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>> "Thoughts And Deja Vu" <<
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by -> Gaurdian
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The person whom I was responding to was of the mindset that deja vu
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was a sort of 'memory of the soul,' a recollection of past life experiences.
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Obviously I think this is just bullshit. Although the effects of one's
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existance continue to propagate through the Universe long after death, the
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odds that such effects could be realized electrochemically as conscious
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memories is too insignificant to be worth considering.
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I present another perspective. Everyone has experienced a type of
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reverse remembering that is essentially identical to deja vu on paper. When
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you listen to someone you aren't interested in drone on fairly repetitavely,
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in terms of intonation, you listen, but you don't hear words. You're aware
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that the sound is continuing to exist but that's all. And then, suddenly,
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he or she says your name. Boom. The last 5 seconds of whatever was said
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come back. You didn't hear them before, but the sudden shock of recognition
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jarred the sounds back into you mind, and you decoded the sounds into words,
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after the fact. You remember hearding the words now, but you one second ago
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you didn't remember hearding them. The conscious memory was created several
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seconds AFTER the event was processed by the brain. The same thing can
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happen in the physical-visual world as well, although on an even deeper
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level.
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You're doing something, probably walking, or wandering in a crowd.
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These sort of primal actions, such as movement in a large group of people,
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or explorative wandering require incredibly little thought. They, in fact,
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tend to blank the mind of thought in general. Hence, incidentally, the term
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"driving hypnosis," whereby semi-trailer truck drivers often mow down little
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cars because they simply aren't sufficiently aware of their surroundings
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when they notice that they are close to a collision.
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Anyway, it frequently happens that people are in just such a
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non-thinking mode and suddenly something happens that SNAPS their mind into
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a more lucid mode of thought. Suddenly POW you rethink the last 5 seconds
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and re-attribute the decoded meaning of your actions to whatever it was that
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you were aware of. Now, when I say "meaning," I don't mean deep,
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philosophical, religious crap. I mean the way you interpret an event. The
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action of brushing your teeth, for example, is EXTREMELY complex, and
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involves hundreds of muscles, and a multitude of balancing acts. And yet
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the brain manages to group it into a single event. "Brushing teeth."
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Amazing...!
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But I digress... back to the SNAP. Now, when you rethink an event,
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one that you've already thought through on an unconscious level, you will
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percieve a strange sense that you've "done" this before, when in fact it's
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not the DOING that's been done before, but the THINKING that's been done
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before. This certainly accounts for the situations under which people
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experience deja vu. I have never known anyone to have a deja vu experience
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while in a lucid state of consciousness. I suppose the 'spiritualist'
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could claim that this is because you must be in touch with your
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subconscious mind in order to access the memories of your soul? I think
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most people can see that such an assertion would just be an attempt to patch
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a flawed theory to fit the facts. Oh well.
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There is another, far far less common type double memory, where you
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actually do something twice, and upon doing it the second time, you remember
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doing it the first time. This can only be considered deja vu however if you
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can't remember when you did it the first time, or can't remember the
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circumstances or some such thing. But it's a far less interesting
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phenomenon... more accurately described as a crappy memory.
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-=GAURDIAN SIGNS OFF=-
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* (c) HoE publications. HoE #148 -- written by Gaurdian -- 12/12/97 *
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