#pattern separation

Hold a moment - observe this blog closely. Do you think you've seen this blog before? Does this font reek of being known? Or the colours seem to jump out at you and dance in your head to the tune of familiarity? If any of your answers has been yes, congratulations!! You're automatically inducted in our club of 'vellah (idle)-nothing-to-do' people, of which the president is none other than the one who's writing you're enduring right now.

Apart from that (if you're still with me), you've just undergone a sliver of deja vu (already seen) in relation to the colours, name and other features of fixed nature in this blog currently, and perhaps an eeny bit of deja vecu (already experienced) in relation to the Naansense being churned out here.

Scientists have proposed (not proved) that there are two ways to a memory.

- Pattern Separation

This part distinguishes between similar but different memories.

- Pattern Completion

This part pulls out the whole memory if any part of it is triggered.

And deja vu, which atleast half of you reading this would have experienced sometime or the other, supposedly occurs when your Pattern Separation mechanism malfunctions and is unable to properly slot/sort your similar memories. That explains why you felt so at home while watching the Twilight series. Touche. And believe it or not, some people (mostly oldies) seem to be stuck in a state of constant Deja Vecu (read on to understand). Imagine that happening to you - even before you actually ride your first bike, you'll feel you've already done it before and not actually ride it. *horror* It's like being caught in the same episode of the series and living it over, everyday. *shivers*

But actually, all your deja vu experiences might not be what you think. 

Now, now. Before your already incensed brain starts potting plans to kill me, let me get down to the Dejas. So the umbrella term that most of us employ to describe anything which has a flavour of 'already' (deja), is "deja vu". Now this might or might not be the case, because there are, hold your breath, more than 15 kinds of Dejas (alreadys). I'm gonna quickly list 'em below before you feel anymore duped:

déjà arrivé

already happened

déjà connu

already known (personal knowing)

déjà dit

already said/ spoken (content of speech)

déjà entendu

already heard

déjà éprouvé

already tried or attempted

déjà fait

already done or accomplished

déjà gôuté

already tasted

déjà lu

already read

déjà parlé

already spoken (act of speech)

déjà pensé

already thought or pondered

déjà presenti

already "sensed" (or had a presentiment)

déjà raconté

already recounted or told

déjà rencontré

already met

déjà rêvé

already dreamt

déjà senti

already felt (as in I have felt this way)

déjà su

already known (intellectually)

déjà trouvé

already met

déjà vécu

already lived through or experienced

déjà visité

already visited

déjà voulu 

already wanted