What continent are you from?

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"Deja Vu".
Brain's a weird thing; it is deceiving you.

Nah - deja vu is different. This was a dream I had and I woke up and said, huh, who is St. Albert? So I looked him up and found out. Deja vu you don't remember until a sequence of events is unfolding. I have deja vu's, too, but those are very different. What happened here is more common for me where I dream something and then wake up to find it's true. I could write pages and pages of these dreams in full detail well before finding out those things exist. Topics include places I've never visited but later find myself in (not deja vu becaue I have full memory of the dream), situations in other people's lives, ulterior motives people have, trouble they get into, people dying, accidents, pregnancies, etc. It's just perception, not mental deception. My dreams have never lied to me. It always has turned out to be true. It is the reasoning and wide awake explanation hunting that gets in the way and bungles the process.

That is deja vu. When seeing FluffyDog mentioning Cologne, Germany here, you felt as if you had read something someone posted on here and they mentioned Cologne. Which meets the criteria of the official definition: experiencing something you are SURE happened before.

No, I dreamt about St. Albert yesterday and got up and looked him up. This evening I came to WP and read this thread. I have no feeling that I had somehow read FluffyDog's post about being in Cologne before coming to this thread. What happened here in this thread might be considered synchronicity but it isn't deja vu. I read it and went, "hey, you're where the saint I dreamt about it is from". There is no deja vu here because there is no action that I feel I have experienced before.

we're from ATLANTIS........since we can't go home again we wander.

have been to six present continents. africa ( in the equatorial east ) is my favorite. was fortunate enough to see the great migration. got to run across the ngorongoro crater. great fun. it's almost beyond belief that the tanzanian gov't is planning to build a highway across the northern serengeti. hopefully they're just trying to ransom the wwf or something.

missed antarctica. had a great journey planned when i was murdered. too bad, so sad.

I am incontinent.

North Europe America.

North America!

Where are the asians, south americans, and africans?

happymusic: I already mentioned in another thread that I'm from a place near Cologne and I gave a rather similar description of the region. (In fact I was also asked in that other thread which part of Germany is the rainiest one.) Maybe you read or at least skimmed that post and more or less forgot about it? Although it might also be that you did have some kind of deja-vu-experience. I used to get dreams of short everyday scenes that would happen in reality a few days later, but those have become less and finally stopped as I grew up. Sometimes I miss them.
But to answer your original question: If the St. Albert you referred to is Albertus Magnus (there seem to be several St. Alberts...), then yes, he was from Cologne and he did a lot of his work in Cologne. To this day, the Cologne University is named the Albertus-Magnus-Universität zu Köln after him. (Köln is the German name of Cologne, by the way. Both forms of the name derive from the Latin word "colonia" or colony, which was a part of the city's original name. It was founded by the Romans and has a lot of history to look back to.)

Descartes: Some places along the Rhine really look like something from a fairy tale, but other places are thriving industrial ports nowwaddays. I like the part of the Rhine where Cologne is situated, but the river is very wide here and not very romantic at all with all kinds of transport ships and tourist vessel cruising on it. Another part of the Rhine I really like is the Rhine Gorge, which is a good bit South of Cologne, between the cities of Koblenz and Bingen. The Rhine is flanked by rocky hills there which are covered in vineyards wherever possible. In autumn, this whole stretch of the Rhine is flanked by bright yellows and reds, a bit like the Indian summer in Canada.
It would probably be best to read up a bit before you decide which part of the Rhine you want to visit, so that you will not be disappointed when you are finally here. Or you could simply book one of the Rhine cruises that have become increasingly popular in the last few years, which take you along most of the river on a ship and let you visit the main cities and attractions along its course.

jc6chan: From what I've heard, the internet infrastructure is not good in large parts of Africa, so maybe there is less people there who can participate on WP than one would expect given the large number of inhabitants that continent has. It could also be that in some regions of the world ASD are simply not diagnosed very often. When I'm reading posts on WP, I often get the feeling that Europe is pretty backward in that respect when compared to North America, so maybe the number of people diagnosed with ASD is even lower elsewhere.

edit: managed to mess up my post and had to correct it so it actually makes sense again

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Europa Endloss

Ok I understand Africa, but still, zero votes? People may still be dying from preventable diseases (anything but AIDS, since the most effective drugs only delay deaths) or starving to death/dying from malnutrition, but I read that obesity is actually becoming a problem in Africa as the middle class now owns cars and elevators exists in tall buildings. So I would expect that a fair amount of people in Africa has internet connection. I guess most people in S America speaks Spanish or Portugese. I would say there is no shortage of people from Asia who knows English, especially the young generation. Many from India, Hong Kong, Singapore, even much of the Middle East knows English. China also has an increasing number of people who know English.

North America!

Australia I guess considering my country is a piece of it that broke off it 65 million years ago and got separated from it by sea bed.

North America but, actual coordinates on map? Well let's say
A-- too close to local government
B- not far enough away from rowdy,drunken college students..

North America FTW!! !