The following quotation just arrived in the signature line of a message from
a colleague. Seemingly apropos to this discussion of late, I thought I would
share. . .
"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've
forgotten this before." - Steven Wright
Perhaps also
It is interesting how we often lack systematic descriptive studies of the phenomena
we so readily fit to our research (retro-fitting is usually found in intro and
discussion sections). Deja Vu experiences are not uncommon, but have there been
good descriptive studies done to articulate the pheno
Dear Tipsters,
Don McBurney wrote:
> Yes, I think we did discuss deja vu a while ago. One way to demonstrate deja
> vu is to read a list of words all having to do with a topic, such as sleep:
> tired, bed, rest... but leave out sleep. Later students will recall having
> heard sleep. I forget t
Yes, I think we did discuss deja vu a while ago. One way to demonstrate deja
vu is to read a list of words all having to do with a topic, such as sleep:
tired, bed, rest... but leave out sleep. Later students will recall having
heard sleep. I forget the reference off hand. I will include someth
David Bennett wrote:
> Ahhh. . . this is starting to sound familiar! The explanation
> I'm vaguely remembering (or maybe just dreamt, or experienced in a
> previous life) also had a temporal component to it. That is,
phenomonologically
> you think that you have experienced the same event twice sep
> Are you thinking of the hypothetical explanation based on subthreshold
> stimulation of a neural net storing an episodic memory ?? That the
situation
> one finds oneself in is similar in sensorium to a previous event stored
in
> memory. The neurons encoding those similarities are stimulated,
In a message dated 9/2/99 12:16:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> Hi TIPSters,
>
> I took a lengthy leave from the list, I hope there are still a few familiar
> faces around.
>
> I have a question. Years ago I remember reading an account of "deja vu"
> being
