What are your thoughts on deja-vu?

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So I just had some major deja-vu and since I've got nothing to do while I wait for the dns settings on a domain to change, I thought I'd ask all my fellow warriors what your thoughts are on deja-vu. I've heard a lot of different people give different ideas over the years as to why we get it and what it means. What are your thoughts? Any and all thoughts welcome!
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  • Profile picture of the author JMPruitt
    personally, I think it comes from a spiritual rememberance. I believe we are born knowing what our life is supposed to be like, if we did everything right. When your real life gets close to where it is supposed to be, you get that flash of your "pre birth" memory which is the feeling of Deja-vu. It means you are doing what you are supposed to. The more in tune with your spiritual self you become, the more often it will happen to you.

    I get them all the time.
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    • Profile picture of the author n00b
      Originally Posted by JMPruitt View Post

      personally, I think it comes from a spiritual rememberance. I believe we are born knowing what our life is supposed to be like, if we did everything right. When your real life gets close to where it is supposed to be, you get that flash of your "pre birth" memory which is the feeling of Deja-vu. It means you are doing what you are supposed to. The more in tune with your spiritual self you become, the more often it will happen to you.

      I get them all the time.
      This is actually what my husband thinks of deja-vu.
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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Oksa
      Originally Posted by JMPruitt View Post

      personally, I think it comes from a spiritual rememberance. I believe we are born knowing what our life is supposed to be like, if we did everything right. When your real life gets close to where it is supposed to be, you get that flash of your "pre birth" memory which is the feeling of Deja-vu. It means you are doing what you are supposed to. The more in tune with your spiritual self you become, the more often it will happen to you.

      I get them all the time.
      No offense, but then that must mean I've been destined to play video games. Because I just had some very convincing deja vu on Tuesday, and it all revolved around playing Mario Galaxy on the Wii.

      Also, that would mean atheists and non-spiritual people wouldn't experience deja vu, and I'm pretty sure they do.

      Either way, it is an interesting sensation when it happens - I think we can all agree on that.

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      • Profile picture of the author Killer Joe
        Been there...done that.


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        • Profile picture of the author Sumit Menon
          Originally Posted by Killer Joe View Post

          Been there...done that.


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          I just had a deja vu... Oww.. Double Post!

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      • Profile picture of the author JMPruitt
        Originally Posted by Michael Oksa View Post

        No offense, but then that must mean I've been destined to play video games. Because I just had some very convincing deja vu on Tuesday, and it all revolved around playing Mario Galaxy on the Wii.

        Also, that would mean atheists and non-spiritual people wouldn't experience deja vu, and I'm pretty sure they do.

        Either way, it is an interesting sensation when it happens - I think we can all agree on that.

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        kJust because someone does not believe in something spiritual does not mean they never experience it. Not trying to start an argument, and that is a never ending debate, based more on personal opinion than fact anyway.

        I have experienced it playing video games as well XD
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        • Profile picture of the author Michael Oksa
          Originally Posted by JMPruitt View Post

          kJust because someone does not believe in something spiritual does not mean they never experience it. Not trying to start an argument, and that is a never ending debate, based more on personal opinion than fact anyway.

          I have experienced it playing video games as well XD
          Cool! Then we share a common destiny.



          Seriously though, I'm not looking for an argument either. Like you said, it's a neverending debate. One could say that people only perceive as things as spiritual, but that doesn't mean they are spritual. I'm not saying that's what I believe, just supporting the idea that it's a real debate.

          What I think it is is a sort of short circuit in our memory banks. One small detail catches our attention first, something that has a sense of specific vagueness about it. Then we start to notice a few more things until it seems like we are reliving a past experience. It could also be that what we are remembering are pieces of previous memories recombined in a way that gives us the odd sense of deja vu.

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          • Profile picture of the author Hesaidblissfully
            I get it pretty often. Scientists believe it's caused by a momentary "glitch" (my word, not theirs) that causes you to perceive the present moment as though it's happened before. Like was mentioned above, they think it's some sort of misfiring in your temporal lobe, though they're not sure of the exact mechanisms that cause it.

            On a side note, you're more likely to experience deja vu when you're sleep deprived.
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          • Profile picture of the author Killer Joe
            Originally Posted by Michael Oksa View Post

            Seriously though, I'm not looking for an argument either.
            NOW I'm having a Deja Vu...:p

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  • Profile picture of the author bozz723
    I think it comes from you experiencing it before in a parallel dimension. Quantum physics explains a lot about it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bitethehand
    I think - like most unproven "spiritual things", that unfortunately it is just our minds screwing with us...but I hope I am wrong! The brain is capable of so much more than we are currently using it for...who knows what the hells going on?
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  • Profile picture of the author Simo
    Deja vu is the other 90% of our brain function we don't use, giving us a fright

    Every time I have had experienced Deja vu it has been very surreal... but you guys already know that:p
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    • Profile picture of the author Ron Kerr
      When I came home tonight I had this strange feeling that I had been there before.
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      • Profile picture of the author Killer Joe
        Been there...done that.


