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[GodsTyro]

Have you ever been half dreaming, half awake.. you can see your surroundings through a translucent film in your eyes but you are still recalling a dream.. and you can predict that the phone will ring in like 5 secs and it happens every time? I considered that it may be my brain not realizing that the phone is ringing until moments later, but for one, I always hear the phone ring if I am sleeping (it is that loud) and it doesn't ring until I am more fully concious because I know that it will ring. This has happened multiple times, and apparently a few others have had a similar experience. Does the mind enter "psychic" mode halfway between dreams and reality?

 

[ToxicAdam]

It sounds like you are having "de ja vu" while in a semi-concious state.

Déjà vu has been subjected in recent years to serious psychological and neurophysiological research. The most likely candidate for explanation, according to scientists in these fields, is that déjà vu is not an act of "precognition" or "prophecy" but is actually an anomaly of memory; it is the impression that an experience is "being recalled" which is false. This is substantiated to an extent by the fact that in most cases the sense of "recollection" at the time is strong, but any circumstances of the "previous" experience (when, where and how the earlier experience occurred) are quite uncertain. Likewise, as time passes, subjects can exhibit a strong recollection of having the "unsettling" experience of déjà vu itself, but little to no recollection of the specifics of the event(s) or circumstances they were "remembering" when they had the déjà vu experience, and 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).

This correlation has led some researchers to speculate that the experience of déjà vu is possibly a neurological anomaly related to improper electrical discharge in the brain. As most people suffer a mild (ie. non-pathological) epileptic episode regularly (eg. the sudden "jolt", a hypnagogic jerk, that frequently occurs just prior to falling asleep), it is conjectured that a similar (mild) neurological aberration occurs in the experience of déjà vu, resulting in an erroneous "memory".

 

[RaymondCarver]

The human mind can sense electromagnetic activity before the actual activity happens or produces a result-like a phone or cell phone ringing, predicting songs that will play next on the radio, etc.




A Discovery Science show "Megascience" has a program dealing with this. Megascience comes on every morning at 6:30 am and then some time in the afternoon.





The program mentions the Tesla Coil and other projects/tests that explain the human-machine interaction with electromagnetic radiation.

 

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This correlation has led some researchers to speculate that the experience of déjà vu is possibly a neurological anomaly related to improper electrical discharge in the brain. As most people suffer a mild (ie. non-pathological) epileptic episode regularly (eg. the sudden "jolt", a hypnagogic jerk, that frequently occurs just prior to falling asleep), it is conjectured that a similar (mild) neurological aberration occurs in the experience of déjà vu, resulting in an erroneous "memory".

:lol I love that. That happened to me once in class when I fell asleep. The teacher was giving his lecture and I started to doze off and then BAM! Papers on my desk go flying and all eyes are on me.

Teacher: are you okay? hahaha! aaaanyway...