Kara Carter T-4 5-21-13

Daydreaming and Deja Vu

I decided to do these two topics because I see them happen almost everyday, and I did not know why these events occur. I decided it would be good for me to know these so that now whenever these happen to me, I will know why.

Don’t you get excited when you wake up and you remember the super cool dream you had the night before and you’re mad because you had to wake up from saving your town from aliens or being a superhero but in all reality and average humans dream only last 5 to 45 minutes. Your dream could go on for days or so it seems, scientist have been doing studies on why we dream for nearly 100 years now and they still aren’t 100% sure.

Everyone knows that daydreaming is not the same as dreaming while you’re asleep. 1. you have no control over your dreams. In daydreams however, you have total control of what happens. You are the producer, writer, director and often the star of the daydream. Daydreaming is fun it kills time and intrudes on your time when you should be working. People might daydream about what they are going to later that day like taking a nap or leaving for vacation anything they might be looking forward to or maybe even scared of, anything they want they can day dream.

Physiologists say that the more a person daydreams can actually help them. They say the reason is because if they dream about an intruder or a robber etc. and they react to that its teaching them what to do if that did ever happen to them. Physiologists say that the more creative a person is the more likely they are to daydream. Day dreaming relieves stress because you can dream about anything you want, you are in control of the outcome and everything.

Have you ever done something for the first time but it feels like you have done it before? That feeling is called Deja Vu, it is a French term that literally means “already seen.” Other terms for Deja Vu- Déjà Vécu, already experienced, déjà senti, means already thought, déjà visité, means already visited. Deja Vu- “already seen”, is the phenomenon of having the strong sensation that an event or experience currently being experienced has been experienced in the past, whether it has actually happened or not.

“Deja Vu” is the feeling that you have seen something before, and it happens because your mind has seen something else that is very similar that it has a hard time telling the difference between what you are seeing now and what you saw before. Some studies say that Deja VU is caused when one eye records what it sees and then straight after the other eye sees it but at a different time. Several theories say it occurs simply because the brain itself. It makes sense that that feeling may be caused by a brain state that has nothing to do with memory, because at the same time of feeling familiarity, we know that the event could not have happened before.

I really liked the assignment that we did, I thought it was unique that people could take out their phone or iPad or any other device with the QR reader on it an scan it. I think it could be better if we all did it the same, some did it on Open Office some did it one Microsoft Word. So some were larger than the others. Some didn’t quite get the process, so we couldn’t watch their video. Overall I thought the assignment was really neat! I hope we do it again!