Question:
Explain déjà vu and when did you experience it? #ExplainThis?
Yahoo Answers Team
2014-11-07 10:25:12 UTC
Imagine you entered a house that you’ve never been/seen before or you caught a glimpse of an object and you ask yourself… Wait, have I been here before? This has happened in your past experience or maybe not?

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163 answers:
Lizzie
2014-11-07 18:03:01 UTC
I was walking in San Francisco, down a street I didn't know but somehow it seemed so familiar. I saw an intersection up ahead and I suddenly knew about a certain thing I would see when I got there, that the street would dead end at a house. I immediately mentally cast aside the idea. I'd never been there so my mind was playing tricks, of course. But then I reached the intersection, looked to the left and there it was, exactly as I'd seen it in my mind's eye.



I eventually remembered that I'd been there 27 years before with a friend who had pointed out the house at the end of the street (right in the middle of the street is where it would have been if the street had continued on at that point). Other things seemed to jump into my field of vision, too. Landmarks of an area so long ago forgotten brought back a flood of memories of younger, happy days.



Another incident happened when I was a young child in elementary school. My father planned a trip to take us all to a beach we had never gone to before. When we arrived and got out of the car, I looked ahead and said something like, "And the flowers grow right over the next rise." I didn't normally speak like that in second grade. My father gave me a curious look and said he didn't think there were any flowers at a beach so I shouldn't expect any. But over the next rise, there were the flowers. There was no way could have seen them before we got there. My father was surprised. He wanted to know how I knew that. I didn't know. It was only much later that my father remembered that he had taken us to this same beach some years earlier but he had forgotten it. He thought I must have been too young at that time to remember any flowers. Somehow they stuck in my mind.
Margaret S
2014-11-07 13:07:13 UTC
Deja vu as it is called is one of two things. Either the eyes registering and event but a split second break occurs in communication with the brain so that when the brain does register it seems to be a repeat event. The other option or possibility is simply that the deja vu experience is not a case of 'this has happened before' or 'I have been here before even though I have no memory of every being here' but an indicator from our Higher Selves that we are where we should be at this precise moment in time on our life's pathway as decided and planned prior to our birth. A sort of quick tick in a box to reassure us that no matter how boring, miserable, happy or whatever the life we are living appears to us to be we are in fact on the right course for whatever purpose we began this life cycle to achieve, accomplish or experience. No matter how we feel about our lives we did choose to live it, every little bit of it good and bad.
?
2014-11-07 13:04:28 UTC
Deja vu is sort of like the brain's lag. Think about it like this- when we see something, weirdly enough, the first place in the brain the signals travel to is not the optical cortex, as you'd imagine with the eyes, but rather the amygdala, which is the emotional center. This is where the immediate emotional reactions to things happen, and then it goes to the visual cortex. Of course, we can literally think at a maximum of 250 miles per hour, so we usually notice no difference between our reactions and when we see a coherent image. The only time this difference is markedly noticed is with this bizarre disorder colloquially known as 'blind sight', in which someone's optical cortex is damaged, but the amygdala and the rest of the pathways are fine, so they still react to what they see, but don't actually see it, which is pretty weird. Moments later, these signals go to other areas to provoke a secondary reaction.

So when the brain makes an error, as it often does, it registers the same thing twice. The same signals go to the emotional and optical sensors of the brain with a very short time in-between, though a time nonetheless.

You experience exactly the same reactions twice to two different stimuli which are actually the same, which are processed and stored in exactly the same way, so when the second wave of this same stimuli comes in, it sparks the memories of these same events, just after they've been formed, so you get the sense you're remembering the same thing, which you are, but you're remembering them as the memories are being formed, so you feel like you remember it from before, and the brain's used to being able to recall things properly, so that invokes the feeling of being able to remember the full event, which is still being processed, so you get the sense you know what's coming next, and as the memory fully processes, your brain knows what's happened, so it thinks, 'oh, of course that's what happened', but obviously didn't know before it knew, which is where the feelings of being there or experiencing that thing before, remembering the event and knowing what's coming next even though you can't then experiencing the feeling that what comes next is exactly what happened before.

It is recorded happening in teenagers more as teenage brains are going through a process called neural pruning, in which all unnecessary connections are deconstructed and the brain is open to change and therefore more likely to make spellings, physical, or cognitive errors such as this one. The only other time humans are more prone to this is as young children, but you'd hardly be advanced enough to describe or tell anyone about the feeling at such an age, so obviously, it's recorded happening more in teenagers.

Also, when scientific papers are studied, there are no actual recorded cases of genuine precognition via Deja Vu, and such results have not been producible under any conditions set up in any experiment. Nor has anyone been able to prove they can do that, or been happy to let themselves be tested to see if they really can. Furthermore, while we're talking about neuroscience and psychology, can I try and help but this rumour to rest- we don't use 10% of our brains! We use all of our brain, all the time! I'd like to know where that came from.

I, myself, have experienced Deja Vu most recently answering a question on here, in which I was sure I had already seen the same question, already scrolled down to answer it and started typing.
Madison
2014-11-10 06:39:28 UTC
Well, I think that deja vu is simply feeling like you have been somewhere or experienced something before when you really haven't. I have this happen to me many times. But I also, it may sound strange, have visions. There has been many times when "deja vu" happens when really, I have experienced before what I'm experiencing at that time. I know it may sound strange. These visions come in the form of dreams. When I have these visions, if they are really good ones, I totally look forward to them. The time comes when the vision will happen in real life, and I forget the vision. Then, when it happens, I remember the vision. And it's like deja vu. Like, for instance. I will give you an example. In August, I had a vision of a Christian youth conference that was going to happen soon. The conference was going to happen at the end of September. In this vision, my girlfriend and I were at the conference. It was a two part vision. The first part was of me and her just sitting on a bench outside the church. Not saying much. I remember some of the conversation though. The second part, I was walking with her outside the snack hall (called the canteen area). It was a little late at night. We walked a little ways and I kissed her on the cheek and told her I loved her and goodnight. Well, she didn't even know about the conference. When I told her about it, she really wanted to go. A month later, she finally gave confirmation that she was going. And I was so happy. At the conference, guess what. Night one, the bench part happened. Same conversation and everything. Night two, the kiss on the cheek thing happened. Same conversation and everything. Everything happened exactly how I saw it! It's very strange. This happens to me a lot. If anyone finds this to be weird, comment on my answer :). Sorry for the long answer guys.
anonymous
2014-11-10 02:36:13 UTC
I do remember a few studies that came out that I'm far too lazy to go hunt down right now, that implicated dextromethorphan in creating feelings of self reported deja vu. Of course it's easy to see what lurking variables might be at play, but it's an interesting angle. What one of dextromethorphan's side effects are on a chemical level is it blocks BDNF, not allowing a new dendritic spike to form. So at the least, if you want to erase your piano lesson for that day and all the neurological connections you might have formed, gaining control over your fingers, take Robitussin before you go to sleep. The extent to which it can effect cognitive structures is not something I can cite off hand other than the one elusive deja vu study. When a friend started singing "a gob full of alcohol makes the memories go downs..." I responded more aptly "LD50 dextromethrophan makes the memories not form..."



