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I've been having an experience very similar to deja vu, but not quite the same. I've developed some kind of accidental mental hack where reading nursery rhymes
by roryisok 9y ago
I've been having an experience very similar to deja vu, but not quite the same. I've developed some kind of accidental mental hack where reading nursery rhymes to my kids makes me fall asleep. I could be wide awake but I'll literally open page one of a book and yawn immediately. My wife thinks this is hilarious.
As I'm just reaching the edge of losing consciousness, my brain starts to manufacture false memories about whatever nursery rhyme I'm reading. For example if I'm reading "sing a song of sixpence" my brain will say "ah yes, I remember this one, the king and the maid are having an affair, and the queen learns about it and has her killed". Then I'll shake off sleep and realise that it was a false memory
It's an odd feeling.
Similarly, sometimes when drifting off I'll find myself at the end of a train of thought which I did not have. I don't know how else to describe it. It's like my subconscious was having a train of thought and i jumped in and claimed it.
- cko 9y agoI've had many similar experiences right before falling asleep as well, though I wouldn't have known to describe it as well as you have, but yes, I'd be mid-thought in something and forget the thoughts leading up to that one.