I dug up this article from a 06 New York Times Magazine. It’s about déjà Vu and a strange condition called “déjà vécu” where the sufferer claims that “they continuously relieve the past and feel that a significant part of their daily experiences have happened before…In contrast to ordinary déjà vu experiences, in which the sensation instantly seems misplaced, to them, the experiences simply feel like memories”
“When we have déjà vu, we don’t act on it,” Moulin says. “But these people refused to watch television, they stopped reading the newspaper.” The patients were what cognitive scientists call “anosagnosic” — unaware of their condition. They also found situations to be more than just familiar; they believed that they were really recalling them, so much so that they invented memories to justify that belief. They were, to use Tulving’s phrase, time traveling to a reality that had never existed.”
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