Personally, I get it fairly frequently. If I'm being honest, it happened quite a bit more frequently in my youth when I was snorting codeine. If you don't know, dextromethorphan is an opiate derivative.
sophieb
2014-11-07 20:54:41 UTC
This kind of feeling has happened numerous times to me over the years, also have been walking down streets of cities wherein I thought I saw a family member or friend there but it was not them. I've been told this is normal and it happens to everyone and the explanation by a so-called professional was that we're old souls and have been down the same streets and in those same homes and seen those same things before and our body has a memory since we've lived several lives before. Others say what we see is "similar" to what we've seen before and our memory hooks it up with something from our past so we therefore think it's a repeat but it's not. Our brains do play tricks on us, for instance when we dream we review our day and what comes out in the dream is a mishmash of all we thought, saw, heard, etc. coming from our subconscious mind (and we can change that dream if we choose to by just thinking something else). Also for instance if a person sees an accident they don't always see what occurred but instead see what they want to see. That in fact is why there are ten people on a jury so that similar views can either convict the person or not. People aren't as accurate as they think they are.
Trish
2014-11-07 15:33:03 UTC
I get deja vu because I have temporal lobe epilepsy. When my medication is at the right level in my blood, no deja vu. When the level dips too low, I start getting deja vu episodes, especially when under stress (either emotional or physical). During my growing-up years before I was diagnosed, I had many thousands of deja vu episodes. Now, I get them only when there is a problem.



It does seem that anyone can get deja vu a few times in a lifetime, but if you get it a lot and it tends to cluster in times when you are under stress (such as when you're ill, or on a tough deadline at work), then it's time to see a neurologist to find out if you may have epilepsy. Mine wasn't diagnosed until after I'd had a grand mal seizure, and in those days, it wasn't known that deja vu could be a form of seizure activity. Nowadays, you don't have to wait for something worse to happen.
Luna
2014-11-10 01:43:52 UTC
Déjà vu refers to a feeling of repetition. It is a feeling you have when something seems overly familiar to you as if it has happened before. The process is rather deceptive and most people contribute déjà vu to sight but scent has been shown to be the primary trigger for most cases of déjà vu.



For example, you may walk into a house and see a lamp and think you’ve been there before. Ironically, the lamp (which you may never have seen ever in your entire life) was not the trigger but a particular scent (such as the faint lingering of lavender). If you closed your eyes and concentrated you may trigger the actual memory into play and realize that your mom loved lavender scented mists and that was why you were suddenly reminded of home.
AZ
2014-11-09 20:37:16 UTC
deja vu seems to me to only happen from early years to about 33, or that is the last time I think I can recall an event of felling I have been here or done that. After deja vu I feel reoccurring dreams are what take over the mind, sleeping or not. I no longer get the feeling I have been there or done that, or even thought that as I got older. However, my reoccurring dreams seem to be more and more, yet, I remember less and less of every dream, the older I get as well. I feel deja vu was the early remembering of a life last lived and as we age our minds become so full of the present & the future we loose track of where or what we started out to do or find. On the other hand the reoccurring dreams often coincide with the old memories of deja vu. Therefore, I feel as we loose connection with the past life & deja vu of the past life, our minds try new ways to bring us to those old thoughts. Even though the reoccurring dreams dont and cant explain much they trigger thoughts that do bring back memories that are still closely related in an attempt to clarify our minds of the thought, feeling and pleasures we distinctly remember but have reluctantly forgot due to death, presents of time and past endeavors we have engaged in over many years!
Emma Lena
2014-11-09 23:02:35 UTC
I have experienced deja vu a lot in my life particularly when i was a young child. I'd see split second visions of me standing somewhere or doing something and a week or a month later, I'd end up doing that thing and realise "I had a vision of this!" I've pretty much stopped having visions, except on time when i had a vision in my dream where I was watching a really weird performance and then a week later, I watched a performance I had planned to watch a really long time ago and there was that same exact weird performance in it!!! Its really weird but awesome too. It really does make me question destiny and fate because if I'd seen all these visiona nd they came true, then that's saying that our lives are all planned, all set out. I can't know for sure but it really does make me think. And I actually kina agree with Margaret S - maybe it is our higher selves telling us that this is right.
?
2014-11-07 14:58:40 UTC
When you have a moment and you're like, wait a second, haven't I done/seen/dreamed this before? When you have deja vu, it means you are in the right place at the right time.

The most recent experience was when I was playing the piano and my sister asked me a question, and as I was answering, I got the feeling that I'd already been through this.
Brad
2014-11-09 23:07:14 UTC
A lot of these answers are relating to seeing landmarks and what not. Most of my Deja Vu has been moments of conversation. Where, it was word for word how I heard it, or I knew what was gonna happen next. I think our brain does play tricks on us. But that's like saying there is a second "person" in our minds, doing the tricking. I think Deja Vu is something that SHOULDN'T be cast away as some sort of "common" occurrence.
rayaxe
2014-11-08 20:37:09 UTC
I agree with Margaret S. that, for a split second, your brain (an untrustworthy instrument at best) mistakes a short term memory for a long term memory.

But there's more! I sometimes wake up remembering some of the dreams I had. I mostly smile at that and file that stuff away. But sometimes, later in the day, I happen upon the very same things (circumstances, situations, etc.) I had dreamt about.

THAT, I can't explain...
isis's brother
2014-11-07 15:21:14 UTC
About the same time I started puberty. deja vu became a common experience for me. It

was during the dream state and had to do with many unimportant events that were about to happen.

When they did happen, I would clearly remember the dream. This went on for several months.

There was no one I could talk to about it back then, in the mid 40s.

But it did peak my interest in ESP. Later, I learned about Dr. J. B. Rhine at Duke

University who was studying ESP phenom.



A psychic individual, sometimes called the seer of the 20th century, Edgar Cayce, was

asked about deja vu and other dream information.

His explanation was that everybody has some ESP. A few people rely on their

hunches but most ignore them. He said that nothing important happens in our lives

that is not previewed in our dreams.

We dream 5 times nightly on average - over 1800 dreams per year. How many

can you remember of your 1800? Most are not prophetic.

Many books have been published about the life and events of Edgar Cayce.

