Posted on 01/26/2015 10:01:36 AM PST by BenLurkin
The group of scientists from the UK, France and Canada who studied the strange case of the man with "chronic deja vu" think one possible cause of the phenomenon could be anxiety.
The man's condition was so persistent he avoided watching television, listening to the radio and reading newspapers because he felt he had "encountered it all before".
Dr Chris Moulin, a cognitive neuropsychologist at the University of Bourgogne who worked on the study, says the man had a history of depression and anxiety, and had once taken the drug LSD whilst at university, but was otherwise completely healthy.
"This man was striking because he was young, otherwise aware, but completely traumatised by this constant sensation that his mind was playing tricks," he says.
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For a few precarious seconds, the chaplain tingled with a weird, occult sensation of having experienced the identical situation before in some prior time or existence. He endeavored to trap and nourish the impression in order to predict, and perhaps even control, what incident would occur next, but the afflatus melted away unproductively, as he had known beforehand it would. Déjà vu. The subtle recurring confusion between illusion and reality that was characteristic of paramnesia fascinated the chaplain, and he knew a number of things about it. He knew, for example, that it was called paramnesia and he was interested as well in such corollary optical phenomena as jamais vu, never seen, and presque vu, almost seen. There were terrifying, sudden moments when objects, concepts and even people that the chaplain had lived with almost all his life inexplicably took on an unfamiliar and irregular aspect that he had never seen before and which made them seem totally strange: jamais vu. And there were other moments when he almost saw absolute truth in brilliant flashes of clarity that almost came to him: presque vu. The episode of the naked man in the tree at Snowden's funeral mystified him thoroughly. It was not déjà vu, for at the time he had experienced no sensation of ever having seen a naked man in a tree at Snowden's funeral before. It was not jamais vu, since the apparition was not of someone, or something, familiar appearing to him in an unfamiliar guise. And it was certainly not presque vu, for the chaplain did see him… Had the naked man in the tree at Snowden's funeral been merely a hallucination? Or had it been a true revelation?
It’s simply another downside and SIDE EFFECT OF TIME TRAVEL.
“more likely windowpane”
Should have stuck with the peyote. Natural you know.
Wow. 22 posts before the Python sketch shows up!
Sounds to me like he’s some kind of paranoid schizophrenic.
Me, I have this nagging feeling of vuja de that none of this has ever happened before.
Hell I feel like that whenever Lord Foul or his brethren open their mouths.
That comes from not having enough sleep.
Quit staying up all night wondering if there is a dog.
I used to know a MSgt in the Air Force who said that all the time.
Gesundheit...
Or the mushrooms. They make great “tea”. More in tune with Gaia than that chemical lab stuff, LOL.
When a buddy came back in 1973 from being stationed in Thailand, a group of us had a “tea” party for him....and then went out bar hopping. That was a bizarre evening.
Looking back, I am amazed at the insane stuff we did with 0 arrests. I won’t drink more than 2 beers and drive now.
Danke.
Bitte...
Tough Love Cure for this man who doesn’t want to watch tv or listen to radio
pump his room 24/7 with Obama speeches
he will soon BEG for access to the normal purile mass media
(yes, I know, we signed some sort of anti-torture convention, but this is for this poor fellow’s health, after all...)
“When a buddy came back in 1973 from being stationed in Thailand, a group of us had a “tea” party for him....and then went out bar hopping. That was a bizarre evening.”
Looking back, I am amazed at the insane stuff we did with 0 arrests. I won’t drink more than 2 beers and drive now.
Since the statute of limitations is up, I hope, I’ll share.
Got a DUI once while tripping on ‘shrooms. That was 35 years ago so ya’ll give me a break. Passed the cops, they turned around, I made a quick left, then a right and yelled at my buddy to “throw the tea out the window!” Had a half gallon in the back floorboard. I went to jail, he got released and went back and got the tea...
Tripping while doing a night in the drunk tank is not something I’d wish on anyone. That, and when my dad picked me up the next morning he made me go to church with the family.
I’ve also seen it related to precognitive dreams. Personally I was seeing a couple of episodes a week when I was in 5th-8th grade. I started writing the dreams down to make sure I wasn’t just confused or just doing something similar. They were always everyday things - nothing big.
The strongest after I started writing them down, was walking into 6th grade and talking with 3 of my friends before class - we always sat on the heater in the classroom and chatted for that last few minutes. Got back to my desk and pulled out my notebook - everything we’d just said was verbatim. I didn’t freak out about it, just kinda said - well at least I’m not crazy crazy. Still get it once in a while, but not nearly as much anymore.
I used to get some pretty accurate dreams as a kid - usually in sports when I was visualizing myself in the race while training. Even to the point of dreaming of what place I would win (correctly). And sometimes on really mundane things.
It doesn’t happen too much anymore with big things, although lots of things through the day can trigger remembering a dream.
I wonder if we dream about 100 things every night, and then when the one or two things happen that sort-of fit they trigger the memory.
Obviously not the detailed dream like you described, but the truck crossing your path a bit close and “hey - I had a dream with a truck!”
The bible speaks of revelations given by God in dreams. Perhaps these are given through the medium of angels. Evil angels would be able to play with the phenomenon as well, though to sinful ends.
I definitly believe in God revealing himself in dreams. I’m not so sure about Satan - but you very well might be right.
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