Deja View: My nine-year old on the Reptilian Brain

Alex said "Mom, did you ever know of a drawer in your mind that's closed and locked up permanently? It's like deja view." I said "Can you repeat that?" I loved the way it sounded. Plus I was on the edge of my seat wondering if he suddenly had a very clear a grasp of his learning differences? Is he talking about that part of his brain involved with executive function? Is he going to one day be the one who cracks the code?

While quickly grabbing a pen to take notes I paused instead of asking him if he meant deja vu, giving him a chance to either explain "deja view" or correct himself when he interrupted my stream of thoughts, as if reading them, with: "I'm not talking about deja vu. Deja vu is connecting two thoughts together. I'm not connecting two thoughts. I'm talking about deja view, like looking through a port window in a ship. I'm connecting a thought to something on the other side of a drawer that you can't get to."

(Flipping over the scrap paper to get the rest of his thoughts before I miss them...)

"It's the reptilian brain. There's a ton more thoughts in the reptilian brain than in the regular brain. The reptilian brain holds a gazillion more thoughts than the other two left and right brains combined. Thoughts from a long time ago. History. If the brain allowed the reptilian brain to override the body we would probably learn a lot of information without rupturing, destroying or fracturing the space time continuum, which I have to say, I don't even know where that is located."

Okay? This child is NINE!