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I experience deja vu often, usually because my life is so boring and repetitive, but sometimes in such instances that I consciously know there's no possible way I could have experience the same moment twice. For instance, meeting a new person, having a specific but unusual conversation.

It is said that to experience deja vu is to be irregularly connected to one or more of your past lives, or to be an indication of psychic potential.

What do you think?

Didn't you just say that?

Sorry.

all the time...

all the time....

I often have light deja-vus, but I guess it's just my habit of connecting things to other things. For example I may have done something sometime and thought about a thing while doing it. Then when I think of the same thought again later I remember the thing I was doing and make my own deja-vu. Once I did have quite a strong one and I was forced to tell everyone there about it.

I heard somewhere that deja-vus may be caused by the same information being transferred to the brain twice. Sounds logical.

I thought I experienced Deja Vu once. But it was just a glitch in The Matrix. :(

well today i experienced deja vu and amnesia at the same time!! hows that for a mind-mess

I've experienced it quite a few times. In fact, just a few days ago.

Lots. Sometimes the same situation about four or five times. All incredibly specific like someone standing there, saying this, someone over there laughing like that then coming over to there and then someone else moving their hand like this and saying this... You get the idea.

Lots. Sometimes the same situation about four or five times. All incredibly specific like someone standing there, saying this, someone over there laughing like that then coming over to there and then someone else moving their hand like this and saying this... You get the idea.
It has happened to me too (also for very specific situations). It's really strange when it happens. I've even had deja vu about having deja vu in the same situation. It's completely strange, and I can't explain what brings it on. Sometimes I will experience deja vu and know what the other person is going to say.

Haven't I seen this thread before?

Deja vu happens to me very often, and i agree it's a very strange feeling when that happens. I have to add though, it happens entirely in r/l for some reason.

Lots. Sometimes the same situation about four or five times. All incredibly specific like someone standing there, saying this, someone over there laughing like that then coming over to there and then someone else moving their hand like this and saying this... You get the idea.
same here.

i get it with conversations (in RL) a lot

I thought I experienced Deja Vu once. But it was just a glitch in The Matrix. :(
Damnit, you beat me to it you goofball!

I get dejavu all the time, 1 or 2 times a day usually. Sometimes it's a kind of recurring dejavu, where I remember remembering that I did something before, or I remember thinking that I remembered doing something before. Other times I find that I remember doing something before, but I remember doing it differently, or it being connected with something totally different. *shrugs* I guess theres a few loose connections in my brain somewhere... :rolleyes:

plenty of times. just your mind playing tricks. It's a complicated device afterall

I once got deja vu of having deja vu. I'm not kidding, i think i need to vary my life more.

Lots. Sometimes the same situation about four or five times. All incredibly specific like someone standing there, saying this, someone over there laughing like that then coming over to there and then someone else moving their hand like this and saying this... You get the idea.

Same here.

I have this (awful, not scientifically based at all) theory that people who dream a lot and remember their dreams also have deja vu a lot, whereas those who either don't dream or don't remember their dreams rarely have it.

But, like I said, that's just an idea I had once. :rolleyes:

Same here.

I have this (awful, not scientifically based at all) theory that people who dream a lot and remember their dreams also have deja vu a lot, whereas those who either don't dream or don't remember their dreams rarely have it.

But, like I said, that's just an idea I had once. :rolleyes:

Well I don't remember my dreams hardly at all so... :p

is the person with the 1-2 times a day deja vu having deja vu about the same thing? if so then that's not exactly deja vu if it's the same thing over and over again :P if they're all different deja vu's, then that'd be weird.

but i've had my share of deja vu's. they're cool.

Same here.

I have this (awful, not scientifically based at all) theory that people who dream a lot and remember their dreams also have deja vu a lot, whereas those who either don't dream or don't remember their dreams rarely have it.

But, like I said, that's just an idea I had once. :rolleyes:

That does sorta make sense. i do usually remember my dreams quite well, and dejavu to me feels a lot like remembering a dream - theres a dinstinctive feel, like you're remembering something that happened a long, long time ago, but that you're also certain is also very recent... kinda hard to explain, but I get that with both dreams and dejavu.

I get a shedload of dejá vu. I also get that other one...where you dream stuff and it happens, quite similarly, sometime after.

I'm just waiting for the day I dream of my exams.

