Deja Vu

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Sep 14, 2013
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We've all experienced this strange phenomenon. Are there any religious explanations for this?
 
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Temporal anomaly based upon syncronicity of freewill between two different parabolic points in the vertex of the space/time continuum.
 
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wwjd_kilden

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nah, I think it is just our brains acting odd. Why would there be any need for us to feel like we have experienced something before?
 

Blain

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I usually have deja vu that is so strong it makes me weak and feel queasy. it doesn't last that long but no matter what I do I feel like I had done it before and I still feel sick but then it just passes away. I have asked doctors and other Christians about it but no one has been able to tell me why I have these or how I got it. I have had this all my life
 
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Bryancampbell

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This is an interesting topic. I been getting them a lot. Can someone explain to me how you dream of being at a restaurant ordering clam soup, and a waitress trips before handing you the food. But this is your first time eating at this restaurant, first time trying out clams and somehow you become friends with the waitress that tripped...because you find yourself in reality finishing the story by helping her....

I would love to get answers in the bible about this...
 
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Deja Vu isn't so much a feeling of having done something before as it is a feeling that we knew beforehand that we would be doing a certain thing at a certain time and remembering that premonition, which at the time was meaningless. The dream of Joseph could be called a very explicite form of Deja Vu. He knew what would come to pass in his life before it happened, because in God's view, it already had, even though his entire life was based upon a combination of freewill and divine Providence. So, that such a thing as Deja Vu can exist is certain.
 
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wwjd_kilden

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I think a clarification would be needed,

To me, a foreknowledge and a deja vu are two different things:
for the first, you know something will happen before the situation arise
for the second, you get the feeling the thing has happened before once you are in the situation
 

Blain

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I think a clarification would be needed,

To me, a foreknowledge and a deja vu are two different things:
for the first, you know something will happen before the situation arise
for the second, you get the feeling the thing has happened before once you are in the situation
So then what is with me feeling weak and somewhat queasy when it happens, it's very strong
 
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I think a clarification would be needed,

To me, a foreknowledge and a deja vu are two different things:
for the first, you know something will happen before the situation arise
for the second, you get the feeling the thing has happened before once you are in the situation
Two different ways of seeing the same possible event.

To the one experiencing Deja Vu, the feeling is 'Have I not already been here and been doing this very thing?' And the answer is, Yes, when you just did it.
 
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wwjd_kilden

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Hmmm I don't know why they happen, but I don't see any reason why God would use deja vu's along the lines of "i have walked this road before" or "I have picked up this twig before", how would that be useful to Him, or to you?
 

Angela53510

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Temporal anomaly based upon syncronicity of freewill between two different parabolic points in the vertex of the space/time continuum.
Thanks Mr. Spock for clarifying that with logic! Or at least Sci Fi logic!
 
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CoooCaw

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Temporal anomaly based upon syncronicity of freewill between two different parabolic points in the vertex of the space/time continuum.

actually you have nailed it

when we enter eternity we will be able to replay and relive any part of our lives

in fact we are already doing that now:confused:
 
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phoebe

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i think God is speaking to me...a little louder the second time, hence deja-vu. when people, places, events pop into my head thats God speaking to me. show me your will, Father.

phoebe
 

Kreation

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You were asking on the other thread how God speaks to people. Well for my husband , when he has to make massive life choices such as career, moving house locations - he prays , when he walks into the location, he gets a deja vu experience almost like a sense of comfort from God. Sort of like a feeling- I've been here before and I feel really really comfortable! He doesn't get it all the time, just when he has to make a huge life choices that involves big changes. Needless to say, every time he gets the deja vu and he follows that path EVERYTHING fits into place like a jigsaw puzzle.

For me this year God has spoken to me in various ways ( you should read the link I gave you as he spoke to me the other day ). I'll give you one other example. I rescued a kitten from a really bad home and he was really sick because of the way the owners looked after him, he had kitten flu and was in the process of dying ( kitten flu is the worst because he is too young to cope), the vet didn't think he could last long. So imagine watching a kitten dying I was in huge sorrow! So as I put him to rest by the fire I curled up into a ball and started crying my eyes out , I was in such a state I couldn't think properly and I cried out loud " God , please this is wrong, I can't watch him die, he is way too young please give me reassurance" Instantly My mind changed like it was taken over and I had an impulse to open the bible next to me and I read

Isaiah 65:20

"No longer will babies die when only a few days old"

I knew he had spoken to me and I trusted him, the next day Mickey recovered - the vet was so confused he couldn't believe it!


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This is little mickey recovered you wouldn't believe that he was nearly dead the day before!
 

Blain

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The only time I had a deja vu that didn't make me feel weak was when I had a vision of the rapture, when I saw many people being lifted as forms of light. it started in the blink of an eye and ended the same way
 
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Hmmm I don't know why they happen, but I don't see any reason why God would use deja vu's along the lines of "i have walked this road before" or "I have picked up this twig before", how would that be useful to Him, or to you?
Could be little droplets of faith, to help one know that there IS a perfect plan unfolding before them, and that it is already known before they were even born in this flesh, what their purpose here would be.

Saying My Name, My Name, My Name, It's the ONLY Reason that I even __________! came.

Sorry can't remember the band
 

crossnote

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I don't think it has much to do with being a christian as I had way more occurances during my drug days than as a christian.
 

notuptome

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Could be demonic influence.

For the cause of Christ
Roger
 

Huckleberry

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I usually have deja vu that is so strong it makes me weak and feel queasy. it doesn't last that long but no matter what I do I feel like I had done it before and I still feel sick but then it just passes away. I have asked doctors and other Christians about it but no one has been able to tell me why I have these or how I got it. I have had this all my life
I think "Drama Queen" would have been a better screen-name for you.