Deja Vu...........for me would be in an educational sense.
Wah, have you done your literature assignment set for today?
Oh Ms! I'm sorry! I forgot to do it - I swear I thought I did it yesterday, I swear I did.
(A very typical situation, by the way
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I think (a very personal opinion), that it is affected by our natural ability to take things for granted. Say, you wanted to do the shopping, and you were in a tremendous hassle, you'd say: "Bother! I'll do it later!"
Then, when your "mental plan of the day" gets disrupted, you continue to live the illusion that it HAS been done, and continue on your day as if it were written in your heads, from the morning you got up!
Repression is a defence mechanism explained by Freud, which contributes to the way in which our brains "mentally work".
So even if you were asked to learn your ABCs (very corny I know), if the idea of learning it was "pushed" back by stress and stuff - the next time the ABCs come up again (by chance), you'd think that you've done it before, and that you actually know it! (But you don't!
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Oh well............I'm a lich - not a psychologist! So ask me to deliver powerful magics instead next time!
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