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Show Odd Feeling Traced to Subtle Trick of Mind attentive conscious one and that a situation, even to Its details, may he taken In without paying direct conscious con-scious attention to it Then a moment later when the faculties of the conscious con-scious mind are at work on the situation situ-ation tbe experience seeuts to have been experienced before Here, again, the tnpse of time between the two Impressions may be greatly overestimated overesti-mated and expanded. The feeling that one bas been some place before when he knows he bas not Is known as paramnesia. It Is a common com-mon experience, and, briefly explained, the reaction depends upon a little trick of the mind manifested by a momentary loss of a sense of time and space. The individual enters into an experience or a situation, obtains a fleeting Impression of this situation, then the attention Is momentarily attracted at-tracted to something else. The period of time may be almost Infinitesimal. Then upon the return of the attention to tbe original situation this lapse of time Is lost to the Individual and the period between the two experiences experi-ences seems occasionally to expand Into a long period, even Into the remote re-mote past. Another explanation, which Is based on more recent psychological investigations, holds that one's unconscious uncon-scious mind sees much more than the |