I Have This Odd Sense of (Faux) Deja Vu

[TriflinThomas]

I'll see something or be watching a movie and then later on, as I think about it more, I start to get this feeling that I've seen it before. Although, I'm never quite sure whether I've actually seen it before or whether it's some kind of glitch in my memory. Is there an explanation for this?

 

[own8ge]

Bumb, I have the exact same. Not quite often though... (at me The gut feeling that arises at such point is very exciting; as if its "my 6th sense", so i reason it to be my Ne.
-When i try to go deeper in this dejá vu thought, my mind kind of gazes (if that makes sense);.. yet another reason why i reason it to be Ne

I'm just as curious to the explanation for this though...

 

[Architect]

The Matrix is resetting.

 

[Personification]

I have this feeling usually once a week or something, but usually credit it to vague memories, I have a very limited "space" I walk through to class, home or shops which means I go to places I have been before frequently, in each of those trips something seemingly remarkable or unique might happen and I will remember that briefly then it will be crystallized in my long-term memory. So the feeling of Deja Vu for me is attributed to seeing something similar to another time I walked past, but being unable to recall the memory as a thought, but knowing the scene as a intuitive feeling.

I do not remember the correct terminology for this specific memory event, but it is like the difference between information you can recall on the spot, and information you have to actively think forth. Deja Vu is essentially the first of those two, or so I have settled to believe so far anyhow.

Also, on the topic of memory glitch, memories are notoriously unreliable. But I am sure someone more skilled in the field could elaborate on that if you decide to look into it, or ask about.

 

[pjoa09]

Whenever I go through a different experience.

 

[Da Blob]

It is related to the dream state and connected to the exercise of imagination. Has one ever noticed that time does exist in dreams? Instead, there is a comfortable/disquieting familiarity with whoever or whatever pops up in the dream sequence. There is nothing old and nothing new.

I have found this POV occasionally manifesting in waking life, not seeing the old as old or the new as new...

 

[Jennywocky]

The Matrix is resetting.

Meow.




*2 seconds later*



Meow.

 

[ℜεмїηїs¢εη¢ε]

You are not alone. I can't really explain it...

 

[Silphiums]

Weird. I am not going to add to the information here, just add another "me too" to the list. I've had some strangely intense djv experiences in situations I know are novel.

I like the Matrix explanation. Covers the collective.

 

[TriflinThomas]

Weird. I am not going to add to the information here, just add another "me too" to the list. I've had some strangely intense djv experiences in situations I know are novel.

I like the Matrix explanation. Covers the collective.

The Matrix is resetting.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1847

Scientists think they have discovered a way to tell if we're living in a sim.

 

[Architect]

I suffer from frequent djv experiences and so have collected information on it over the years. The best explanation I've seen is that some psychologists believe they found a mechanism in the brain for the experience. I think it had to do with memory reflection or some such, meaning it occurs in how the cognitive brain doesn't really know where reality comes from; data can come from memory or senses and they are both roughly equivalent.

Evidence for this is in the fact that musicians, for example, can practice just as well by playing a physical instrument as they can by thinking/remembering how to play an instrument. The other side of the brain will learn just as well from either method. So in this example perhaps the brain stores the sensory input, and the cognitive part gets the idea there is a glitch because it's seeing it in two places at once, as it were.

FYI I don't have the original citation for this idea and think it's half me, half what I originally heard at this point.