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<blockquote data-quote="mafisto" data-source="post: 1542234" data-attributes="member: 15183">Deja Vu all over again...&nbsp;Discover magazine had a good piece on deja vu a few years back.&nbsp; The explanation - theoretical, like all explanations for the phenomena -&nbsp; was that when the brain is storing and shaping a new memory it sometimes 'misfires' and confuses the new, short term memory with a long term one.&nbsp; Essentially, as you're experiencing something you're constantly building a new short term memory that is stored and accessed immediately - but in the case of deja vu, your brain is saying that you're accessing an old memory, not a brand spanking new one.&nbsp;For more info, this is pretty interesting and seems similar to what I had read before: <a href="http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro98/202s98-paper2/Johnson2.html" target="_blank">http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro98/202s98-paper2/Johnson2.html</a>.&nbsp;A little off topic, but I once had a conversation with a neurologist (friend of a friend) who described the human neurological state as 'constantly failing and recovering'.&nbsp; I was a little taken aback by the statement, but he asserted that the stresses and emotional complexes and chemical interactions that we moderns put upon our systems are simply outside of the brain's original specification.&nbsp; I'm still not sure how true this is, but given the wonderful diversity of neurological failings so many humans have, I can't discount it entirely.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mafisto, post: 1542234, member: 15183"] [b]Deja Vu all over again...[/b] Discover magazine had a good piece on [i]deja vu[/i] a few years back. The explanation - theoretical, like all explanations for the phenomena - was that when the brain is storing and shaping a new memory it sometimes 'misfires' and confuses the new, short term memory with a long term one. Essentially, as you're experiencing something you're constantly building a new short term memory that is stored and accessed immediately - but in the case of [i]deja vu[/i], your brain is saying that you're accessing an old memory, not a brand spanking new one. For more info, this is pretty interesting and seems similar to what I had read before: [url="http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro98/202s98-paper2/Johnson2.html"]http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro98/202s98-paper2/Johnson2.html[/url]. A little off topic, but I once had a conversation with a neurologist (friend of a friend) who described the human neurological state as 'constantly failing and recovering'. I was a little taken aback by the statement, but he asserted that the stresses and emotional complexes and chemical interactions that we moderns put upon our systems are simply outside of the brain's original specification. I'm still not sure how true this is, but given the wonderful diversity of neurological failings so many humans have, I can't discount it entirely. [/QUOTE]

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