The web site is Edgar Cayce.org. Much info there. Form your own opinion.
Amaretta
2014-11-08 17:41:40 UTC
When I was college, I dated a guy from another school during the summer after my junior year. I spent a weekend with his family (who lived in a different state) and slept in his sister's bedroom. The room was vividly decorated with black-and-white zebra striped wallpaper on three walls and a jungle print on the fourth wall. When I woke up that first morning, I laid in bed looking at that jungle wall and had the sudden realization that I'd seen it before, that I had been in this place before. It was suddenly familiar to me. But I'd never been to this guy's home before nor met his family before. When I got home, I described the room and that sense of deja vu to my mother. She broke out in goose bumps and told me that I'd dreamed about that room several months earlier and had described it in detail to her afterwards because the dream was so vivid. How is that possible? I have no idea.
?
2014-11-07 11:30:55 UTC
This is something which will typically happen at certain points in therapy where chunks of the unconscious are coming through - moving toward consciousness. This is a natural phenomenon which goes on all the time - so people will have a little deja vu from time to time. But where the unconscious becomes far more active, then the deja vu can be almost constant for periods of time. It can be pretty scary for people.
Charlie (In your dreams)
2014-11-07 12:27:54 UTC
Deja vu is just a mind-fart, your brain shutting off for a split second, making you think that you've experienced the same thing twice.



There's nothing even remotely precognitive about it, because as the name suggests, it's about seeing the past rather than the future.
Adam
2014-11-07 13:08:09 UTC
I saw an excellent theory on this a while ago, to sum it up, if you experience event A then B then C your brain will commit it to memory and generate an emotional response but a fraction of a second later your visual cortex gets around to telling the conscious aware part of your brain what you're seeing it might say we are looking at A, B then err C right? hasn't that already happened? it could be a temporary sync problem in your brain for a few seconds.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSf8i8bHIns
Selia
2014-11-07 10:51:04 UTC
"The psychologist Edward B. Titchener in his book A Textbook of Psychology (1928), explained déjà vu as caused by a person having a brief glimpse of an object or situation, before the brain has completed "constructing" a full conscious perception of the experience. Such a "partial perception" then results in a false sense of familiarity."
lwhhow
2014-11-07 13:39:00 UTC
A subconscious knowledge of history or things you read/ encountered before....BUT...that doesn't explain it really. I most strongly experienced it at a museum village in a actual Cotswold house of 17th century England. They dismantled it there (UK) in modern times and brought it here (USA).

Ever since I was a child I loved that house, and felt at peace there. I knew where everything was, the smoker for meats in the chimney, the built in cabinets on the stairway, the workshop at house back, the kitchen, attic loft, the hay briar and loft in barn.

It was only 20 years later that I learned my family originally came from the Cotswold's of England in the 1600's and 1700's , the date of that house.
anonymous
2014-11-07 13:54:59 UTC
Seeing something you have lived before. This is usually a reminder,of something you need to remember or know in your life. Reasons only you will need to figure out.

I was at Coe Hall one afternoon and I was walking towards the house through the garden. In an Instant,all was familiar in a different sort of way,I saw this exact moment before,right down to the bird that was chirping in the tree,I had been within that moment before,yet I had never been here before.~*
(00)
2014-11-08 12:47:21 UTC
De'ja' vu is something that seems so real when you see or experience it that

it can almost make you faint or feel sick.

When I was 14 my sister and her husband was killed by a drunk driver.

when I was 18 I was crossing in the walk light and as I looked up at

the woman crossing the street towards me I almost passed out. It

looked exactly like my deceased sister. This woman knew something

was wrong and instead of crossing the street she turned and walked

back with me. She asked what what wrong, was I sick. I had to tell her.

She said, over and over I am so sorry I startled you. I told her I knew it

was not my sister. We went in side a small cafe and talked a bit. She

was a lot like my sister, so caring. We talked about keeping in touch

but decided it would be best not to do that. My sister was an angel to

me and I always thought God sent this woman to help me. I didn't get

to say good bye to my sister.
GiRl
2014-11-08 14:32:04 UTC
I believe that we have dreams of snapshots of the future - some people are more attuned to this than others. So when these 'dreams' are lived out in reality - often just a moment from that dream - then we experience this as deja vu.
anonymous
2016-01-29 16:13:39 UTC
It is recorded happening in teenagers more as teenage brains are going through a process called neural pruning, in which all unnecessary connections are deconstructed and the brain is open to change and therefore more likely to make spellings, physical, or cognitive errors such as this one. The only other time humans are more prone to this is as young children, but you'd hardly be advanced enough to describe or tell anyone about the feeling at such an age, so obviously, it's recorded happening more in teenagers.
anonymous
2014-11-08 12:59:48 UTC
I was once in Germany when I was only a little girl, and I'd never been there before alone or with my family, but I just knew the way..

I knew the way in the whole area in Germany and I knew where we had to go to come to the place we were renting a holiday home. I knew all the streets and my family was following me flabbergasted..



I never really had a dejavu after that, maybe only once or twice after that in my teen years, but it has been very rare.
Mr. Wizard
2014-11-09 11:44:52 UTC
Deja vu: The uncanny and sometimes, creepy experience of not only being somewhere before in a place you've NEVER been before--but being unable to explain HOW you know details about that place!!



Choose your best theory--at least ONE of them is right:



a) Deja vu does NOT exist: It's a mind trick that is related to paranoia and hysteria.



b) Memory recollections from your PAST LIFE.



c) Memory recollections from the past time you LIVED OUT YOUR CURRENT LIFE. This quirky theory comes from the belief of a Buddhist sect, who believe we live our lives over and over on--until we "get it right" and THEN ascend to.......wherever.



