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Originally Posted by BadKharmala

Alright guys, I think this is my first meaningful post for once...

First, my story. So my brother and i were little and we were racing each other around the block. As it turns out he was too far ahead of me and so I slowed down a little because i knew he had won. But we decided we had to "hurry" home because it was about to rain. A bolt of lightning went down only a few feet in front of me. I guess if my brother and i weren't moving on bikes you never know what would have happened.

As for the whole Deja Vu thing...well your brain receives short term memory and then encodes it to long term memory. The reason why you remember things is because your brain makes relations to other things (which explains stream of consciousness). Deja Vu results from a mistake in retreival. If you don't remember something your mind has the tendency to make things up to satisfy the story. Which is the reason why a lot of people stretch the actual story, and the reason why the children's game "Telephone" is the way it is.

The feeling physical pain in dreams just means that you have such intense dreams that your nerves actually react to the neural activity during the dreams. It doesn't mean anything more than your dreams are so in depth you think they're real. This can develop into a serious sleeping disorder if you end up hurting or destroying other things in your sleep by being so absorbed in your dreams.

Whew. Hope that helps.

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