Posted on 01/26/2015 10:01:36 AM PST by BenLurkin
The group of scientists from the UK, France and Canada who studied the strange case of the man with "chronic deja vu" think one possible cause of the phenomenon could be anxiety.
The man's condition was so persistent he avoided watching television, listening to the radio and reading newspapers because he felt he had "encountered it all before".
Dr Chris Moulin, a cognitive neuropsychologist at the University of Bourgogne who worked on the study, says the man had a history of depression and anxiety, and had once taken the drug LSD whilst at university, but was otherwise completely healthy.
"This man was striking because he was young, otherwise aware, but completely traumatised by this constant sensation that his mind was playing tricks," he says.
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[[but was otherwise completely healthy]]
Hmmm, I wouldn’t call a mental problem ‘completely healthy’
Rise and shine, Campers.
It's cold out there!
Must have been the brown acid.
I feel like you’ve said that before...
more likely windowpane
egg: this is your brain.
egg on frying pan: this is your brain on drugs
maybe those ads were correct.
http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/lsd/the-harmful-effects-of-lsd.html
PHYSICAL EFFECTS
Dilated pupils
Higher or lower body temperature
Sweating or chills (“goose bumps”)
Loss of appetite
Sleeplessness
Dry mouth
Tremors
MENTAL EFFECTS
Delusions
Visual hallucinations
An artificial sense of euphoria or certainty
Distortion of one’s sense of time and identity
Impaired depth perception
Impaired time perception, distorted perception of the size and shape of objects, movements, color, sounds, touch and the user’s own body image
Severe, terrifying thoughts and feelings
Fear of losing control
Panic attacks
Flashbacks, or a recurrence of the LSD trip, often without warning long after taking LSD
Severe depression or psychosis
I share his pain. Every time the State Of The Union address is given it’s all eerily familiar.
“I see everything twice!”
I once heard this put in laymen’s terms as the following: An event or thought comes into your perception and hits a switch. The conscious thought goes past the switch into short term memory and then finally into long term memory. But sometimes the switch sends the thought into long term memory a split second before going to short term memory. When the thought leaves short term memory and goes to long term memory it gives the person the feeling that they’ve “been there before”.
Well played.
That’s really strange, but I can appreciate how something like that can happen. Did you ever lean back in chair on its hind legs, and catch yourself just before you tip backwards? That’s how I feel all the time.
So. I read the article and being the dumbass, illiterate old fart I am, I missed where it pointed out this severely affected young person, debilitated by Deja Vu all-over-again is ensconced in a council townhome, put on the dole and given a personal-care worker to help him deal with the tragedy of it all.
Note the sigline below (quoting Mark Steyn) - I'd say it's less a mental problem than humans failing to learn from their mistakes. Just the SSDD...
It’s usually called marriage.
*ducks*
So you been to Max Yasgur’s farm?
Yup.
Every time I see Obola, I miss the Gipper more and more.
It is like deja vu all over again.
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