Déjà vu
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Scientific literature indicates that déjà vu is a temporary chemical mix of neurotransmitters that create the perceptual pathway of recalling a memory rather than experiencing the current moment, well… currently. This also implies a momentary ‘artificial state.’ But how can one experience an ‘artificial’ state if the phenomenon is occurring with and within our evolved biological hardware? What if our entire lives were experienced with this alternate perceptual pathway? What if everyday felt like a recurring dream? What if this were the ‘true’ perception, as opposed to our amnesiatic-like status quo?
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Our current perception is a hallucination. Albeit one that we become comfortable with and accustomed to. During a substance induced hallucination, it’s just another state of chemical experience. Many hallucinogenic compounds and nootropic formulae are naturally occurring, even produced in small amounts by our own bodies. So, it’s really a question of homeostatic balance. If our balanced state were different due to some evolutionary path, perhaps you would be experiencing reality in a completely different way, and experiencing that as the norm!
If our brains developed an evolutionary trick to experience the world the way we do, perhaps it was due to negative selection or genetic drift. Maybe we evolved out of and away from a more ‘true paradigm.’ The feeling and understanding that we’ve all done this before could be the norm. We’ve all been here before, ‘perhaps’ at the very least. We’ve made the same mistakes already, and we almost always repeat these experiences in similar ways. As they say, history rhymes. Perhaps otherwise we’d learn our lessons instead of reviewing them over and over. Perhaps then we’d stop repeating history’s evil rhymes, but continue to sing its sweetest spells.
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This completes Chapter Two. Thanks for reading! Much more to come.
Chapter Three will be released on June 15th... or something like that.
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I'm working on chapter 3. Please tell me what you think so far?
