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Post by shyviolet on Sept 11, 2007 2:34:21 GMT -5
@ Tama Don't worry, having dreams that you can remember that then come true is not deja vu. If you get a sudden feeling that something has happened before and for the next few seconds or minutes you know what's going to happen, that's deja vu. See, your brain accidentally puts the new informating in long-term memory without going through short-term, so you feel as if you've done it before and could predict what happens next, but if you actually tried you would find that you couldn't speak fast enough. This is because it has already happened and your brain is correcting the mistake. Scary that a chemical misfire can totally screw our perception of something as important as time, ne?
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Post by Maliris on Sept 11, 2007 6:24:48 GMT -5
Makes you wonder what time really is. I am not going to quote the Doctor now as I dunno how to write wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff. But it´s true, time is an elusive thing. Some time ago I suddenly realized how short "now" or rather "the present" really is. It hangs between the past and the future. And it doesn´t last long... That is also a reason why time-travelling stories give me headaches when I think about them too much. That is, if they are working with paradoxes and the like. Back To The Future luckily had no such thing... Oh, I love this trilogy. o.o
But to get back to déjà-vus: Maybe it´s just my storytelling-loving self or my love for strange situations and incidents but I find the concept of déjà-vus extremely entertaining. XD I mean, the feeling that something like that has already happened... that is creepy in a way. I loved the Matrix-idea. XD
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Post by shyviolet on Sept 11, 2007 12:40:44 GMT -5
haha, time-travel is so confusing that the DCU tends not to deal with it, not even in its most popular comics.
I personally love the 'ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff' explanation. ;D
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Post by Thunderous on Sept 13, 2007 19:09:03 GMT -5
I've only had one deja vu in my life. It was awesome, I wish it'd happen more often...
I was at this conference thing, and the seats were all orange. That was what made me "remember," i mean, how many places do you go to with orange seats? But I had a sudden feeling that I'd sat in that exact spot before, and watched the guy who was speaking come through a door on the left side. Even though I'd never seen him before, or even a picture, sure enough he came through the door I "remembered" and looked exactly as I had imagined him. Twas pwnsome =D
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Post by shyviolet on Sept 14, 2007 10:19:13 GMT -5
I looked it up in more detail in my sister's psychology textbook. It's because usually anything one perceives goes through three stages; sensory, short-term memory and long term memory. Occasionally details jump straight to long-term memory, so when it gets there having gone through all three stages some of it is already there, giving people the impression that whatever jumped straight to long-term memory has happened before.
Does that make sense?
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Post by Tama on Sept 14, 2007 14:51:05 GMT -5
The 'wibbly wobbly, timey-wimey stuff' is very, very similar to how the Monks of History explain it to Vimes in Night Watch.
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett, page 109.
I suspect foul play.
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Post by lisajane on Sept 21, 2007 19:33:54 GMT -5
I get deja vu all the time, unfortunately it just becomes very annoying.
I had a dream the other night about Broken sky which was kinda weird cause I've never dreamed of that before... I was reading the books but the story was all completely wrong, and some of it just didn't make sense at all.
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