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Déjà Vu All Over Again

I don’t know about most people, but déjà vu is a regular occurance for me.

That’s not to say that I have any significant premonitionary abilities like knowing what the Lotto numbers are going to be; rather, it’s subtle things… a short chain or pattern of actions, an arbitrary conversation, a simple exchange of words with someone and being struck suddenly with the realisation that I have experienced this particular situation one or two weeks before, in a dream or a daydream or some other, similar state of consciousness.

I mentioned this offhand to John at the pub on Thursday night, and it sparked his interest. He had read of this phenomenon somewhere before, and explained that it might have something to do with me being on the right path, that my periodical experiencing of events as having happened before, however trivial, is evidence that I am making the right decisions, following my true destiny, and building up a steady supply of good karma all the while. Or something like that.

I feel like Donnie Darko all of a sudden.

Tue 11 Feb 2003 at 20:12   ·


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Posted by David
Wed 12 Feb 2003
at 00:03

You cant be Donnie Darko, we already have a Donnie Darko in our group, John, or Jonnie Darko, tis his new nickname you see,

anyways in the pub with Jonnie Darko or another John?

Posted by eoin
Wed 12 Feb 2003
at 13:50

that must mean that something is changed in the matrix.nooooo….not again, i’m turning into nerd man. are we to believe that this is some kind of magic xylophone?

Posted by Instant Enemy
Wed 12 Feb 2003
at 22:42

I read a few years ago that déjà vu is a common trait shared by serial killers. Got any bodies under the floor?

Posted by griet
Thu 13 Feb 2003
at 13:54

i feel the sudden urge to dig out a psychology book and see what they say. Undoubtedly something about prain processes fooling you, as they always say. I am intrigued by the serial killer idea however. You can tell us Mac, you know we love you no matter what… starts dialing 112

Posted by eoin
Thu 13 Feb 2003
at 16:34

anyway..doesn’t everyone have deja vu?

Posted by Mac
Thu 13 Feb 2003
at 22:47

No bodies here… yet…

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