I experienced deja vu when I was 11, while touring a historic cathedral in Nevada--a place I KNOW I never before visited. Spooked out my parents, and the tour guide, how I knew untold details about the place. Since then, I have been drawn to the church on occasion, yet I have no answers on why.
Дмитрий
2014-11-08 07:59:25 UTC
It was with me once: when i was student, curve of great booze led me in home of familiar of my friend, i physically couldn't be there before, i lived even in other city, but as soon as I set foot on the threshold, i knew exactly, where was what room, how was places furniture, in which kitchen cupboard are stemware. I felt like i lived there all my life. May be, i would forget that, if not sobered up in one moment. This felling haunted me about 1 hour, until prepared to sauna - probably high temperature exhausted me and i forgot about this very unpleasant feeling.
Ariel
2014-11-09 19:06:31 UTC
I have deja vu nearly every week. In Buddhism, it is explained that everyone go through many incarnations, your past lives and your future lives. Deja vu, is the part of your past memory that is not completely washed away when you begin a new life, so when you see or experience something, you felt like you have seen or done it before. Technically you haven't, but you might have in past lives.
Coco <3 you
2014-11-10 09:31:58 UTC
I have deja vu but in a dream like sense. I dream of certain places or things and as time passes I see them again. I believe that we all have some psychic ability that we just dont practice enough or arent aware of.
night_train_to_memphis
2014-11-07 11:25:40 UTC
It seems this was in the news a few years ago, and the main issue seemed to be considerable or excessive activity in the part of the brain that controls or processes feelings of familiarity. Sadly, it seemed especially associated with abnormal conditions such as brain damage, brain tumors, brain surgery, or some combination of abnormal factors, but I may be misremembering the conditions because so many of the opening vignettes of the chapters of my first psychology book dealt with anatomical or physiological abnormalities of the brain and the observations they led to.
Pasqualina
2014-11-11 02:00:25 UTC
I experienced a huge one when I was 24. I had left my home country to go to Norway to do voluntary work, it was roughly my third day there, after my arrival, and I was standing in a circular line of people because every morning they did that as they gathered before beginning each day's work. I saw that scene, it was a scene I had already seen, and I really believe I had seen it in a dream, about three years before! That dream was so real that it had woken me up. The dream was of course the same as the real scene that was before my eyes in Norway, people gathered and layed out(sorry if I don't know the past tense of "to lay out") in a circular line. But eventually, among those people, my attention was attracted particularly by a man who was present in that gathering. In my dream, when I saw that man, who was smiling at me as if he was flirting, I immediately had an awareness, or maybe even heard an inner voice, that said: "he is not the one". In the reality in Norway, exactly the same happened, but I was only reminded of the voice that had said:" he is not the one". So I stopped thinking that that man could be the one, I was not interested in him anymore.
Tim
2014-11-07 13:45:08 UTC
I've had this theory that dajavu is caused because time isn't linear. It's actually cyclical so dajavu could be that you've already lived that moment many times before. Course this is just an idea.
BJJ
2014-11-08 03:06:12 UTC
I once amnesia and déjà vu at the same time , I'm sure I've forgotten this before
Marge
2014-11-10 10:02:17 UTC
I experienced one clear example of this. It was years ago, and late one night, I was driving by myself down a pretty isolated highway. I could see no other lights ahead, nor no one in front, nor behind me. I then got a feeling of "warning" (that's the best I can describe it--like someone was saying "Watch out"!. I slowed, and sure enough around a bend there was wreck! Maybe I had unconsciously picked up on some clue--or dim light, but I sure wasn't ware of it. Personally, I believe that "Early Man" had to rely on instinct by picking up on very subtile environmental cues that don't always break into our consciousness. "Civilization" has dulled this, as there are so many signs/rules/laws that dictate our actions, that we don't rely on "instinct" anymore.
anonymous
2014-11-07 23:20:01 UTC
So many scientific researchers have explanations for this phenomenon, but I have my own theory.



I have dreamed about events sometimes long before they came about and therefore, I submit that there is a consciousness which knows no future, past or present. This indicates that we essentially remember our future in much the same way as we remember our past.

No charge for this consultation session...



Life has many mysteries which are stranger than fiction. so don't get a dizzy spell while trying to analyze it
Tinkerbell snow girl
2014-11-07 14:52:48 UTC
When I was a very young girl, I went to a girls school and there was a band stand- it was like I had seen this before ?

Never as this was the first time I had ever been there.
CECIL W
2014-11-11 00:14:53 UTC
Suddenly no matter where one is or under what circumstances the feeling of having been there exactly at that moment in some time ....is an immediate all pervasive feeling. It only last for seconds. Once recovered one feels unseemly and wants to share with someone...anyone!
anonymous
2014-11-07 12:25:24 UTC
It's when your eyes register an image before your brain does. When your brain finally registers the image it thinks it's seen it somewhere before because of the delay from eye to brain, or whatever you'd like to call it.
QuiteNewHere
2014-11-07 17:40:27 UTC
Deja vu - my favorite explanation for this occurence is that they are soul memories of its past lifetimes. This is the reason why these knowledge seem somewhat mildly mixed with some emotion like joy or sadness or deep contentment.

I have had a few of these moments and so have known people, friends who would say perplexed- " I know this place, I have been here in the past".

Maybe we all have brain lesions, who knows. But these moments are far in between and we dont lose sight of reality so call them brain farts, They are generally harmless.
Naguru
2014-11-07 16:35:40 UTC
Honestly speaking and to be frank with you, I had no such imagination or experience. Hence I don't know about the incidence. I was also not a witness to it. It is a bit confusing my mind.
?
2014-11-09 02:32:40 UTC
I get strong deja vu when i go through life changes or chapters. now when i get them i know its time to turn the page.. last time i got it i was having a near death reaction to a medicine. i went the the hospital and i had deja vu 3 times that day. insane. but on the real, i think its just a release of hormones to make you believe you are seeing it over again no matter how shockingly similar the memory is.
Adams
2014-11-08 20:45:31 UTC
3 years after my husband died I had a dream about a church in the town where I had moved after his death. In the dream he was standing in the doorway of my bedroom but couldn't walk into the room. He told me he had to take me somewhere. I got out of bed, and was wearing a wedding dress. He took me to a church in the town I lived in and when we walked inside, there was a smoked glass partition with doors into the actual sanctuary. They had it all set up for a wedding. There was even a groom that was shorter than my husband, heavier than my husband, who wore glasses and wearing a tux. He smiled at me, while my husband said to me, "Look, I waited until I found you a good one." Long story short, I was curious about the church, and went to the church the following Sunday, and it was identical to my dream, save being set up for a wedding. I know that I never went to that church before because I lived in CA my whole life and this church was in Washington state. I met and married that man in that church 2 years later. We are still happily together.
?
2014-11-07 15:11:22 UTC
Deja vu can be good and bad its memories from what happened earlier in your life.

It's a true condition.

Its better to focus on now and think about how to improve for now.
anonymous
2014-11-07 13:22:54 UTC
Some believe that it information experienced by an alternate dimension version of yourself. Rather than experiencing something in the present, you experience it as a memory instead
amy
2014-11-09 22:34:42 UTC
I use to have deja vu all the time when I was stoned. I think it's just a lapse in the brain.
Damocles
2014-11-08 05:35:55 UTC
Personally, my opinion is that your subconscious mind is capable of putting things together faster than your conscious mind.is. I "knew" the lamp was going to fall of the table - that's because my subconscious put together the trajectory of the ball my friend was throwing and determined that it would likely hit the lamp and knock it over. In the same way, your subconscious takes in your view and processes it faster than your conscious mind does. You have "been here before" - about 2 milliseconds before, when your subconscious took in and recognized your surroundings.
Miller
2014-11-08 16:25:01 UTC
Yes, I've experienced Deja Vu. I think it happens to people with really active minds !
?
2014-11-07 11:33:58 UTC
Being from France and hearing everyone use 'deja vu' even just now!

