Déjé vu and other mind states
Déjé vu isn’t the only one, although it’s the one most of us have heard about.
But then there’s déjé vécu, déjé visité, and a host of others.
Sound familiar?
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Déjé vu isn’t the only one, although it’s the one most of us have heard about.
But then there’s déjé vécu, déjé visité, and a host of others.
Sound familiar?
There’s “déjé O” – Obama’s third term
I’m a Deja Thoris fan.
There must be a term for the following:
The strange sensation that you know very little while everyone around you seems to understand everything completely;
The phenomenon where it is commonly accepted that everything worth knowing has already been figured out, but you yourself have an eerie feeling that there is still a lot more to be figured out;
An odd repetition of a single word or phrase as a definitive explanation for a wide variety of existential circumstances, when the word or phrase has no apparent connection to the actual circumstances;
A bizarre sense of absolute certainty that perfection can be achieved if only a few simple things are destroyed;
A profound faith that you and everyone who agrees with you are good, and people who disagree with you are bad, even when what you believe now is different from or the exact opposite of what you previously believed;
The sense of euphoria when another person’s skin or genitals simplifies the complexities of life and makes it unnecessary for you to think.
Only, I suppose, if you are French, and probably with a stick up… I mean… with a formal bent. To me, all of those things have been wrapped into déjé vu, if déjé vécu is more applicable most of the time. At least for me.
Here is one for you. Perhaps you know the term. In civics (do they still teach civics? then again, most teachers were commies even in my day, so like it mattered), I took a test. But… I remembered having taken this test before. While the teacher was an obvious commie, I was honest, so I asked him before finishing the test. He was sure this was the first time, told me not to worry.
So, I finished the test. Only, not only did I remember taking the test, I remembered… after getting it back, what the correct answers were. I couldn’t remember all of them, but I got three of the six wrong answers corrected (for sure), and knew the other three which were wrong and… guessed differently, getting one of those right. Later, I remembered that it had been in a dream. Felt odd after that, as if I had… potentially… tinkered with the future.
Any name for that?
Our minds work through correlation (i.e. weak/circumstantial evidence), which may pose an obstacle to discerning cause and effect. Its accessibility can and does create and sustain an illusion of the latter.
I can’t say as I’ve ever had deja anything…
Precognition — too many to list.
Starting with Barry being President — back in 1983…
And on and on and on and on I could go.
Since I don’t believe in ESP — at all.
Something else is at work.
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The up-side is that it, pre-cognition, has saved my life/ serious injury more times than I could relate.
The down-side is that no-one believes me…
Which is okay…
I wouldn’t believe what’s happened in my life — if told
— and still can’t…
having the experiences.
There’s the one I hate, that I seem top get at least once every winter: deja flu.