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    • Profile picture of the author DejanM
      Originally Posted by Simo View Post

      Deja vu is the other 90% of our brain function we don't use, giving us a fright
      This is a myth from what I've read.

      And from other sources: the deja-vu feeling is when your unconscious mind is a milisecond or something faster than conscious mind. So you see something, unconscious mind registers it but conscious mind is lagging behind. That why the feeling you've seen before - you did, just a few miliseconds ago.

      Probably wouldn't find the article now if my life depended on it.

      edit: Ow *** somebody already said that.
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      • Profile picture of the author JaiJay
        Originally Posted by DejanM View Post

        This is a myth from what I've read.

        And from other sources: the deja-vu feeling is when your unconscious mind is a milisecond or something faster than conscious mind. So you see something, unconscious mind registers it but conscious mind is lagging behind. That why the feeling you've seen before - you did, just a few miliseconds ago.

        Probably wouldn't find the article now if my life depended on it.

        edit: Ow *** somebody already said that.
        Aha, that will explain my above message too then, I've never heard this explaination before. It will also explain why when sometimes I have deja-vu lasting for more than a few seconds, I also know what is "about" to happen. I'm not psychic afterall, lol
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Oksa
    I don't think it has anything to do with another dimension, reincarnation, previous lives, the "we only use 10% of our brains" myth, or anything even remotely supernatural.

    What I think it is is a sort of short circuit in our memory banks. One small detail catches our attention first, something that has a sense of specific vagueness about it. Then we start to notice a few more things until it seems like we are reliving a past experience. It could also be that what we are remembering are pieces of previous memories recombined in a way that gives us the odd sense of deja vu.

    Just because it's difficult to explain doesn't make it supernatural. (Yes, I know I'm fighting a losing battle).

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    • Profile picture of the author n00b
      Originally Posted by Michael Oksa View Post

      I don't think it has anything to do with another dimension, reincarnation, previous lives, the "we only use 10% of our brains" myth, or anything even remotely supernatural.

      What I think it is is a sort of short circuit in our memory banks. One small detail catches our attention first, something that has a sense of specific vagueness about it. Then we start to notice a few more things until it seems like we are reliving a past experience. It could also be that what we are remembering are pieces of previous memories recombined in a way that gives us the odd sense of deja vu.

      Just because it's difficult to explain doesn't make it supernatural. (Yes, I know I'm fighting a losing battle).

      ~Michael
      Thanks for the thoughts. I always hear the supernatural theories and it's hard to find any theories that are somewhat scientific or un-supernatural.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jared Alberghini
    So I just had some major deja-vu and since I've got nothing to do while I wait for the dns settings on a domain to change, I thought I'd ask all my fellow warriors what your thoughts are on deja-vu. I've heard a lot of different people give different ideas over the years as to why we get it and what it means. What are your thoughts? Any and all thoughts welcome!
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Our perception of time is linear - however, according to some ideas in physics, time has a much different nature than we experience it -- I think Deja -vu is just a glich in which real time invades our perception of time.

    Our perception of time is linear - however, according to some ideas in physics, time has a much different nature than we experience it -- I think Deja -vu is just a glich in which real time invades our perception of time.
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    • Profile picture of the author GT
      I can't find the book where I read about this, but I think deja-vu is a kind
      of neurological hiccup neurological hiccup that creates a shadow image
      on the consciousness that we interpret as a "feeling" of being there or
      experiencing the thing before.

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      • Profile picture of the author n00b
        Originally Posted by GT View Post

        I can't find the book where I read about this, but I think deja-vu is a kind
        of neurological hiccup neurological hiccup that creates a shadow image
        on the consciousness that we interpret as a "feeling" of being there or
        experiencing the thing before.

        GT
        Now that you mention it, I think I've heard that too! Can't remember where it was though. Of course, hiccups are another weird thing...
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        • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
          I won't even an attempt to try to answer, but I have a question, if it is as what some of you explain it, then how come when I went into a meeting all was every day.

          When the discussion after the presentation was over began, had that feeling of de-javu, but...

          I turned to the lady on my right and said what she said word per word with her and then turned to the gentleman on my left and said at the exact same time as he did, his exact words?

          I had never met them before in my life but felt that I had been there before and just some how "knew" what each would say.

          I kind of freaked everyone out, including myself, LOL!