and knowing 'deja vu' isn't an acctual French word. It's American
anonymous
2014-11-10 07:29:03 UTC
It happens occasionally when I look am in a situation and have an overwhelming sense that this has happened already. Most of these are because I've seen it in a dream before. I am not psychic it just happens sometimes
Miranda
2014-11-10 16:12:10 UTC
My mother always said that Deja Vu means that you're life is on the right path. I always find this intriguing and it always makes me happy when I get it!
?
2014-11-07 22:13:41 UTC
The first time I walked the cobblestone streets of downtown Charleston,SoCarolina I was like why does all this seem so familiar? My husband and I had two days together before he would deploy on his ship to parts unknown, so we did alot of walking around the city and the more we walked the more I felt like it wasn't me doing the walking it was someone else. I had to touch the buildings tabby walls and feel the warmth of the stones on my feet and then it happened we went by a graveyard and I just felt drawn to walk in and I knew before I walked a few feet that my ancestors were buried here and they were calling me to come in. The peace I felt later was too emotional to understand so I told no one for years.l
?
2014-11-07 15:34:41 UTC
Remember when Yahoo Answers staff asked a question against the guidelines and nothing happens, but my questions get reported for everything. Yeah. deja vu
?
2014-11-09 22:17:45 UTC
remembered a dream where I was at a certain place eating something listening to music. months before talking to a certain person about something unique. then it happened. exactly as I saw in my dream. explain that by things getting out of snyc (don't think so) or seconds before (not ) has happened on several different occasions. I know I has esp & other things along those lines . I do rely on hunches on certain things. some people don't or cant believe those of us who do.
?
2014-11-10 09:52:03 UTC
I get deja vu sometimes where I come across familiar faces, places and situations in which I know I've been there, done that.
pasquale garonfolo
2014-11-11 01:42:01 UTC
When you see something, the pixels of your imagination can immediately configure what you see as familiar and you get the idea that you have seen that something before. Something, let us say a building that appears in the landscape, or a person, can impress your mind, as it clearly appeared to me. The incredibly quick pixels of your imagination do configure and can make you think that you have seen the building or the person or some other object or detail before.
Manyowls
2014-11-08 13:22:10 UTC
deja vu is our spirit going out before us physically. sometimes we catch up to it and have the experience.

holding an edge on time is another way..it combines tie chi and hung gar ( a form of fast boxing ) where we teach ourselves to seemingly go outside time, and cant miss..where to we become masters of ourselves..

but, thats only half way...the other way involves a helicopter and a pilot as it were...lol
?
2014-11-07 14:45:48 UTC
when you born your path it born too.The path it's hake in your mind .When you see deja vu you are in your path .You have two option run or stay at moment to see and know the purpose.How ever you choose either you can not change the path or purpose.It make longer the time by changing the life subjects but again you will trapped in your path .
?
2014-11-07 13:14:22 UTC
I experiance dèjà vu when I have a dream and then what happened in my dream happens in real life
David Marriner
2014-11-10 06:56:28 UTC
I experience Deja vu ALOT,i dont know why but i find myself always saying Deja-vu.I do believe strongly in the paranormal
ʞя@ᴢy
2014-11-07 10:28:59 UTC
It is something which makes us feel that, so and so thing has had happened before..

I experienced it at this very moment cause i feel i've answered this Qn before..;p

grr..
kam
2014-11-10 10:11:14 UTC
seems my brain is so horrible, almost eerysecond of my life is deja vu :D i sometimes feel this thing has happened 2 or 3 times before !
anonymous
2014-11-10 00:19:00 UTC
As the late and great Babe Ruth once said, "Its deja Vu all over again.
tro
2016-07-02 14:40:17 UTC
if this happens to me and it has it is because I was there before, or met that person before, I only have to make the attempt to recall the situation
bobmonk92
2014-11-09 17:00:14 UTC
I think it's something to do with our psychic ability
?
2014-11-09 16:03:22 UTC
Why don't u
kilroymaster
2014-11-09 14:08:09 UTC
You have asked a difficult question about deja vu......... So I will try to explain it to you in this manner: First off every human being that ever existed are part of the genetic make-up of their ancestors, From Adam And Eve to our current mothers and fathers, We also carry the genetic memory of all of our ancestors......... Now when you drive or walk through a certain place and it seem familiar to you but you have never been in that area before, So people never seem to realizes that perhaps one of their genetic ancestors may have walked or have visited that area and experiences certain things many, many years before you were born....... So what your are really sampling is something that your great great ancestor may have experiences in that area....................... Now there are a lot of people that had a dream that seemed so real that they believe that they have had another life whereas in all sense of reality what they witness was how one of their direct ancestors may have lived................. For one day I had a dream that I woke in a cave and everyone was screaming and running around and trying to escape from a cave bear that had entered our cave and the last thing that I remember was that cave bear being killed and i felt that I was looking through the eyes of one of the men that had killed that bear with a sharpen stick, Also that dream actually made me feel that I was there So after several years of research I have concluded that deja vu is nothing more then us witnessing something our ancestors witness years before we were actually born.............................
Grease 18
2014-11-09 11:38:26 UTC
dèjà vu is when you realize that in a certain place you feel like you have already been there or in other cases you feel like you have already played the exact senerio some other day. .. i have once felt like this just can't recall a certain time cause it had happen more than once. but it has gotten me tripped which is weird...
Marshhawk
2014-11-08 06:57:52 UTC
A reminder of a place or experience that you know and feel that it is familiar to you even if you have never been to the place or had the experience before.

It is happen to me several times . Once when taking having my fingerprints at LMDC, where I applied and was interviewed for a position.

I just felt that I would go into the restricted areas during the application process. All job applications did get their fingerprints taken as part of the interview process.
?
2014-11-08 01:51:38 UTC
I thought there aren't any scientific proof that deja vu exist.
We left and returned!
2014-11-07 15:58:39 UTC
Hmmm. Haven't I already answered this question before?
Frau Herta
2014-11-09 11:08:34 UTC
It's either memories from a past life, rememberance what you wrote in the plan for this lifetime, or psychic ability, as we all have many abilities society doesn't want you to believe in, or they won't be able to control you as much/at all.
Will
2014-11-09 06:49:46 UTC
In 1967 and 1973 my Grandmother took me to Ireland to meet her brothers and sisters. Stronger than ever on O'Connell Street especially in front of the General Post Office and where Nelson's pillar stood I felt like I had been there. In 1980 my Dad and Mom went and felt the same thing at the same spot. If you watch the film "Michael Collins" starring Liam Neilson you will see a reenactment of the same spot where the Irish Patriots Surrendered after the Easter Sunday Rebellion about 1917 or 1918.
anonymous
2014-11-09 05:44:56 UTC
its a point when the brain is working faster than usual it processes things around you faster and this feels like it's already happened.



perhaps we should change the term 'already happened' to feeling more aware of the situation.



