September 24, 2008
9:23
Ok, I just had to make a record, that today at 9:23 I had a deja vu. It lasted for about 3 seconds, and I realized it in about a middle of the 2nd second. Actually the most irritating thing is that you recall it happening, but you don't foresee before it has happened. I can recall myself only around 7 of deja vu in my life as a fact and don't remember when was the last one, so it gives to it some kind of significance.
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I believe it is just pattern matching function in the brain. Considering so few amount of dejavus you have had, it seems to work normally or even to be practically off. While if it once malfunctions, life can get a little bit annoying.
For example, brain might assume that this morning is completely same morning like yesterday (which is often the case indeed). And then it assumes you have already took the shower and combed the hair... It is difficult to doubt you haven't sometimes, but looking into the mirror helps.
I like the ratio until it gives a feeling of magics happening.
No I guess it's not the case - it was like a video with sequence of images I had seen before - for sure. It's not like some emotional state. It's more like a reverse flashback - I had seen the flashback of the present happening at that moment before it happens, not thereafter.
And that makes me wonder whether it was just that bit, that I had seen before, or maybe I had foreseen some bigger timespan of my life, but the deja vu part was a small bit brought to light from subconsciousness. Maybe we have seen or experienced some reasonable amount of our upcoming life, but only some short-time brain malfunctions cause the subconsciousness to plug-in while being conscious.
So the memory matching result is flagged with new, while it is indeed old or wrong matching algorithm. Also brains are designed to predict. And you never save two memories alike, just increase the counter. So dejavu is a memory with counter 0. (Somebody forgot to write the tests).
Ok it might as well be the case that our brain plays through so many patterns, sequences of events and actions that eventually some very few of them really come true just because of variance. But this notion doesn't seem as exciting as the one I mentioned before :). In that case it's a bit alike the situation when you're up to having some important conversation and you are consciously, almost exhaustively going through all the possible scenarios and in reasonable amount of cases thereafter one of them proves to be right. Your ability consciously to reason over it depends on your experience and knowledge, so I guess it might be the same with subconsciousness as well - the more you been-there-done-that the higher the probability that you may foresee something before it happens.
I have recently had some other experiences of brain working in advance. Lastly I was usually waking up with an alarm clock. Several times, I dreamed that someone was waking me up just seconds before the ringing. I suppose it works as follows: it is ringing, then the brain thinks up a dream that I would wake up an hear the ringing. So for me it looks like as if I have an internal clock and I wake up before the real clock rings. How wicked!
Been there, done that :). But for me it usually comes in some other form like some siren of police or some other alarm thing that with a flow turns into a real alarm sound.
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