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    #21
    I find it odd that people think deja vu is a supernatural phenomenon. I've always considered it more like a sensation you experience. In the same way as you might stand up too quickly and feel dizzy, you might experience a situation and feel a sense of deja vu. Nothing supernatural, just a particular chemical reaction in the brain. I've experienced it once in my life and it's very odd, an unmistakable feeling that I'd been in that exact place seeing the exact things I was seeing before. I know there was no logical reason behind it but the feeling was very real, I just don't believe it was supernatural.

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      #22
      I've experienced it lots of times and at the time it seems very real, I can literally remember remembering the thing happening at some indistinct point in the past. It feels a lot like you've just predicted the future, but at the instant it happens.

      However I don't think it's anything paranormal. Maybe a race condition between the memory getting recorded and reported to my brain... it gets written to memory just before the brain sees it, and then you 'remember' the new memory in parallel to seeing it 'live'.
      Originally posted by MaryPoppins
      I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
      Originally posted by vetran
      Urine is quite nourishing

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        #23
        My take on it is that it is perfectly normal reaction to visiting somewhat similar events to those you've previously experienced or standard scenarios where the mind can predict potential outcomes. The brain is doing what it is designed to do, to protect you from harm, increase your ability to gather food etc. i.e. increase your survival chances

        I am sure the brain is hard-wired for standard team hunting techniques and all that is happening is your monkey brain is triggering on these scenarios, and higher brain functions are trying to make sense of these impulses.

        Such is the same with ghosts, is that a shadow or is it a predator stalking you: evolution has found it best to err on the side of caution and prepare the body to get ready to fight or leg it.

        Like I was suggesting earlier, I'm with a very old fashioned client so the deja vu is just previous experiences being dragged up from long, but not completely, forgotten memory.
        Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
        threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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          #24
          Originally posted by MaryPoppins View Post
          Get your own lines, gimpboy.
          Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post


          (He must have seen your post, as it was only third from the top, or thereabouts, and his was two minutes later)
          Originally posted by MaryPoppins View Post
          I think I'm sticking with Gimpboy as my name for him.
          Originally posted by cailin maith View Post
          Good choice too
          Originally posted by Pogle View Post
          And I'm going to join you - nice one MP
          Count me in.... My experiments didn't hit the spot... but Gimpboy... Yep that'll do!

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