Deja vu
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Dameon Farrow
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People say Deja Vu is a reference to past lives. I'm not sure how to feel about past lives.....but I believe in genetic memory. That you can be predisposed to liking or having an affinity for something through genetics. The same people who shyt on genetic memory will believe that you can be predisposed to heavy drinking if you have Native American ancestry. It's amazing what can be passed down genetically. Maybe deja vu is simply some genetic level memory your ancestors passed down to you into your memory banks. Now that's a mind blower.
Interesting.
All i know is when it happens I'm like...nah, that didn't just happen....
LOL It's a mind fukk for sure.
Dameon Farrow
Superstar
Jung spoke on the collective unconscious we share with all of our ancestors. In a way this is what genetics is in a broad sense. A collection of responses to certain stimuli. But then it gets confusing. I have people that can sing in my family. I can't sing but I have an affinity for being able to break music down that needed to be unlocked in me. It was always there just looking for the right buttons to be pushed or is it all a big coincidence? I used to think Jung was a nut but when I started thinking about stuff like that I changed my tune. I picked up one of his books but have yet to read it. Dude might be onto something.
I really got started on this from a show I watched. In it, a character was discussing how he came to like sunflower seeds. When he would wake up in the middle of night scared as a child, he would hear his father eating sunflower seeds in another part of the house and it calmed him. He said that was genetic memory of sorts. After studying it I kinda disagree. It could just be that he associates sunflower seeds with calm and tranquility. Would probably find he is more inclined to eat them when he is stressed about something. But then who is to say he doesn't have genes in his code that give him a love for sunflower seeds from the word go? Ever came across something you liked but didn't know why you liked it? Your mind can reel thinking about stuff like this.
BelowTheMasonDixon
Veteran
Was just watching a vid and it said that Deja Vu occurs mostly in people from 14-and into the late 20's. I've had more hits than misses when it comes to Deja Vu being accurate but BOY the hit's were some scary shyt.
Not a scientist or whoever studies Deja Vu.
but I believe it to be a mix of precognition and fear.
For example Deja Vu, in which while you recognize it as deja vu, but doesn't have the outcome you would expect.
or had numerous outcomes.
Not a scientist or whoever studies Deja Vu.
but I believe it to be a mix of precognition and fear.
For example Deja Vu, in which while you recognize it as deja vu, but doesn't have the outcome you would expect.
or had numerous outcomes.
The Devil's Advocate
Call me Dad
there is A LOT more that can be passed down than people will ever discover. they did this study on identical twins who never met before... they all did weird shyt exactly the same, even tho they'd never met or lived the same lives to learn it... it's crazy what things we still have no clue about
http://www.amren.com/features/2012/07/science-versus-ideology/Findings
Although Prof. Segal does not put it in these terms, MISTRA yielded what amount to two different kinds of findings: quantitative and impressionistic. The former come from personality, intelligence, medical, and other testing, whereas the latter include the almost eerie, unmeasurable ways in which MZA twins are alike.
The first twin pair MISTRA evaluated was particularly striking. The two men met when they were 39, and found that both had been in law enforcement but were now working as firemen. Both had loved math in school and hated spelling. Both did woodworking as a hobby, and their favorite vacation spot was Pas Grille Beach in Florida. One had named his son James Alan and the other had named his James Allan. They looked very much alike, had the same smoking habits, and always held a beer can with a pinky under the can. Both had put on 10 pounds at the same age for no apparent reason.
Not all twins were so alike, but this book is full of astonishing similarities. In one MZA pair, one twin was reared in Germany and the other in Trinidad, and they had never met before they came to Minnesota for testing. When they arrived at the airport each was wearing a light blue shirt with epaulettes, and wire-rimmed glasses. They both collected rubber bands, which they wore around their wrists, and washed their hands both before and after using the bathroom. Both liked to startle people by sneezing loudly in elevators.
One pair of MZA women both wet the bed until age 12 or 13. When they were teenagers they started having nightmares about the same things: fishhooks and doorknobs. Both had problems with nightmares for more than ten years.
One pair of MZA men had been overweight until middle school and then became quite thin. They had speech problems for which they received therapy in kindergarten or grade school. Both were diagnosed as hyperactive at about the same age, and both were actively and openly homosexual.
A pair of female MZA twins from Australia found each other because of a case of mistaken identity. They both worked as fashion buyers for competing department stores, and a customer accused one of moonlight for the competition. They were both very elegant, dressed with the same style and the same kind of jewelry, smoked the same cigarettes, and had the same hairstyle, posture, tastes, and speaking voice. One MZA pair of male twins were both fitness fanatics who ran their own body-building gyms. MZA twins generally have the same posture and arrange their hands and legs in the same way while DT twins do not.
Prof. Bouchard, who ran MISTRA, once had occasion to meet a man who had run a smaller-scale MZA study in Denmark in the 1960s, and asked him if he had found such astonishing similarities. The man replied that he had, but he did not report them because was no way to measure such similarities—and he was afraid no one would believe him.
Prof. Segal writes that it was “thrilling” to get to know MZAs and discover how similar they were, but she, too, was frustrated because it was not possible to measure or assess similarities in complex behavior. She notes that when she interviewed MISTRA people to write this book, many looked back with nostalgia on the excitement of their discoveries. One researcher who administered intelligence tests to the twins wished that he had filmed them taking the tests. As he wrote:
I sat quietly behind them. The strategies [for answering test questions] were so different between pairs but within the MZA pairs they were so similar. Both twins vocalized or turned around or stared at the screen or solved the problems quickly. It was amazing. I smiled to myself when I saw these things, thinking no one would believe me.
I get this one case of déjà vu like 4-5 times now. It's like when a certain show is on tv while I'm reading the same page or similar page in a book. I'll immediately think whoa it just happened again. It's pretty trippy actually.
dontreadthis
philly.
I always say that the next time I feel myself creeping towards a situation where I get déjà vu I'm going to randomly yell some shyt out so I can avoid it. I always forget though....
KravenMorehead™
Barrel Brothers.®
I've had it many times. It's weird.
I commented on a similar thread before. I get the occasional episodes of deja-vu but not quite like how most people recognize it as. For me its usually a really small/insignificant event such as I might be pilling up some papers at work or I'll be typing a prescription in and at that moment it will be like "wait I remember dreaming, experiencing, or seeing myself in this exact moment before." I'ts never been some larger more significant event that's occurred in my life just little instances like I described.
