like to clarify, though:

Did the keys just appear in your mom's hands?
Was she aware that keys were about to appear in her hands?
Was anybody looking at your mom's hands when the event happened?
What did your mom say about this?

Now, I am not going to admit that there was some spirit or other who benevolently helped you guys recover your keys because that would be resorting to pseudoscience. After I understand the last sentence of your story a bit more, let us deduce a rational and logical explanation to this.

Otherwise, would you like a philosophical explanation to your situation? This is, of course, a place to discuss philosophy.

 

[TheTalkingCat]

Well... I do not really know what to say to this.

There are a few things I would like to clarify, though:

Did the keys just appear in your mom's hands?
Was she aware that keys were about to appear in her hands?
Was anybody looking at your mom's hands when the event happened?
What did your mom say about this?

Now, I am not going to admit that there was some spirit or other who benevolently helped you guys recover your keys because that would be resorting to pseudoscience. After I understand the last sentence of your story a bit more, let us deduce a rational and logical explanation to this.

Otherwise, would you like a philosophical explanation to your situation? This is, of course, a place to discuss philosophy.

Did the keys just appear in your mom's hands? They were the exact same set of keys I had just locked in the house.
Was she aware that keys were about to appear in her hands? No, she was not.
Was anybody looking at your mom's hands when the event happened? My eyes were focused in on the general area. Her hand was visible significantly through peripheral vision.
What did your mom say about this? She said something to effect of, "You see this is what happened with the dime, when I needed a dime to make a phone call back when I was younger."

She had told me about the time when she needed so badly to make a phone call and she noticed a dime on the floor when it wasn't there a moment before. She swears up and down that a dime was NOT originally there. I believe her too. I mean why not? Keys I just locked in a house are now in her hand? I sure as sh*t didn't hand them to her.

 

[Molzahn]

This is where philosophy becomes interesting. Depending on what axioms (base assumptions about reality) we accept, we can derive a number of different answer.

Maybe the keys teleported into your mother's hands. Perhaps she had a unique duplicate (though I suspect you would mention finding this said duplicate later on your desk).

Perhaps there is an element of your unconscious mind that you are unaware of that grabbed the keys without your knowledge (since you were distracted) and presented it to your mother without you knowing. The mind is composed of several personalities and conscious elements that mesh together to form your unique persona.

Perhaps you dreamt it. Perhaps everything we are experiencing is a dream.

Chose an explanation you like and I will show you exactly how to justify it. This is the greatest artform in philosophy.

 

[TheTalkingCat]

This is where philosophy becomes interesting. Depending on what axioms (base assumptions about reality) we accept, we can derive a number of different answer.

Maybe the keys teleported into your mother's hands. Perhaps she had a unique duplicate (though I suspect you would mention finding this said duplicate later on your desk).

Perhaps there is an element of your unconscious mind that you are unaware of that grabbed the keys without your knowledge (since you were distracted) and presented it to your mother without you knowing. The mind is composed of several personalities and conscious elements that mesh together to form your unique persona.

Perhaps you dreamt it. Perhaps everything we are experiencing is a dream.

Chose an explanation you like and I will show you exactly how to justify it. This is the greatest artform in philosophy.

Teleported? By what means? I can not begin to think of what could cause keys to dematerialize and re-materialize in my moms hand. Whatever caused it must of known to put the keys in my moms hands. She is the one that needed them anyway.

An element of my unconscious mind? Why has this only happened with the keys and not anything else that I have misplaced or lost?

If I dreamed it, then why will my mom confirm the story? Dreams tend to fade away from memory, this one on the other hand has not.

 

[MLeoCasas]

This is where philosophy becomes interesting. Depending on what axioms (base assumptions about reality) we accept, we can derive a number of different answer.

Maybe the keys teleported into your mother's hands. Perhaps she had a unique duplicate (though I suspect you would mention finding this said duplicate later on your desk).

Perhaps there is an element of your unconscious mind that you are unaware of that grabbed the keys without your knowledge (since you were distracted) and presented it to your mother without you knowing. The mind is composed of several personalities and conscious elements that mesh together to form your unique persona.

Perhaps you dreamt it. Perhaps everything we are experiencing is a dream.

Chose an explanation you like and I will show you exactly how to justify it. This is the greatest artform in philosophy.

Dreamt it? I think we're mixing philosophy up with blatant heavy-handedness. There is a very big difference between thinking complexly about something and simply phrasing things as poetically as possible. To even imply that everything we are experiencing is a dream is first of all, a totally incomplete thought (is it an individual dream, someone else's dream, a 'collective' dream state), and even it if wasn't, it's based on nothing but the whimsical desire to pose a 'far-out, heavy' idea. How would that even explain what happened? How woudl reality at all eb questionable, testable, or even interesting to talk about if you could explain away everything with a silly response like that?

I think this situation does call interesting questions about psychological and neurological states of mind though. Does the 'standby mode' of our brains, when we are most passive about our external sensory perception, play tricks on us, or does it simply fail to compute what is going on around us. Like, are we receiving faulty or just incomplete data at these moments?

 

[Eudora13]

This is rather interesting and intriguing! Maybe you had brought the keys with you after all, and handed them to your mom. Perhaps neither of you were aware of handing and receiving until the moment you saw it in her hands. I know this sounds silly, but there are times when, under stress or pure absentmindedness we forget what we are doing. This can happen convincingly enough to make you feel that there is some huge mystery in the matter. I'm not saying that it's impossible for strange things to happen, I know very little to make that judgement. All I'm saying is, maybe there's a psychological explanation to this, right? Our consciousness can play peculiar tricks on us.

 

[Zeus20]

If you will ask a person who don't believe in superstitions like me, I would say that maybe you are just dreaming or your mind is floating when it happened. Scientifically that's not possible. Maybe what happened is that your mind is rattled to the point you don't know what you are doing since you need to go fast to get to the store, so right after you get back you gave it to your mom then you think twice if you already give it to her, but since the keys wasn't already in your pocket you would think that you left it inside. Rest your mind, for me, your brain is just floating that day.