Woo!!!/sevear Deja Vu18:47 Dec 14 2005
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I got models recruited with me!
(1)Nikki
(2)The girl from Tom's Donuts
(3)Evan
(4)Mike
(5)Jason
(5)Me
(6)omg i forgot! tee hee
Well, Jason might make it to the Pagan group meeting with me this week. He said it depends.
OK, I've been having serious Deja Vu since Howard and Dee got home and it's freaking me the hell out. Today, it happened while I was in my GED class and I got pissed off and stopped working because I was so nausious. Every time it happens, i'm frightened, suddenly exhausted and almost faint, my whole body gets cold and feels like something just stole my soul while i was awake, and there's no telling how much time i just froze up in one position. I'm very frightened that it won't stop. I am losing my mind.
Déjà vu
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The term déjà vu (French: "already seen", also called paramnesia) describes the experience of feeling that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously. The term was created by a French psychic researcher, Emile Boirac (1851–1917) in his book L'Avenir des sciences psychiques (The Future of Psychic Sciences), which expanded upon an essay he wrote while an undergraduate French concentrator at the University of Chicago. The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eerieness" or "strangeness". The "previous" experience is most frequently attributed to a dream, although in some cases there is a firm sense that the experience "genuinely happened" in the past.
The experience of déjà vu seems to be very common; in formal studies 70% or more of the population report having experienced it at least once.[1] References to the experience of déjà vu are also found in literature of the past, indicating it is not a new phenomenon. However, in laboratory settings, it is extremely difficult to invoke the déjà vu experience, making it a subject with few empirical studies.
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1 Scientific research
1.1 Links with disorders
1.2 Parapsychology
1.3 Dreams
2 Related phenomena
3 Popular References
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
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Scientific research
In recent years, déjà vu has been subjected to serious psychological and neurophysiological research. The most likely candidate for explanation, according to scientists in these fields, is that déjà vu is not an act of "precognition" or "prophecy" but is actually an anomaly of memory; it is the impression that an experience is "being recalled" which is false. This is substantiated to an extent by the fact that in most cases the sense of "recollection" at the time is strong, but any circumstances of the "previous" experience (when, where and how the earlier experience occurred) are quite uncertain. Likewise, as time passes, subjects can exhibit a strong recollection of having the "unsettling" experience of déjà vu itself, but little to no recollection of the specifics of the event(s) or circumstances they were "remembering" when they had the déjà vu experience, and in particular, this may result from an overlap between the neurological systems responsible for short-term memory (events which are perceived as being in the present) and those responsible for long-term memory (events which are perceived as being in the past). Neurophysiological specialist Stephanie Warn (based out of San Francisco) has dedicated research on the subject matter. Her current conclusion is that déjà vu is merely the brain pulsing at an exponential rate which causes a person to recall something he or she saw the moment before.
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Links with disorders
A clinical correlation has been found between the experience of déjà vu and disorders such as schizophrenia and anxiety, and the likelihood of the experience increases considerably with subjects having these conditions. However, the strongest pathological association of déjà vu is with temporal lobe epilepsy. This correlation has led some researchers to speculate that the experience of déjà vu is possibly a neurological anomaly related to improper electrical discharge in the brain. As most people suffer a mild (ie. non-pathological) epileptic episode regularly (eg. the sudden "jolt", a hypnagogic jerk, that frequently occurs just prior to falling asleep), it is conjectured that a similar (mild) neurological aberration occurs in the experience of déjà vu, resulting in an erroneous "memory".
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Parapsychology
Déjà vu is associated with precognition, clairvoyance or extra-sensory perceptions, and it is frequently cited as evidence for "psychic" abilities in the general population. Non-scientific explanations attribute the experience to prophecy, visions (such as received in dreams) or past-life memories.
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Dreams
Some believe déjà vu is the memory of dreams. The reasoning goes like this: though the majority of dreams are never remembered, a dreaming person can display activity in the areas of the brain that process long-term memory. Perhaps a dream can read directly into long-term memory, bypassing short-term memory entirely. In this case, déjà vu might be a memory of a forgotten dream with elements in common with the current "awake" experience.
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Related phenomena
Déjà vécu: the sense of already having lived through an experience
Jamais vu: explicitly not remembering having seen something before. The person knows it has happened before, but the experience feels unfamiliar.
Presque vu: almost, but not quite, remembering something. This is the 'on the tip of my tongue' feeling.
Déjà visité: uncanny knowledge of a new place. Here one may know his or her way around in a new town or landscape while at the same time knowing that this should not be possible. In addition to dreams, reincarnation and also out-of-the-body travel have been evoked to explain this phenomenon.
Déjà senti: feeling something again. Unlike déjà vu and déjà vécu, which imply precognition, this refers specifically to a mental feeling. Some temporal-lobe epileptics may experience this.
Déjà eprouvé: "already attempted or tried".
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Popular References
In the 1999 motion picture The Matrix, the character of Neo experiences déjà vu (though the experience somewhat differs: Neo sees a black cat go past two times consecutively). Trinity explains to Neo that "the déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they (Matrix agents) change something."
Déjà vu is the name of a Giant Inverted Boomerang ("Super Invertigo") roller coaster by Vekoma that is operating at Six Flags America, Six Flags Magic Mountain and Six Flags Over Georgia.
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See also
Psychology
Phenomenon
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References
^ Neppe Déjà Vu Research and Theory. Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute. URL accessed on November 29, 2005.
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External links
"The Tease of Memory" The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 23 2004
"Déjà Vu: If It All Seems Familiar, There May Be a Reason" New York Times, September 14, 2004
"UGH! I Just Got the Creepiest Feeling That I Have Been Here Before: Déjà vu and the Brain, Consciousness and Self", Neurobiology and Behavior, 1998
"Aviationweb Déjà Vu" about the history of aviation
Soulforce (Rap Group) Home Page
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