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Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 17:25:22 2021 No.13866147 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>13866281 >>13867457

If I went back in time and had deja-vu, would I be doing the same thing again or would I be doing something different? Say I had no memory of anything before the time I went back to, just one instance of deja vu. Would the experience and subsequent results be different or the same?

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Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 17:28:07 No.13866156 Report

Quoted By: >>13866173 >>13866205

wrong board, you wanna post here: >>>/x/

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Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 17:34:11 No.13866173 Report

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>>13866156
I'm not talking about the occult, I'm asking philosophically or logistically. Say I had once instance of how things would go, would every thing that happened after be the same or would it be different, and how would I distinguish the iterations?

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Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 17:47:44 No.13866205 Report

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>>13866156
A third way of putting it, with regards to averages, people say if they went back in time they'd do things differently, yet how they view themselves is typically disregarded. I suspect that if they did get their wish, they would essentially be living the same life, albeit having a few less failures as they aren't examining why they failed the first time. The thinking is, the minute details have more of an influence than we acknowledge, and that this point is an underutilized tool.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 17:57:00 No.13866234 Report

Quoted By: >>13866238

what does 'deja-vu' generally cause in normal circumstances?
Time travel makes the question interesting, but isn't a significant part of question.
I don't know the answer. I can guess that too many instances of 'deja-vu' could be a mental illness, but an occasional or 'one instance of' deja-vu could be insignificant, or have an effect similar to a 'butterfly effect' model

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Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 17:58:59 No.13866238 Report

Quoted By: >>13866260

>>13866234
I figured it was detecting a situation your brain already went through while you slept/dreamed.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 18:06:04 No.13866260 Report

Quoted By: >>13866267 >>13866289

>>13866238
if that is the case how does it affect you?
Is it distracting? Is it confidence-boosting? Performance enhancing? Insignificant?
Then..., depending on how you guess that it affects, it could also matter what even was occurring.
e.g. You got nervous and decided not to propose to a specific woman when you graduated high school.
with deja-vu, maybe you go through with it?
You answered the last question of your math test correctly, and got into a leading STEM uni...
with deja-vu, maybe you get distracted with the strange feeling that you've seen this problem before, and run out of time?

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Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 18:08:37 No.13866267 Report

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>>13866260
Usually I just brush it off instead of pursuing it because it registers as the moments happening. I think I'd do the same thing, but deja-vu before the moment in question would be something worth exploring.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 18:14:12 No.13866281 Report

Quoted By: >>13866298

>>13866147
depends on intensity and time difference. A way to think about it is like taking a massive pond and dropping a stone into it. it could be that the location you choose to drop it (the path you take after going back in time) either mimics the path you took or is so inconsequential (living alone in the woods and dying in a deep dark cave no one will ever see) that nothing perceptibly changes in your lifetime.

But the more you deviated, the more that "moment of dejavu" changes the position of the pebble dropped into the water, the more likely it will create a radically different pattern down the line. So if that dejavu happened while you were in traffic and you got pasted, that's a big one. If that dejavu happened while taking a shit and reading a shampoo bottle, nothing changes.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 18:16:02 No.13866289 Report

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>>13866260
Now that you mention it, I think perception plays a role. I never consider bringing it up because then that invites more questions, exposing incompetence or not having it all together. But everyone has it seeing as its a common concept. But how does one approach it effectively?

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Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 18:19:47 No.13866298 Report

Quoted By: >>13866315

>>13866281
Say you got 1 instance of deja-vu 5 seconds before you went to sleep vs 1 instance just as you woke up this morning. Which would have more of an impact on the initial day and which would have more of an impact on the following day?

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Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 18:25:27 No.13866315 Report

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>>13866298
Depends, pre-sleep is an important memory consolidation period. So if that "dejavu" was strong enough it could change a lot of stuff if that person becomes "sensitive" to the idea of time travel because they had future knowledge before sleep.

Waking up they could chalk it up to the morning grogginess and it would probably be swiftly forgotten. Both have the same impact, probably, on the next day because one shifts the time to get to sleep and the other the time to start the day. Both of which can significantly alter a daily schedule if it's thrown off enough.

Again though I doubt someone would give much thought to dejavu immediately after waking up.

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Anonymous Fri 19 Nov 2021 00:22:21 No.13867457 Report

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>>13866147
Something different since the deja-vu wasn't there before.

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