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31 Mar 2009, 7:18 pm

When it comes to people or different situations...do you ever have a fear that may have been real in a moment like this but not this specific moment and your made to feel like it is this specific moment? Would that be more a generalized anxiety disorder thing, and asperger thing, or one of those really annoying everyone deals with it thing but u associate with aspergers because your used to associating so much with aspergers?



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31 Mar 2009, 7:25 pm

It sounds like you're experiencing "Déjà Vu" ...

Wikipedia wrote:
Déjà Vu - from the French for "already seen"; also called paramnesia, from Greek "para," "near" + "mnēmē," "memory") or promnesia, is the experience of feeling sure that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously (an individual feels as though an event has already happened or has happened in the near past), although the exact circumstances of the previous encounter are uncertain.

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Since the last years of the 20th century, déjà vu has been subject to serious psychological and neurophysiological research. Scientifically speaking, the most likely explanation of déjà vu is not that it is an act of "precognition" or "prophecy," but rather that it is an anomaly of memory giving the impression that an experience is "being recalled."


No, you're not going crazy. It's a normal event. Nothing to worry about.



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31 Mar 2009, 8:16 pm

Yes, I understand the 'deja-vu' sensation. I just knew it was usual and lots of people experienced it. How intersting it is just a slip up of recognizing time.

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31 Mar 2009, 9:16 pm

No. The reason is simple: reality and the contents of my imagination are so alien to one another that it is impossible to mistake one for the other. Having a highly bizzare internal life, for that matter, is one of my safeguards against getting reality mixed-up with fantasy. However, my imagination has always had a greater sense of realism to me than anything that I can register through my senses. This has always been true. The two are nonetheless highly distinct from one another. It is impossible for me to get the two mixed-up.