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- inactive, on 11/21/2008, -1/+70I feel like I've read this before.
- nippy, on 11/21/2008, -2/+58Really? You don't say. This is one of the most redundant articles I've read in awhile.
- GodAImighty, on 11/21/2008, -1/+41Sometimes I just like messing with you guys, I wipe your memory and send you back in time to relive events for kicks and giggles.
- inactive, on 11/22/2008, -0/+21Good point, but I think this is one of the most redundant articles I've read in awhile.
- Drakoi, on 11/22/2008, -1/+21deja vu is an information wave traveling backwards through time that is constructively interfered when multiple timelines intersect. when you are young your multiverse lives are more closely entwined which accounts for younger people experiencing more deja vu.
- Darthyoshiboy, on 11/22/2008, -0/+16Good point, but I think this is one of the most redundant comments I've read in awhile.
- AmyVernon, on 11/22/2008, -2/+11I thought it was just that the neuralizer didn't work properly.
- thedivinelyevil, on 11/22/2008, -1/+10isn't this just the definition of deja vu put in scientific-sounding words?
- punkcat, on 11/22/2008, -0/+9Good point, but i think this is the most overuse of previously stated material i've seen in awhile.
- Cglass, on 11/22/2008, -0/+7This experiment is stupid and his nothing to do with actual Deja Vu events. This is just a way to scientifically explain what it seems like people are saying they are experiencing. The fact of the matter is, a true Deja Vu (many of which I've had in my life time) are so random and far between that it would be nearly Impossible to test for something like this.
I have experienced things that I have never happened, I have experienced things that are both complicated and intense, like one time in around 3rd-4th grade I KNEW exactly what my friend was going to sit down and say during a crowded lunch, word for word, motion for motion, and it was some mundane unimportant (non-repeated) statement. This experiment does not account for events like that, and that is what a deja vu is, a true one anyways.
So yes clearly this experiment has a lot of merit on actual deja vu events.
Now if you wanted to test stupid people making false claims and using the words deja vu to describe the event, because they want to feel special about something very similar that has happened, then by all means tell us with a stupid experiment how the similarity of something makes us remember it.
Buried as lame. - Finalreminder, on 11/22/2008, -0/+7I read somewhere that Deja Vu was where one eye picked up the information it was viewing a split second after the other. It confuses the brain into thinking it's been here before
- louiebaur, on 11/22/2008, -0/+6That's not nice!
- davidwasman, on 11/22/2008, -0/+6OOOhhh...so this is NOT an Onion Article.
- lazerus9, on 11/22/2008, -1/+6I've used this same comment before.
- chubbybubba, on 11/22/2008, -1/+5Strange... it feels like i've made this comment before. Must be a glitch in the Matrix.
- GawtMilk, on 11/22/2008, -1/+5deja vu is an information wave traveling backwards through time that is constructively interfered when multiple timelines intersect. when you are young your multiverse lives are more closely entwined which accounts for younger people experiencing more deja vu.
- GawtMilk, on 11/22/2008, -0/+4Don't talk to G-d that way, for He does what He wants.
- joltcola, on 11/22/2008, -0/+4jamais vu anyone?
- eigenweasel, on 11/22/2008, -1/+4Given that some of His other oeuvres include herpes and bagpipes, it isn't entirely out of character.
- Tophillious, on 11/22/2008, -0/+3****** and giggles. It's ok, you don't need to watch your language on the Internet.
- inactive, on 11/22/2008, -2/+5I have them all the time. Except I remember where I deja vued it: my dreams.
I dream it, then it happens. It's always insignificant stuff. Like sitting in the living room, listening to a specific song and my wife says something like "I forgot my keys at work and I had to ask the neighbor to let me in today".
Problem is, I'll dream a thousand similar dreams for everyone deja vu, so I can't tell which will happen and which won't. - jahurt, on 11/22/2008, -0/+3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEf4P7lOFHw
- Kotoyumu, on 11/22/2008, -0/+3Thats strange because I thought commented on this article before...
