Deja vu

[cosmocrazy]

Ever had a really strong sense of awareness or flash back of a previously unvisited place or event, a feeling that is so compelling it makes you really wonder if it is just your brain's collective thoughts, memories and perception creating a feeling of deja vu.
I ask this because i have deja vu quite regularly and sometimes it is a very vivid flash back. Almost like a miniature movie clip in my thoughts. Or have i got a very active imagination? :lol:

[korjik]

I have the oddest feeling I have posted in this thread already. :)

My deja vu is just a feeling. If I had a flashback, I could dig out the memory

[cosmocrazy]

I have the oddest feeling I have posted in this thread already. :)

My deja vu is just a feeling. If I had a flashback, I could dig out the memory

I guess mine sometimes are almost like a premonition, only i get it seconds or so before the event.:(

[hhEb09'1]

This again!?

[Acolyte]

I have deja vu & amnesia - I think I've forgotten this before... :lol:

I've had it happen (reasonably) regularly for years & in my case I am pretty sure what causes the feeling.

At a young age (about 15) I had an incredibly vivid, but mostly meaningless dream. Briefly it was me driving up a highway with a friend beside me, through high bamboo on either side. There was a crossroads up ahead & my mate told me we had to go straight ahead but when we got to the intersection we had to turn left. The sign said Mackay.

Couple of years later, I left on a road trip with a school mate - he'd turned 18 & got his licence & it was holidays. Although I didn't have a licence I did some of the driving. Up in Queensland, over a thousand miles from home & where I'd never been, we entered sugar cane country. We were driving along with cane fields on either side - 8 foot tall cane - & he said (from the map) we had to go straight at the next intersection & I told him we had to go left. We were both right. The map said straight but the sign said left.

Ever since then I've kept note when I have those 'specially vivid' dreams & they always come to pass. Never been anything significant that I know of - just random everyday events that I somehow have seen in a dream a couple of years earlier.

[Maksutov]

This again!?Haven't we been here before?

[cosmocrazy]

I have deja vu & amnesia - I think I've forgotten this before... :lol:

I've had it happen (reasonably) regularly for years & in my case I am pretty sure what causes the feeling.

At a young age (about 15) I had an incredibly vivid, but mostly meaningless dream. Briefly it was me driving up a highway with a friend beside me, through high bamboo on either side. There was a crossroads up ahead & my mate told me we had to go straight ahead but when we got to the intersection we had to turn left. The sign said Mackay.

Couple of years later, I left on a road trip with a school mate - he'd turned 18 & got his license & it was holidays. Although I didn't have a license I did some of the driving. Up in Queensland, over a thousand miles from home & where I'd never been, we entered sugar cane country. We were driving along with cane fields on either side - 8 foot tall cane - & he said (from the map) we had to go straight at the next intersection & I told him we had to go left. We were both right. The map said straight but the sign said left.

Ever since then I've kept note when I have those 'specially vivid' dreams & they always come to pass. Never been anything significant that I know of - just random everyday events that I somehow have seen in a dream a couple of years earlier.

Yes i guess this is the sort of thing i,m talking about! Although i suppose you would class that to be more of a premonition than deja vu. But doesn't this raise questions about time and how the universe really operates? Its a common phenomenon but seems not to be taken seriously.:(

[Acolyte]

Yes i guess this is the sort of thing i,m talking about! Although i suppose you would class that to be more of a premonition than deja vu. But doesn't this raise questions about time and how the universe really operates? Its a common phenomenon but seems not to be taken seriously.:(Oh yes... *grins* It's caused a lot of thought. I still don't have an answer. I think I prefer to think of mechanisms of of the older self somehow referring back than the younger one looking forward, but I just don't have the data to decide either way.

It's a very puzzling phenomena.

[Swift]

Isn't a Deja Vu an indication that they've changed something in The Forum.

[KaiYeves]

I have deja vu sometimes. I also sometimes revisit places I visited in infancy or early childhood and while nothing I see jumps out at me, they do feel familiar.

[Kaptain K]

Anybody here experienced "both ends" of a deja vu? By that I mean not only "I've been here before", but remembering when and where you were when you saw the future scene!

[jokergirl]

Yeah, I've had that. It feels like a Deja Vu on both ends.

Funny how the mind can play tricks on you...

[JMV]

Isn't a Deja Vu an indication that they've changed something in The Forum.
Like how there used to be an exit behind this http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v164/Achilleus/logout.jpg (http://www.3dmd.net/gallery/albums/textures/walls/brick/BrownBrickWall_tileable.jpg)?

[jokergirl]

Like there used to be a picture where in JMV's post is now just a red x?

;)

[Kaptain K]

My deja vu story.

Part I: Summer of '67.
I was 18 and no longer eligible to participate in the municipal swim team (6-17) so I volunteered as a timer/judge. One sunny Saturday afternoon, I had a flash vision of two people I had never seen before cooking in a cramped little kitchen. As I was busy, I shook my head and forgot about it.

Part II: Thanksgiving '75
I was divorced the year before and was visiting some friends for thanksgiving dinner. As I walked around the corner into the kitchen, I had a flash image of the swimming pool where I had had the original vision. Yes, it was the same people and the same kitchen I had seen 8 1/2 years earlier!

[cosmocrazy]

My deja vu story.

Part I: Summer of '67.
I was 18 and no longer eligible to participate in the municipal swim team (6-17) so I volunteered as a timer/judge. One sunny Saturday afternoon, I had a flash vision of two people I had never seen before cooking in a cramped little kitchen. As I was busy, I shook my head and forgot about it.

Part II: Thanksgiving '75
I was divorced the year before and was visiting some friends for thanksgiving dinner. As I walked around the corner into the kitchen, I had a flash image of the swimming pool where I had had the original vision. Yes, it was the same people and the same kitchen I had seen 8 1/2 years earlier!

This is a great story and is similar to some experiences i have had & heard before. This is a good example of what I'm talking about. A vivid description of an event/s, not just a feeling! So many people experience this phenomenon, that surely there must be some underlining science behind it that we have not yet discovered, not just mind tricks? I think this phenomenon alone questions the "impossibility" of communication time traveling. And certainly raises questions about how time really works, and also the possibility of multiple universes.

[Argos]

The biggest problem with the multiverse hypothesis as I see it, is the why you can only experience one universe at a time, and why it is precisely this universe the one you experience. Well, Deja vu could be the moment when your consciousness migrates from one universe to another, resetting the perceived reality, like a track shift on a railroad. :)