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DEJA VU
Jul 16, 2013 13:25:00 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jul 16, 2013 13:25:00 GMT -6
blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/07/wait-have-i-been-here-before-the-curious-case-of-deja-vu/July 15, 2013 Wait, Have I Been Here Before? The Curious Case of Déjà VuPosted By: Marina Koren Symptoms: crunched-up brows, a narrowing of the eyes and a slight tilt of the head. Perhaps a case of déjà vu? Photo by leandroagguire Déjà vu is a rare occurrence, but you know it when you feel it. As you walk through a new city for the first time, something familiar clicks in your mind, giving you pause. You’ve definitely been here before. But you haven’t. So what gives? Well, no one really knows for sure. The origin of déjà vu (French for “already seen”), a sense of familiarity with something entirely new, remains hidden somewhere deep in our brains. The phenomenon is difficult to study—most people, when they experience déjà vu, aren’t hooked up to a bunch of electrodes, with clipboard-toting researchers at the ready. However, scientists have pondered the question for quite some time: A description of a déjà vu experience in patients with epilepsy appears as early as 1888. The observation was no coincidence—those with some types of epilepsy seem to feel déjà vu more often than those without the neurological disorder. Research on such patients showed that their feelings of déjà vu were likely linked to seizure activity in the medial temporal lobe, the part of the brain associated with sensory perception, speech production and memory association. During a seizure, neurons misfire, sending mixed-up messages to different parts of the body. For these patients, déjà vu is a result of getting their wires crossed. When some patients undergo brain surgery to stop the seizures, they wake up to a world free of the phenomenon. Some scientists posit that similar neural misfiring—a glitch in the system—also causes healthy, seizure-free brains to experience a sense of familiarity when there’s no reason to. A second hypothesis involves another brain error; this time, the problem is with our memory, says Anne Cleary, a cognitive psychology professor at Colorado State University. Something about a new situation or setting activates a memory of a similar past experience, but our brains fail to recall it. Cleary offers this scenario to help explain: Imagine you’re visiting Paris for the first time, and you have arrived at the Louvre. Your gaze lands on the giant glass pyramid jutting out of the museum’s main courtyard, and you get that strange feeling. At that moment, your brain is failing to retrieve a memory that could explain it away: A few months ago, you watched The Da Vinci Code, a film that provides an up-close look at the Louvre Pyramid. “In the absence of recalling that specific experience,” Cleary says. “You’re left only with this feeling of familiarity with the current situation.” Read more: blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/07/wait-have-i-been-here-before-the-curious-case-of-deja-vu/#ixzz2ZEqYWoes Follow us: @smithsonianmag on Twitter
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DEJA VU
Jul 16, 2013 13:52:02 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jul 16, 2013 13:52:02 GMT -6
this happens to me a lot...
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DEJA VU
Jul 16, 2013 19:34:21 GMT -6
Post by lois on Jul 16, 2013 19:34:21 GMT -6
this happens to me a lot... Me too but I will dream of a place some times and think I know this place I have been here before. Maybe I have dreamed the same dream before.
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DEJA VU
Jul 22, 2013 10:31:53 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jul 22, 2013 10:31:53 GMT -6
www.ufodigest.com/article/deja-vu-0722July 22, 2013 Déjà vu, Reality Glitches, What Are the Possibilities?By Diane Tessman Do you ever have a glitch in reality? Perhaps déjà vu or a premonition, or just a “funny moment” wherein an anomaly occurs which simply cannot happen? We’ve all had deju vu moments, a term which means “re-seeing” or “already seen.” This experience is an anomaly in reality itself, and yet we just stop for a second and say to ourselves, “Huh?” and then go on about our daily lives. In fact, an enormous event has happened, an “ad lib” moment in quantum reality of which Schrodinger and his cat, would be proud. Déjà vu is a glitch in reality but there are other examples of a “breakdown” in reality which happen unexpectedly and usually make absolutely no sense. Do UFO occupants and their UFOs exist in this “place” outside of time? When we spot a UFO, are we having a longer glitch than just a quick déjà vu? Have we suddenly shifted into THEIR reality? Unfortunately, most of the little glitches which happen to us seem to have no significance and do not even manifest a UFO. I experienced a strange, meaningless glitch recently: I sat down to relax for the evening. “The Big Bang Theory” was on network television and I always enjoy that show. I dozed off by the time “2 ½ Men” came on, promising myself I would wake back up for a good DVD after a brief nap. When I woke up, “2 ½ Men” was still on; I watched between 3 and 5 minutes of the show (not sure exactly). I comprehended the dialogue and scene perfectly. I dozed off again. When I snapped back awake, the SAME dialogue and the SAME scene was on, beginning at exactly the same spot in the episode. The dialogue unfolded precisely as it had several minutes earlier. I had not seen that episode before, let alone memorized it as it unfolds. Yes, there is a slight chance the network somehow re-showed part of the show accidentally, like putting the wrong reel onto the film machine – but no one uses film reels anymore. The show played out the rest of the time exactly as it should have. If a scene was accidentally re-shown, the show could not have ended on time nor would it have made perfect sense, unraveling as it should (which is did). I can only conclude that I slipped forward in time, or future-time slipped back to me – or SOMETHING very odd happened! However, what is the significance? Like many déjà vu events and glitches, this oddity did not involve a spectacular UFO sighting or amazing premonition. I don’t even like “2 ½ Men”! So what the heck did this mean? Apparently, it meant nothing. However, as a quantum event of the mind, it is astounding and so are all déjà vu events, however mundane. How can our mind recognize a few moments as having happened, when those moments have never happened before? The phenomenon of time itself is involved here; strange glitches in reality indicate that Einstein was right, there is no such thing as time! Yet, we are chained to the unrelentingly steady march of consecutive time for 99.99999% of our lifetime. I treasure those rare moments when we escape time, even it does involve watching “2 ½ Men” twice. CONTINUE READING: www.ufodigest.com/article/deja-vu-0722
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DEJA VU
Jun 18, 2014 13:46:12 GMT -6
