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05-15-2003, 11:48 AM
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I was wondering, what exactly is a deja-vu? i had very few when i was younger but now that i started thinking more and (and doing thinking for fun) i observed that they are more frequent. of course that could just be a coincidence. but i have had double deja-vu - as in recognising a situation that i had already recognised as a deja-vu (or so my brain said). and it wasn't about simple things...like being in a place...it was specificate enought as to being at school in a room with three people present that did specificate things and said things....and as time passed and they acted i recognised even more. what is it ?
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05-15-2003, 12:09 PM
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This will find a better home in Sci & Skep...
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05-15-2003, 12:15 PM
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05-15-2003, 01:37 PM
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I have heard it explained as the brain sending the sensory information to you via the incorrect pathways, so that you interpret it as something you have experienced previously and not as something new. Have no clue how accurate that is.
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05-15-2003, 02:40 PM
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It is when the machines have to make a mod to the matr-- err umm, never mind.
Honestly, the most plausable explanation i have heard has to do with brain pathways being confused and something that is new is recognized as a memory. Poor explanation, neuroscience was a long time ago for me. |
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05-15-2003, 10:24 PM
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In middle school I decided that when you die you just started living your life over again and deja vu is when you experience something that you didn't quite forget. lol Really funny now that I think about it... oh the weird ideas you can come up with to explain things...
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05-16-2003, 03:46 AM
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Déjà vu all over again
I used to have a lot more déjà vu experiences when I was younger but I haven't had one in years now.
From this site, Déjà vu Quote:
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05-19-2003, 01:54 AM
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Havent we had this thread before?
Just kidding 
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05-19-2003, 05:50 AM
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No, this feels like the first time this thread has happened.
Wait, actually it has happened before, I'm just experiencing jamais vu!  Patrick |
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05-19-2003, 09:41 AM
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The best explanation I've ever heard for deja vu (nogods touched on this) is that it's crossed wires in the brain. Essentially what happens is that the brain has a brief glitch and routes images from the optic nerve to the visual cortex through the hippocampus. So... the nerve impulse gets to the visual cortex by going through your short term memory.
Hence, you 'remember' something slightly (part of a second) before you 'see' it. |
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