Ever have the fleeting interest in what other people are talking about? For instance, the scene in the recent Sherlock Holmes movie, where Holmes (played by Robert Downey, Jr.) is in a restaurant and he starts focusing on the details of random other patrons of the restaurant. The mind can pick out words of a specific person or group of people in a place like a crowded restaurant, which is why you can hear your friends at the table over the noise of everyone else talking and the ambient music playing. What if you decided to listen in on a random person's conversation? What would it be about? What would it make you think? Would it make you go out and do something you've never thought of doing before? Would it alert you to some imminent event about to happen that you had no idea about until just then?
BTW, I call dibs on a story idea revolving around that! Already working on one now!
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