Sunday, June 10, 2007

Hi everyone today's post will be fairly short. I realised that I cannot blog everyday, not because I am inactive, but because for everyday I choose to blog, I will have less to blog about the next other day. And Im a slacker, which means that there are days which I do not even step out of my house. Like today.

In the blink of an eye, 2 weeks have passed. Just when I am finally able to sleep well and long, the holidays are approaching an end. Recently, I've been experiencing déjà vu so often that sometimes it freaks me out.

I did a little wiki research and heres what I found

The term "déjà vu" (French for "already seen", also called paramnesia from the Greek word para (παρα) for parallel and mnimi (μνήμη) for memory) describes the experience of feeling that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously. The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eeriness", "strangeness", or "weirdness". The "previous" experience is most frequently attributed to a dream, although in some cases there is a firm sense that the experience "genuinely happened" in the past. Déjà vu has been described as "Remembering the future."

Taken from Wikipedia.org

Anyway, there are many types of déjà vu. Theres déjà vécu, which refers to an experience involving more than just sight, of a feeling that what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time – of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances – of our knowing perfectly what will be said next, as if we suddenly remember it.

Then there's déjà senti- referring to a recollection of something that has forgotten for a period of time and is now recovered with a slight sense of satisfaction as if sought for.

Déjà visité refers to knowing the way around in a new town or landscape while at the same time knowing that this should not be possible. This is the least common occurance for me.

Jamais vu is a term in psychology (from the French, meaning "never seen") which is used to describe any familiar situation which is not recognised by the observer.
Often described as the opposite of déjà vu, jamais vu involves a sense of eeriness and the observer's impression of seeing the situation for the first time, despite rationally knowing that he or she has been in the situation before.
Jamais vu is more commonly explained as when a person momentarily does not recognize a word, person, or place that they already know. I experience this THE MOST.

What to do leh..dunno. Im going to end the post here bye!