Deja vu is no passing event for British man

[mahatmakanejeeves]

That's the print edition title.

A strange case of deja vu, again and again and again.

By Bahar Gholipour January 5 at 6:28 PM

Trapped in a time loop: That’s how one man felt because of his recurring episodes of deja vu. Unlike the vague, fleeting sensation most people experience in deja vu, his episodes were persistent and long.

The 23-year-old British man started to have “frightening” episodes of deja vu shortly after starting college, said researchers who detail his unusual case in a new report. For minutes, and sometimes even longer, he would feel that he was reliving experiences. The episodes grew in intensity and became debilitating.

“Rather than simply the unsettling feelings of familiarity which are normally associated with deja vu, he complained that it felt like he was actually retrieving previous experiences from memory, not just finding them familiar,” the researchers said.

Three years after the experiences began, the young man could no longer even watch TV or read the paper because he would have a disturbing feeling that he had encountered the content before, the researchers said. ... The haunting sensation was stronger than just a feeling of familiarity. The man said he felt that at every present moment, he was reliving the past.

[trotsky]

1. Run-of-the-mill deja vu is disorienting enough.

Can't imagine the horror he's been through.

[Mnemosyne]

2. Poor fellow. Anxiety seems to have preceded it. Don't want to even imagine how awful it feels.nt

[jakeXT]

3. check with the kitchen

[Javaman]

4. I'm not a woo person at all but I have my own explanation for my own bouts of deja vu.

it's the one and only area where I can't explain why it happens; only how it happens.