We’ve all experienced déjà vu before. You know, you feel like you’ve been somewhere before, had a specific conversation before or been through a particular experience before — even though that previous experience may, or may not, have actually occurred.
We’ve also all heard someone mention something or ask a question, or perhaps we’ve overheard a conversation and then we have said to ourselves, ‘Yeah, I was just wondering about that the other day.’
What I was thinking about earlier today is how often do I overhear a conversation, or perhaps hear a program on the radio, and then NOT remember that I was thinking about that exact topic only a short while beforehand.
(Cue the Twilight Zone theme song …)
I was just talking about this the other day with….
Wait.
Hold it.
Ahhhhh… now I get it.
I’ve never thought about this before.
The human mind is so amazing. I am repeatedly astounded at how cool, powerful and yet forgetful it can be.
Everything we think we experienced could be an illusion. Maybe the entire universe and every single memory-encoding neuron in your brain was created a few milliseconds ago; maybe in a few milliseconds everything will …