Deja Vu anyone?

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Hi just wondered if you have ever experienced Deja vu and what you think of it.

I know there are a lot of theories out there from neurons in the brain misfiring, to other physical reasons to the
spiritual and the weird and wacky.

Just wondered what you thought.
 
Miri said:
Hi just wondered if you have ever experienced Deja vu and what you think of it.

I know there are a lot of theories out there from neurons in the brain misfiring, to other physical reasons to the
spiritual and the weird and wacky.

Just wondered what you thought.
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Ah the matrix, will we swallow the blue or red pill :).

Yes I have experienced it but I don't know what to make of it :)
 
I have experienced it once, it lasted a minute or so.
I knew a guy would say a specific thing, walk over to a specific place and pick up an item.
(not someone I knew, so it wasn't like I knew their habits).

I think it's just because I'm odd :p
 
wwjd_kilden said:
I have experienced it once, it lasted a minute or so.
I knew a guy would say a specific thing, walk over to a specific place and pick up an item.
(not someone I knew, so it wasn't like I knew their habits).

I think it's just because I'm odd :p
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we have something in common then :)
 
Miri said:
Hi just wondered if you have ever experienced Deja vu and what you think of it.
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Hi. :)

Yes, multiple times, even. I haven't the faintest clue what it comes from, and I don't think anyone else has anything concrete for explaining it either. Very interesting phenomenon, though! (I like to be cheeky when others say they experience it by scaring them, then asking if that was in their deja vu).
 
i've had deja vu a few times. but with me, it's usually from a dream. but it's never something big. just small details. so idk lol
 
Miri said:
Hi just wondered if you have ever experienced Deja vu and what you think of it.

I know there are a lot of theories out there from neurons in the brain misfiring, to other physical reasons to the
spiritual and the weird and wacky.

Just wondered what you thought.
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I've heard this theory for it - That one side of brain slows down for a brief moment and when it finally kicks back in full speed, it believes it's seeing what the other side has already seen. Hence the 'been there, done that' before.
 
Not the same thing, but all my life this has happened to me every few years...... And people look at me like I am crazy when I relate it.

I will sometimes wake up in the middle of the night with this overwhelming sensation that I really and truly understood "it all"... everything. Then, in a flash, it's gone, and I don't even know what I thought I knew all the answers to.
 
It happens to me every couple of months or so, sometimes when I am rushing about or tired so I don't know if that is a factor.

It is usually accompanied by a strange feeling, you know that feeling when you are walking down the stairs and think you
have got to the bottom but then you get a weird feeling in the pit of your stomach when you realise there is another step.

Had it again this morning for a few briefs seconds and got the impression in my mind of seeing an old stone church on a large village green surrended by daffodils and the impression I have seen this many times before.

Very strange :confused:
 
I sometimes have deja vu but with me it's more severe. They are deja vu attacks for me. I get a deja vu feeling so strong that it makes me feel sick and queasy, anything and everything I do however I react to it it seems I have already done it. I have asked doctors about this but they have no idea what I'm talking about and I can't find anything on the web about it
 
My science teacher tried to explain it like this...

You walk into a room and your senses process everything happening like smells, sights etc in split seconds. It's so quick in fact that it makes you believe you've been in the exact same situation before and that it's happening again.

Of course if what he said was true, it means the events you feel happening again aren't. It's just your brain has absorbed things so quickly!
 
It's the two hemispheres of the brain processing the information and the processing is off. So when the two processes finally meet, it's like experiencing it twice.
 
Come on guys. Get real. How many times a day, a week, a month, a year do you walk into the same room, and say something very similar to the same people. All the time. You get so used to it, you slip into a kind of fuzzy mist.

Maybe that process just skips a beat, goes through the whole checking routine, and says, yep you have been here before.
Most of the time you probably have, exactly the same, its just your brain does not tell you, because its obvious.

What is unsettling if it is a new situation, but then your brain could just be playing games, and actually got the confirmation wrong. It would not suprise me, because most of the time the brain cheats, and tells you it has checked everything out, and it has not, which is why car accidents happen, because you literally did not see that other car.
 
wwjd_kilden said:
I have experienced it once, it lasted a minute or so.
I knew a guy would say a specific thing, walk over to a specific place and pick up an item.
(not someone I knew, so it wasn't like I knew their habits).

I think it's just because I'm odd :p
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With both hands to God, this happened to me. Years ago I was watching a LIVE football game between the Broncos and Raiders. Suddenly I foresaw two plays before they were actually played out. Freaked myself out! Never happened before or since.
 
Utah said:
With both hands to God, this happened to me. Years ago I was watching a LIVE football game between the Broncos and Raiders. Suddenly I foresaw two plays before they were actually played out. Freaked myself out! Never happened before or since.
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I've sorta had that experience -- feeling strongly there's going to be an interception, fumble, touchdown pass, whatever. And then it happens. I'm convinced its far more coincidence than premonition, but it still freaks me out when it happens.
 
You should try deja vu with a dose of senior moments. Most of the time I have them, I can't even remember what just happened that I thought happened before. I just had one of those last night. Leaning in to kiss hubby good night, then had the felling I had been....umm? Been where? Did what? What was familiar? It wasn't the kissing hubby part. I couldn't remember. lol

Now I fear I'll have a deja vu of a deja vu moment like that... and I probably will. Fortunately, I find it funny, more than scary.
 
Miri said:
It happens to me every couple of months or so, sometimes when I am rushing about or tired so I don't know if that is a factor.

It is usually accompanied by a strange feeling, you know that feeling when you are walking down the stairs and think you
have got to the bottom but then you get a weird feeling in the pit of your stomach when you realise there is another step.

Had it again this morning for a few briefs seconds and got the impression in my mind of seeing an old stone church on a large village green surrended by daffodils and the impression I have seen this many times before.

Very strange :confused:
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Any chance you went to the Philadelphia Flower Show a few years ago when the theme was "Ireland?" I saw that church in miniature form then. (I'd pull out my photo to prove it, but it would take me three hours to find it, and frankly, I'm sure to have a senior moment and forget what I'm looking for. I'd probably come back with the picture of the lighthouse in Cape May. lol)
 
Blain said:
I sometimes have deja vu but with me it's more severe. They are deja vu attacks for me. I get a deja vu feeling so strong that it makes me feel sick and queasy, anything and everything I do however I react to it it seems I have already done it. I have asked doctors about this but they have no idea what I'm talking about and I can't find anything on the web about it
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Look up "panic attacks." A panic attack (false one) is the body misfiring queues. You're doing something ordinary, but then the body kicks into flight or flight mode, and you get this terrible sense something bad is happening or about to happen. It feels the exact same as a well-deserved panic attack, so then your mind records it as something to fear in the future. In your case, it was a deja vu, so the next time you have one, the body knows to fear it, and jumps into fight or flight mode again, making you doubly sure there was a cause. And then next time... It just keeps getting worse each time, because you're preparing for what you already know was bad once.

For me it was having this panic that I was about to fall down my steps. (I did once. They're granite, so it really hurt.) My front steps still give me a hitch, but it's fading every time I talk my body through it. If we know the cause, we can calm ourselves out of it. If we never know the cause, we live with the intense, terrifying feeling.

I'm not saying that as a diagnosis, but see if it works for you.
 
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