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LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zone to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Can you ELI5 why we get deja vu?

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Can you ELI5 why we get deja vu?

LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zone to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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  • FelixCress@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Didn’t you ask this question before?

    • LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zoneOP
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      Haha good one

  • athairmor@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    WTF is ‘deja vulnerable’?

    • Steve@startrek.website
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      Its the feeling that autocorrect is going to fuck up your question 1 millisecond before you click post.

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      That feeling that you’ve already lived through this exact monument.

    • LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zoneOP
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      An autocorrect sorry

  • TachyonTele@piefed.social
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    They don’t know yet. Any answers you get here will be guesses.

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    Like the other poster said there’s no cause known. All I can think of is something happened so close to an experience (something you can actually recall is a different matter) or perhaps something you’ve experienced peripherally such as a dream or media.

    Or perhaps just something so close to one of those you feel like it’s happening in front of you.

    Or just a glitch in the brain?

    Or perhaps it’s the Matrix shrug unsure if that’s better or worse.

    Or…

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      I read somewhere once that one theory behind deja vu is that it’s the result of a temporary de-sync between your left and right brain hemispheres. Usually signals reach each hemisphere at about the same time, but sometimes the signals can be de-synced by a few milliseconds and (theoretically) cause you to process the same thing twice in quick succession, giving you the vague impression of familiarity on the second signal process.

      Edit: Messed up a bit. Each hemisphere sends a signal to the temporal lobe for processing, and that’s where the de-sync can happen.

      • LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zoneOP
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        That’s interesting thanks

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    When history rhymes, your brain locks into the beat.

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    Not this again

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    Its Déjà vu, I’ve never heard of it being refered to as ‘vulnerable’

    • LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zoneOP
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      Haha autocorrect got me

      • truxnell@aussie.zone
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        I did wonder if it was autocorrect, but damn that’s a huge leap.

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    Hot patching the matrix with agents

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    12 days ago

    Look, if you didn’t get it last time we told you, you won’t get it this time.

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