probably something to do with a chemical that has not been released yet like a yawn it releases.
Danieliton
2014-11-08 19:20:26 UTC
To think about it...and experience it 5 minutes later.
anonymous
2014-11-08 17:31:03 UTC
Stuff happens
Hunter
2014-11-08 17:19:06 UTC
Why don't u
anonymous
2014-11-08 16:17:54 UTC
Stuff happens
anonymous
2014-11-08 15:25:25 UTC
This may sound a little gross, but this actually happened to me today. I was sitting on the toilet, having a bit of a hard time, and a little, black roach came crawling by the tub and neared the toilet. (My new apartment just happens to be right above an abandoned and infested apartment). Is this from a dream, or is that little roach a peeping tom?? Seriously!! I know this has happened either in a dream or last night (half asleep)!!
?
2014-11-08 14:28:03 UTC
Basically, it's when the unconscious part of your brain does something too fast and then your conscious part catches up after and realizes it already has information on this situation (the unconscious part) i.e. has already been there before.
Za'KiyYah
2014-11-08 13:39:00 UTC
thanks
William Ramage
2014-11-08 10:06:54 UTC
Stuff happens
RockIt
2014-11-08 08:23:34 UTC
I experience very little deja vu anymore. In my youth through my 20s I experienced it regularly. Over time I came to experience it as a feeling of living something I once dreamt of, not something I once experienced, as if I am experiencing something I once dreamed of happening in a dream.
?
2014-11-08 08:13:53 UTC
This is all a scripted existence. Deja Vu is when you experience the scene you had been memorizing your part for in the play and it actually happens.

P.S. I'm not a real person but a writer sitting in the writer's room providing this text to the answers. Wait until you see the story arc we are working on for you to experience next week! It's a doozie!
anonymous
2014-11-08 07:35:30 UTC
déjà vu could be proof of our past lives. read on it on the internet.



why the thumbs down haters? c;
?
2014-11-08 05:20:28 UTC
Coincidence, or maybe I have been there before but do not remember!
Rosy
2014-11-08 01:17:18 UTC
I had experienced Deja vu a couple of times, during my schooling days. I used to feel that I had that complete view of the classroom, the teacher standing at that particular place, the atmosphere in the classroom, the one sitting next to me, above all, I used to simultaneously suspect, if I had dreamt of that scenes before. But, once I crossed 16, I no more, have a Deja vu, Missing it..!!!!
?
2014-11-07 22:30:51 UTC
The exact scene replayed , with every word said , every person

present , the place , the topic , and the experience that happen

once before , but only in a brief , fast -( forward ) of a daydream .



( All I do is Look around , notice everyone within that vicinity , all

staring at me , waiting for me to Like , recite my Line . I , pause .

Take in the moment . Think of , what I had said next . Almost ,

every time , I mention how I had been here , before . Just then ,

almost everybody gives me this puzzled Look . Except for one .

Usually , she , asks me to explain what I meant by what I said .

I , alert her , and everyone Listening , I just changed the script .

I never reveal what was supposed to had been said , by whom . )
?
2014-11-07 19:54:31 UTC
Once I was at a bus stop and I saw this girl who I'd never met before yet somehow I knew what her name was before I asked, that just creeped me out

And also sometimes I have dreams about snippets of conversations and those conversations happen a couple of weeks later in real life.
anonymous
2014-11-07 18:14:15 UTC
It's a glitch in the Matrix. They changed something. Get out now, while you still can.
tlworkroom
2014-11-07 18:04:27 UTC
Notice that most of the answers concern themselves with damage to the brain?? Oh, that's real smart!! You have an experience of deja vu and your brain is damaged?? How ridiculous.



I myself have had the dream example. But why would I dream it, and then experience it?? Well, some might talk about it in mystical terms, and I guess that could come closest to my experience.



No where is there any talk of spiritual experience. The bible is full of spiritual experiences thru the power of the Holy Ghost.

But I guess people who consider mysticism don't think god exists. Or that god bothers with something like this.



I believe God gives us the dream the night before we experience the event, the Spirit gives us the information that we will experience the event. Why? If I knew that, I'd try to use that ability to dream about the big lotto number!!



Things don't happen randomly in one's life. There is always a reason for the experience. We don't always see it, or like it. We usually don't want to believe it. Guess I'm the only one here who assigns miracles to god, rather than ourselves.
Carlos M
2014-11-09 18:19:09 UTC
DEJA VU is a think that you see or realaease again. It includes an event that already have happened.



I dont have anyone, but many things in my life happened twice, but they cannot be c onsidered a deja vu.
William
2014-11-09 17:06:31 UTC
I could swear that I just saw this question......is that spooky, or what?
rev william
2014-11-09 13:26:39 UTC
I'm sure that I already answered your question.
anonymous
2014-11-09 11:56:59 UTC
The deja vu house example given is also the perfect analogy. Your brain is a house. There are two rooms called short-term memory and long-term memory connected by a door. The short-term memory room has another door open to the outside. When you see, hear, feel, smell or taste something, it goes into the short-term memory room where it later gets sent to the long-term memory by opening the door between the two rooms. But when deja vu happens, the door to the long-term memory room has been left open. Then what you see, hear, feel, smell and taste passes directly through the short-term memory room without stopping and into the long-term memory room. That sets off an alarm to ask why you are having a short-term memory identical to a long-term memory. . Your logic concludes you have had this identical experience before but also tells you that is not true. Like every answer here and elsewhere, this is not an explanation. It's just a new way to ask the question: Why does that door between the two rooms get left open? No one knows..
Ajay B
2014-11-08 18:55:08 UTC
when I saw the DW movie
KC
2014-11-08 15:54:44 UTC
I started to answer and then got this feeling I already had, so I didn't.
Bob
2014-11-08 15:28:13 UTC
Deja vu never happens never happens to me.
The Sage
2014-11-08 15:21:52 UTC
To people that say Deja vu is something from your dream, wrong. Your mind cannot make up things while dreaming much like people, you can only dream about people you have seen. UNLESS you are astral projecting, then you can do anything in the dream state. But Deja vu is caused by past life experiences.
Dd
2014-11-08 13:03:44 UTC
Yahoo, I have seen this question before.
?
2014-11-08 11:21:06 UTC
There are numerous reasons Deja Vu exists, all perfectly valid:



1) Every once in a while, reality as it's known completely collapses. Scientists refer to this as the Big Crunch. Your DNA can be leveraged like a save game to rebuild you and your life, and the Deja Vu experience is repeated memories and a polite way of your mind telling you both consciously and subconsciously - that this is happening and you may way to ''dig into' why.

2) Sometimes you die and it aint by choice. Refer to #1 and this is your mind's way of rebuilding those memories and letting you know what's led you down this path.

