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[pal_x]

"STARE AT A WORD for long enough, and it can begin to look unfamiliar. This is an example of jamais vu (never seen), the opposite of déjà vu. Chris Moulin, of Leeds University, asked 92 volunteers to write out “door” 30 times in 60 seconds. At the International Conference on Memory in Sydney last week he reported that 68 per cent of his guinea pigs

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[briarspell]

I did not know that was a real thing! It just recently happened to me with KNOW and I remember a particularly bad time when it happened with BLUE. Very strange!!

(Come online!)

[pal_x]

The brain is strange :) Here's an excerpt from déjà vu, about its possible cause:

"In particular, this may result from an overlap between the neurological systems responsible for short-term memory (events which are perceived as being in the present) and those responsible for long-term memory (events which are perceived as being in the past). In other words, the events would be stored into memory before the conscious part of the brain even receives the information and process it. This would explain why one is, if it ever comes to mind, powerless trying to twist the outcome of the event in order to create a paradox. The delay is only of a few milliseconds, and besides, already happened at the time the conscious of the individual is experiencing it."

[skorpios]

That's so weird, I know exactly what that guy is talking about! I stared at the word "red" once too long (a really weird word, when you think about it), and I started doubting the probability of the word making any sense. Where'd you find that article?

[pal_x]

Post fixed :P I can't remember the last time I did this, but it boggles me that 68/93 people experience his mind hacker.