Deja vu

[ensonulv]

I get it at least three times a day. Any thoughts?

[Tyr's Hand]

Perhaps your in the Matrix :D take the blue pill next time!

when I was younger I got it more, I don't get it so much these days.

Could you give us an example?

[Teufelhunden]

I get it too at times... I would be paranoid but I am too busy dodging the people that are out to get me. <W>

[Katia]

LOL Chris...

I get it too.. Some people say it is the collective thought pool that our bioradiation is picking up bits and pieces of.. You're actually recalling something someone around you has done/seen... Others believe it is reincarnation that causes it.. Interesting subject...

[Sigurd]

I think it is just the familiarity with a similar situation that gives ya a deja vu.

[ensonulv]

Perhaps your in the Matrix :D take the blue pill next time!
LOL

when I was younger I got it more, I don't get it so much these days.

Could you give us an example?
What do you mean exactly

[Hveðrungur Kveldúlfsson]

I guess you've never seen the matrix.

[Tyr's Hand]

What do you mean exactly

Well, what was your most recent deja vu experince?

[Der Einzelgänger]

Deja Vu is weird... I've had occurances of deja vu where I could basically predict what was going to happen next. My most recent and mind boggling deja vu was My friends and I were standing outside subway smoking a cigarette and someone said some really funny and we all busted up laughing, and then I said I was having deja vu, and they all looked at me funny, and then the deja vu experience went away. The weird thing is I could have sworn I dreamt it like 2 months before, but just brushed it out of my memory and kind of forgot about it. Until it actually happened... I don't really know how to describe it other than it's a feeling of rememberance while something I have never experienced is going on.

One theory I have is that frequent routine may bring about deja vu. The sameness of an area, the knowledge of people's character, your mind while you sleep maybe predict a thousand situations and like a computer running through random numbers, might come up with a situation that will happen, out of a routine that you frequently go through.

My friend works a subway, and we sometimes go there to visit him and we often sit outside the store and just shoot the $*@# until his break is over.

One of the weirdest feelings ever...

[ensonulv]

I guess you've never seen the matrix.

I own the trilogy, I just wanted to make sure I understood Tyr's hand question.

[Hveðrungur Kveldúlfsson]

I own the trilogy, I just wanted to make sure I understood Tyr's hand question.
Ah ok, thought maybe you didn't get the "Blue pill" joke :)

[Katia]

When I was nine years old, my mother brought me on a trip to Germany so we could meet family we have there, and see the town where all our ancestors were from. It was right off the Mosel River, beautiful little town with narrow, cobblestone roads, had a big castle overlooking it. One day we were walking from our hotel to the Mosel, when suddenly I said to my mom No- I know a better way, let's cut through these little streets. My mom played along and went with it. I remember being there, and walking through this neighborhood like I had been there a thousand times before, I knew exactly where to turn where, and within a few minutes we were at the railing looking over the edge of the river. My mom asked me, How did you know that? to which I answered, I've been here before. When she replied to me that of course I had not, we had never been to Europe before, this was the first time - I was truly shocked when I realised she was telling the truth. I was raised a strict christian, so I had never been exposed to any type of concept such as reincarnation or anything like that. I was 9, I still played with Barbies! I don't remember much about my childhood but I remember that moment so clearly. For years I had no idea what that was about, now I believe that being so close to the environment where my ancestors lives for generations, I somehow tapped into their shared memory pool somehow, and a small familiarization took place. It was an interesting experience I will never forget.

[ensonulv]

Well, what was your most recent deja vu experince?

It's just a reacurance of a memory or event that useally never happened but I can't remember for sure, It's hard to explain.

[Loki's Advocate]

Since I was a kid, I've been having reoccurring themed dreams over a period of time. These are usually the easiest to remember when I've woken up, because of the re-occurring elements.

I had a weird feeling of deja-vu at work one night, when I realised that the situation (I couldn't see my workmate across the room briefly, due to the movement of bodies and her being short) was very similar to one that comes up often in my dreams.

In these dreams, I'm in a busy crowd, and walking ahead of me is a friend from the past (my primary school days mostly) that I have to keep contact with otherwise they will change into someone else. Of course, in the dream I always lose sight of them and can't find them again for the rest of that dream, but people changing to other people is a common feature of my dreams anyway.

[Sigurd]

The worst dejavu apparently happened to a friend when he played the MAGIC trading card game... he was like..."wait that was familiar", and took a sheet of paper, wrote the other's next 2 moves down and what card they would get next and that his opponent would win after 7 moves, and turned it upside down, and when they finished he turned it around and showed the other guy. It was like basically the way he had said it would be and everyone at the place was like "WTF?"

[Loki's Advocate]

(slightly OT)

Hmm. My dad has had 'terrible premonitions' on a few occasions before, and every time, something bad (or terrible) has happened to him or to one of the family- the very next day- by chance.

No ****. He's a bit crazy, but he's also genuinely 'sensitive' to such things, I'm convinced.

[aud_friggsdottir]

(slightly OT)

Hmm. My dad has had 'terrible premonitions' on a few occasions before, and every time, something bad (or terrible) has happened to him or to one of the family- the very next day- by chance.

No ****. He's a bit crazy, but he's also genuinely 'sensitive' to such things, I'm convinced.

I have had some of the same kind of thing happened, as had my mother and sisters. It is completely confined to our family...we only have these things when something is wrong with a family member. I have even "heard" my name called...swore my name is called...and then something happened very soon afterward. I know ...weird... but truly has happened. I think our souls speak to us whether it is some "bad" thing or some absolutely wonderful things, like just understanding something for the first time. Very interesting!

FFF
Kathy

[Loki's Advocate]

They say that animals always know when there's about to be a catastrophe. I don't see that that faculty would have died out in humans (if it does exist), but only that our intellect and our emotions and our memory gets in the way of our instinct, and we have to teach ourselves how to 'listen' to our instincts.

I think that's why crazy people often seem to be more 'tuned in', because they're solipsistic to begin with, so any notion that springs up in their awareness is listened to where 'normal people' would simply dismiss it.