Tuesday, March 16, 2010

dejavu

ok i googled a bit, and found out the assumed answer behind the phenomenon dejavu. Its hard to explain, so i will try practice summarising it.

Basically if perceptions from the present are shunted through the parts of the brain that process memories from the past, those perceptions will feel like they are memories, and the person will feel that they are re-living a moment stored in long-term memory.

Its like, miscommunication of the brain, to process what is happening now in the what had happened part of the brain. Occurs when there is too much communication when you are rapidly thinking of the present while thinking about the past. The part of the brain that thinks about the present and is responsible for short term memory is the amyglada, which is very close to the part responsible about long term memory called the parahippocampal cortex. It some sort of chemical imbalance in the brain that causes deja vu.

Well jamais vu, the opposite of deja vu, is when there is lower interaction or temporal lack of connection between neurons of both sites of the brain. Thus the present doesnt correlate with the past, and you find yourself unable to remember who your mum is.
And yeah thats basically it.

So why does that happen? I dont really know. Maybe we could try some crap like this. 

Lets say, try remember who your last year class mates are. All of them. Then while doing that, focus on looking at the cars outside. perhaps this long term memory and the present will somehow mix up and give u dejavu.

Omg i m gonna try nao.

Damn didnt work. Shit fail.

Apparently it was more of mental fatigue then dejavu. 

Lol out.

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