[[but was otherwise completely healthy]]
Hmmm, I wouldn’t call a mental problem ‘completely healthy’
Rise and shine, Campers.
It's cold out there!
Must have been the brown acid.
I share his pain. Every time the State Of The Union address is given it’s all eerily familiar.
“I see everything twice!”
I once heard this put in laymen’s terms as the following: An event or thought comes into your perception and hits a switch. The conscious thought goes past the switch into short term memory and then finally into long term memory. But sometimes the switch sends the thought into long term memory a split second before going to short term memory. When the thought leaves short term memory and goes to long term memory it gives the person the feeling that they’ve “been there before”.
That’s really strange, but I can appreciate how something like that can happen. Did you ever lean back in chair on its hind legs, and catch yourself just before you tip backwards? That’s how I feel all the time.
So. I read the article and being the dumbass, illiterate old fart I am, I missed where it pointed out this severely affected young person, debilitated by Deja Vu all-over-again is ensconced in a council townhome, put on the dole and given a personal-care worker to help him deal with the tragedy of it all.
It’s usually called marriage.
*ducks*
It is like deja vu all over again.
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.
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.
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...)
Done that as well. Sometimes when spelling out a word I've used everyday for 50 years, I stop and stare at it and think.... naw... too simple, is it really spelled that way? The word "been" comes to mind...
Presque vu - translated as "almost seen", this is the sense of being on the edge of an epiphany or realisation, for example recalling a memory.
We called them brain-farts.
Déjà entendu - translated "already heard", this is the sense of feeling sure you have heard something before, like a snippet of conversation or a musical phrase.
Would this be typical of annoying people who insist on finishing your sentences?
My favorite mind experience though is something that has been ongoing for 20+ years. I wind up in the same dream 2 or 3 times a month. I'm in this awesome house with a walkout lower floor that looks out across a bay. I feel like I consciously know that I am dreaming and tell myself to look behind the door that I didn't get a chance to open the last time I was there...
I keep a sketch pad nearby and when I wake up, I'll add some more info to my floor plan and even jot down a few reminders of other things to look for next time. I have a CAD program and have been building a little library of layouts. It would be pretty cool to build it some day. Even have a name for it if I ever take the opportunity to do so.
Maybe he feels like he’s encountered it all before because he has. When you pay attention long enough you realize the news is insanely cyclical, there’s a bunch of stories that happen at the same time every years. Whether it’s the Best Black Friday Ever, or the Worst Holiday Shopping Season Ever, and then there’s the annual Worst Flu Season ever which used to be in early November but has shifted to late December, and of course every year starts off telling us last year was the hottest ever. Then on the bi-annual cycle of politics as the mushy middle waves back and forth in highly predictable patterns that cause the White House to switch sides every 8 years and the party of the president to take a bath every mid-term.
Really there’s nothing wrong with somebody thinking they’ve seen this news before. The ones that need help are the ones that read today’s news and don’t realize it’s recycled.
Deja vu means there’s a glitch in the Matrix.
I’m surprised no one has thought of him possibly being in a moebius like the one mentioned in Star Trek.
“There is the theory of the moebius. A twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop, from which there is no escape. When we reach that point, whatever happened will happen again.”
-Lieutenant Commander Worf, Star Trek: TNG, “Time Squared”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNb4VKln1uw
Improv Everywhere pranked the public by creating one!
http://improveverywhere.com/2003/03/22/the-moebius/