- apackofmonkeys, on 11/22/2008, -0/+3I agree. I haven't had many deja vu incidents, but what this article talks about really doesn't explain jack about true Deja Vu. I had a dream when I was 7 or 8 about visiting a house and I went through the whole house in the dream. Then we went to family friends' house for the first time YEARS later when I was 12, and suddenly I realized I knew how every room was laid out in the house, including strange things, like a game room with a weird cut-out in the wall to the kitchen, or an over-large painting that took up a whole wall in one of the bedrooms. I, being 12 and stupid, started talking about how I knew where everything was in their house and started naming things without seeing them and was correct on everything. Looking back, I think it freaked them out, because they never invited the whole family to their house again, just my parents. You would think Deja Vu would be about some important stuff, but this sure wasn't; we moved away a couple years later and didn't keep in contact with them at all, it's been about 13 or 14 years since then.
- Kotoyumu, on 11/22/2008, -0/+3Thats strange because I thought commented on this article before...
- TheMachine1, on 11/22/2008, -0/+3Yeah plus it does not explain why its such a weird sensation when you recognize a pattern.
- arkaycee, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2George Carlin suffered it first.
- embryoinbloom, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2ditto
- exscape, on 11/22/2008, -1/+3Looks like you're doing a ***** job, since people notice it all the time!
- covertbadger, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2That's the theory I liked best when I first heard of it. It explains deja vu neatly without getting tied up in mystical mumbo-jumbo, missing only those ***** stories where people claim to have been able to act on foreknowledge, or lucid dream hippy theories.
- TeenForums, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2That sounds like a pretty decent explanation.
It would cause the parts of the brain that Read and Write to get confused, giving you that feeling of anxiety. - Mujokan, on 11/22/2008, -1/+3Meh, the interesting thing here would be to identify the actual brain structure that kicks in to add that layer of "this has happened before". Saying it's more likely in more similar situations doesn't tell us much. Brain processes are all modular. There's some bit of machinery misfiring when you get a deja vu: the question is which bit. If I was coming up with hypotheses I might look at connections with dreaming. There is something dream-like about deja vu.
- ZeroCubed, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2I don't think the experiment hey did with the celebrity photographs and names is valid.
Deja vu is more of specific experience recognition - that a very specific event in terms of the people/animals/things in the event, what they did/happened, the mannerisms, expressions, and even how and where people/hings are placed are very familiar, as if you have experienced the exact same thing before. Simply having forgotten a certain name or term but recognizing it when it was mentioned is not the same. Deja vu is extremely complex in terms of WHAT is recognized in the deja vu as being familiar. - pe5t1lence, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2Wrong god jerk, you're gonna piss him off!
- Games4Life, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2It seems as though I've seen this before... Oh wait, it's spam.
- inactive, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2Is that a long complicated way of just saying "Deja vu is a glitch in the Matrix... it happens when they change something?"
- CoreyTamas, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2Spellingwitch did this joke better.
- drexl, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1"In a report, published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, Anne Cleary of Colorado State University says deja vu may occur when aspects of a current situation resemble aspects of previously occurring situations -- the more overlap between the elements of the new and old situations the stronger the feeling of familiarity"
DUH!? - DrReaper, on 12/04/2008, -0/+1Deja Vu is the communication between the two parts of your brain. Sometimes it slows down but it catches up after a few seconds. That is the best theory I have read before anyway.
- positron, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1I can't believe so many people have dugg up this pseudo-science gobbledygook. You people should be ashamed of yourselves. You're the reason the SciFi channel is plagued by wrestling.
- zunigbab, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Explain then how I have dreams and don't fully understand what the dreams mean but remember them the next morning. Usually within six months to a year, the exact scenario in the dream, even down to minute details, come to fruition.
- aristideau, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Interesting, however, if you had to make a choice between your explanation and "Finalreminder"'s explanation, assuming that your life depended on it, which would you choose?.
Seriously. - CoreyTamas, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1Put down the bong.
- Stonekeeper, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1Serious Question: I vividly remember dreams. They just kinda come to me at random times and I remember all about them, as if they were memories. This happens a *lot*. Is this linked to Deja Vu (which i get too)?
- liquisoft, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1No no. I'm psychic. That's all it is.
/s - CoreyTamas, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1Have I told you about my condition?
- Cglass, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1This is deja vu =)
- Zaxcomp, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1You don't have to be a hippy to lucid dream, in fact it really takes no effort on your part to start doing it. I really would recommend you try it, regardless of deja vu connection or not.
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