Deja vu. n.
1. Psychology. The illusion of having already experienced something actually being experienced for the first time.
2.
1. An impression of having seen or experienced something before: Old-timers watched the stock-market crash with a distinct sense of dj vu.
2. Dull familiarity; monotony: the dj vu of the tabloid headlines.
According to dictionary.com. I'm wonder though, if deja vu is much more than that. It's something deep. Perhaps it is "chocolate," in reference to a SG journal entry by TigerBlood_79.
Scientifically speaking, it involves the temperal lobe and some nuerochemical reactions. It is also Jamais Vu or Paramnesia. Psychiatric patients are know to have many instances of deja vu.
There are also other types of "deja experiences." Deja vu, literally, means "already seen." Deja viste and deja viscu. Already visited and already experienced, respectively. This is according to Swiss scholar Arthur Funkhouser. He beleives that in understanding the nuances of each of these "deja expereiences." we can understand how they work.
Ok, enough science talk though. Seriously. What is deja vu? From the smallest, corner brick of its existance, it is a memory. Well, now what can be said about memory. What causes memory. Something you did last night? Or is it an event from a past life? Something you may have dreamed up? Memory is a part of your existance. Because you have memories, you exist. Kind of. Remember your first memory? (no pun intended) I remember mine. It was the first day of my second week in kindergarten. The first day I was to take the bus to school. I was so excited. My mom took pictures. I had my little pink barbie bookbag and my matching lunch box. MMM... i miss mom's box lunches. I was wearing a little gray skirt and shirt with pink polka dots and stripes on it. White tights and sneakers (it was 1989, cut me some slack). My hair was back in a half ponytail... haha i remember, i used to call it a water fountain. Anyway, although I was a physical being, I had no memory of this being so prior to this occasion. Memory is a recorded thought. That memory was my first recorded thought. Ever since then, I had my first taste of true existence.
Humans are meant to think and have memories. We can think and not have memories, as I'm sure we do as young children. But what makes us remember that first thought? A tramatic experience? An exciting one? Just anything that happens when our brain decides it's file cabinets are ready for storage. And another question. What are we without memories, even though we have thought? We have things going through our heads, but nothing to hit the save button? Imagine never being able to remember your thoughts. You'd need a pen and paper at your side constantly. But if you never remember your thoughts, even if you record them, did they ever really exist? Consider this. It's like the tree in the forest question. If a tree fell in a forest, and no one was around to hear it... If you have a thought, consider it the tree. Your head, then, would be the forest. Consider your memories someone in the forest who heard the tree fall, then. Does it make sense now? It's a bit of an anomoly. Or just a matter of perception.
Perception makes up a lot of this. You can exist to someone else, if they have a thought of you, even if you don't have a thought of yourself. That person wouldn't exist to you though, since you have no thought of them. You don't exist to yourself, so you have no mental existance. You are brain dead. Your body is alive, but without purpose.
This is where instinct comes into play. Animals, including humans, are instinctual. Instinct by defenition is an inborn pattern of behavior that is characteristic of a species and is often a response to specific environmental stimuli, according to dictionary.com. A response to a stimuli. More importantly, a pattern of behavior. Now, animals, although they rely primarily on instinct, are unpredictable sometimes. If instinct is a pattern of behavior, and they act out of this pattern, that is spontanieous. What causes this spontenaity? Thought. Obviously, not all animals are capable of this. I'm talking about dogs and cats, here. Some sort of thought had to trigger this spontaneous break in pattern. And what caused this thought? Could it have been a memory? Now we're going in circles. One has memories, because their brain records a thought. However, in the case of animals, one has thought because of memory? Obviously, this is a question that may never be answered, unless animals could speak, or humans could read minds. And if animals could speak, they would have much more complex minds then we ever thought and I could get into a whole 'nother essay. Let's not go there.
This is where you break that circle. Conciousness vs. subconciousness. They are both capable of creating memories. In fact both memories and thoughts can be broken down in concious vs. subconcious. I most likely don't have to go into the thought aspect of it. But subconcious memory is something you may never have heard of. I know I haven't. I'm sure someone has thought about it before, but it didn't exist to me, haha. It's pretty self explanitory, as long as you know what subconciousness is.
And we arrive back at "deja experiences." This subconcious memory is why we experience it. When we feel strange because we think we may have been there before, or seen that before, or even felt that before, it's because whatever it was is part of a subconcious memory. Subconcious being key here. What makes up the subconcious? Past life experiences? Moments where you just may not have been paying attention well enough for it to enter your conciousness? Chocolate (as in someone else's memory, for a breif time)? Unanswered questions. Questions that don't necessarily need answers. All we know for sure is that it happens.
Everything I've written here is theory. My OWN theory. If you don't agree, I'm glad. This is something that can always be studied, but never proven. Which means there is room for debate. And if everyone agreed with everything that made a little sense, we'd have one boring planet. Maybe you'll have a deja vu, and think you may have already read this, even though you couldn't have. You just thought the same thing I did, and swore someone wrote it down before. Deja experiences are wonderful.
DORK
1. Psychology. The illusion of having already experienced something actually being experienced for the first time.
2.
1. An impression of having seen or experienced something before: Old-timers watched the stock-market crash with a distinct sense of dj vu.
2. Dull familiarity; monotony: the dj vu of the tabloid headlines.
According to dictionary.com. I'm wonder though, if deja vu is much more than that. It's something deep. Perhaps it is "chocolate," in reference to a SG journal entry by TigerBlood_79.
