The Who's Who of Deja Vu

Just so you're aware, no one did "well" on this topic. Some people went for the low hanging fruit. Like referencing what deja vu is in three words. Boo. Others tried to cheat with their cheating thoughts and tricksy, dirty, rotten tactics and use Matrix references in hopes to win my favor. As if. Some simply questioned the entire validity of the game, which is no way to win anything at all. Pshaw. Cassie did none of these things.

What Cassie did was introduce a far more likely explanation of deja vu up against my craziness. It's likely the real explanation for deja vu, if you want to be all sciency and pretend that imaginationing isn't any fun.

Is deja vu just a separate, unrelated memory somehow being called up during a completely novel experience? Somewhere in the memory center of the brain, it interprets new stimuli as old, but somewhere else in the brain, it knows this isn't quite right, pitting your thoughts against themselves so you feel that twilight sensation of being between memory worlds--between the is and the never was.

In short, is the memory just filed wrong? Is that all it is? Is the all too common sense of re-experiencing simply the brain misfiring? Probably. Odds are it's just some synapse somewhere telling me that I've been here before, when I most certainly have not. Science hasn't answered the question as to what deja vu is yet. They aren't quite 100%. But who says science should be trusted? Science is just organized study wholly dependent on the electrical impulses a scientist's brain feeds him. Sight. Touch. Taste. Hearing. Critical thinking. Bollocks like that. It is the classification of a world based on a specific lens: the only lens we have available to us.

But don't spend too much time wondering if there exists concepts and realities parallel and yet separate from our own: a new lens. I expect that's how you go insane or go genius. And I don't want to be either.

Cassie's Three Words or Less on DEJA VU

- "Memory Filed Wrong" -

Total wins: 1