illphated
Déjà vu feels like walking through a moment you’ve already lived, even though logic tells you that’s impossible.
It’s the ghost of a memory brushing past reality—a sudden, eerie sensation that the scene before you is a rerun of something you can’t quite place. Your stomach drops for a second. The colors, the words being said, the way the light falls—it all clicks into place with uncanny familiarity. But you can’t grasp when or how you experienced it before.
It’s like your mind folds time in on itself for just a breath.
And then it passes—leaving you slightly disoriented, like you’ve briefly glimpsed behind the curtain of the ordinary.
The Ghost of a Memory: Déjà Vu in the Neon Future
By Illphated
There’s a moment when the city glitches.
You’re standing beneath neon monoliths, your boots slick with rain, the hum of a thousand electric signs pulsing in vaporwave pinks and purples. And suddenly—you’ve seen this before.
The exact curve of the alley.
The glow of kanji reflected in puddles.
The feeling crawling up your spine.
Déjà vu.
It’s not just déjà vu here. It’s something deeper. In the world we’ve built—stacked skyways, mirrored megastructures, synthetic consciousness—it’s easy to believe time isn’t linear anymore. Maybe your brain is a looped circuit. Maybe you did live this moment already, and some quantum fragment of you is just catching up.
Or maybe it’s the simulation glitching again.
In a world where digital ghosts overlay the real, déjà vu feels less like a psychological phenomenon and more like a system error. Like the universe is showing you its reflection twice, just to remind you that reality is fragile.
The people of the neon city walk on, ignoring the sensation. They drown it out with data streams and bio-enhancements. But if you pause—really pause—you’ll feel it:
The ghost of a memory brushing past your face.
A moment folding in on itself.
A crack in the loop.
And then it’s gone.
Just another night in the Blade Runner haze.
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