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In French class today, we learned the verb "voir" which means "to see". Ms Hoover, being her amazing self, pointed out to us that we all knew the past tense version of that verb in the phrase "deja vu". The 'deja vu' is French for "already seen".
Ms Hoover has some form of a degree in Biology, because she's just that cool, and we were talking about whether or not deja vu really exists. There is no real scientific definition of it. Some scientists believe that deja vu really has something to do with a delayed reaction in the brain. Like, something will happen, and your brain has a delayed reaction that makes it seem like you've seen it before, but in reality it's what you just saw.
But that's just what some scientists think.
I don't agree though...
Because I remember times where I've known how a conversation was going to play out because I had dreamt it before. Like, this one time (the most memorable of my deja vu's) I was talking to Leif in the courtyard at school, and I got that feeling you have when you get deja vu. It was after something I had said... I felt like I had said it before, but I knew I hadn't... But that wasn't the weird part... the weird part was that I knew exactly what Leif was going to say--word for word--and then what I was going to say, and what he would reply. It was like I knew the script for that peice of our conversation. It was bizarre. I never told him that I knew what he was going to say, but in my mind I was saying the words as they were coming out of his mind. It was so crazy.
That wasn't the only time that's happened, but that's one I can remember.
I remember having a dream one night that Johnny Cash would win a music award and die in his hospital bed. He did, and he did. I felt so bad for having that dream.
I'll get deja vu when I go places, too... sometimes even places I've never been.
So what I believe is that deja vu is just the reaction we have when we live through our own premonitions. Now, I'm not one to practice witch craft (I'm Christian), and I do not know the laws of magic, but I do think it's sometimes possible to see the future, that premonitions can be real, that ESP does exist, that we can speak with our minds sometimes...
Random, but I thought it was interesting.
Random Fact You Probably Don't Know About Me:
I like to read books about people with issues... They make me feel normal.
Great books:
"Perks Of Being A Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky - about a freshman boy who stands on the sidelines of everything and observes the lives around him.
Warning: Sex, drugs, and vulgar language.
"White Oleander" by Janet Fitch - about a girl who's mother kills boyfriend and goes to jail. Girl lives with mulitiple foster families and goes through a lot of shit.
Warning: Sex, drugs, vulgar language, and violence.
"The Last Time They Met" by Anita Shrieve - two writers who fall in love and meet again and again throughout their lives. It starts at the end and works it's way backwards to how they met.
Warning: Sex, drugs, and vulgar language.
"The Boyfriend List" by E. Lockhart - cheesy young novel about a 15 yr old girl who sees a shrink who believes that her panic attacks are because of the opposite sex, so she has to come up with a boyfriend list of every guy that's meant something to her, whether or not they dated. It's a funny book about silly teenage drama. It's neat, though, because even though it's written in first person, she puts commentary on her own thoughts with the use of footnotes.
Warning: slightly immature.
"Shooter" by Walter Dean Myers - I didn't actually read the whole book, I read the beginning and end, but it's not set up like a normal book, so it didn't really matter. It's set up to be like a suicide case file. It's about this boy's friend and how he killed himself and why. It's really well written. At the end you get to read the suicide victim's diary. It's fascinating.
Warning: drugs and violence.
"Girl, Interrupted" by Susanna Kaysen - About the authors stay in McClean mental institution. It's really neat because it's not written chronologically. It's written in the way Susanna remembers it, organized in her own way. It has copies of her files scattered throughout the book.
Warning: sex, drugs, violence, and vulgar language.
Like I said, I like weird books that make me feel normal.
Ms Hoover has some form of a degree in Biology, because she's just that cool, and we were talking about whether or not deja vu really exists. There is no real scientific definition of it. Some scientists believe that deja vu really has something to do with a delayed reaction in the brain. Like, something will happen, and your brain has a delayed reaction that makes it seem like you've seen it before, but in reality it's what you just saw.
But that's just what some scientists think.
I don't agree though...
Because I remember times where I've known how a conversation was going to play out because I had dreamt it before. Like, this one time (the most memorable of my deja vu's) I was talking to Leif in the courtyard at school, and I got that feeling you have when you get deja vu. It was after something I had said... I felt like I had said it before, but I knew I hadn't... But that wasn't the weird part... the weird part was that I knew exactly what Leif was going to say--word for word--and then what I was going to say, and what he would reply. It was like I knew the script for that peice of our conversation. It was bizarre. I never told him that I knew what he was going to say, but in my mind I was saying the words as they were coming out of his mind. It was so crazy.
That wasn't the only time that's happened, but that's one I can remember.
I remember having a dream one night that Johnny Cash would win a music award and die in his hospital bed. He did, and he did. I felt so bad for having that dream.
I'll get deja vu when I go places, too... sometimes even places I've never been.
So what I believe is that deja vu is just the reaction we have when we live through our own premonitions. Now, I'm not one to practice witch craft (I'm Christian), and I do not know the laws of magic, but I do think it's sometimes possible to see the future, that premonitions can be real, that ESP does exist, that we can speak with our minds sometimes...
Random, but I thought it was interesting.
Random Fact You Probably Don't Know About Me:
I like to read books about people with issues... They make me feel normal.
Great books:
"Perks Of Being A Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky - about a freshman boy who stands on the sidelines of everything and observes the lives around him.
Warning: Sex, drugs, and vulgar language.
"White Oleander" by Janet Fitch - about a girl who's mother kills boyfriend and goes to jail. Girl lives with mulitiple foster families and goes through a lot of shit.
Warning: Sex, drugs, vulgar language, and violence.
"The Last Time They Met" by Anita Shrieve - two writers who fall in love and meet again and again throughout their lives. It starts at the end and works it's way backwards to how they met.
Warning: Sex, drugs, and vulgar language.
"The Boyfriend List" by E. Lockhart - cheesy young novel about a 15 yr old girl who sees a shrink who believes that her panic attacks are because of the opposite sex, so she has to come up with a boyfriend list of every guy that's meant something to her, whether or not they dated. It's a funny book about silly teenage drama. It's neat, though, because even though it's written in first person, she puts commentary on her own thoughts with the use of footnotes.
Warning: slightly immature.
"Shooter" by Walter Dean Myers - I didn't actually read the whole book, I read the beginning and end, but it's not set up like a normal book, so it didn't really matter. It's set up to be like a suicide case file. It's about this boy's friend and how he killed himself and why. It's really well written. At the end you get to read the suicide victim's diary. It's fascinating.
Warning: drugs and violence.
"Girl, Interrupted" by Susanna Kaysen - About the authors stay in McClean mental institution. It's really neat because it's not written chronologically. It's written in the way Susanna remembers it, organized in her own way. It has copies of her files scattered throughout the book.
Warning: sex, drugs, violence, and vulgar language.
Like I said, I like weird books that make me feel normal.