Stop me if you've heard this one before, or especially if know you haven't, but you're certain you have, because that's exactly the cronic déjà-vu state of mind that's leading Chris Moulin (blog) and the Leeds Memory Group to their Cognitive Feelings Framework for unveiling new ways to measure and induce the cognitive processes behind our re-collection of memories vs our subjective neural sense of our past self-presence ...

“The exciting thing about these people is that they can ‘recall’ specific details about an event or meeting that never actually occurred. It suggests that the sensations associated with remembering are separate to the contents of memory, that there are two different systems in the brain at work.”
[ When deja vu becomes unbearable ]

Hmmm ... 'Recalling specific details'? where have we seen that one before?

But even more than that, really, when you think about it, to have a distinct neurophysiological apparatus telling us 'we are here', completely disjoint from our sensory recollection ... and then to have that sense of Being Here malfunction!! Whoa. That's got to mess with your self-image; I wonder what the mystic quantum consciousness people say about this one? Here's them looking for some quark of physics to place themselves in the picture, and all along, it's a neural vibration that we simply take for it's meaning of being here. I mean, you are here now reading this, re-assembling your here now reading this as 'now' and only then placing yourself in this now of reading this as a subjective sense of you here now in the reading. And dig ... it's all as a matter of reality-checked fact happening after the fact and it would take only the slightest slip of a mindflip neural circuit to hurl this all back so that this now just passed you're seeing yourself here now in becomes instead a now way past you saw yourself then in in some unreal and completely imagined then. You dig? Yeah, it's freaky. I better stop now before I hurt something.

Related to that, I found the distinguished scholar/philosopher/lecturer Alan Watts 1962 protopsychedelic LP "This is IT!" on the fileshares, and whoa, yeah, man, I don't know what that was, but whatever it was, this is it.