Deja Vu

[Lord Krunk]

Have you suffered Deja Vu? I know I have.

It's that feeling of foresight, that "I've seen that before!" feeling you get during everyday events. But is it foresight? Or just your mind tricking you?

Several times today, I have found myself seeing things I have seen before, finding myself doing things that I remember seeing myself do before.

This is confusing me too.

Anyway, please post your own Deja Vu experience.

 

[meatloaf231]

I think you are just crazy. There's no such thing as Deja Vu

(Quick, everyone play along. Maybe we can make him go insane!)

 

[Lord Krunk]

AHAHA!

That's the thing about Deja Vu; maybe I am!

 

[PurpleRain]

I get that sometimes. My theory is when your brain accedently puits what you've just seen into the wrong memory file some time beforehand. But I'm not brain surgent... just a rocket scientist.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

Happens all the time (well, maybe every few months or so).
I think it has something to do with the way memory works, you see a scene or situation/whatever that is very similar to one that you already have stored in the dusty, rarely used recycle bin of your memory banks and your brain associates the two and pulls up the old one, but its very degraded so its over written by the new clear input. It feels like youve seen it before but its just your brain filling in a very substantial memory gap.
Sometimes if I think about it I can work out what the original memory was.
Thats my thoughts on it anyway.

 

[Castrate the Heathen]

Haven't I seen this thread before?

 

[The Lyre]

Despite the fact that I get this 2 or 3 times a week, with the incredible feeling that I've already dreamt it (I get it so bad at times that I actually believe for a few seconds that I am still dreaming), I can pretty much attribute it to two things;

What Scum said above, it really IS Deja Vu.

Or, what can happen is your senses act faster than your brain - technically you are seeing it twice because there is a split second gap between your senses recognising the situation, and your brain processing it.

But yes, I get it a hell of a lot, and it fucks with my mind when it happens.

 

[Khedive Rex]

I go through deja vu phases. There are time's when I'll get multiple long deja vu's a day and then there'll be times when I wont get a deja vu for multiple months.

The fun ones though are the one that keep going. My longest deja vu was 2 minutes and 20 seconds. It was maybe the most fun I've had in a long time. Everything that happened was familiar to the point where I could sort of guess what some people would say.

In short, I love deja vu.

 

[God's Clown]

I hate Deja Vu. I hate doing or feeling I've done the same thing twice. With video games, i never play the same way twice. If deja vu happens i always forcefully make myself do something different then I remember.

 

[wordsmith]

Deja Vu has actually saved my ass a couple of times...

1) In south Africa on holiday, in the guest house. About 6 months earlier, I dreampt that I'd tripped up the stairs and dislocated my elbow on a metal table, cue a load of pain. One morning I was walking up stairs, tripped and *just* managed to avoid the corner of the stainless steel table. Bear in mind that I had never visited SA before, let alone been in that room when I had the dream

2)I had a dream that I was tailgating a tractor and a pallot had slid off the back, smashed my windscreen and made me crash... Three months later, I was driving behind a tractor, pallots on the back (not tied down too well) I was tailgating trying to pass until I looked at my windscreen, and (as stupid as this sounds) I recognised the pattern that the fumes had made on the side of the windscreen... I slowed down and backed right off. Sure enough he went over a bump, a pallot slid off the back and hit where I would have been had I not moved.

Technically not deja vu, but pre-emptive dreams surely comes under the same heading

 

[Danny Ocean]

Methinks it's your brain working out all the possible situations beforehand, so one of them is bound to come true. Hence de ja vu.

 

[Dahemo]

Methinks it's your brain working out all the possible situations beforehand, so one of them is bound to come true. Hence de ja vu.

Except we'd have millions of visions of all possible permutations, which would be a waking nightmare. I'm not sure of the exact science but you never actually have deja vu, your brain creates a false memory of a premoniton or vision, it usually occurs during repetitive action.

Next time it happens, try to remember when and where you had the premonition, almost certainly, you will not have actually had such an experience and will only remember the vision itself.

I know that if I started forseeing events I'd write them down. Or get a career in gambling...

 

[wordsmith]

If that's at me- It's all well and good to suggest my head was working out possible scenarios... Whilst I can accept that with the tractor, it couldn't have been with the South African experience.

1) I didn't know what guesthouse we were staying in. The dream had the details of the room right down to the colour of the sofa. From half way around the world. In a country I had never visited.

2) I felt that tensing as I fell, but because I'd already "seen" what happened if I tensed up, I let my arm to limp, meaning I didn't break it. Accepted, this could have been a "what happens if I fall over" scenario running in my head, but I think not.

3) I saw blood on the top step just before I woke up. I cut my foot on a rough tile as I fell over the top of the stairs... To go with your suggestion, my head would have had to run a hella lot of permutations to get the whole set up exactly, down to a rough tile... Also, if they WERE being generated "just in case", surely I would also remember the dream where I broke my leg, or the sofa was pink, or it took place at a friend's house. But no.

 

[Johnn Johnston]

I get Deja Vu all the time.
I get Deja Vu all the time. (Can you see what I did there?)

I often feels as though I recognise a certain sight or location, then it seems as if I remember from long ago what people are presently saying.

 

[Danny Ocean]

I get Deja Vu all the time.
I get Deja Vu all the time. (Can you see what I did there?)

Oh, oh. *applauds*
That's very good, I see now why you are so high up in the SDP.
I think that's a joke worthy of an
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Nay!
An Awesome
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[DevilSaint44]

Yes I have. Yes I have.

 

[DevilSaint44]

No seriously now i have them almost everywhere i go.but i cant put my finger on it where have i seen it before