Sudden recollection

[Niclmaki]

This is going to be difficult to describe, but does this sound familair to any of you?

Engaged in some low focus activity (reading, walking, watching tv, listening to music) and suddenly have a memory become crystal clear in your mind. It is as if I had JUST been there again, but everything was sharper and clearer. I was never thinking about whatever memory surfaced either. It could be a dream I had long ago, a place I was a decade ago, or even the taste and texture of a meal.

Has anyone else experienced anything similar to this? It would happen to me once a month before, but lately it's been about every 3 days.

 

[onesteptwostep]

Deja vu?

 

[Niclmaki]

Sorta like deja vu without needing to be in any place specific to trigger it.

 

[cheese]

I think so. It's cool isn't it. Fun how our brains can do things like that. Perhaps we record memories with much higher resolution than we realise at the time, but we're only able to access it occasionally for whatever reason.

I also get sudden and strong 'false memories' which quickly fade before I can grasp them. I think they're dreams, but they feel so real it's like I lived them. It often takes me some thinking to untangle them from actual memories.

On the subject of a sudden intense and 'crystal clear' mind's eye: There are times where I'm falling asleep where I get an intense and blazing fast 'download' of visual info into my head. I can see people I don't recognise from anywhere clearer than I could ever see them in real life, see snippets of their lives cut and pasted together haphazardly. Scenes change too fast for me to comprehend, but everything is always imbued with this sense of significance and ultra-high fidelity. I wish I could see like that for real.

Do you get strong deja vu, or jamais vu (everything familiar suddenly feels unfamiliar)? In my experience, people seem to get clusters of similar weird brain blips.

I really enjoy hearing about this kind of stuff.

 

[ZenRaiden]

When in process of learning I often get this. Especially when solving problems like in math or physics or chemistry or whatever I did in school. I think its just Ti in overdrive.