Have you ever done something or been somewhere and sworn it's happened before? It's happened to myself on many occasions sometimes it's split second material and on one occassion it was a whole holiday!
2 explanations I've heard so far are:- remembering bits from past lives
A time trap where we inadvertently move to either another vibration or alternate reality!
What are anyone's thoughts on this?
Love and Peace,
SHONA!!

Well I can tell you the scientific explanation for Deja vous. Aparantly there are split second delays from when we see or hear something to when our brain processes what we are seeing or hearing. However, for some individuals, the images are stored in their subconcious so when their brain gets around to processing the data their subconcious already has it stored - thus creating the illusion of an experience already experienced.

Hey - I didn't say I believed that explanation...but it does kinda make sense. I prefer to think Deja vous does exist - makes me feel kinda special to think I've experienced it.

I don't quite follow that, and I'll tell you why. I was in a parking lot, pulled up to the entrance/exit, waiting for the cars to pass so I could pull out onto the highway. All looked clear, but then I had this very strong feeling of Deja vous and said aloud (I'm not sure why I said it aloud because I was alone, but anywhooo)"This has happened before" and I knew that one more car was comeing up over the hill, a yellow jeep- and sure enough, there it was, a yellow jeep.

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This has happened before" and I knew that one more car was comeing up over the hill, a yellow jeep- and sure enough, there it was, a yellow jeep.

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This happens to me a lot! But I tend to think it is more precognitive then deja vous. I feel I have developed my extra sensory skills more than the average person so I just chalk an experience like that up to me doing my homework! LOL

Perhaps that is, in a nutshell, what deja vous is. BTY, how did you "quote" just those couple of sentences. Every time I try to do that, even if I high-lite only certain words, the whole post comes up as the quote.

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Perhaps that is, in a nutshell, what deja vous is. BTY, how did you "quote" just those couple of sentences. Every time I try to do that, even if I high-lite only certain words, the whole post comes up as the quote.

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LVLF, if you look down when you're posting next to the Instant Graemlins the Instant UBBCode is located. Third down on the left column is the button 'Quote'.
Press that button and enter the text that you wish to quote from. Need simple step-by-step instructions? Here they are:

1)Scroll down until you reach the review topic. Hilight and copy (Ctrl c) the text that you wish to quote.

2)Under the 'Instant UBBCode' click on the quote button (Third button down in the left hand column).

3)Copy the text into the quote bar (Ctrl v).

4)Press the OK button.

And you're finished!

Cheers! Matiqua

i heard that deja vous is just your mind playing tricks on you, but i like georgia85's explaination more because it makes more sense.

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BTY, how did you "quote" just those couple of sentences. Every time I try to do that, even if I high-lite only certain words, the whole post comes up as the quote.

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I do it differently from the way Matiqua explained. I click on the quote marks in the message that I want to respond to....and voila, there is the quote. For example, if you wanted to quote me just look at the top of the message box and you should see little people icons, and the 4th icon is "" marks. Click on that and my entire message will appear in your message box. Take out what you want to but make sure you don't mess with the html tags at the front and end of quote. Let me know if you need any further help.

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LVLF, if you look down when you're posting next to the Instant Graemlins the Instant UBBCode is located

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You make things so easy! Thank you Matiqua
Georgia85, I'm going to try your way next. It sounds easy too, I'm so ecited to be learning all these new things.

Back on topic folks! What do you considr de ja vu to be? Has it happened to you if so give an example?
Love and Peace,
SHONA!!

Something happened to me a few years ago which set me thinking about deja vu.

I used to be a door-to-door salesman for a short while and one day I had to work in Cornwall in the SW of England. I had never been to Cornwall before.

When I rang one of the doorbells a young man answered and we recognised each other instantly. We greeted each other like long lost friends although we could not remember each others name.

He called his mother to the door and lo and behold she and I also recognised each other.

I was invited in and for about two hours we tried to figure out where we could all have met. When I left them we had decided that it was impossible that we had ever met as I had never been to Cornwall until that day and neither of them had ever been outside of Cornwall.

My theory about deja vu is quite simple really.

Just like illness and disease, unfortunately, a lot of these can be inheritted from parent to child and on again etc.

Would it not be probable that memory is also passed on and when what we call deja vu actually occurs it is just our subconscious inherited memory remembering something that happened to one of our ancestors?

There's no such thing as deja vu.

deja vu......deja vu.......deja vu....

Oh, I get that feeling all the time. Just all of a sudden something will seem really familiar and then I'll start to remember and then it's gone.
It's rather unsettling. Kind of like a burp that won't come out.

I have the strangest feeling that I've already answered this question... Oh wait. Der.

Someone once told me that deja vu is an event that you had a dream about but don't remember and then when it happens it seems familiar. I think this is a good explaination, but i still think that deja vu is like a premontition.
I have experienced deja vu several times in my life but i can't remember a specific time it happened.

Kalena

Ha ha! I bet I are the Deja King!

Ha Ha! I bet I are the Deja King!

No seriously, I am.

Why? because I have temporal lobe epilepsy which along with petite and grand mal seizures also gives me a wealth of Deja experiences.

This is where the doctors base their opinion that Deja vu is just a trick of the brain. There are many epileptics out there who report unusually high numbers of Deja.

I have Deja vu about once every two days. For me they can last for up to several minutes and be some of the scariest times of my life.

The increase of deja vu in my life happened when I went from just having petite-mal (small barely discerned seizures) to Grand Mal (the most commonly know type of seizure where people most often think your going to bite off your tongue as you break dance in the middle of the floor).

While hooked up to EEG I experienced some interesting brain wave activity while having a Deja vu. So it is a readable thing.

It is not an understood thing, and my doctor, a neurologist is still hard pressed to explain the phenomena to my satisfaction (Mostly because I have very high standards on information collection) Only because no one has agreed to have their brain dissected while they were still alive.

Cheers

David

I know this is an old tread, but I tought I would put my 2 cents in.

I believe that dejavu is somthing that God puts into our subconcious as a preventative of going insane from worry. He sort of tells your subconsious that all is ok and this is where you'll be in the future. Therefore, when that time comes, our subconsious already knew that it was going to happen but you experience it for the first time while relating it with your subconsious creating dejavu.

BTW, I wonder if someone w/ paranoid schizophrenia has dejavu. It would not suprise me if they did'nt have it much if ever. Could that maybe help contribute?
Just another one of my many thoughts.

I have always thought that Dejavu was linked to the sense of smell. If you smelled something in a situation and the same smell happened in another setting it triggers something in your memory which makes you feel as if you have experienced it before.

Interesting idea Mudbuck.
Welcome to the pool.

I could have sworn I posted in this thread before. Hmmmm... must be DeJaVu!

Clare, I get that a lot, too, where smells will remind me of something -but just for a flash and then it is gone.