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Timothy Toner wrote:

>I was talking to one of my charges (I was an RA in high school).  He was
>telling me about something that happened, and that familiar sense of deja vu
>started coming out.  I smiled, but this wasn't the sort of story you smiled
>in the middle of, so he stopped and asked, "What's so funny?"  And my brain
>tickled a little.  This hadn't happened in the deja vu!  He shrugged, and
>started talking again, and the weird thing is that my smile somehow set
>things off a little, so that the feeling preceded the actions that inspired
>it.  I knew what he would say and do before he would say it.  I finished his
>sentence.  He looked at me funny again.  I then told him exactly what he'd
>say, what I'd say in response, and that a certain door would open, and
>another student would walk out, ready to take a shower.  As soon as I said
>that, the door opened, and James Chinlund walked out and went to take a
>shower.  Alex, the kid I was talking to, asked me if I was okay.  I asked
>him what he meant, and he told me that my face was really white.  I had a
>little trouble breathing, but I said I was fine, and I would finish talking
>to him later.  As he walked away, I felt a shudder (not unlike the one I'd
>feel many years later) pass through me, with a sense of dread.  I'd fucked
>up.  I'd changed the natural flow of events, and now things that needed to

Dang. I get 'deja vu' flashes of just the same things (geez, how many
other people here do?), but I've always wondered what would happen if I
changed the flow. So far I've only managed to sit/stand/whatever, kind
of stunned, at realizing I'd seen this before, and then it fades before
I can react.

It happened again not half an hour ago, actually. The amount of time for
which I know what's going to happen next are only seconds long, however,
so thus far I haven't been able to recover myself and try to poke around
fast enough.

To be honest, I've also been very frightened. I used to wonder if I'd
tear a hole in probability or cause some godawful cosmic event if I
didn't follow the script during a deja vu experience; but getting a
feeling of cosmic dread doesn't sound so bad. Perhaps next time I'll try
mucking around. :)


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