Do you belive in Dèjá Vu?

Question

A typical day, and suddenly you feel like you've seen this before! It's as if you can predict every gesture, every word, every smell. Everything seems just right...exactly like it happened before...so you may be having a Déjà Vu (already seen in french). The feeling's almost magical. Like being inside a movie, aware of everything that happens. Present and future become as one. And then...C'est Fini...it ends like it started. The only thing left is an almost mystical experience.

Why do this phenomenons occur? Is it a result of paranormal activities such as astral projection (out-of-body exp.), extra-sensory perceptions, past-life memories. Or do you take a more scientific approach and believe it's an anomaly of memory caused by the mis-timing of neuronal firing?

Any way for now the coolest explanation comes from Trinity (Matrix) when Neo sees a black cat, and feels he's already seen him before:

- A dèjá vu is a failure in the Matrix, Neo it happens when they change something...

Answer 1

Yes I do!

Answer 2

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes, I believe in Deja Vu!

Answer 3

I believe it's caused by triggering an old memory.  I've had this several times, where I know I've gone through the same thing before, but I'm sure it's just an old memory that has the same feeling.  Usually it involves the same people in a similar situation, and quite often the same conversation.  Knowing my family, I've had the same conversations several times anyway.

Answer 4

Yea it has happened to me many times...it's such a strange feeling...i wish i knew why it happens...

Answer 5

totally believe in it...

In recent years, déjà vu has been subjected to serious psychological and neurophysiological research. Scientifically speaking, the most likely explanation of déjà vu is not that it is an act of "precognition" or "prophecy", but rather that it is an anomaly of memory; it is the impression that an experience is "being recalled". This explanation is substantiated by the fact that the sense of "recollection" at the time is strong in most cases, but that the circumstances of the "previous" experience (when, where and how the earlier experience occurred) are quite uncertain. Likewise, as time passes, subjects can exhibit a strong recollection of having the "unsettling" experience of déjà vu itself, but little to no recollection of the specifics of the event(s) or circumstance(s) they were "remembering" when they had the déjà vu experience. In particular, this may result from an overlap between the neurological systems responsible for short-term memory (events which are perceived as being in the present) and those responsible for long-term memory (events which are perceived as being in the past). In other words, the events would be stored into memory before the conscious part of the brain even receives the information and processes it. This would explain why one is, if it ever comes to mind, powerless trying to twist the outcome of the event in order to create a paradox. The delay is only of a few milliseconds, and besides, already happened at the time the conscious of the individual is experiencing it.

Another theory being explored is that of vision. As the theory suggests, one eye may record what is seen fractionally faster than the other, creating that "strong recollection" sensation upon the "same" scene being viewed milliseconds later by the opposite eye. However, this one fails to explain the phenomenon when other sensory inputs are involved, such as the auditive part, and especially the digital part. If one, for instance, experience déjà vu of someone slapping the fingers on his/her left hand, then the déjà vu feeling is certainly not due to his/her right hand to be late on the left one. Also, persons with only one eye still report experiencing déjà vu or déjà vecu. The global phenomenon must therefore be narrowed down to the brain itself (say, one hemisphere would be late compared to the other one).

Answer 6

When the brain works to store data and stimulation that it experiences everyday sometimes flashes of past occurences happen in such a series that u feel like u've been thru something before...thus ur feeling of deja vu!

Answer 7

I get DeJa Vu all the time. It's really weird, because no one knows how it happens to me, but I swear the same thing has already happened before.

Answer 8

Yep, mine are connected to my dreams, I will dream something, then it will happen.

Answer 9

Yes. I am a Buddhist, and most Buddhists believe in not only life after death, but life before birth - what we call Samsara, which is something like re-incarnation. Because of the cycle of birth-life-death-rebirth, we have experienced multitudes of places, people, events, feelings, situation, etc.

"Been there, done that."

I remember the first time I visited Paris, France I made my way around the maze-like little streets of the Left Bank, thinking to myself 'I have been here before.' My mother was with me and was astonished. I told her I knew a good bakery nearby ... she asked how do you know? You and I have never been here before. So went down one tiny street and came across a bookshop and I was sure that was a bakery - an in my poor high school french (I was 17 at the time) I asked about what became of the bakery I knew was there? The employee didn't know, but the old owner of the place was summoned - and he spoke fluent english - anyway, he said the place was various types of shops for at least 60 years, but yes it was originally a bakery in the last century - there were ovens in the basement still, and once when they were cleaning out the basement they found some baker's implements as well! My Mom just stared at me with her mouth half open!

Answer 10

Haven't you asked this question before?

Answer 11

Yep --- it has happened to me several times.

Answer 12

Wow, im sure i have answered this before !!!!

Answer 13

yes.our soul is not limeted by time

Answer 14

yeah i ahve ti all the time, i think lol

i be driving pass a advertisment sign and then i think ive seen thi s befor its a feeling as if i already done the same thing.  or i have done the same situation but i really havent

Answer 15

I believe in Deja Vu (as an experience) and believe in both explanations. When you simply have a feeling of said that, done this before, etc, it may be the brain misfiring as it stores information and it seems like a memory.

