Talby
Since: Jun, 2009
#3: Jan 19th 2011 at 12:24:17 AM
I don't think so. Paranoia is an actual psychological disorder. Deja vu is a single instance of feeling something.
But soft! What rock through yonder window breaks? It is a brick! And Juliet is out cold.
SandJosieph
Since: Dec, 2009
#5: Jan 19th 2011 at 2:47:51 AM
I imagine it depends on the nature of their paranoia. Cop-out answer, I know, but the term is actually pretty damned broad.
But soft! What rock through yonder window breaks? It is a brick! And Juliet is out cold.
kurushio
Happy Human
from Berlin, Germany
Since: Sep, 2009
Relationship Status: I've got a total eclipse of the heart
#7: Jan 19th 2011 at 4:09:05 AM
(Which everyone experiences in a mild form once in a while.)
File that under "weird things I did not know about my own brain." Temporal Lobe Epilepsy is the one that can cause feelings of religious significance, right?
But soft! What rock through yonder window breaks? It is a brick! And Juliet is out cold.
SandJosieph
Since: Dec, 2009
kurushio
Happy Human
from Berlin, Germany
Since: Sep, 2009
Relationship Status: I've got a total eclipse of the heart
#9: Jan 19th 2011 at 4:25:07 AM
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy is the one that can cause feelings of religious significance, right?
Not really my field of expertise - I'd have to look that up. Other wiki only says that the jolting episode you can have when you fall asleep is actually a non-pathological epileptic episode, and that some researchers think that deja vus might be something similar.
#10: Jan 19th 2011 at 5:47:42 AM
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran explored the neural basis of the hyperreligiosity seen in TLE using galvanic skin response (which correlates with emotional arousal) to determine whether the hyperreligiosity seen in TLE was due to an overall heightened emotional state or was specific to religious stimuli (Ramachandran and Blakeslee, 1998). By presenting subjects with neutral, sexually arousing and religious words while measuring GSR, Ramachandran was able to show that patients with TLE showed enhanced emotional responses to the religious words, diminished responses to the sexually charged words, and normal responses to the neutral words. These results suggest that the medial temporal lobe is specifically involved in generating some of the emotional reactions associated with religious words, images and symbols.
But soft! What rock through yonder window breaks? It is a brick! And Juliet is out cold.
Total posts: 11

Random thought I had while on the bus to work but would like to discuss. Strangely enough, this wasn't inspired by a Deja Vu moment.