It was happening to me very often when I was younger, for some years I don't get as much deja vu as I had when i was a kid and a teenager. Well, in fact, I'm wondering if i get less of 'em, or if I simply got used to, wich then happens to me naturally without me really being concerned about it, and some time after, I remember it and just wonder where did I saw that :headbang:

and I'm really good to guess what people will say

I dunno if it's a guess, a coincidence, the fact that i know someone enough to guess what he or she will do, or simply a strike of luck, but sometimes it really interogate me...

if that would only be from my own concern, i would think i'm just imaginating things, but even my friends get freaked out from what i can do or say sometimes

so if it's the same information that the brain receive 2x time, it can be, possibly, but then wouldn't explain the fact that I know what a people will say before it does... :eek:

psychism, what do i know, I'm not really into it, I like it, but I'm not a freak who believe everything that my horoscope says, for example... :rolleyes:

the last solution is really the strike of luck...

ah well... who knows.... :confused:

I experience deja vu often, usually because my life is so boring and repetitive, but sometimes in such instances that I consciously know there's no possible way I could have experience the same moment twice. For instance, meeting a new person, having a specific but unusual conversation.

It is said that to experience deja vu is to be irregularly connected to one or more of your past lives, or to be an indication of psychic potential.

What do you think?


I have no theory about deja vu, but I once had a dream, that I was in a forign city, and I saw someone who looked like my grandmother and felll down a red carpet into a dungeon. A few years later, I was in Paris with my grandmother, and the hotel we were staying at had THE EXACT SAME RED CARPET.

Well I don't remember my dreams hardly at all so... :p

So my theory was horribly horribly flawed, as I suspected ;)

So my theory was horribly horribly flawed, as I suspected ;)

Hehe, yup! :D

I do remember some... such as this very strange one about a penguin chasing me into a bathroom. But other than a vague few, not really.

Ah, but I have a dream catcher so that could effect it. Not that I believe in them. They just look pretty :)

So my theory was horribly horribly flawed, as I suspected ;)
Not necessarily, Glitziness could be an anomaly.

I remember most of my dreams, in full colour and with 3D environments - most of the time. Once, I dreamt everyone was a cardboard cut-out in the style of pop art. That was an horribly confusing and very bright dream.

I experience deja-vu all the time. This past month has had this whole feel of "I have been here before." It isn't nearly as intense as a deja-vu, but its really wierd too.

Not necessarily, Glitziness could be an anomaly.

An anomaly? Oo I feel special :D

I never experience deja vu, but I often experience "vuja de"-the distinct feeling that none of this has ever happened before.

I never experience deja vu, but I often experience "vuja de"-the distinct feeling that none of this has ever happened before.

I think that's called "jamais vu".

Yup, I've often had them. While I believe in psychic abilities and past lives...I fail to see how deja vu might be a connection to a past life. Unless it was that the situation you're in, reminds you of a situation you had in another lifetime.

Damnit, you beat me to it you goofball!

:p ;)

I experience deja-vu all the time. This past month has had this whole feel of "I have been here before." It isn't nearly as intense as a deja-vu, but its really wierd too. If you really have felt it for a whole month, then it's called "presca-vou" and it does actually happen.

Personally, and a lot of psychologists agree with me, I think deja-vou is just a temporary laspe in our memory function, where we suddenly react to the present as if it were the past, the brain soon corrects itself and we are left a little wierded out.

When you see something, sometimes one eye will register it before the other and send a message to the brain before the other eye. When the second eye confirms what the first eye sees this sparks recognition in the brain as if you have seen this before (Deja Vou). This is because you have seen it before, a microsecond before, but you are unable to tell the diffrence because the time period between both eyes reporting the same thing is very, very small. Same with hearing Deja Vous.

I experience deja vu often, usually because my life is so boring and repetitive, but sometimes in such instances that I consciously know there's no possible way I could have experience the same moment twice. For instance, meeting a new person, having a specific but unusual conversation.

It is said that to experience deja vu is to be irregularly connected to one or more of your past lives, or to be an indication of psychic potential.

What do you think?

I heard it was from a lack of mental space.. like running low on Ram on a pc. Everything gets bunched up and you Think you're experiencing deja vu.. but really you aren't.

But yeah.. I use to experience it quite often during the time when I drank and smoked pot Alot. Rarely ever have it anymore.