Have you ever experienced de'ja' vu?

Question

Have you ever experienced de'ja' vu?

Answer 1

Indubitably. The brain can do funny things.

Answer 2

no

Answer 3

Several times.

Answer 4

yea

Answer 5

yes. i experienced it earlier today actually. it happens to me a lot. atleast once every couple of weeks.

Answer 6

Oh yeah. Lots of times. Freaky but cool at the same time.

Answer 7

i have dreams, years before the experience, of mundane details.  I just had it happen at my new job, and it makes you wonder if choices are an illusion. maybe we go through life hitting certain checkpoints and then we die.

Answer 8

Well, Deja-Vu is actually something that happened in a dream, then you experienced it in "awake" state.

When you sleep, and dream, you are actually going into a higher plane of consciousness. Your blood pressure drops, heart beat and breath slows, and body temperature decreases--same with meditation. ??? =)

Dreams are your subconscious' way of mapping out future events, weighing the consequences of different actions, and putting you on the road you're supposed to travel.

When you experience deja vu, you are remembering what you dream because, you have. This is fascinating alone, but with the ability to remember at that moment, that you have done this before (so to speak), and be able to make a subconscious decision as to what to do next, whoa!

The power of the mind!

Remember, although some dreams are crazy, distorted, and just plain, do-not-make-sense: All dreams are your "higher consciousness'" way of teaching you something; About yourself, the situations you're in, the road you're supposed to travel. Besides meditation, dreams are one place you can ask and receive information from the spirit world.

Oh, yes. I have had deja vu before. And every time, I smile cuz I then know I'm on the right path and that was supposed to happen!!

☼Happy Dreams!!

Answer 9

Yes but I think it was dream though ...

Answer 10

Yes several times.  And its not just some weird brain loop thing because I have told people what is about to happen, and then it happened just as I said.  It is weird when it happens.  Kind of creeps out the guy you tell it to, and there is the look you get from them.

Answer 11

Mm hmm. All the time. It makes me scream out "WHOA! Deja-VU!" in quiet rooms where it startles people. Lol

Answer 12

many times, and i do believe it comes from our dreams then we happen to experience it

Answer 13

yes, of course. almost everyone has. here is a recent article from BBC news about how scientists have dicovered more about deja vu.

Answer 14

yeah........

Answer 15

Yeah, but it's not nearly as unsettling as experiencing it AND amnesia...

at...the...same...time.

I think I've forgotten this before.

(Apologies to Steven Wright)

Answer 16

Yep.

Answer 17

Of course everyone has,no big deal.

Answer 18

Yes, maybe we experience this event because we may have actually done it before in our past lives. Some kind of residual memory....

Answer 19

Yes, indeed. The experience is not at all uncommon.  In formal studies 70% of people report having experienced it at least once.

In recent years, déjà vu has been subjected to serious psychological and neurophysiological research. The most likely explanation of déjà vu is that it is not an act of "precognition" or "prophecy", but rather an anomaly of memory; it is the impression that an experience is "being recalled".[citation needed] 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 process 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. The global phenomenon must therefore be narrowed down to the brain itself (say, one hemisphere would be late compared to the other one).

Medical disorders are also a consideration. For instance, jamais vu is a disorder of memory characterized by the illusion that the familiar is being encountered for the first time.

Fascinating stuff.