On the other hand if you can accurately describe the room lay out and details of rooms you have not yet been in when stepping into a location that is completely new to you then ESP, Universal Consciousness, etc. is the more appropriate and better fitting explanation.

When science in general stops looking for one answer to every question (experience) and seeks to understand the complete human experience which will almost certainly require multiple explanations science will advance along with our knowledge of the universe and human experience.

Psi

Answer 16

deja vu is not something mysterious. not really. any practicing psychologist can tell you the answer . I am not a psychologist. I am a psychiatrist. but regardless here is the answer...

dejavu is something that has happened in your life once already. in your brain, thoughts are processed as negative charges and positive charges like electricity...actually it is electricity! When you see something...anything..your brain receives "charges" from the sensory item that received the image...your eyes...a touch sensation would be your hand or the skin area where you were touched. these charges are transformed into two items...one is a "thougth" and the other is a "memory". one is experienced instantly and the other is stored in your cerebellum for you to recall upon your desire.

As we grow older, those stored "charges" are not as strong in electric strength and we "forget'. In reality the "charge" as lost its "charge' like a battery. A deja vu experience is when we experience an event, a place, anything, and the charge is on its way to be stored and to be sent to us as an experience...and there is a lapse in time from the time we perceive the event and the time we receive the data back from our brain. A sort of short circuit. The event has taken place....we have it stored but we have not received the "experience charge" and we recall it from our memory....

never receiving the "experience charge" so therefore it seems that we have been there before when in essence we are there at that moment only we are "remembering" being there at the exact time we are there. Hope you are not confused.

dr. k

(killing time at lunch on the ole puter)

Answer 17

Sylvia Browne wrote that this is a way of spirit telling us that we are on the right track with our pre-written charts. Sounds like a reasonable explaination to me.

Yogi Berra said, This is like Deja Vous all over again .

Answer 18

Happens to me on a daily basis.

Answer 19

The term deja vu is French and means, literally, "already seen." Those who have experienced the feeling describe it as an overwhelming sense of familiarity with something that shouldn't be familiar at all. Say, for example, you are traveling to England for the first time. You are touring a cathedral, and suddenly it seems as if you have been in that very spot before. Or maybe you are having dinner with a group of friends, discussing some current political topic, and you have the feeling that you've already experienced this very thing -- same friends, same dinner, same topic.

much as 70 percent of the population reports having experienced some form of deja vu. A higher number of incidents occurs in people 15 to 25 years old than in any other age group.

Deja vu has been firmly associated with temporal-lobe epilepsy. Reportedly, deja vu can occur just prior to a temporal-lobe seizure. People suffering a seizure of this kind can experience deja vu during the actual seizure activity or in the moments between convulsions.

Since deja vu occurs in individuals with and without a medical condition, there is much speculation as to how and why this phenomenon happens. Several psychoanalysts attribute deja vu to simple fantasy or wish fulfillment, while some psychiatrists ascribe it to a mismatching in the brain that causes the brain to mistake the present for the past. Many parapsychologists believe it is related to a past-life experience. Obviously, there is more investigation to be done.

Answer 20

Yes I believe in it.

Answer 21

i 100% believe in it, it happened to me ALOT! it feels so weird :S :S...living the same situation again..feels funny sometimes

Answer 22

Hi!!  I believe in déjavu... I have had that feeling many times in my life.  I guess there's no explanation for this or they don't want to tell us..... :)

Also I have had dreams explaining me somthing is going to happen and -strangely- all is bad !!  Have you thought of this?

We never dream of the MegaMillion winning number !! NO way... But what about a killing? a dead in the family?  those things we can see them vividly in our dreams.

And back to Dejavus... could be scenes we see on the T.V., and seem so real in our dreams or in our everyday life at work of school... that it is impossible to know if it is true or false.  And don't believe in ghosts, ok?  Dead people CANT come to harm you in any way...those are mind games !!

sorry, dear.  But this is the truth. dd.

Answer 23

Yes, but I am not interested in knowing the cause. Experiencing Dejá Vu is enough for me.

Answer 24

i believe in it. it happens to me all the time. but i have no sort of explanation for it.

Answer 25

IMHO I think it's your subconscious trying to make you 'wake up' or learn something at that moment. Something about the time is important...happens to me a lot

Answer 26

happens to me all the time

Answer 27

i believe it real cause it has happen to me a load of times it feels like i lived this life before it freaky

~♪ DJ Steve ♫~

Answer 28

yea i see my wife's face every morning........

Answer 29

I definately believe in Deja Vu- I seem to have it a lot more often then most people I know. My friend have learned to just ignore me when I randomly shout "God, I swear I have had this exact conversation with you before." I also tend to have it alot when I am reading a book that I have never read before. Like I have read the same exact paragraph on the same side of the page before.

I'm just not so sure about Trinity's explanation. The other two sound plausable.