Okay, so this isn't anything really intellectual or interesting but something odd just happened to me and none of my friends are online to share it with.
I just finished preparing my lunch for work tomorrow and went to leave a note on it indicating so because it wasn't obviously mine. I wrote my name on a tear of paper and put it on the container in the fridge, but it looked a little precarious.
So I take the note and go and get some sticky-tape to attach it and as I get back to the fridge I look at the paper and there's nothing written on it. There's the indentation from the pen on the paper but no actual markings. I definitely wrote the note because I remember looking at it and thinking about how I'd left the "s" overly spaced in "Jez's". This has left me quite confused. Does anyone have an idea about what could've happened?
There were two pieces of paper stuck together that you didn't notice when you tore it. When you walked away the top paper flew off somewhere. The bottom piece remained.
I actually had this recently happen. I came to work and my old postit with common dimensions and tech specs that is always on was empty. The postit was still there...but no writing. The only reason I didn't freak out was because the top half of the postit, with the writing, was peacefully resting right below my monitor.
Sometimes when I'm editing sound files, or mixing music together in an audio program, you need to adjust certain things such as the volume of certain frequencies (using an equalizer). This has happened maybe two or three times over several years: I will open the equalizer and listen to the music, and make adjustments to the equalizer. In my head, I am actually hearing the changes in the sound. After about 20 seconds, I realize what I'm doing isn't really affecting the music enough, and then it occurs to me. I am changing the equalizer on a track that is muted, and not the music that I'm currently playing back. So even though I wasn't actually changing anything in the mix, because I believed I was doing it at the time, somehow I tricked myself into actually hearing that change even though it didn't happen. I'm going to agree with Insom's hypothesis though. But, it is possible that the pen was dry (or needed a few seconds to get going), you wrote down without perceiving the lack of ink because you expected to just operate anyway, your mind wrote it out for you to compensate, and by the time you got back to review it, you noticed there was no ink.
The same thing happens to me when I'm editing photos in Photoshop. I'll be using a burn tool, for example, which is supposed to make an area of the photo darker. But sometimes I have the wrong layer selected and as a result there's no visible change to the photo whatsoever. I'll usually see a slight difference anyway, until I realize that it's not getting significantly darker after several tries.
God made the words disappear because you are his chosen prophet. It's a sign he wants you to start a cult in order to spread the truth that he wants his children to make statues and do other weird stuff in order to please him. I'll be your first member if you want.