I call them “deja vu moments”–time seems to stop, and for the briefest of moments I know I’ve “seen” this before. Tonight, while straining macaroni I had a “deja vu moment.” Yesterday, scribbling some notes at work, I had one. A few days ago, while doing nothing of any import at work, I had another. Last Sunday, while building the USS Constellation<\/i>, again a “deja vu moment.”<\/p>\n
Scientifically, deja vu<\/i> happens when the visual signal from one eye reaches the brain a fraction of a second before the signal from the other eye creating a slight mental discontinuity as the brain tries to process the two slightly-out-of-sync visual inputs.<\/p>\n
What if it’s not? What if it’s something completely different?<\/p>\n
I think deja vu<\/i> could be a mild pre-cognition. No, I’m not suddenly about to craft and predict pre-fash Perky Pat layouts. It’s a strange idea, I know.<\/p>\n
In other news, I have to wonder. Should point-of-view shift radically in the course of a single sentence? For a story I’m working on I think it should–start the sentence from one perspective, and as the sentence ends the point-of-view is completely<\/i> different. It’s not something that could be done in anything but<\/i> prose. Film? No. Theater? No. Audio drama? Hell no. But it’s right for the story I’m trying to tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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