We’ve all experienced déjà vu before. You know, you feel like you’ve been somewhere before, had a specific conversation before or been through a particular experience before — even though that previous experience may, or may not, have actually occurred.

We’ve also all heard someone mention something or ask a question, or perhaps we’ve overheard a conversation and then we have said to ourselves, ‘Yeah, I was just wondering about that the other day.’

What I was thinking about earlier today is how often do I overhear a conversation, or perhaps hear a program on the radio, and then NOT remember that I was thinking about that exact topic only a short while beforehand.

(Cue the Twilight Zone theme song …)

Posted 13 Jan 2011

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4 Responses to “Anti Déjà Vu”

  1. forkboy1965 on January 14th, 2011 9:51 am

    I was just talking about this the other day with….

    Wait.

    Hold it.

    Ahhhhh… now I get it.

  2. Conall on January 14th, 2011 9:59 am

    I’ve never thought about this before.

  3. Liam on January 15th, 2011 3:26 pm

    The human mind is so amazing. I am repeatedly astounded at how cool, powerful and yet forgetful it can be.

  4. Jordan on January 17th, 2011 12:57 pm

    Everything we think we experienced could be an illusion. Maybe the entire universe and every single memory-encoding neuron in your brain was created a few milliseconds ago; maybe in a few milliseconds everything will …

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