Deja Vu

[Lotesse]

Have any of you guys ever experienced deja vu? I mean, REAL deja vu, the definite and indeniable sensation of having lived a moment already, which all logic tells you cannot have previously happened? Maybe that's a bit wordy of a definition, but you know what I mean. I'd love to know other people's stories about this; it's a phenomenon that I find particularly fascinating.

[Lotesse]

http://people.howstuffworks.com/question657.htm

There. A better detailed description of 'deja vu'.

[Tree Dweller]

I can recall 3 or 4 times of extremely specific deja vu and in each case the place, people (what they were wearing), what we were doing, and what we all said seemed to have happened before.

Kind of freaks me out sometimes.

[Lotesse]

Where they situations that you could SWEAR there was no way you could have been there before? That's what makes deja vu such a trip, the truly unexplainable.

[Tree Dweller]

Originally Posted by Lotesse

Where they situations that you could SWEAR there was no way you could have been there before? That's what makes deja vu such a trip, the truly unexplainable.

Oh, yes. I have had the occasional, "whoa...did this happen before?" kind of deja vu and then the rare ones like I said before, where I was so freaked out by it that I didn't say anything to anyone.

[katya]

Sometimes it even feels like you are predicting what's going to happen as it's happening. It might be my mind playing tricks on me, but it's still freaky.

[Insidious Rex]

you know I could have sworn I posted in this thread before...

[Bombadillo]

When I was real little (about 5 or 6), my mom took me to visit her old friend, who had a daughter my age. I was terrified because I was so positive I had been in the same place with those same events sometime before. I had to play with the girl but I hated it because she was so active, she wouldn't let me try to gather my thoughts and figure out why it felt so familiar. During the course of the day, she poured me a cup of soda that had more foam than usual, and I remember thinking that there was probably bubble gum in the bottom of the bottle that fell out into my cup as she poured, even though it made no sense that I should know that, and I was gravely afraid to drink it because I thought for sure it would kill me. I wanted to throw up I was so freaked out. *shudder* Later that day I got to hide from eveyone in a closet and sort through my confused head, and I conluded that I must have died before from that very cup of soda, and I had been given a chance to live the exact same life I had already led, and now was being desperately warned not to drink it. And I remember that distinctly. After I came out and played with her for a while, she suddenly said "wanna see my grandma!?" and immediately I thought "why did she say that like her grandma's a thing, or a cool toy?" I pictured her as having serious alzheimer's or being hopelessly insane. She opened a door that we had passed on our way into the house but was closed the whole time, and her grandma was in a bed, vommiting just as we entered, and clearly dying, but the stupid girl remained creepily upbeat.

So the entire day I was there, I felt like I had been there before, and I knew what to expect and I felt scarily hopeless.

Also, here's an exerpt from my psychology notes that I don't feel like formatting for Vbulletin:
• Déjá vu- French “already seen� that feeling that you have already experienced something before
o 70% of population experienced this, mostly between the ages of 15-25
o three kinds
 deja vecu- “already experiencedâ€� feeling that you’ve already been in a situation, to the point where you know what will happen next
 deja sente- “already feltâ€�
 deja viste- “already visitedâ€� feeling you’ve been here
• no known cause for déjá vu, and most psychologists don’t believe in it
• some proposed theories:
 parapsychology- it’s something from a previous life
 Navajo- you’ve dreamt about it, and while you dream your spirit leaves your body and lives out the dream
 It’s wishful thinking; you’ve been in a similar situation for real and you think you’re re-experiencing it the way you want to.
 You’ve seen something familiar and can’t place what it is so convince yourself you’ve experienced it.

I think my psych teacher got these notes straight from that website, Lotesse.

[Lotesse]

Thanx for the story, Bombadillo. What a trip. I've been trying to figure out what to let myself believe in, lately, and hearing true reminisces of those who've experienced deja vu is most illuminating. The paranormal connection I can believe, but I'm trying to find out why - why I believe, what my gut instinct is trying to tell me. When a person is that young (5 or 6, as you were) they experience everything freshly, without the constraints of accumulated indoctrination or the processes of trained logic, therefore what such a young person experiences cannot be discounted - at all. Your story is terrific - and legitimate - food for thought.

[Spock]

It's a great argument for reincarnation. When the remembering switch isn't totally off when you incarnate, you can experience things now that you did then.

[Khamûl]

I had a touch of déjÃ* vu just this week. However, I've never had it to the point where I knew what was happening next (déjÃ* vecu, according to Bombadillo).

In Stephen King's short story collection Everything's Eventual, he wrote a story called "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French".

[Fat middle]

Originally Posted by Insidious Rex

you know I could have sworn I posted in this thread before...

LOL

[Tessar]

I experience Deja Vu every morning.

I wake up just a little later than I meant to, drag myself out of bed, drive to school, sit through a two-hour lecture for which the word, 'Dull', was invented, and idly find myself wondering if I've been caught in some kind of sick time-warp and will have to endure this for the rest of eternity. -_-

[Spock]

You spend a lot of time looking in that mirror Try to stop that

[Tessar]

After having skimmed the entire thread, I have come to the conclusion that your post makes no sense Spock...

Eh?!

[Lotesse]

I know, huh! Exactly WHAT do you mean, Spock? I' too, am confused...

[Jonathan]

I have déjÃ* vus once in a while. It's interesting that, when I'm experiencing the déjÃ* vu, it feels like I'm reliving a real memory but, seconds later when the déjÃ* vu is over, the memory doesn't seem real at all. Afterwards it's hard for me to understand how the situation could have seemed so familiar only moments ago.

[Bombadillo]

I sort of get that. Most nights, the only dreams I have are about everyday life in my house, and when I wake up I find that things we changed in my dream have been 'changed back,' and I get confused. You don't know what to think for a minute.

[tolkienfan]

I get deja viste sometimes. Like I'm sure I've been somewhere before, when there's no way I could have been. I also think I see places from my dreams sometimes, it creeps me out.

[Spock]

Originally Posted by Tessar

After having skimmed the entire thread, I have come to the conclusion that your post makes no sense Spock...
Eh?!

Originally Posted by Tessar

I experience Deja Vu every morning.

I wake up just a little later than I meant to, drag myself out of bed, drive to school, sit through a two-hour lecture for which the word, 'Dull', was invented, and idly find myself wondering if I've been caught in some kind of sick time-warp and will have to endure this for the rest of eternity. -:

All you had to do was look at your post before mine....it's a joke, a comment on what you posted. And Lotesse, I'm surprised you didn't get it.