curiousbear

This happens to me now and then. I will be in a situation, a discussion, a place or reading a email and it will suddenly strike that I remember this had happened before. And I spoke about it to others and found that many people have this feeling coming over.

How many of you have this experience?
What is this, why does it happen? Did anyone put efforts to understand this?

abaya

I think I've replied to this post before...



But yes, I've had that happen to me. It's called "deja vu" in English. I don't really know where that feeling comes from, but it's very eery when it happens. Usually it's something that I think I dreamed about once, and then it happens in a flash, and then the "deja vu" feeling is gone. I love The Matrix's explanation of it (the movie)--blips in the reality program, so to speak.

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ColonelSpecial

I have this happen to me quite a bit, maybe once a month. It never happens during anything special, usually just during conversation where I know exactly what we will be saying. It is too bad it doesn't happen while I am choosing lottery numbers!

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Willravel

And French.

vanblah

Deja Vu is a VERY common feeling and has been studied fairly extensively for decades.

HowStuffWorks "How Deja Vu Works"

abaya

HA! Good catch.

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Willravel

Merci bocu.

/france

Bill O'Rights

I wondered who would be the first to catch that.

And we still don't know what it is.

One of the most interesting theories that I've heard is that time is like a ribbon that folds back onto itself, and Deja Vu is the moment that time touches itself.

Or...something like that.

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vanblah

I prefer the Matrix theory.

abaya

So deja vu is Father Time masturbating?

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The_Jazz

Didn't we discuss this before? Oh, right, we did, right here.

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curiousbear

Thanks all, I will read it all.

For me it is some times eery some times so facinating. I prefer the time theory (not the masturbation part ). I beleive time is 4th dimension. I remember the definition of life as "change in 3-d worldspace over 4th dimension time".

Vigilante

I used to have it more often than now, but sometimes when it happened, it was very weird. One time at work I even threw off a conversation because I thought we had talked about a movie already, like months ago. Very strange...

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Lasereth

When I get dejavu it is downright fascinating. Some theories think it is a message interpreted the wrong way in your brain but it definitely doesn't feel like that. It feels like it has happened before. It almost feels like you dreamed it before...

You know that the same situation has never occurred, so is it possible that some dream-type occurrence has flagged the memory as having occurred already?

A few months ago I went into a Sam's Club for the first time ever. I had never been in it and had no idea what the inside looked like. I didn't even know where the entrance was. Yet while walking up to the storefront, I had a dejavu instance and I immediately knew where the entrance was, the approximate layout of the store, and even what we were trying to buy even though nobody had told me yet. It was just like I had already been through this, perhaps in a dream.

Poppinjay

My sister had a theory that's as good as any. Children experience deja vu much more often than adults because they have more stress free, deeper sleep. The deep sleep allows them to entertain all kinds of scenarios that could happen in reality. By being in the learning stage about people's personalities, it is likely there will be an occasional situation that comes to fruition.

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