3) Sometimes you're being manipulated against your free will, and your mind could potentially be being treated like a production line to manufacturer something like a car manufacturer would manufacturer cars or something. This is your mind's way of saying 'I'm bored with that shiznat"

#4) Everytime I, Q The First Timelord fall asleep. You all come alive and commence action like lemmings. The Deja Vu experience is my mind's way of saying get out of my mind.
?
2014-11-08 09:34:38 UTC
i remember seeing this question on the front page yesterday..does that count as deja vu?
JORGE N
2014-11-08 06:18:29 UTC
I just figure my genes are remembering things they did experience in the past before they became me.
Guru Hank
2014-11-08 04:30:47 UTC
Frequently So much so that I considered contacting a priest, but as a scientifically trained man I attempted to come up with a rational explanation. I am or was a card dealer, and some of the things which happened stunned my own explanations of reality. The answer of course, was that there is a very great difficulty in producing such an imaginary thing as a 'perfect shuffle'· I hope. Otherwise we are all doomed.
anonymous
2014-11-07 23:37:08 UTC
As I have experienced, deja vu is the feeling you get, sometimes aware of it, sometimes not, of a situation in a moment in time that you are familiar with already. How can that be, when would you have been familiar with it? This is the part people cannot fathom, it is in your dreams, at a time prior to the event. Not seconds, fraction seconds, moments in the time sequence just before the feeling of deja vu, sometimes weeks or months before the event comes to pass. And it is not really something that your mind's eye will focus on, since the glimpse is so short and random.



It definitely could be a form of precognition, or some indication that our notion of space time is incomplete, where the mind is somehow passing ahead of the body into a vision of the future event before it has occurred in the "frame of reference" of bodily experience, then when this even has occurred in the "frame of reference" of the body, the mind is aware of this, and you experience the deja vu, which is a feeling of haunting familiarity when you are able to recognize this, as in, "Hey, I've seen this before..."
William P
2014-11-07 22:42:12 UTC
I already answered this question don't you remember?
?
2014-11-07 22:29:44 UTC
i could have sworn ive seen this question before....
Maryam Behravan
2014-11-07 21:53:58 UTC
Deja vu is a psychological state in which u feel u've experienced ur current experience before.

I experience it a lot. For instance, sometimes when i talk to my parents, i feel "wow, i'm sure this scene happened before, and dad was wearing exactly the same clothes...". Or sometimes when i enter a new place, i feel i've been there before.

It's a strange but nice feeling. I like it:)
?
2014-11-07 20:51:34 UTC
actually the human brain is really fascinating.. what we all have decoded and understood about how and what a human brain functions and thinks is very little. We are all extremely powerful, just as a soul is (after death).. but while alive, in human form we forget it cuz God wanted us to experience life and make our souls even more powerful after we die. So we know a lot of things from before that are going to happen. Our subconscious knows a lot.. more than we can imagine.. like it knows what is going to happen next in a conversation or what is going to happen in a few days.. and sometimes we see these occurrings in a dream or it comes at the back of our mind in flashes.., and then when the same things happen "in reality" our conscious mind is "completely shocked".. he says -- "Man! I knew this was going to happen.. I have seen it before!!!"



Actually there's a lot of things we cannot understand while we are alive.. maybe meditation and practicing some occult art helps a little.. but it's only when we die that a lot of mysteries unfold. And time and space is probably an illusion. Things beyond our understanding in human form. I feel because we are too distracted, and indulged in day-to-day activities. Buddha or others who go under deep meditation for years.. must've known things better than us.
Callie
2014-11-07 17:31:59 UTC
Deja vu is when you kind of see the future, as if you had already been through it. Studies show that if you dream something and it becomes reality, you are more connected to the universe.
?
2014-11-07 15:44:20 UTC
Honestly, I feel like it's another chance to make it right. With every deja-vu I get, I also get the feeling it's going to go wrong, like an accident, argument, fight etc. I await the horrors.. and then nothing happens. To me that's a feeling of another chance.

But I'm an atheist, so I'm going to go with temporary chemical imbalance of the brain.
2014-11-09 18:11:34 UTC
...didn't you just ask me that?
?
2014-11-09 10:20:16 UTC
It is the epoch of Paradox. The equation is known as A + B = C. It is the most common mathematical formula to determine whether or not an event has occurred. The nature of man has to be proven. It is also signified in the Holy Bible by the prophets that state that an event will occur for times time and one half. It is the formula of birth and procreation. A male and a female will produce an offspring. When we experience negative events in life this sets off a wave. Time isn't linear it is a fixed set of coordinates. Therefore this action will reverse itself and return causing a collision at its origin, and ripple once more. So, what this means is if you are robbed or a negative event happens that trans-places energy from one system to another (fear), then the affect will be a demonstration of this energy, as a drop of water falling into the aqueous pool of time. You must travel through this pool of fear until it falls back into its proper element.
anonymous
2014-11-09 09:06:25 UTC
Deja vu is a strange feeling... you ask yourself `have I been here before? This exact moment feels too familiar...`. It could mean that you actually have been somewhere or experienced the same moment earlier in life or even a couple of hours before, or it might just be a similar experience, not quite exact.
anonymous
2014-11-09 08:26:19 UTC
I once read (about 30 years ago) that a deja vu happens when our brain signal takes a detour through "memory" instead of going directly from "incoming sensation" to "current awareness". This is why it feels like a memory.



I had deja vu experiences frequently in my youth, but they diminished in frequently once I hit my 30's. I never had them anymore (I'm 65).
lahdeia
2014-11-09 07:55:13 UTC
i had it once. i was sitting in my friends living room talking to her about her new boyfriend she told me he was coming by soon and bringing a friend for me. I was so mad at her at first. when i met the guy i felt like we had met before. we had a seemingly happy relationship until the bottom fell out..

i dont know why this happens, i wont pretend to know
?
2014-11-09 07:44:33 UTC
I experience it all the time in my dreams. Once in awhile I would recall a scene I saw in my dreams and days later see that exact scene, like I went through time temporarily.
anonymous
2014-11-09 04:55:22 UTC
I've experienced Deja Vu in my dreams before, it's like as if I had that dream sometime before.
?
2014-11-09 03:23:51 UTC
I usually get Deja vu because I dream about my life and when I experience it, it feels like I've been there before though I was unconscious.
Ariunsanaa
2014-11-09 02:43:37 UTC
It is the same ****.
Lewão Da Montanha 4-2-2
2014-11-08 17:33:40 UTC
So many times this happened to me.
Saad
2014-11-08 14:32:02 UTC
Why don't u
anonymous
2014-11-08 12:37:02 UTC
Déjà vu: when see something you've never seen before but think you have.
?
2014-11-08 10:45:02 UTC
Since I moved here to Yakima, WA in July I have been feeling deja vu feeling almost every day-mostly ever since I got homeless which is strange. I'm starting to wonder if maybe deja vu IS an actual memory of some 'past' even but just not in THIS past. Lets say that there was a big bang, right? OK, lets say that in in every however long the reality we live in, space itself, collides within itself and becomes another Big Bang-like a heart beat. Maybe this is what reincarnation really is, just us reliving lives in each heart beat of reality. Maybe? idk, just a thought. It's the same when you start seeing repeated numbers everywhere on clock, ect. like 3:33 or whatever, signs that reality is a controlled, maybe living substance...Maybe the universe is a living being or something? "God" is you will lol.
anonymous
2014-11-08 07:21:33 UTC
Wait, didn't I answer this question before?
lolli
2014-11-08 06:10:45 UTC
I remember driving past a place that had huge smokestacks and hundreds of wires everywhere, even over the road I was driving on, although I had never been there before, I had a strong feeling that I had been there before, but there was nothing in my memory that was even remotely related to this place.

