Hmmn.
Uhm… wow, ok.
Wow.
Still trying to process some of this stuff- this complex, intricate, very confusing yet awesome and incredibly weird but great and monumentally historic and… odd, stuff.
So… you know, I stopped watching Disney Channel sometime before junior high, which in these parts of the country is 7th grade.
So I missed some stuff. A lot of stuff, actually. Pretty much everything released from like 1992 to like…, IDK, 2008, or something, when I started crushing hard on Demi. Was that 2008? It might have been 2007, or so.
IDK.
Ok, so, let’s get to the chase here. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, about a teen who “connects” to the internet with his mind- was that me? I remember my friends talking about it but I never watched it myself, thinking at the time that I had “outgrown” Disney stuff. I was in high school when it was released.
I know it’s a remake. But a cursory glance at this flick is seriously making me wonder, here. It’s the “tells”. They are there, buried in the movie. The little things that seem to just point to me, directly, that everyone else might miss. Small moments that only I would watch and think “yeah, I remember that very clearly”. I… won’t describe them. Just thinking out loud here.
Disney also released another movie that year, The Big Green, about a bunch of kids playing soccer, that I haven’t seen. I have, however, watched the trailer, and oh man, I literally remember everything in it from my own inventory of experiences playing soccer for years as a kid. I mean… wow.
Is it… possible? IDK, I mean, The Straight Story came out in 1999, and that flick was ripped directly from my own mind, but the story there is that Lynch made the film, was surprised at the G rating, and then Disney snapped it up, since it accidentally fit their tone. At least that’s how the story goes as it was told by the trades back when.
But… well… what if? I don’t know. This is all so incredibly crazy, all of it.
Need I mention that some of the kids at school called me “the computer” because of how fast my brain was, compared to everyone else’s?
I don’t know. This is really hard to grapple with, here. Soooooo many coincidences. What a puzzle. And this is all still very hard to square away with what my teachers, parents, etc. told me was reality.
Going back further, we have the flick Day- O, which Disney released in 1992. I was 12 when released, probably 10-11 when it was made.
I’ve not seen it except for snippets on youtube, but it seems to be a about a boy of my age at the time who is a ghost / astral projection who continually pops in and out of a woman’s life. Could have been doing this, back then? I honestly don’t know. Maybe? I do know that a lot of the surrounding features, like the house featured at the party, seem quite similar to what I remember from my family’s old house. But then, a lot of people have houses like that.
I don’t know, but the “feel” of the whole thing is extremely “me”, I think. I mean I can’t place it and I can’t find any direct tells but it just… seems very familiar, somehow. I don’t know. I don’t remember watching this as a kid but that doesn’t mean I didn’t.
I don’t know.
Honestly, the more I look the more confused I get by all this. Soooo many coincidences. It just doesn’t add up, based on what I had assumed and was taught “the real world” was.
Well… more stuff to ponder, I guess.