Post by lois on Jun 18, 2014 13:46:12 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Jul 24, 2017 17:59:46 GMT -6
ultraculture.org/blog/2015/11/25/deja-vu-parallel-universe/ Is Déjà Vu Caused by Parallel Universe Versions of You Influencing Your Life?by Jason Louv / ultraculture.org/blog/author/jason-louv/11-25-2015 Do parallel universes influence each other? When you have déjà vu, is it because a parallel universe version of you has altered your life? Michio Kaku weighs in According to the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum physics, everything that might have happened in the past actually did happen, and exists in a parallel universe – and that there are possibly infinite parallel universes. However, academics at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia have just published a paper that goes even further They suggest that not only do these parallel universes exist, but that they also interact with each other. RELATED: Here’s a Visual Guide to the 10 Dimensions of Reality According to the team, who believe that their findings could help clarify some of the confusing details of quantum mechanics, and who just published their findings in the top-end journal Physical Review X, parallel universes influence each other via the subtle force of repulsion. Via Phys.org: Professor Wiseman and his colleagues propose that: • The universe we experience is just one of a gigantic number of worlds. Some are almost identical to ours while most are very different • All of these worlds are equally real, exist continuously through time, and possess precisely defined properties • All quantum phenomena arise from a universal force of repulsion between ‘nearby’ (i.e. similar) worlds which tends to make them more dissimilar. Dr Hall says the “Many-Interacting Worlds” theory may even create the extraordinary possibility of testing for the existence of other worlds. “The beauty of our approach is that if there is just one world our theory reduces to Newtonian mechanics, while if there is a gigantic number of worlds it reproduces quantum mechanics,” he says. “In between it predicts something new that is neither Newton’s theory nor quantum theory. “We also believe that, in providing a new mental picture of quantum effects, it will be useful in planning experiments to test and exploit quantum phenomena.” The ability to approximate quantum evolution using a finite number of worlds could have significant ramifications in molecular dynamics, which is important for understanding chemical reactions and the action of drugs. Classically, the Many Worlds interpretation suggests that every time a quantum measurement is made, every possible outcome branches into a parallel universe where that outcome occurred. This is popularly depicted in science fiction as creating alternate universes and histories where every time you make a decision, parallel universes are created in which you chose differently—where the “road not taken” was taken. But if the Griffith University theory is correct, does that mean that we’re not only influenced by the momentum of our past decisions, but by the decisions we could have made? Is there, in fact, an alternate-universe version of yourself who became the high school quarterback, and is he quantumly zapping you from beyond the void? In the clip, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku wonders if deja vu, is, in fact, related to perceptions of parallel universes. If parallel universes do exist, might there be a way to enter them? What do you think?
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DEJA VU
Mar 3, 2021 12:09:18 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Mar 3, 2021 12:09:18 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/03/the-mysterious-phenomenon-of-deja-vu-whats-going-on/The Mysterious Phenomenon of Déjà vu: What’s Going On?Nick Redfern / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/nredfern/March 4, 2021 There can be very few people – if any at all – who have never experienced the phenomenon of Déjà vu. There are two overriding theories for what causes Déjà vu: one is that now and again time itself has a glitch, albeit usually a very brief glitch that leaves us feeling slightly weird and a bit uneasy. The other theory is far more down to earth: that Déjà vu is caused by the occasional misfiring of the brain. Healthline have addressed the matter and provide us some fascinating material: ‘”‘Déjà vu’ describes the uncanny sensation that you’ve already experienced something, even when you know you never have. Say you go paddleboarding for the first time. You’ve never done anything like it, but you suddenly have a distinct memory of making the same arm motions, under the same blue sky, with the same waves lapping at your feet. Or perhaps you’re exploring a new city for the first time and all at once feel as if you’ve walked down that exact tree-lined footpath before. You might feel a little disoriented and wonder what’s going on, especially if you’re experiencing déjà vu for the first time.” Scientific American have tackled this slightly jarring phenomenon, too www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-science-explain-deja-vu/ : “Carrie-Anne Moss, as Trinity in The Matrix trilogy, tells us (and Keanu Reeves as Neo) that déjà vu is a ‘glitch in the Matrix’’ – the simulated reality that keeps humanity unaware that intelligent machines have actually taken over the world. That explanation is perfect for cyberpunk science fiction, but it doesn’t give us any scientific understanding of the phenomenon. We associate the feeling of déjà vu with mystery and even the paranormal because it is fleeting and usually unexpected. The very things that intrigue us about déjà vu are the same things that make it hard to study. But scientists have tried using tricks like hypnosis and virtual reality.” Frontiers for Young Minds offer these words kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2015.00001 : “The percentage of people who experience déjà vu is probably somewhere between 30% (about 8 in a class of 30) and 100% (everyone in a class of 30). We are not sure about the exact percentage for two important reasons. First, we cannot ask everyone in the world so we have to use the results of surveys of small groups of people. This is a problem because surveys can give us quite different results depending on who we ask. Second, people can give very different answers depending on the definition we give of déjà vu. Asking the question in different ways can get very different results. We can also get an idea of how often déjà vu happens by asking people. Again, the answers they give depend on who they are and how we ask them the question, but most people report déjà vu somewhere between every few weeks and every few months. Typically, this means that déjà vu is not very common so if you have experienced it recently you are very lucky!” CONTINUE READING: mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/03/the-mysterious-phenomenon-of-deja-vu-whats-going-on/
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