westernxer Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 Anyone ever experience it? It hits me every so often, and I trip out when it does. Another one of life's little mysteries, I suppose. Link to post Share on other sites
Tim'sAngel Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 Anyone ever experience it? Yep, every time I go to the bathroom. I sit down, look around at the toilet paper hanging against the wall and the way the paint is chipped in the corner and think to myself "Whoa, I've been here before!!" Link to post Share on other sites
Author westernxer Posted July 3, 2006 Author Share Posted July 3, 2006 Hah! I should've known this was gonna happen. Serves me right. Link to post Share on other sites
Tim'sAngel Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 Hah! I should've known this was gonna happen. Serves me right. I get deja vu from time to time. It always weirds me out. I always find myself standing still and trying to reason out if that really did happen once before or if I'm crazy. Then I start laughing at myself thinking how ridiculous the whole thing is. Link to post Share on other sites
magichands Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 Deja vu is not simply the same thing happening twice to you... right? Link to post Share on other sites
Tim'sAngel Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 Deja vu is not simply the same thing happening twice to you... right? Its that very strange, surreal feeling that this exact moment happened to you before. I got this from Dictionary.com: Psychology. The illusion of having already experienced something actually being experienced for the first time Link to post Share on other sites
magichands Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 Thanks for clearing that up for me, TA! In that case, I'm not sure that I have. I get moments when I feel like my life is "repeating itself." If that makes any sense?? Link to post Share on other sites
Nicholas Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 It's a distinct feeling that you're actually repeating an unknown past experience, and i'ts not déjà vu unless it feels intensely strange to you. The prevailing explanation among those I've heard is that it's a mixup in your brain with the passive storing of a memory and the active experiencing of an event, and basically you're remembering something as it happens, resulting in the present feeling like the past. It's unsettling. You're supposed to trip out. Link to post Share on other sites
blind_otter Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 It's a distinct feeling that you're actually repeating an unknown past experience, and i'ts not déjà vu unless it feels intensely strange to you. The prevailing explanation among those I've heard is that it's a mixup in your brain with the passive storing of a memory and the active experiencing of an event, and basically you're remembering something as it happens, resulting in the present feeling like the past. It's unsettling. You're supposed to trip out. I remember vaguely learning about deja vu as a hiccup in the retrieval system in the brain. Because our memories are highly associative, considering the vast amount of information and experiences stored in the brain, a collection of events can trigger the feeling of "remembering" an event when it just bears a striking resemblance to something that can't be immediately recalled, resulting in that weird feeling. Kind of like the "tip of the tongue" phenomena. Link to post Share on other sites
Fun2BMe Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 A couple of weeks ago I experienced a deja vu moment of an experience I had which I had also dreamt of as a child. It was very strange. Maybe we are living in the past and we don't experience the real present until some time in the future. Or it could be the other way around. Link to post Share on other sites
twkvfx Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 i've been wondering for a while what daja vu is a while back. until now, i know what it is. can that be daja vu? Link to post Share on other sites
Buttaflyy Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 A couple of weeks ago I experienced a deja vu moment of an experience I had which I had also dreamt of as a child. It was very strange. Maybe we are living in the past and we don't experience the real present until some time in the future. Or it could be the other way around. OMG! It's errie that you said that! I've thought the same myself for a while! I experience Deja Vu too often! Link to post Share on other sites
Tim'sAngel Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 I always get deja vu with dreams. I will have a dream and wake up the next morning and be SURE that I had dreamed it before. I can never really figure out if I really did dream the dream before if it's just deja vu. Link to post Share on other sites
Author westernxer Posted July 3, 2006 Author Share Posted July 3, 2006 Even though it's trippy, I actually enjoy the moment. It's the closest I'll ever get to an X-Files episode, I hope. Link to post Share on other sites
Ladywithafan Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 A couple of weeks ago I experienced a deja vu moment of an experience I had which I had also dreamt of as a child. It was very strange. Maybe we are living in the past and we don't experience the real present until some time in the future. Or it could be the other way around. I dreamed of a small aligator in a river over the weekend...thought really nothing about it...until...today at work, one of the guys showed me a picture of a baby alligator in a small river...freaked me out...and not quite sure what it meant? Link to post Share on other sites
alphamale Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 Anyone ever experience it? i think its normal brain functioning....I'd be more worried if you don't get deja vu every so often Link to post Share on other sites
ilmw Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 I keep running into and having to deal with the same ass h**s at work, and think.... havn't I done this before?? Hahhaahah Does that count? hahah ilmw Link to post Share on other sites
Author westernxer Posted July 3, 2006 Author Share Posted July 3, 2006 i think its normal brain functioning....I'd be more worried if you don't get deja vu every so often That's a good way to look at it. Link to post Share on other sites
Nicholas Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 Your dream situations seem more like precognition than déjà vu, when you feel like you've foretold the present. The opposite of déjà vu is said to be jamais vu, when you actually are experiencing a familiar situation but it feels strangely as though it's completely foreign--has anyone experienced that? Also, frequent or prolonged episodies of DV are sometimes symptomatic of epillepsy or other neurological disorders. Link to post Share on other sites
Buttaflyy Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 The opposite of déjà vu is said to be jamais vu, when you actually are experiencing a familiar situation but it feels strangely as though it's completely foreign--has anyone experienced that? Also, frequent or prolonged episodies of DV are sometimes symptomatic of epillepsy or other neurological disorders. I dunno but it still sounds like Deja Vu to me. If you remember the experience.... Link to post Share on other sites
Fun2BMe Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 I dreamed of a small aligator in a river over the weekend...thought really nothing about it...until...today at work, one of the guys showed me a picture of a baby alligator in a small river...freaked me out...and not quite sure what it meant? That happens to me a lot, where seeing something while awake will remind me of my dream that had to do with something I am doing or seeing! Also, the fact that when we look up in the sky, we see how the sky looked like millions of years ago, that we are literally looking up in history, makes you wonder if what we are experiencing is in fact the present. Link to post Share on other sites
Nicholas Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 I dunno but it still sounds like Deja Vu to me. If you remember the experience.... No, it's that you SHOULD remember the experience but it feels as if it's never been experienced, like if you were going to check your mail like you do every morning but all of the sudden you felt like you were doing something you've never been doing... or something, I don't know what it feels like really, I've never experienced it that I can recall. Link to post Share on other sites
--- Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 it feels like you know you've done whatever it is you're doing before, but can't exactly pin point when and where. Its like you're doing something and then you look at a certain thing and something in your mind clicks and you think that you've lived through that moment before. I've had deja vu a few times, no matter how many times it hits me, i always get freaked out by it Link to post Share on other sites
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