Your former life.

[john e]

Do you have any feelings/recollection from any of yours? Fears that are completely irrational? Memories, dreams that you know are or were real, but perhaps make little sense in this life?

I am curious, because I do have flashbacks and have no idea what they are. I am sometimes in a City that have never been before and I say to myself "I've been here before". ​

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Any of you.......?​

 

[themr.joeperry]

I get the same feeling whenever I step into the beer store :intello:

 

[Zia]

Regarding "having a feeling you've been here before".....in a city you've never been to before.

Something you should know, each city is not 100% unique. Architect firms farm out building plans to different companies in different cities so that they can turn a profit. They may tweak them a little, but the basic size, shape, finishes will all be the same.

Couple that with the fact that (really in the US) they all have similar street names. For eg: just about every US city has a Martin Luther King way/st/rd/blvd, they all have a JFK something, most if not all have a main street, and don't even get me started on Atlanta with their Peach Tree st/rd/ave/blvd/rt and even then, they have multiples of each.

Now couple that with the fact that you have a starbucks on just about every corner etc and it isn't unrealistic to have a streetscape look pretty much identitical to any number of other streetscapes. A good example of this is chinatown on dundas. Go into ANY Canadian and US city and they'll all look pretty much identical. This is amplified due to the fact that you can't read the signs.

Now add to that the fact that your brain "sees" and processes information in a way that it fills in the blanks. Kind of like how one reads. You don't read every word, you see the word in its entirety and process the word. For eg: you don't read B U S I N E S S business. You read bus^&&^...business.... Same as "scenes". You don't see every leaf on every tree and every tree. You see the general image.

Another explanation is the "deja Vu" feeling you get. That is where the information your brain is precessing gets put into long term memory instead of recent memory. Then instantly you recall it from long term memory and think, wow, I know this place. You really don't know it any more than the next place, just that you think you do because you're bringing it up out of deep storage instead of recent.....

Or it could just be they're fucking with the matrix again lol.....

 

[Marie112626]

That was a great line. I was going to agree with what you were saying. But could not stop laughing after your quote.


Sharp.

 

[abdolzo]

In my former life I was a Bible-thumping virgin, spewing threats of hellfire and brimstone at unbelievers who indulged in sinful sexual activities.

As a result, I do have a completely irrational fear that someday I might wake up and find myself immersed once more in self-righteous dogma.

I like my life as it is. And I love the ladies.

Yes, indeed.

 

[Mr Beaker]

Acid flashbacks are a bitch I tell you and so is the human mind.

I always feel like I should be in the 50's instead of this time but I wonder could this be a byproduct of my parents making me watch too much BW movies as a kid.

Most likely so.

 

[sun8979]

I always thought it would have been cool to live during the mid 60's with free love and all. While I did live through it, I was too young to appreciate what was going on.

 

[never_say_never]

Last time RAWD and I touched this subject we were crucified. But do want to add anyway that there is such a thing of your soul being born again into another body. The deja vu that tboy talks about is sometimes real that your subconscious mind is trying to tell you something.

OK, who wants to kick my butt first : :tongue:

 

[MZ. KRAZY]

So you are expecting Deja-vu all over again like Yogi Berra said?

 

[Riley A]

I have an irrational fear of deep water...."deep" being defined as "over my head". It's always been there, I have no idea what it's from.



I've not had deja vu about places, but I have met a few people who immediately felt so familiar it was like I had known them in another life.


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