“Paramnesia? What word barbarian! Inside, there’s the word “amnesia” with the Greek prefix “para”. But this division does not appear to provide further explanation.
However, I am sure you know what paramnesia, you may have suffered at one time or another in your life. Indeed, the paramnesia is the feeling of deja vu.
This term was invented by Emile Boirac in 1876 in his book The Future of Psychic Sciences. But the phenomenon had been described previously.
You probably already happened to walk somewhere and you say: “I’m sure I’ve seen this place yet I’ve never been to this area. Similarly, you can experience the sensation of having already seen a person so that you see for the first time.
In fact, you made false memories. You confuse the past, present and future. When this condition occurs, you can no longer distinguish reality from fantasy. The two mix. You take things from your imagination to real memories.
This form of paramnesia is best known. But the fact of taking one word for another is also the paramnesia.
This is a true memory impairment which can be quite disabling, embarrassing as it gives the impression of having a mental problem.
It appears often in people with epilepsy. But attention, paramnesia is not a symptom of epilepsy.
In fact, the right hemisphere of the brain, particularly the temporal lobe, which comes into play during the onset of the disorder.
Various hypotheses have been advanced to try to explain this phenomenon.
Some believe that people with paramnesia are reincarnations of previous beings, which would explain that they have already seen or experienced the places or events.
Others lean more toward prophetic dreams: you have lived in your dreams that you currently live.
Others, psychoanalysts, think that this would be caused by the fact that you want to relive, unconsciously, events that you’ve already experienced.
Still others, perhaps more Cartesian believe the disease occurs because the brain would have stopped working for a time very short. Thus, when a live event, if your brain stops for a millisecond, you are missing information. So when it restarts, you have the impression of having already experienced something so long ago it was a few thousandths of a second. However, the brain, as he was arrested, has trouble finding the concept of real time. Do not worry, it will eventually put things in order but a few minutes later.
This explanation has the merit of being more realistic and reassuring. If you suffer from these problems from time to time, you need not worry unduly. This becomes more worrisome if you live constantly and if it turns into delirium or hallucinations. But rest assured, this concerns only 10% of people who feel the deja vu.
Moreover, as the disorder occurs when you are tired or stressed, to remedy this, you can relax, relax. Otherwise, as it is a disorder of memory, you can do exercises to maintain, that you can only be beneficial for other diseases or disorders of memory that exist.
In severe cases, please go see a doctor.