It is always very strange. Something with the brain not differentiating between a the current situation and a very similar memory. :idunno:
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It is always very strange. Something with the brain not differentiating between a the current situation and a very similar memory. :idunno:
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toldailytopic: How do you explain Déjà vu?
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Can you imagine a brain defect where you felt recollection all the time? :shocked:
:shocked: I had a strong moment of deja vu today.
It is always very strange. Something with the brain not differentiating between a the current situation and a very similar memory. :idunno:
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When I was in graduate school, a neurologist told us it was "reverberating circuits" where the experience immediately went into memory, and then popped back into consciousness.
He told us that if it happened frequently, that was not a good sign. It's a common symptom of temporal lobe epilepsy.
Don't remember what "frequently" was, now.
(A) possible explanation for the phenomenon of déjà vu is the occurrence of "cryptamnesia", which is where information learned is forgotten but nevertheless stored in the brain, and similar occurrences invoke the contained knowledge, leading to a feeling of familiarity because of the situation, event or emotional/vocal content, known as "déjà vu"...
I like the imagery this explanation evokes - one of random memories lost in the brain, accessible only by chance.