          However, just after that, it was all brand new to me, normal "in the present" again! Why?:confused:

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          • Profile picture of the author Adam Carn
            Originally Posted by MissTerraK View Post

            I won't even an attempt to try to answer, but I have a question, if it is as what some of you explain it, then how come when I went into a meeting all was every day.

            When the discussion after the presentation was over began, had that feeling of de-javu, but...

            I turned to the lady on my right and said what she said word per word with her and then turned to the gentleman on my left and said at the exact same time as he did, his exact words?

            I had never met them before in my life but felt that I had been there before and just some how "knew" what each would say.

            I kind of freaked everyone out, including myself, LOL!

            However, just after that, it was all brand new to me, normal "in the present" again! Why?:confused:

            MissTerraK
            Woah, that's amazing. It makes my explanation useless.

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            • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
              Originally Posted by Adam Carn View Post

              Woah, that's amazing. It makes my explanation useless.

              Adam
              LOL! I was just gonna ask you if you were trying to tell me nicely, that my brain quit on me and then caught up...LOL!

              That's even more scary then that incident!!

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          • Profile picture of the author Jared Alberghini
            Originally Posted by MissTerraK View Post

            I turned to the lady on my right and said what she said word per word with her and then turned to the gentleman on my left and said at the exact same time as he did, his exact words?

            I had never met them before in my life but felt that I had been there before and just some how "knew" what each would say.

            I kind of freaked everyone out, including myself, LOL!
            I second that... I've had a very similar experience, (seriously, no joking) I knew the feeling of deja-vu, and acted on it, by saying what 2 different people were about to say, a split second before/while they were saying it. Freaking everyone out obviously...:confused:

            I feel a touch of it coming on right now... The next person to post will say this:

            "I think it's a phenomenon where your subconscious records an event milliseconds before your conscious mind does. Then when your conscious mind sends it to the subconscious to be "filed away", the function returns a "been there done that" message.

            Because the subconscious has no time reference capabilities, it can;t tell you when it happened. Only that it did."
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            • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
              Originally Posted by Jared Alberghini View Post

              I second that... I've had a very similar experience, (seriously, no joking) I knew the feeling of deja-vu, and acted on it, by saying what 2 different people were about to say, a split second before/while they were saying it. Freaking everyone out obviously...:confused:

              I feel a touch of it coming on right now...

              I think it's a phenomenon where your subconscious records an event milliseconds before your conscious mind does. Then when your conscious mind sends it to the subconscious to be "filed away", the function returns a "been there done that" message.

              Because the subconscious has no time reference capabilities, it can;t tell you when it happened. Only that it did.
              Thank you Jared!
              I can't even begin to explain to you how much better that makes me feel!
              I can only say Whew! And thanks again!

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              • Profile picture of the author Jared Alberghini
                Originally Posted by MissTerraK View Post

                Thank you Jared!
                I can't even begin to explain to you how much better that makes me feel!
                I can only say Whew! And thanks again!

                MissTerraK
                The only explanation I could come up with my experience was being able to see into the future for a split second... thus knowing what was going to be said.

                Looking into the future, a split second before it happens, is my current theory on deja-vu.

                Call me crazy... (You all think I am anyways... :p)
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                • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
                  Originally Posted by Jared Alberghini View Post

                  The only explanation I could come up with my experience was being able to see into the future for a split second... thus knowing what was going to be said.

                  Looking into the future, a split second before it happens, is my current theory on deja-vu.

                  Call me crazy... (You all think I am anyways... :p)
                  No, actually, I don't...seeing into the future for a moment is what some circles refer to as being a seer, or being prophetic.

                  I think we both were/are prohetic!

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                  • Profile picture of the author Jared Alberghini
                    Originally Posted by MissTerraK View Post

                    I think we both were/are prohetic!
                    That's what I keep telling everyone! They don't seem to listen...
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                    • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
                      Originally Posted by Jared Alberghini View Post

                      That's what I keep telling everyone! They don't seem to listen...
                      You've got me ear!

                      It's a special gift!

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  • Profile picture of the author Adam Carn
    I'd like to think it's supernatural but unfortunately I read a scientific explanation of it a while ago which made some sense. Basically (like Michael Oksa said) it's when you're brain delays in processing what it just saw for a split second. Then when it does process it fully you're like, damn that happened before.

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  • Profile picture of the author LenD
    Originally Posted by n00b View Post

    So I just had some major deja-vu and since I've got nothing to do while I wait for the dns settings on a domain to change, I thought I'd ask all my fellow warriors what your thoughts are on deja-vu. I've heard a lot of different people give different ideas over the years as to why we get it and what it means. What are your thoughts? Any and all thoughts welcome!
    I think it's a phenomenon where your subconscious records an event milliseconds before your conscious mind does. Then when your conscious mind sends it to the subconscious to be "filed away", the function returns a "been there done that" message.

