NFT: What in the bloody hell are deja vus, really?

I'm not drinking.

Yet.

So let's expand this to a "what are we drinking" thread, as well.

Oh, and it's my 21st anniversary! So, she's put up with me for a hell of a long time!

That's a lot to ponder, folks. Have a great night. We are headed out to dinner. Have a great night, all!

But deja vus ... what the hell, right?

In comment 13647401 Beezer said:

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I Oh, and it's my 21st anniversary! So, she's put up with me for a hell of a long time! ?

we have put up with you for a lot of years as well

starting my night with Uinta Hop Nosh IPA
picked up a bottle of Macallan 12 and a Leaf by Oscar Cigar for tonight outside by the fire.

Should be a very good night.

Same eerily feeling when in the middle of one. Passes after a few seconds. Then back to my regularly scheduled doctor visits with the neighborhood chicks.

A few weeks ago I was in a town I’d never been to and I 100% would swear I had been there before. I knew the buildings and the restaurants and the the cool unique stuff about the wheres and the whys of it like I had recently taken a walking tour. Bizarre and cool.

If I had ever been here before
I would probably know just what to do
Don't you?

If I had ever been here before on another time around the wheel
I would probably know just how to deal
With all of you

And I feel
Like I've been here before
Feel
Like I've been here before

And you know it makes me wonder
What's going on under the ground, hmmm
Do you know? Don't you wonder?
What's going on down under you

We have all been here before, we have all been here before
We have all been here before, we have all been here before
We have all been here before, we have all been here before

They episodes are so vivid that I could swear that I had been there before. Some are fleeting and others are like a scene from a movie where I'll "remove" myself from the goings on and watch the scene play out knowing what is happening and will happen.

There are numerous theories, but it is difficult to study as the research isn't profitable to sit around and wait to attach electrodes to a person that experiences it at random moments. One theory that is plausible is that there is a mis-fire of the circuit of pattern recognition in the hippocampus such that similar old experiences are unable to be distinguished from similar new experiences. My question to this theory is the experiences are so vivid in detail that it seems implausible that I had experienced an experience before and that a new similar experience also matches the same detail as the old experience.

Is the only rational explanation

2013 and 2017.

Prevailing theory is a temporary glitch in your memory intake where current happenings are being stored in your longterm vs short term memory - so as they unfold you literally perceive them as having had happened - because point-of-fact based on the your reality, they are happened in past not in the present.

In comment 13647539 christian said:

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Prevailing theory is a temporary glitch in your memory intake where current happenings are being stored in your longterm vs short term memory - so as they unfold you literally perceive them as having had happened - because point-of-fact based on the your reality, they are happened in past not in the present.

I've heard of that, but I think no one theory can explain the phenomena. Normal memory mapping is such where an experience gets stored in the short-term and then is eventually re-mapped in the long-term memory. Like you indicated with the theory is that the short-term memory is bypassed and the experience is mapped directly to the long-term. Hence, when you recall the experience from the "past", it is actually the present.

Also, increased dopamine levels in the brain seems to heighten the frequency and detail of the experience.

Then these things are rather easy to explain. In fact most of life's mysteries become explained if we are all in fact living in a simulation.

Groundhog Day, over and over....

But, I recall these "episodes"a lot when I was younger (through my 20s). The me.ory glitch explanation doesn't work for me, because it wasn't that it just felt like I had been there before. I knew what was coming. It almost like out of body for a few moments and then you just move on.

I don't know why, but one has always stuck with me. We were having a holiday di her at my home and for about 2 minutes, I knew the conversation, the actions, etc. And this was boring and simple stuff, like someone reaching across me for a platter, someone asking for the salt, etc. But, I swear I knew what was coming next.

Didn't we already have a thread on this?

Reminds you of a past event but you can't bring it to consciousness so the brain conflates the two. believing the present is a memory is an illusion.

not so much recently.

The thing a find really interesting is my 13-year old has them quite frequently. It freaks him out a little and I can tell by the look on his face when its happening.

To me, it always seems like what is happening happened in a dream I had, if that makes sense.

Little known fact - The actor who played Deja Vu in Top Secret, Jim Carter, was the pompous butler Carson in Downton Abbey.

shut up Beez.