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From: steve@kontron.UUCP (Steve McIntosh)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: old senses
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Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 13:54:58 EDT
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> From:  knutsen (Andrew Knutsen)
> 
> 	By the way, there is one form of ESP which I think I may have
> experienced in a fairly powerful way.  I was once sleeping in a hotel
> when a motorcycle hit a concrete divider outside, killing two people
> instantly.  I woke up very suddenly with a very unusual sensation, which
> Ive never experienced before or since.  It may have just been the loud
> noise though...
> 
I heard somewhere (I think it was on a PBS show) that the human brain has
a half-second delay between then time things actually happen and the time
it is percieved. (ie. when you hear something, it actually happened half
a second earlier.) During this half-second, your brain is processing the
signal and setting up all sorts of responses that are ready to kick in
when perception of the event hits.

This is a possible explanation for deja-vue (however you spell it.)

Anybody have any references on this?

-Steve McIntosh, Kontron electronics, Irvine CA