> The other weird thing that sometimes happens is when my brain doesn't tell me about something that's happening until after I have reacted. Before now, when my alarm clock has gone off, the last remnants of my dream quickly changed into something like the beeper on the cooker going off, and then I actually heard the alarm. Even when I'm awake, when I hear a sudden loud noise I jolt slightly and then hear it. I can't trust my brain to tell me what's happening...how weird is that?
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> Phil-"That'll be the ultimate conspiracy theory...against *your own brain*"-bee

Philbee, Do you also get deja vu?(sp?) I get it alot, and also get that wierd dream thing happening. My pet theory (I read this somewhere...) is that it's something to do with the wiring in your brain, that when it goes through the thalamus, it is wired to go subconsciously to the reactions before going to the conscious. It'd be an incredibly good survival trait (or so I like to tell myself), because it'd improve reflexes.

sam"just looked up "Kandel, Schwartz and Jessell", and they only mention it in relation to epilepsy. hmmm..."hael