Deja vu

[candasiri]

And getting some mild deja vu these past few days.

 

[Benjamin]

Had several mild deja vue moments this afternoon watching recent Ian Carroll videos. One was during GATE Kids and the other was "Poppy" Smuggling. Boyola, that GATE kids one sure had me feeling some stuff.

 

[Gallo]

What I think, in my own non-scientific words: Assuming that consciousness "represents" 10% of our brain, with 90% being unconscious (factual, see recent neurological studies and brain structure), déjà vu must be a shift from the unconscious to the conscious, as if one of our neurological doubles imposed a memory as the present, creating a feeling of familiarity. Then, what is the trigger?

 

[katak]

The day before yesterday I went to visit my parents. Before I got there, I needed to stop at the shop, so I drove to the parking place in front of the supermarket. As I was walking away from my car, some car behind me honked very loudly. It was so intense that I got really startled, at the very least. I turned around and the guy in the car started honking at me continuously like a maniac. I froze and the only thing I managed to do was tap my forehead with my hand, like “are you insane?”. He rolled down his window and yelled very ugly words at me. I was in shock. It took me quite a while to calm down, breathe through the whole incident. It occurred to me that I experienced a very similar situation a few years ago when I was walking home to my parents’ home. Similar words, the same voice and the exact same tone of voice. I started wondering whether it could have been the same person. But what’s the probability that it really was the same person? Almost zero. Still – he shouted almost exactly the same sentence.

For several years now I’ve been learning to play a musical instrument. I experienced déjà vu already as a child and later as a young person. When I saw the instrument behind a door while visiting a friend and felt a strong need to pick it up and play it, even though I had never touched any musical instrument before in my life. It took many long years before I actually started. And especially when I’m playing, I often get the feeling that this has already happened before.

I feel that I experience déjà vu more and more frequently. Maybe it’s always been like this, I just didn’t perceive it before. It feels like I’m increasingly seeing events, situations, and now even people that I feel this have already happened. What I find interesting is that — unlike in the past — I can now remember those supposedly identical past stories much more clearly. Before, it was always just a feeling, like something “on the tip of your tongue” that you couldn’t quite put into words.

The question remains whether we actually lived through these moments in this life and now they are repeating from the perspective of time. If so, perhaps time itself is meant to rewind or loop, then it might make sense to track the 'madman in the parking lot' as an anchor — a recurring landmark to recognize when the timeline loops back.