deja vu

eternal recurrence

one-liner

dream

dreaming

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trivia

forgetfulness

alien

bullshit

is the city at the center of the figure eight of time.

Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu.

is experiencing one or several elements in a present situation like those which had been experienced in the past, but the dissimilarities in the situations are not observed.

In the condition of "deja vu" it is probable that what takes place is that one or several elements in the present situation are like those which had been experienced in the past, but that the dissimilarities in the situations are not observed. The individual has a memory defect in that he parallels or identifies a complex present experience with a similar complex past experience, although in the present experience the number of elements which are the same as those in the past may not be very great. In other words, the present experience is deemed to be the same as that of the past because of the fact that the past is not accurately remembered and properly localized in time.

is no mere illusion, it is the memory of an unconscious fantasy.

To the category of the wonderful and uncanny we may also add that strange feeling we perceive in certain moments and situations when it seems as if we had already had exactly the same experience, or had previously found ourselves in the same situation. … I believe that it is wrong to designate the feeling of having experienced something before as an illusion. On the contrary, in such moments something is really touched that we have already experienced, only we cannot consciously recall the latter because it never was conscious. In short, the feeling of Déjà vu corresponds to the memory of an unconscious fantasy.

is not merely an illusion. On the contrary, something is really touched that we have already experienced, only we cannot consciously recall the latter because it never was conscious.

is the negation of the present rather than the affirmation of the past.

The essential of the déjà vu is rather the negation of the present than the affirmation of the past.

is paired with its opposite, 'jamais vu' which is when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.

is the total recollection which does not appear to be recollected, as if time stood still and became eternity.

They [Romantics] all seem to have experienced paramnesia, the sensation of déjà vu, the total recollection which does not appear to be recollected; they all aimed at least at the total exclusion of the past from the present by a perfect absorption in the present, as if time stood still and became eternity.

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is an indication that you're on the right path.

Whenever you get deja vu that means you're on the right path. I get it, like, more than ten times a year.

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