![]() ![]() They are usually preceded by something called an ‘aura’, a sort of minor foreshock lasting anything up to a couple of minutes before the main event begins. Seizures, or fits, occur after an unanticipated electrical discharge in the brain. He saw a newborn baby as a kind of empty ledger, one that is gradually filled as the child grows and accumulates knowledge and experience. One of the most fundamental doctrines of Western philosophy was established by Aristotle. What I was experiencing was an extreme form of a very common mental illusion: déjà vu. ![]() The problem was that it never actually happened. It was a pleasant and extremely vivid recollection. I felt warm sunlight on the back of my neck and watched as birds wheeled and floated above me. I could hear the sway of the wheat ears as a gentle breeze brushed through them. The people around me vanished and I found myself lying on a tartan picnic blanket amid a field of high golden wheat. I was lounging under a tree in a packed east London park when I experienced a sudden feeling of vertigo, followed immediately by an overwhelming and intense sense of familiarity. One drab afternoon a few years ago something very unusual happened to me. ![]()
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