Donna Feldman

Number One With A Bullet

	Deja vu is a minor flaw in the way our brains work that opens up questions about our perception of reality

Donna: Hi.

Maxim: Do you know what time it is?

Donna: Yeah, it's about half past twelve.

Maxim: Cheers.

Donna: Er, no problem.

Maxim: What wrist do you wear your watch on?

Donna: Can I stop you there?

Maxim: Sure.

Donna: I don't want to talk about watches and time and stuff with you again, I want to talk about deja vu. Deja vu is a miscommunication in your brain.

Maxim: Go on...

Donna: Your current experience should be stored as a short-term memory, but is wrongly stored as a long-term memory. This then makes you think it also happened at some unspecified time in the past.

Maxim: Yes, fine. But so what Donna?

Donna: Such vague feelings explain why people wrongly believe they're psychic. As always, the scientific is explanation is loads more fascinating than the pseudoscientific construction. Deja vu is a minor flaw in the way our brains work that opens up questions about our perception of reality, whether our misunderstood memories affect our understanding of the world, and whether this fuels what we think of and how we interact with other people.

Maxim: What time is it now?

Donna: Matrix. Glitch. [Hangs up]

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