# Have you ever realized you were reading a zombie thread... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 22, 2015, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-realized-you-were-reading-a-zombie-thread/741062 "2015-12-22T03:31:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-realized-you-were-reading-a-zombie-thread/741062/1 "2015-12-22T03:31:35Z")
When you saw your own post? It’s happened to me a few times. It always shocks me for a moment, then memories flood back as I remember what I wrote as I read it. It’s an unexpected and interesting experience, similar to déjà vu. It might start happening to me more frequently as I age and my memory declines. On the other hand, as I get older I find I’m cannier and wiser – I no longer get caught by zombie threads very often. At least as far as I can remember… ---
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-realized-you-were-reading-a-zombie-thread/741062/2 "2015-12-22T03:39:49Z")
Several times. I usually read along and I start to think “I should mention X” then sure enough, I did. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-realized-you-were-reading-a-zombie-thread/741062/3 "2015-12-22T03:41:44Z")
Grin! Yep! Several times. Exactly as **2gigch1** describes. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-realized-you-were-reading-a-zombie-thread/741062/4 "2015-12-22T03:56:21Z")
Happens all the time. It has nothing to do with memory or age. I’ve posted so many times that I can’t keep track of everything and sometimes a topic interests me and I don’t realize it’s from five years ago until I see my own name. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-realized-you-were-reading-a-zombie-thread/741062/5 "2015-12-22T03:59:40Z")
Same as **RealityChuck**. I’ve been here so damn long it’s hard to think of a topic I didn’t post on at some time or another. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-realized-you-were-reading-a-zombie-thread/741062/6 "2015-12-22T04:22:28Z")
Another yes vote. ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-realized-you-were-reading-a-zombie-thread/741062/7 "2015-12-22T05:05:34Z")
Yes, in fact, I posted to a thread then read an almost identical post that was posted by me a couple years ago. Now that’s deja vu, zombie-style. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-realized-you-were-reading-a-zombie-thread/741062/8 "2015-12-22T05:50:01Z")
I’ve been around long enough that a couple threads I started have been resurrected more than once. An eerie feeling, that. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-realized-you-were-reading-a-zombie-thread/741062/9 "2015-12-22T06:37:57Z")
Sure. But what’s really trippy is when you see your own post and have absolutely no memory of posting it. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-realized-you-were-reading-a-zombie-thread/741062/10 "2015-12-22T07:45:05Z")
My _God!_ Post #10 is _brilliant_! Such clarity of ideas, such strength of expression, leavened with just a dash of wit. WHO made such a–Oh, that was me. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-realized-you-were-reading-a-zombie-thread/741062/11 "2015-12-22T07:52:47Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > My _God!_ Post #10 is _brilliant_! Such clarity of ideas, such strength of expression, leavened with just a dash of wit. WHO made such a–Oh, that was me. I guess that’s better than, "This guy really needs to pull his head out of his…oh wait. And I’m totally reviving this thread in five years. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-realized-you-were-reading-a-zombie-thread/741062/12 "2015-12-22T15:49:45Z")
> [@GreenElf](#): > > Yes, in fact, I posted to a thread then read an almost identical post that was posted by me a couple years ago. Now that’s deja vu, zombie-style. Yep. Done there, been that. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-realized-you-were-reading-a-zombie-thread/741062/13 "2015-12-22T16:10:15Z")
> [@2gigch1](#): > > Several times. I usually read along and I start to think “I should mention X” then sure enough, I did. Yup. No senility involved, though. My mind has always been a steel sieve. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-realized-you-were-reading-a-zombie-thread/741062/14 "2015-12-22T18:38:01Z")
Yep. Do it all the time. I usually clue in when I see BANNED under posters’ names. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-realized-you-were-reading-a-zombie-thread/741062/15 "2015-12-22T19:28:29Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Happens all the time. It has nothing to do with memory or age. I’ve posted so many times that I can’t keep track of everything and sometimes a topic interests me and I don’t realize it’s from five years ago until I see my own name. > [@John\_Mace](#): > > Sure. But what’s really trippy is when you see your own post and have absolutely no memory of posting it. I’ve done both. Probably not in the same thread, though. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-realized-you-were-reading-a-zombie-thread/741062/16 "2015-12-22T19:38:16Z")
Sometimes when I’m reading a zombie thread, I come across someone being wrong on the internet in the past, and I wish I had a time machine so I could go back and correct this person. And then a few posts later, there past me is, kicking ass and chewing bubblegum like a big damn hero. And so I don’t need to go back in time to correct the past, since I always already would have been going to do so. No paradox because the past already happened. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-realized-you-were-reading-a-zombie-thread/741062/17 "2015-12-22T23:02:25Z")
That’s happened to me several times, not just here but on other boards too. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-realized-you-were-reading-a-zombie-thread/741062/18 "2015-12-22T23:28:25Z")
It would be nice if there were some kind of color coding for zombie threads. No idea on the criteria other than older than a month or last posted a month ago. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-realized-you-were-reading-a-zombie-thread/741062/19 "2015-12-23T00:18:30Z")
Thank goodness - I thought I was the only one who would read one of my years-old posts and have no memory whatsoever of typing it. It’s really weird. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-realized-you-were-reading-a-zombie-thread/741062/20 "2015-12-23T13:02:46Z")
I’m sure I have posted to this thread before. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-realized-you-were-reading-a-zombie-thread/741062.md?page=2)