I thought I was experiencing deja view.

Then I talked about this place with my mother. She said she was there and I was with her, but I was a baby then, so she doesn't think I would have any memory of it.

I suppose I may have been there in a past lifetime, and that is why I remember it, but I will go with the baby theory. Perhaps I remember the big smokestacks and all those wires, but I don't remember the area surrounding this place.
?
2014-11-08 00:50:57 UTC
Deja vu is your mind playing tricks on you. It doesn't really exist at all.
Dan
2014-11-07 18:44:20 UTC
I feel like this question has been asked before.
?
2014-11-07 16:33:48 UTC
deja vu is when you experience the same thing twice because of a glitch in the matrix. This question.
?
2015-08-29 16:22:10 UTC
I don't get that, but I often see or hear something and think I'm wrong and check to be sure and I'm always right.
anonymous
2014-11-09 01:12:49 UTC
I believe that when the sun explodes, the whole solar system restarts again, and you are born as the same person, again, you live a similar life as your past one, and if you get déjà Vu it is you remembering something from a past life- WOAHH MINDBLOWN!😱😱😱
Bobby Jim
2014-11-07 13:46:59 UTC
Yes it happened to me. Cannot explain it, but after seeing one "familiar" object in the house, I found myself thoroughly familiar with the whole house. It was a fun night, if a bit freaky.
Marvelous Menu
2014-11-09 18:46:49 UTC
I experience it many times. It is annoying because I feel like I am going through the same thing twice but cannot modify the actions.
Jim
2014-11-08 13:58:18 UTC
It seems like I've answered this question before.
THE BANNIBAL ONE
2014-11-08 13:38:40 UTC
It never happened to me but others I know told me.

Most likely It is from something you saw,read or were

told about in the past.Your mind plays tricks so you

imagine it's deja-vu.There is nothing supernatural .
Salman
2014-11-10 04:30:31 UTC
I Get This Feeling Often
navin
2014-11-08 01:14:31 UTC
at A, B then err C right? hasn't that already happened? it could be a temporary sync problem in your brain for a few seconds.
Gaia
2014-11-09 00:48:02 UTC
For me its like a glimpse of the future.. when you are having deja vu.. maybe you are in the right path or you chose the right destiny
anonymous
2014-11-08 06:43:07 UTC
I think I've seen this question before!
?
2014-11-07 12:42:55 UTC
Wow, I think I've seen this question before!
Tony
2014-11-07 16:47:08 UTC
Deja vu? Again?
?
2014-11-09 21:43:48 UTC
Neo sees same cat twice. Agents are coming for them
Matt O Tron
2014-11-08 04:39:10 UTC
Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cold out there today!
MENIME
2014-11-07 14:23:36 UTC
the feeling like I've done this before.
Tomp
2014-11-07 14:51:21 UTC
I once had a premonition of déjà vu.......

(I'll get my coat)
Godsproblemchild
2014-11-07 17:52:42 UTC
Its a glitch in the matrix. Watch out for Mr Smith.
Sam
2014-11-08 05:56:15 UTC
Once I said, "The Y!A team is stupid" then had an eerie feeling I had said it before.
anonymous
2014-11-08 13:24:50 UTC
Means."see you",,and last time I experience d was yesterday when she was departing from me.
?
2014-11-08 16:04:17 UTC
Why don't u
?
2014-11-09 13:35:04 UTC
Why don't u
狐 Josh
2014-11-08 08:20:38 UTC
Didn't you already ask this question?
anonymous
2014-11-08 15:10:53 UTC
Why don't u
BigEbil
2014-11-10 09:43:13 UTC
I feel I've read this question somewhere!
anonymous
2014-11-10 13:33:18 UTC
no i can't..but this is a nice question.
anonymous
2014-11-09 01:20:19 UTC
im an expert, it when you see someting again and remeber it!
Stan
2014-11-09 21:39:02 UTC
De javu is having a preminition in your sleep of the near future,then experiencing the real occurence and ur wondering w.t.f because you cant remember the ******* dream.
hookituplookitup
2014-11-07 13:40:53 UTC
It has to do with your guides.
anonymous
2014-11-10 09:07:06 UTC
بله
?
2014-11-10 21:25:53 UTC
Why don't u
anonymous
2014-11-07 12:01:11 UTC
Well, I must say that's a pretty pisspoor description of a deja vu episode. But the inability to describe or define the experience clearly is one reason why it's never been adequately explained. Dejavu is a very subjective experience and people perceive it differently. But rather than a mere feeling of familiarity or vague memory, it's an almost mystical experience which fascinates & baffles many of us. The dejavu I'm referring to is precognitive knowledge of just a few seconds of the future. And there's nothing vague about it as deja vu shows the future in exact detail... every word about to be spoken or physical actions with precise accuracy.



Dejavu is a very low-level type of precognitive dream and a byproduct of extrasensory perception. The dreams depict 10-15 seconds of a random segment of time, but in very precise detail. Because the dreams are so brief and show only trivial, meaningless actions, they're forgotten almost immediately upon waking. But when the Present catches up and that moment occurs, seeing those events again triggers one's recollection of having dreamed it before. It's sort of like a reflex action, occurring because the brain's ESP mechanism is trying to stay active.



Only about 1/3 of people who get deja vu recognize those episodes as something they've DREAMED before-- the rest just perceive it as a strange hiccup in time or memory fluke. Moreover, the "brain glitch" theory is completely FALSE and with little effort, anyone can easily disprove it this way--



**When you sense deja vu happening and it involves another person speaking, *interrupt them in mid-sentence and then QUOTE the words they were about to utter. Doing so demonstrates dejavu is actual foreknowledge of the future, because how else could you know exactly what someone ELSE was going to say? I've done that myself many times and have read posts from others who've done it, too. It's a fun way to prove deja vu is really precognitive knowledge and I enjoy shooting that "scientific" explanation down in flames.
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2014-11-10 18:47:39 UTC
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2014-11-10 18:26:43 UTC
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2014-11-10 00:21:00 UTC
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2014-11-08 17:28:49 UTC
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