    Because the subconscious has no time reference capabilities, it can;t tell you when it happened. Only that it did.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jared Alberghini
      Originally Posted by LenD View Post

      I think it's a phenomenon where your subconscious records an event milliseconds before your conscious mind does. Then when your conscious mind sends it to the subconscious to be "filed away", the function returns a "been there done that" message.

      Because the subconscious has no time reference capabilities, it can;t tell you when it happened. Only that it did.
      I knew you were going to say that.
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      • Profile picture of the author Killer Joe
        Originally Posted by Jared Alberghini View Post

        I knew you were going to say that.
        And I knew you were going to say that. :p

        Now, if we are going to do anything constructive with this thread, let's talk about Lottery numbers....

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        • Profile picture of the author lisag
          Originally Posted by Killer Joe View Post

          And I knew you were going to say that. :p

          Now, if we are going to do anything constructive with this thread, let's talk about Lottery numbers....

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          Let's not confuse deja vu with precognition.

          Didn't I tell you that before??
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          • Profile picture of the author Jared Alberghini
            Originally Posted by lisag View Post

            Let's not confuse deja vu with precognition.

            Didn't I tell you that before??
            I'm confused. Please explain the differences... if there are any...

            Didn't you tell me that before??
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          • Profile picture of the author Killer Joe
            Originally Posted by lisag View Post

            Let's not confuse deja vu with precognition.

            Didn't I tell you that before??
            Lisa,

            Everytime I look at my losing Lotto tickets I have a Deja Vu that I've done that before.

            I'm just thinking if I can string enough Deja Vees (plural) together I'll be able to see the winning numbers before they're picked.

            Heck, I put some instant coffee in the microwave once and I almost went back in time...

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            • Profile picture of the author Jared Alberghini
              Originally Posted by Killer Joe View Post

              I'm just thinking if I can string enough Deja Vees (plural) together I'll be able to see the winning numbers before they're picked.
              OK, I'm in KJ... here's my contribution,

              I've got a strong feeling about the #48.

              (see lisag's thread)

              Edit: Holy crap, I just noticed that this post is #48... coincidence I think not!!!
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            • Profile picture of the author KimW
              Originally Posted by Killer Joe View Post


              Heck, I put some instant coffee in the microwave once and I almost went back in time...

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                Originally Posted by KimW View Post

                Steven Wright?
                Yup, one of my heros...

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                  Originally Posted by Killer Joe View Post

                  Yup, one of my heros...

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  • Profile picture of the author Epicurus
    Originally Posted by n00b View Post

    So I just had some major deja-vu and since I've got nothing to do while I wait for the dns settings on a domain to change, I thought I'd ask all my fellow warriors what your thoughts are on deja-vu. I've heard a lot of different people give different ideas over the years as to why we get it and what it means. What are your thoughts? Any and all thoughts welcome!

    I get it all the time, especially when the missus is nagging at me :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author filipina4friends
    Dejavu is the experience of feeling sure that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously an individual feels as though an event has already happened or has happened in the recent past.
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    A dejavu is a glitch in the matrix !!
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Mayo
    OK, I know darn well I posted in this thread already. Therefore I just had a dejavu.
    Even though my prior post was deleted!

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  • Profile picture of the author Jared Alberghini
    So I just had some major deja-vu and since I've got nothing to do while I wait for the dns settings on a domain to change, I thought I'd ask all my fellow warriors what your thoughts are on deja-vu. I've heard a lot of different people give different ideas over the years as to why we get it and what it means. What are your thoughts? Any and all thoughts welcome!
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  • Profile picture of the author JaiJay
    This happens to me all the time and still, it spooks me out each time too.

    I don't think there's any weird paranormal goings on, just a trick of the mind. I really wish a scientist could properly explain it to me as I've had it at least a few times a month for over 10 years now.
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  • Profile picture of the author trevor75
    This is an interesting question, as I have a condition that enhances deja-vu. I was in a car accident over ten years ago, hit my head, and have had epilpesy ever since. I started noticing right off that I had that crazy feeling I had done things, or seen them in a dream several months earlier, and now I was living that moment in time. Well upon doing a little research apparently epileptics have deja-vu all the time. According to scientist its no big deal, and they gave some lame reason as to why it happens. I didnt buy it. When you have a seizure its literally an electrical storm in the mind, a blow out if your will, but it also uses 100% of your brain to perform this storm. I dont know but maybe when this happens it "wakes" up parts of our brain that we at this stage of our development dont use yet. I know it sounds crazy, but I dream moments in time that happen 2 or 3 months later. Maybe being able to predict the future is real, I dont know.
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