Oh man I'm so glad I'm not the only one who does this. I do this sort of thing all the damn time. So often if fact that I came up with a theory long ago that for some reason sometimes my brain mislabels things for a brief moment, allowing me to do stupid things like pick my sunglasses up to look underneath them to find my sunglasses.
I know, doesn't make sense right? Here's what I mean... when you see something like a pop can for instance, your brain automatically labels it a 'pop can' for instant recognition (I learned all of this somewhere, but don't ask me where). It's similar to word recognition, when you read a book your mind recognizes entire words, it doesn't have to piece them together letter by letter, it sees a word no matter how long or short it is (so long as it's a word you're already familiar with) and instantly recognizes it and you comprehend it immediately. Which is why you can read along so fast no matter how long the words you're reading may be. Then all of a sudden when you come across a new word, even a short word like 'zleque', you would have to stop reading for a second to try and figure out what that word is, and what it meant. You could be reading through a book just zipping along and when you came to zleque you would have to pause for a second to try and comprehend what that word meant because your brain wouldn't recognize it.
Anyways, so your brain does the same thing with objects, so when you look at a pair of sunglasses your brain already labels them as sunglasses and comprehends everything you know about sunglasses. That way you don't have to pick them up everytime you see a pair of sunglasses and figure out what they're for, what they do. So my theory I came up with long ago is that sometimes, for whatever reason, when I'm looking for my sunglasses and I look over on the passenger seat where I left them last and they're sitting right there, my eyes see my sunglasses, but then my brain temporarily mislabels them... oh I dunno, a money clip or something. Therefore even though I'm looking right at them, my mind is thinking I'm looking at my money clip. So I pick up my money clip (sunglasses) to look underneath them for my sunglasses. Then a few seconds later I look at what I just picked up and go, "oh damn, they're right there in my hand".
I dunno, it sounds crazy I know. I just came up with that because I do that so often I couldn't figure out why else I did it.
