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[Ec_Prokta]

Hey guys, I have something to say. You might think that I'm insane, but hey, we already knew that!

So, I often have deja vu moments. For example, a thought might strike me one day, and it'll be something like "Oh hey, you're going to be at a waiting line exactly like this!" and then it'll happen. Strange, I know, but they do come true! My best friend also has these moments, but they're typically chaos in the world. For example, she had a bad feeling that something horrible was going to affect everyone internationally right before the Japan Earthquake a few months ago.

What with all of the fires happening close to us, we both had deja vu moments. Mine was that something bad is going to happen on July 4th at a public fireworks display. I don't know if it's a fire or a terrorist strike (Many people believe that some of these fires were caused by terrorists.) but I know that something bad is going to happen in Albuquerque, probably in the SE and NW sections, and in Moriarity or however you spell it, which is a town about 10 miles away from where I live. My friend thinks that she's going to have to evacuate Albuquerque, and that her house may burn down. She's also sure that this will be a rather huge thing, and that the next state to have a sudden fire plague is Texas.

Just random stuff, all right?

 

[Gerbil]

Whoa Ec, I have had deja vu moments but never like that.
Just like, "wasn't I already standing in this line?"

It's brain relapse or something, at least that's what the bald dude said, I watched a show on it once.

 

[Ec_Prokta]

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I used to have deja vu moments like that, but they've become more dire as of late.

Brain relapse, huh? How odd.

 

[Gerbil]

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I used to have deja vu moments like that, but they've become more dire as of late.

Brain relapse, huh? How odd.

Hmmm.... Odd, slightly creepy and yet potentially useful.

Ya, I'm not quite sure, I have to go look it up again.

 

[Ec_Prokta]

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I used to have deja vu moments like that, but they've become more dire as of late.

Brain relapse, huh? How odd.

Hmmm.... Odd, slightly creepy and yet potentially useful.

Ya, I'm not quite sure, I have to go look it up again.

Indeed they are. Honestly, I'm kind of freaking out. *laughs*

Would you mind looking it up, please?

 

[Gerbil]

I would be too.

The most likely explanation of déjà vu is not that it is an act of "precognition" or "prophecy", but rather that it is an anomaly of memory, giving the false impression that an experience is "being recalled".[4][5] This explanation is substantiated by the fact that the sense of "recollection" at the time is strong in most cases, but that the circumstances of the "previous" experience (when, where, and how the earlier experience occurred) are quite uncertain or known to be impossible. Likewise, as time passes, subjects can exhibit a strong recollection of having the "unsettling" experience of déjà vu itself, but little or no recollection of the specifics of the event(s) or circumstance(s) they were "remembering" when they had the déjà vu experience. In particular, this may result from an overlap between the neurological systems responsible for short-term memory and those responsible for long-term memory (events which are perceived as being in the past). The events would be stored into memory before the conscious part of the brain even receives the information and processes it.[citation needed]

Another hypothesis being explored is that of vision. The hypothesis suggests that one eye may record what is seen fractionally faster than the other, creating the "strong recollection" sensation upon the "same" scene being viewed milliseconds later by the opposite eye.[6] However, this hypothesis fails to explain the phenomenon when other sensory inputs are involved, such as hearing or touch. If one, for instance, experiences déjà vu of someone slapping the fingers on his left hand, then the déjà vu feeling is certainly not due to his right hand experiencing the same sensation later than his left hand considering that his right hand would never receive the same sensory input. Also, people with only one eye still report experiencing déjà vu or déjà vécu (a rare disorder of memory, similar to persistent déjà vu). The global phenomenon can therefore at least in certain cases be narrowed down to the brain itself (i.e., one hemisphere being late compared to the other one).


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Since déjà vu occurs in individuals with and without a medical condition, there is much speculation as to how and why this phenomenon happens. Several psychoanalysts attribute déjà vu to simple fantasy or wish fulfillment, while some psychiatrists ascribe it to a mismatching in the brain that causes the brain to mistake the present for the past. Many parapsychologists believe it is related to a past-life experience. Obviously, there is more investigation to be done.

 

[Ec_Prokta]

How odd. (That's my new catchphrase~!) I don't want fires as wish fulfillment! Intriguing, thank you.

 

[Gerbil]

There are so many theories going around, odds are most of them are a bunch of whooy.

(Love it!)

 

[Ec_Prokta]

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I don't know what to believe regarding this phenomenon!

(Woot~)

 

[eenie114]

I got most of the pictures I wanted onto my blog!


Gerbil, you may now gaze upon the awesomeness that is Chris August.

Put your smile on, today is gonna save us! Let the bridge down, the sun is gonna wake us. 'Cause somebody's been messin' around with you, and I dunno, but I was thinkin' maybe.... We could run into summer, the hotter weather's always cool when we're together.