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isn't deja vu short term memory shortcircuit where your brain reorders events as they are currently happening to give you impressions that you know stuff before it happens? (or cognition lapse while event happens, where short term sensory inputs are not cognized but are processed all the same, so when you catch up cognitively you get impression you knew that already)
in other words, had anyone had exact written description of event before deja vu episode?
(because i think i managed to catch my brain in this act one time, it's a very surreal feeling, **it's like sleep paralysis of thought, you can feel your thought being railroaded/moving in slow motion, sounds you hear being predetermined, your own voice being predetermined, you cannot imagine anything to act differently or can't act on impulse to do so, and then you catch up to real world and that's exact moment deja vu ends, leading me to believe it's some sort of disconnect there between short term memory and higher thought, because i could try to consciously remember stuff from childhood in the moment (so in long term memory), and it was different than deja vu remembrance in feeling)
I think what you are describing in your last paragraph is the medical alienation I was talking about. I dont know if thats the right term... people seem to love that word lol
kinda sorta? but for me deja vu was always (mainly) auditory (with thoughts sprinkled in, so i "remember" thoughts and feelings "again"), e.g. i perceive words i'm hearing and my own words as an exact match to "long forgotten memory/dream" and start to know what would happen (audiotorily, with matched tone/voice etc) exactly but don't know where my hands would be, for example, and don't feel that strong deja vu of "this is where my hands would be" according to this "memory" when i see them. Actions and visuals are not primal in experience, compared to third person body experience, where you concentrate on actions and hands (at least i think so?), where it's puppet like/are these my hands type dealio.
*(i do have a funny deja vu story, where i was alone at work, started feeling deja vu from some sounds and guess what i "remembered" hearing?)
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ringing in the ears. stellar work brain, fucking thanks. if deja vu was real woo-woo shit, i would have abandoned it right then and there, what kind of prediction is this.(i don't know if it's quirk of my perception of focusing on sounds/thoughts, but people usually sharply separate those two phenomenons, where deja vu is as you said woo-woo shit, while third person view is scary as shit typically. although people observing their own operations in the out of body type thingy usually describe extreme calmness and fatalism, which seems very close to third person phenomenon on description, maybe it's due to drugs/dreams vs actual reality?)