What's weird is that this seems to happen even when the reading material is not geared toward solving the specific problem. You spend some time reading and something jumps out of the material that helps you.Your stuck in a problem or facing a tough situation.i am happy to accept all three possibilities as equally likely. Or it's coincidental and genuinely weird. some other amateur gardener goes through the same process, and in this case the act of gardening influences the third instance of the fact for me. earwigs are alien looking and much maligned but maybe they keep my garden free of jerkbugs or maybe they want to devour my broccoli, so best to ask the internet. anybody else gardening probably sees them and the nature of people on this site is that they read about things if they are interested by them. in this case, the (several years old) TV show influenced the third instance of the fact for me.Īlso, earwigs are "in season" right now. it is an interesting fact, so they write about it on the internet. it is plausible that some other redditor read that same thread, also had not seen QI and started watching it around the same time and at the same rate (roughly an episode or two per day). however, i learned about QI for the first time recently because of a thread on reddit (something Stephen Fry related). There is not anything linking my gardening and QI, nor is there anything linking my gardening and reddit. For me the most common example is when I learn the meaning of a word - I find people around me using it all the time even though I think I've never heard it used before.īecause i like investigating relationships, especially ones involving coincidence, i have determined that, while strange, there is a plausible explanation for the third instance of my finding this fact. Many cases are when I'm reading a book or watching a film that I know I haven't read/seen before, but still I get the feeling I have.įor me, the Baader-Meinhof phenom happens way more often. I've had Deja Vu-s often, most frequently when I was a teenager. The brain distinctively tells you "I've been here/done that before" but you can't for the life of you remember when or why. The location, the dialog taking place around you, the weather - just about anything. That situation is entirely normal because you know it is because you have smelled it before and just can't remember what it is.ĭeja Vu is a similar feeling, except instead of smell it is the whole situation you are in. It's like when you smell something and you know the smell but can't figure out what it is. Other people have provided good explanations of Deja Vu already, but here's one more. You probably won't find any(your brain is very good at smoothing over gaps in perception.), but it's a thought.Įdit: And when I say 'replaying of a buffer' I probably mean 'a loop whereby the output to neurons, when conbined with the input from sensory organs trigger the (pretty much) exact match input of a previous brain-state, which then as output produces the initial experience a second time. So the next time you feel deja vu wait until it's over and see if there's any gaps. We should expect later on for there to be either a gap(similar to an xrun) where the mind 'drops' a scene to catch up to 'realtime'(in reality 150-450ms behind) and just fudges perception in order to do so. If enough neurons are involved(ie the situation starts out similar enough) this should be a total replay. If the input to our neurons in our brain is 'set up' in the right way it may be possible that the neurons will respond in such a way as to 'reexperience' the initial event. That's only for immediate events (ie A,B,C,C,D,E ) it wouldn't work for cyclical ones (A,B,C,D,A,E,F.) It's not like we actually experience what's going on outside our head anyway, really, so it shouldn't be too surprising if time itself moves differently depending on whether or not our brain wants us to 'relive' something. New to reddit? Click here! Get flair in /r/science Previous Science AMA'sĪctually there may be an explanation for this on then neural level I wonder if deja vu is just the result of a refilling/replaying of a buffer-style object inside your head. Repeat or flagrant offenders will be banned.Comments dismissing established findings and fields of science must provide evidence.Criticism of published work should assume basic competence of the researchers and reviewers.
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