He told doctors that he was "trapped in a time loop" and said he felt as if he was reliving the past moment by moment.
"Rather than simply the unsettling feelings of familiarity which are normally associated with déjà vu, our subject complained that it felt like he was actually retrieving previous experiences from memory, not just finding them familiar," said Dr Wells.
"If proved, this could be the first-ever recorded instance of psychogenic déjà vu, which is déjà vu triggered by anxiety rather than a neurological condition such as dementia or epilepsy.
"In relation to our case, distress caused by the déjà vu experience may itself lead to increased levels of déjà vu: similar feedback loops in positive symptoms are reported in other anxiety states e.g. panic attacks.
"It is plausible on neurobiological grounds that anxiety might lead to the generation of déjà vu."
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
"'Groundhog Day' student trapped in bizarre déjà vu time loop for 8 years"
"The 23-year-old even stopped watching TV, listening to the radio, or reading newspapers or magazines because he believed he had seen it all before."
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Didn't you post this already?
It'd be a swell gesture on her part for Andie MacDowell to visit the poor guy for a good, old-fashioned pity fuck.
BTW, now that it's on my mind (yet again), I mentioned the other day that my new hobby is researching the psycho-social implications of the newly-discovered and yet widely available art form known as internet GIF pornography.
And I've noticed something striking. There exists, apparently, a category of pornography known as POV, which I gather stands for point of view. The idea seems to be that someone holds a video recorder during coitus and captures the action, so to speak, as if the viewer of the pornography is the one who is having carnel relations with the other sex partner, that is, having sex with the sex partner who is being recorded.
Now here's the thing: Invariably, the point of view is always that of the male sex partner and the point of view is never that of the female sex partner.
And I find that completely baffling. I mean, are great-looking women who love having fantastic sex with really large penises all so incapable of operating even the simplest of modern technologies that they can't work a hand-held camera and boink at the same time?
There must be some reasonable explanation for why the viewer is always having sex with the female. Heck, you can't even see the male except for his genitals.
More research is required.
And if Andie MacDowell turns out to be a good sport, I hope she records the blessed event from her point of view and puts it on the internet.
Gender parity, baby!
Whatching Anthony Bourdain is a déjà vu loop.
I hope he never meets Bill De Blasio
Eric you definitely strike me as the type of guy who hides in his den and whacks his bag to "Cedar Cove" reruns.
Deja vu, somebody explained, was retrieveing and saving memories in the wrong order.
So what just happened is found as an old memory.
Unfortunately, you can never remember what came next, until it comes next and you save it as a memory, and then find that it's a memory too.
Wow, I took a look at excerpts from Cedar Cove on youtube and how totally California it is, not a genuine moment in the whole thang.
Or he could be actually stuck in a time loop. Ever think of that smarty pants people?!
He knows how he'll feel when he's old and really has seen it all before.
It might give the Chinese something to think about.
Being born puts us in a time loop. One way in and one way out. He may have to deja vu it for the whole ride.
Hmm, "trapped in a bizarre deja vu time loop for 8 years," eh?
Metaphor alert!
I could swear I’ve heard all this before
I read through all the comments above before realizing that PaddyO nailed it in comment one..... or did that happen yesterday?
Time loop time schmoop, it's all so horribly familiar. Most of the time loops whip me back behind to live a day again like arriving to a party a day early as happened twice. What a bummer because I got excellent parking.
And I'm all, "Fine. Maybe I had just let you non-time loop guys catch up then and I shall live Saturday twice.
It happens.
But then other times the time loop works the opposite way and I lose a whole day somewhere to something, just poof, gone, I'm a whole day behind thinking it's Sunday all day when it's actually Monday. And that's worse. How can that even be, did I forget to eat or something?
I was on Google Earth and entered "Perry Park, Colorado" and zoomed right to the spot that I photographed so thoroughly. The winter day provided a rare insight by stripping the shrubbery of leaves with only their branches in patches and in layers and rows. Normally all that would be green and you wouldn't see anything.
I'm telling you, sometimes I am with people who have no patience whatsoever. I'll see a scene so unique that I must stop and photograph it. Uniquely lit, uniquely half coated by snow, half gray, half yellow, with patterns of dark pines and patterns of falling snow as if painted or printed in layers. But no. There is no slowing down when in flying back from skiing mode on i-70. People drive as they ski -- aggressively fast carving "S" shapes.
I clicked on "show photographs" in the sidebar opening up Google Earth's collected photographs pinned to that area. I should pin mine. But I haven't. I don't know how.
They photographed all the monumental outcroppings that I photographed, what caught my eye caught their eyes, and my photographs are better. They just are. Sometimes we must face the facts. Whereas my photographs show the structure, a million branches with rock behind it, theirs show green color fields with less significant things behind them. It's like their fixed length lenses did not allow framing a shot. They take what they get without changing lenses. Their photos show beauty, my photos show the structure of beauty. I am very well pleased how my extensive photoset of a precise place compares with existing photosets of the same place taken on the same roads by different people at different times under different friendlier more photogenic weather and light and foliage conditions.
My photographs are structurally better, with less light, less shadowing, less color, much less foliage, less inviting weather. Nanner, nanner, nanner. Oh, man, I totally thought all that already even this part.
Shouldn't this post get the vaunted Yogi Berra tag?
Here's a chirbit message from Kaleefornia re the SOTU speech: link
Perry Park sunrise.
Note to Eric, watch Office Space. Bonus, you get Jennifer Aniston's POV or Ron Livingston's considering how you think of the scene, so both gender and sexual parity.
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