As the world kept him thinking in turns so would the blank, empty, undiluted space in the upper right corner of his unimaginative American blog. It left itself for last - as if it knew it was much too smart for him - as if the search bar that had once been there was an overture to another space in time - as if that corner meant more than it really did.
Neuroscience of déjà vu
I swear I have read this before… Neuroscience of déjà vu. Seriously though, I have had some very strong episodes and the “someplace similar” explanation doesn’t quite explain them for me. For instance how does this explain those moments when I’m sitting in my dining room, talking to my mother-in-law about something and all of a sudden I KNOW I have lived this before. this isn’t an “overlapping blueprint” it’s an existing one. The place is well worn in my brain… perhaps the conversation, the placement of individuals in the room, the level of daylight coming in through the window, the dog barking in the corner, the car that just went up the street, the commercial on TV, the food steaming on the stove, all could be overlapping in some way that although it is temporally new it is perceived my brain as a previously lived experience. Strange place the brain…
Listening To
- Megafaun – Columns
- Ben Harper and Relentless7 – Up to You Now (Live At Sirius Radio)
- The Jealous Girlfriends – I Quit
- Sufjan Stevens – Jacksonville
- The Beatles – You're Gonna Lose That Girl
- My Morning Jacket – I'm Amazed
- The Beatles – Two of Us
- Crooked Fingers – Weary Arms
- The String Cheese Incident – Intro
- Charlie Hunter Trio – My Son the Hurricane
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