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Deja Vu a memory problem?

PostPosted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 3:03 am
by chibiphonebooth
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070607/sc_livescience/originofdejavupinpointed

"The brain cranks out memories near its center, in a looped wishbone of tissue called the hippocampus. But a new study suggests only a small chunk of it, called the dentate gyrus, is responsible for “episodicâ€

PostPosted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 3:10 am
by Sheol777
Here I thought deja vu was just a change in the Matrix.

PostPosted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 3:30 am
by chibiphonebooth
hahahah. XD

PostPosted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:18 am
by Mithrandir
...the older you get?

I thought that was because you forgot things more frequently. Deja Vu would just be that you haven't forgotten it COMPLETELY.

PostPosted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 2:58 pm
by mitsuki lover
Or was it because we've been here before and didn't realize it?
Ok,to be serious there are probably cases where de ja vu is simply triggered by
similarity in location,events,etc.The I-Fee-I've-Been-Here-Done-That-Before
syndrome probably comes from long forgotten memory of past events where we have had similiar expierences.

PostPosted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 5:50 pm
by Bobtheduck
*nevermind... Not the place to say this stuff*

PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:03 am
by Etoh*the*Greato
Some of the more memorable instances of Deja vu I've had were cases where I could actually recall dreaming about a particular inconsequential moment before it happened.

PostPosted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:17 pm
by Ashley
Actually, I have a theory on deja vu:

Souls and such aside, your brain functions on electricity and chemicals. What if deja vu is nothing more than your brain releasing the same chemical cocktail it does when you actually remember something?

PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 5:54 pm
by Dai-go
Ashley wrote:Actually, I have a theory on deja vu:

Souls and such aside, your brain functions on electricity and chemicals. What if deja vu is nothing more than your brain releasing the same chemical cocktail it does when you actually remember something?


Then I would love to know how to make a chemical cocktail. THAT would be awesome. Then I could be like....Denzel Washington....wait...no....nevermind. XD

Then I would love to know how to....wait..
Man I'm bored. XD! j/k

PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 6:51 pm
by Mangafanatic
Sheol777 wrote:Here I thought deja vu was just a change in the Matrix.



Aww, snaps. Someone beat me to it.

PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 11:14 pm
by rii namuras
(I quite literally get deja vu all the time. It seems I can't go anywhere or talk to anyone without feeling like I've done it before. Like a few days ago, at my homeschool debate league's National tournament, I can't tell you how many times that I know I have not either met this person or have had that conversation with that person, yet I still felt like I've had it before. It's extremely strange. Now I wish it would work during debate rounds so I'd know if I'm going in the right direction with my argumentation...)

PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:11 pm
by Tsuki
If it's distinguishing between 2 situations, then what if the situation happened in a place with a person you never been/meet before?

PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:44 pm
by KhakiBlueSocks
I always thought Deja Vu was a hip-hop song preformed by Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z....great driving tunage, btw.

PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 4:41 pm
by [GMOD]Vedicardi
I've heard theories that Deja Vu was when your thoughts rather than being process first, were immediately entered into the the part of your brain the remembers things.

Sure, it's not the most scientific explanation, but it makes sense.

PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:52 pm
by Etoh*the*Greato
So the other day I was playing a game and turned it off after forgetting to save. I turned it back on and had to go through much of the same stuff.





Deja Vu is just God forgetting to save before going to bed.

PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 12:26 pm
by Azier the Swordsman
Etoh*the*Greato wrote:Deja Vu is just God forgetting to save before going to bed.


He should have forgot to save ten years ago.