This must be all in my head, right?

[addicted2harleys]

I have been experiencing a weird thing since last night.  I have never seen anyone ever post something like this before.  

Okay, last night I was watching NCIS. All the way through it I kept thinking that I had seen this episode before.  I checked the info page when it was over and saw it was a new episode.  Okayyyyy

Then I watched NCIS: LA.  Same thing happened exactly as before.  Okayyyyy

Just a few minutes ago my daughter was reading to me a couple of stories she is writing (she is really talented with writing!! And drawing!!).  During the second story, I got that same feeling I had with NCIS.  I told her that she has read that one to me before.  She told me she couldn't have, she just wrote it today.   Okayyyyy

I told her everything that I have just said here and she said she feels like she was with Anne Frank during the Holocaust.  Hmmm.  I think I would rather have my deja vu!  But anyway, she said she feels like she was in the story.  

So, obviously, I am crazy and need help and have passed on my crazy gene to my daughter!  But, I was wondering if anyone else holds this crazy gene?  Please tell me I am not alone!  Lol. :)

Addi
ps.  Pretty sad when my daughter is sitting here telling me how to spell words cause I seem to be flubbering them up!

[supermum_ms]

Wow thats interesting, madness actually has a name lol just kidding!! Funny but my mum for years and years, would be walking with me some where we've been a million times, and she'd suddenly stop. A lost and sometimes frightened look on her face and she'd say "I have no idea where I am?" she would be looking around semi frantic and then she'd just as suddenly remember where she was, it was always rather strange.

I can only say, deja vu is supose to be one of the normal and yes weird things but i'm not sure if its still normal if its an on and off all day thing, that doesn't sound quite right!

Cheers........JJ

[jensequitur]

It's strange how a little bit of change in the brain can make everyday things seem really odd.  I've had some experiences that made me sure I was going crazy!

[addicted2harleys]

Oh my!  I am gonna have to google this.  lol  Though, in all reality, it isn't that funny, but it sure would be for some interesting reading.  

Grateful to not be crazy yet ~~~~~>Addi. :)

[Nancy T]

There is another interesting phenomenon, called jamais vu ("never seen", as opposed to "deja vu", which means "already seen"), in which something that is very familiar to a person suddenly seems totally unfamiliar.

I remember reading about a man who had a stroke, went back to work and was certain that his desk had been replaced by an exact copy, down to some wormholes in the wood, even though the desk was too large to get through the door and he knew it was impossible someone had switched it. Yet he still FELT that it was an "imposter" desk. These kinds of phenomena are VERY strange and can be due to brain damage, or I think also seizure activity? Google those terms and you can see some interesting info.

You aren't crazy. :)

[addicted2harleys]

Wow, guys!  I thought you were all going to say that I was crazy!  

Well, if I am having memory issues, I guess that would make sense.  Interesting.  I hope it doesn't go the opposite way and I will forget people I know!   Boy, that would certainly suck...

Thanks so much,
Addi

[sllowe]

I remember reading an article years ago in Neurology now about de ja vu and it discussed memory and how we are able to recognize and recall all we do each day.

It discussed how something familiar pops up the old memory (from storage, lol), which then of course makes us think we had been somewhere, or seen the exact same thing before. It was an amazing process to read about.

With the vast quantity of inventory in our memory combined w/the process to retrieve allows for some glitches here and there, haha

That's my technic-less explanation - the one I used on the kids so they didn't think they lived another life form on another planet, lol

shell :)

[JemmAus]

I read somewhere about Deja-vu being related to some seizure activity? Could be wrong...but worth mentioning.

[Nancy T]

Deja vu is the technical term for it--apparently it can be associated with some brain abnormalities (I just looked it up on Wikipedia).

I used to have times lasting half a day or so where everyone I saw--every stranger--would strongly, immediately, and inevitably remind me of someone I knew. I'd see the stranger and immediately the name of someone I knew would pop into my head, with every single stranger I saw. It was very weird.