What are your thoughts on deja-vu?

I know I've seen this thread before...

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.

I think it comes from you experiencing it before in a parallel dimension. Quantum physics explains a lot about it.

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?

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

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

It's a glitch in The Matrix. It means they've changed something.

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!

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.

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.

Adam

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 get it all the time, especially when the missus is nagging at me :-)

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.

A dejavu is a glitch in the matrix !!

OK, I know darn well I posted in this thread already. Therefore I just had a dejavu.
Even though my prior post was deleted!

~**MM**~

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!

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.

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.