Scientifically speaking, it involves the temperal lobe and some nuerochemical reactions. It is also Jamais Vu or Paramnesia. Psychiatric patients are know to have many instances of deja vu.
There are also other types of "deja experiences." Deja vu, literally, means "already seen." Deja viste and deja viscu. Already visited and already experienced, respectively. This is according to Swiss scholar Arthur Funkhouser. He beleives that in understanding the nuances of each of these "deja expereiences." we can understand how they work.
Ok, enough science talk though. Seriously. What is deja vu? From the smallest, corner brick of its existance, it is a memory. Well, now what can be said about memory. What causes memory. Something you did last night? Or is it an event from a past life? Something you may have dreamed up? Memory is a part of your existance. Because you have memories, you exist. Kind of. Remember your first memory? (no pun intended) I remember mine. It was the first day of my second week in kindergarten. The first day I was to take the bus to school. I was so excited. My mom took pictures. I had my little pink barbie bookbag and my matching lunch box. MMM... i miss mom's box lunches. I was wearing a little gray skirt and shirt with pink polka dots and stripes on it. White tights and sneakers (it was 1989, cut me some slack). My hair was back in a half ponytail... haha i remember, i used to call it a water fountain. Anyway, although I was a physical being, I had no memory of this being so prior to this occasion. Memory is a recorded thought. That memory was my first recorded thought. Ever since then, I had my first taste of true existence.
Humans are meant to think and have memories. We can think and not have memories, as I'm sure we do as young children. But what makes us remember that first thought? A tramatic experience? An exciting one? Just anything that happens when our brain decides it's file cabinets are ready for storage. And another question. What are we without memories, even though we have thought? We have things going through our heads, but nothing to hit the save button? Imagine never being able to remember your thoughts. You'd need a pen and paper at your side constantly. But if you never remember your thoughts, even if you record them, did they ever really exist? Consider this. It's like the tree in the forest question. If a tree fell in a forest, and no one was around to hear it... If you have a thought, consider it the tree. Your head, then, would be the forest. Consider your memories someone in the forest who heard the tree fall, then. Does it make sense now? It's a bit of an anomoly. Or just a matter of perception.
Perception makes up a lot of this. You can exist to someone else, if they have a thought of you, even if you don't have a thought of yourself. That person wouldn't exist to you though, since you have no thought of them. You don't exist to yourself, so you have no mental existance. You are brain dead. Your body is alive, but without purpose.
This is where instinct comes into play. Animals, including humans, are instinctual. Instinct by defenition is an inborn pattern of behavior that is characteristic of a species and is often a response to specific environmental stimuli, according to dictionary.com. A response to a stimuli. More importantly, a pattern of behavior. Now, animals, although they rely primarily on instinct, are unpredictable sometimes. If instinct is a pattern of behavior, and they act out of this pattern, that is spontanieous. What causes this spontenaity? Thought. Obviously, not all animals are capable of this. I'm talking about dogs and cats, here. Some sort of thought had to trigger this spontaneous break in pattern. And what caused this thought? Could it have been a memory? Now we're going in circles. One has memories, because their brain records a thought. However, in the case of animals, one has thought because of memory? Obviously, this is a question that may never be answered, unless animals could speak, or humans could read minds. And if animals could speak, they would have much more complex minds then we ever thought and I could get into a whole 'nother essay. Let's not go there.
This is where you break that circle. Conciousness vs. subconciousness. They are both capable of creating memories. In fact both memories and thoughts can be broken down in concious vs. subconcious. I most likely don't have to go into the thought aspect of it. But subconcious memory is something you may never have heard of. I know I haven't. I'm sure someone has thought about it before, but it didn't exist to me, haha. It's pretty self explanitory, as long as you know what subconciousness is.
And we arrive back at "deja experiences." This subconcious memory is why we experience it. When we feel strange because we think we may have been there before, or seen that before, or even felt that before, it's because whatever it was is part of a subconcious memory. Subconcious being key here. What makes up the subconcious? Past life experiences? Moments where you just may not have been paying attention well enough for it to enter your conciousness? Chocolate (as in someone else's memory, for a breif time)? Unanswered questions. Questions that don't necessarily need answers. All we know for sure is that it happens.
Everything I've written here is theory. My OWN theory. If you don't agree, I'm glad. This is something that can always be studied, but never proven. Which means there is room for debate. And if everyone agreed with everything that made a little sense, we'd have one boring planet. Maybe you'll have a deja vu, and think you may have already read this, even though you couldn't have. You just thought the same thing I did, and swore someone wrote it down before. Deja experiences are wonderful.
DORK
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then there's dreams. that to me has alot to do with recording memory's, do you agree? we sleep and while our body rest's and regenerates itself for another day our brain is hard at work recapping the days events, and sorting out what was useful to keep and what was mundane boring crap that goes to the "forget it dept". i think thats why we dream about similar things to what we experinced that day. maybe a deja experience has something to do with a dreamlike experience we have while we're concious or awake. its a pretty interesting subject, i love talking about stuff like this, we could talk about this for hours, your pretty cool, l like you, you have a different approach, thats really important.
one last quetion. are you really a mechanic and a soldier? the reason i ask is becouse i'm really into cars and love when girls get down and dirty, wrenching out on cars. cool, talk to soon!