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Have you ever read or heard that experiencing deja vu is actually some type of seizure?

Do you experience it? 

Posted - December 15, 2021

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  • 44540
    No...wait...didn't I ask this question last week?
      December 15, 2021 8:15 PM MST
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  • 10052
    Did you? 
    That would be really crazy. 


      December 15, 2021 8:18 PM MST
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  • 44540
    Vuja de' This post was edited by Element 99 at December 15, 2021 9:38 PM MST
      December 15, 2021 8:21 PM MST
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  • 13395
    What is deja vu and why does it happen?

    A subset of epilepsy patients consistently experience deja vu at the onset of a seizure- that is when seizures begin in the medial temporal lobe. This has given researchers a more experimentally controlled way of studying deja vu.

    The conversation.com/explainers-what-is-deja-vu-and-why-does-it-happen
      December 15, 2021 8:45 PM MST
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  • 10052
    Thank you! 
      December 16, 2021 7:05 PM MST
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  • 13395
    You are welcome!
      December 16, 2021 7:11 PM MST
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  • 10947
    I have not heard that but now that I have it worries me a bit. I believe I have experienced deja vu may times (could be the pot but it could be deja vu). Usally it is no big deal but now maybe I will  have to wonder if I am having a seizure. And if I am having seizures I'll wonder if I should see a doctor and if I go see a doctor and tell him about the deja vu thing he might tell me to give up the pot. Cheers!
      December 15, 2021 9:15 PM MST
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  • 10052
    Hahaha! I don't think you need to worry about it. Interesting stuff, though. 

    P.S. - marijuana is used to treat seizures, so he might tell you to increase the dose!  Cheers! 
      December 16, 2021 6:44 PM MST
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  • 23407
    Not that I remember.  ;)
      December 15, 2021 9:47 PM MST
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  • 10052
    Yeah, too much to think about sometimes. No wonder we forget things! 
      December 16, 2021 7:04 PM MST
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  • 23407
    Yes, true.

    (And it was also my weak attempt at humor  remembering/deja vu, ha.)
      December 16, 2021 8:11 PM MST
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  • 53367

     

      Nope, but orgasms can certainly be described that way.
    ~

      December 15, 2021 10:35 PM MST
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  • 10052
    You're reaching, Ladies' Man. This post was edited by SavvyAnsley at December 16, 2021 6:47 PM MST
      December 16, 2021 6:47 PM MST
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  • 53367

    I thought you were more well read than that. Have you not heard of:

    La petite mort (translated from the French language: "the little death") is an expression which means "the brief loss or weakening of consciousness" and in modern usage refers specifically to "the sensation of post orgasms likened to death."


    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_petite_mort


    Listen, I can drop by any night you’re available and give you a demonstration of how it’s played out. It’s what I do.

     ~

      December 16, 2021 6:56 PM MST
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  • 10052
    I might have an opening in my schedule. I'll get back with you. 

    It does sound familiar, now that you mention it.
      December 16, 2021 7:03 PM MST
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  • 53367

     

      Good thinking on checking your schedule, very proactive. In the meantime, I’ll let myself in using the duplicate key I had made, and I’ll hop into the shower then I’ll wait for you in your spare bedroom . . .



    ~

      December 16, 2021 7:12 PM MST
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  • 33803
    I have read that it is actually were your brain just kind of took a break for a split-second. 
      December 16, 2021 6:35 AM MST
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  • 10052
    I guess that might be a description of an absence seizure. 

    Thanks. 
      December 16, 2021 6:49 PM MST
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  • 6023
    Nope.

    I believe deja vu is your subconscious signalling your conscious mind that it pieced together what is about to happen, or just happened, before it happened.  Kinda like a "I told you so".
      December 16, 2021 2:27 PM MST
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  • 10052
    Hmmm. 

    That's interesting. Not in a reassuring way, I don't think. 

    Thanks. 
      December 16, 2021 6:54 PM MST
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  • 17562
    Sure, it's happened.  No seizure though.  Time and discussion generally explain it.  Sometimes I realize pretty quickly when I have been there before. 
      December 16, 2021 7:08 PM MST
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  • 10052
    What if you're 100% sure you've never been there before - no way, no how? Yet you feel as though you've already experienced the exact circumstance, same place, same people.  Or did you mean that figuratively; the "when I have been there before" part? 

    Thank you. 



      December 17, 2021 9:14 PM MST
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