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(19-12-2011 07:11 PM)Divided by Zer0 Wrote: [ -> ]It's not deja vu for sure. Just something strange that has to do with the subconsious and dreaming. I have read an article which presented a very nice (yet not based on undeiniable proofs) scientific explanation, if you want I could post a brief summary of what it said here or PM.

(20-12-2011 01:31 AM)Divided by Zer0 Wrote: [ -> ]^
We do and we are writing a freaking test in ancient greek.


Anyway, the article's summary I promised to post. Sorry for not making it look nice but I want to go to bed soon.



Deja Vu


Deja Vu are actually french words and mean "already seen". It's this weird feeling, this sensation when you experience a moment and you are sure that you have experience it before, exactly the same. If you have ever felt it you' ll know how strange and sometimes unnatural it feels. It's like you go back a movie for a split second and watch a moment again, only this happens with your life. There are many theories and beliefs, some logical others a bit lunatic, why and how this happens. The one that is believed to be true among scientists has to do with how our eyes, nerves and brain work.

Whenever our eyes see something, they both sent a message to the brain via the nerves. The part of the brain which is repsonsible for seeing receives these two messages the exact same moment. I don't remember whether the eyes sent the message simultaneously or the nervous system is responsible for synchronizing em. What happens in case of Deja Vu? A little malfuction happens and the first message is sent just a little bit faster than the second one. So, when the brain receives the first one, it considers it a valid signal sent from the eyes and proceeds to decode it in order to happen this that we call vision or simply seeing. But the second one arrives split seconds later and the brain is confused since it has a second "seeing" mesage timed from the exact same moment. So it rejects the second one and make us believe that it comes from the memory. This causes all the confusion of Deja Vu.

Note that all the above happen extremely fast, our brain is literally being bombarded by titanic amounts of information every second, so it processes them extremely fast as well. And it can't be prooved since we aren't even close in understanding this marvelous, organic super-computer known as human brain. just a theory, which is based on some bilogical facts.


And the other one tomorrow cause my brain processed too much data for today and needs some rest


In case someone is interested in the above but doesn't know good english I can always translate to greek



Oh, and we have a game thread here, let's be abit on topic. Have you ever find a book so fascinating that you literally ignored everything else till you finished it?

(20-12-2011 05:35 PM)Kingnothing412 Wrote: [ -> ]2)Yes........many times (im leaving it to the same question)

(21-12-2011 05:18 PM)Divided by Zer0 Wrote: [ -> ]

(20-12-2011 05:35 PM)Kingnothing412 Wrote: [ -> ]2)Yes........many times (im leaving it to the same question)

Me too, and the books that made me that excited were the last parts of "A Series of Unfortunate Events" and the "Dark Tower" series. I just devoured these books.

On topic, "Have you ever traveled by plane?" (I know, a bit stupid but that's just what came to my mind).





Aaand, the rest of the summary I posted previously:

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We all have experienced sometimes in our lives a feeling that warns us about the future, or advice us on a difficult descision. A premotuion, as it is known. Other people claim that they have seen dreams that come true in the close or distant future. Even though there isn't a completely proven scientific explanation, a some psychologists along with neurogists and sleep experts have presented an interesting theory.

Firsty, it is known that the human brain has a huge processing capability. Much more than a supercomputer's. The reason why we can't use it in order to make complicated calculations easily is because most of it is used for other important fuctions, like being able to think, remember, feel, express emotions, communicate, survive etc. This processing power isn't widely accesible to the part of the brain we control to use it as we want. Apart from that, our brain subconciously stores enormous amounts of information each day, even if we don't know it. They aren't stored the way important things or knowledge we consider useful is stored in our memory so we can recall em whenever we want, they are stored deep in our minds, in a compressed form, much like a "zip log file". It's this experiance we gain whenever we are doing something.

So what happens when we have a premotion? Subconsiously, the brain uses this "hidden" data, this experience along with it's marvelous calculating power in order to choose the best option available. This all happens in less than a second. What we consiously experience is just a feeling, something that tells us that this or that is what we should do/choose. Usually, it's the option that has the best chances for a good outcome.

And about these dreams that come true. They are pretty much the same. However, since dreaming occurs when we are sleeping but the brain activity is high (REM sleep), there's a lot going in our minds. There's a belief that during this phase of our sleep the brain, subconciously agaiin, calculates a huge amounts of possibilities about the future. They might be important or not. These possible future situations are envisioned in the form of dreams. When we wake up it's very likely that we have forgotten 90% or more of em. But, when one of these numerous possibilities we have seen in our sleep actually comes true, we instantly connct this to the subconcious dream we had and we move this dream from the deep part of our mind to the one we conciously use evryday. And this illusion is created, that we dreamed something and t really happened. In fact, we dream about so many diferent possibilities that it is very likely that someday one will actually happen.

That completes it. Just note that they aren't 100% correct since I read the article on a newspaper months ago and wrote the summary from what I remember. And also, both of these theories aren't scientific facts, just interesting theories by respected scientists, which make mistakes too.

(21-12-2011 05:47 PM)Kingnothing412 Wrote: [ -> ]1) Yes and i will be again on Friday

2) Very interesting.........i believe that is probably what happens.

3) Whenever you say "'em" instead of "them" i think of an Australian guy talking with a beard for some reason

4) On topic: have you ever felt uncomfortable while watching tv because you feel you are vacant? It happens to me all the time..... (the few times i get to watch it that is.)

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