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Comment by Aram Grigoryan on October 5, 2009 at 12:29pm

Comment by güneş on June 11, 2009 at 2:16pm

hi dawn and groups how are you?

Comment by Louise Dionne Jackson on June 11, 2009 at 11:45am

Hi all

A few bits more for you..

The deja vu phenomena when reported to a neurologist consultant on its own even without a seizure.. is enough in the uk for the DVLA to not allow you to drive for a year from your last deja vu episode. Unreported you can do what you like!! after a year with medication to 'get rid of' the deja vu the DVLA will allow you to drive.

I reported mine because of my grand mal seizure, and because my MRI and EEG were clear .. my consultant recommended medication (drugs) for me to 'get rid of' my deja vu, so that in a years time the DVLA would allow me to drive..

However because of the all clear i had, i told him that in fact i didnt want to 'get rid of' my deja vu..and in fact i withdrew my statement to him when i had said that i get it all the time..and convinced him i made a mistake .. and told him that i did not want any medication.. he agreed. All very odd really, but all i have said here is absolute fact. I dont agree that deja vu is a small seizure but the medical people do, so who am i to argue.?

There is another phenomenon called 'jamais vu' which means that familiar happenings that you should recognise you do in fact not remember them..but thats another story..

Also Dawn when you say your head and heart are working in harmony you are right..this is also now fact that they do work together..

http://madurasinghe.blogspot.com/2008/06/neurocardiology-brain-in-heart.html
http://www.heartmath.org/research/science-of-the-heart.html
http://www.med.unc.edu/wellness/main/links/cellular%20memory.htm
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/117633.html
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/cpn/2009/427840.abs.html
http://www.anythingbutwork.com/health/heart-brain.htm

(to self:- oh lord too many links louise!!)

well happy reading..but the main point is that a new medical field called 'neurocardiology' is discovering that the heart is made up of tissue and cells that are the same as the tissues and cells found in the brain... that is why we 'feel' things and 'think' things in our heart muscles..and these things seem to come from the area where our heart is.. because it actually does..

it means that our brains and hearts are joined and are made of the same building blocks...

i'll stop now.. sorry its so long.. lol

lou x

Comment by mike hinc on June 11, 2009 at 10:29am

I see what you Dawn - I think the fabric of reality is thinner for some people - you are obviously blessed with a buggered gearbox.

Comment by dawn hilton on June 11, 2009 at 9:55am

Hi Mike, I'm always missing gears.x

Comment by dawn hilton on June 11, 2009 at 9:54am

Hi Lou, Great to see you sweet heart and thanks for that insight in to DA-JA-VUE, I'm not sure about them being seizure on their own.

I was ten when I was in Australia, we had just landed there and mum had got me in to a school, not that I later went to it!lol

Anyway, I recall that at lunch time I went to walk across the main yard area which was all green and lush filled with tropical plants with big leaves and striking colour, I became aware that I had taken those exact steps before, I recall looking at a girl who was identical to a Girl I had known in the UK, she hadn't been a close friend, just a girl from my old school.

I recalled being a little scared of the situation and carried on walking towards the basket ball court, I had to sit down as I felt that I had had a strange experience.

I'd had one previous to that about a year before in England and that equally was so real.

When your that young you don't really pay much attention to them and I think as you get older you pay even less attention to them, but you always know that it is not right and shrug it off.

I think their should be studies in to the experiences.

I have many Da-Ja-Vue's in my head, but that is one memory that has stayed clear in my mind, it is as clear now as it was when I were 12.

The strange thing I find, I can recall all my da-ja-vues very easily and bring them to my memory minds eye.

But I have just been diagnosed with post traumatic stress syndrome after two and a half years of losing my late partner.

I can't recall memories from childhood, or my own kids growing up, memories from 48 hours ago or visual memories.

I have not had a dream in two and a half years, not sure why, I think my head is a little closed down right now, protecting me from the trauma.

Yet the da-ja-vue incident is as clear as anything in my mind, I can picture it now and play it like a video film in my mind.

Yet I can't picture my late partners face of I had spent 15 years with.

The mind is a very complex structure and I think we are at an incredible time where researcher's in Neuroscience are now showing or giving us all answers we require.

I know that being given the option 2.5 years ago to take medication to cope with trauma pain and a broken heart was not an option.

I didn't need help from drugs to make me worse.

I started to look at area's why my head and heart was doing what they do,,, I'm glad I looked in to those areas now as I have come to the conclusion that the brain and heart will work together in harmony if you let it and just understand it has to shut areas down in times of stress, just so you can function normally to situations in the immediate future.

Sometimes it's good not to question it, just let it do what it has to do, shut down and take it's own steps back.

Comment by mike hinc on June 10, 2009 at 4:34pm

Seems simple enough - time moves in both directions at the same time. In its end is its beginning all ways and forever. Generally we mortals only experience time moving 'Forward' - sometimes the gears slip - been there?

Comment by Louise Dionne Jackson on June 10, 2009 at 11:28am

hi Dawn

Thanks

This deja vu thing....

I am told by my neurologist that the deja vu phenomena is considered medically to be a small seizure on its own...

and/or can precede an actual seizure..

this shocked me as i have had these deja vu episdoes regually.. but i am now thinking that maybe they are not the same format for all people.. and sometimes they are referred to medically as psychic episodes.. depending upeon their nature.. and these are to do with the left and right hand side of your brain processing things with a slight frcation of a difference so much so that one instantly becomes a memory just after you thought it.. and then the other side processes it independantly..so you have it twice....do you know what i mean?

forgive me for the rest of this post being long.. but i thought it might help:-

The term deja vu is French and means, literally, "already seen." Those who have experienced the feeling describe it as an overwhelming sense of familiarity with something that shouldn't be familiar at all. Say, for example, you are traveling to England for the first time. You are touring a cathedral, and suddenly it seems as if you have been in that very spot before. Or maybe you are having dinner with a group of friends, discussing some current political topic, and you have the feeling that you've already experienced this very thing -- same friends, same dinner, same topic.

The phenomenon is rather complex, and there are many different theories as to why deja vu happens. Swiss scholar Arthur Funkhouser suggests that there are several "deja experiences" and asserts that in order to better study the phenomenon, the nuances between the experiences need to be noted. In the examples mentioned above, Funkhouser would describe the first incidence as deja visite ("already visited") and the second as deja vecu ("already experienced or lived through").

As much as 70 percent of the population reports having experienced some form of deja vu. A higher number of incidents occurs in people 15 to 25 years old than in any other age group.

Deja vu has been firmly associated with temporal-lobe epilepsy. Reportedly, deja vu can occur just prior to a temporal-lobe seizure. People suffering a seizure of this kind can experience deja vu during the actual seizure activity or in the moments between convulsions.

Since deja vu occurs in individuals with and without a medical condition, there is much speculation as to how and why this phenomenon happens. Several psychoanalysts attribute deja vu to simple fantasy or wish fulfillment, while some psychiatrists ascribe it to a mismatching in the brain that causes the brain to mistake the present for the past. Many parapsychologists believe it is related to a past-life experience. Obviously, there is more investigation to be done.

Comment by shell-rose creations on June 9, 2009 at 7:12pm

Wow, what a fascinating topic! Thank you for inviting me, Dawn.

Comment by mike hinc on June 9, 2009 at 6:18pm

No thanks Dawn - I think you're great and love your pics but IMHO this is bunkum.

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