View Full Version : Deja Vu
jim_genius5
07-24-2008, 05:06 PM
You see something completely new, but for a split-second, you find it very, very familiar. It happens to me lots of times, most of which I don't remember later on. Does it happen to you?
Tyler
07-24-2008, 05:09 PM
Yes, its very natural.
I havent had it in a while, now that i think back on it.
streetracer
07-24-2008, 05:39 PM
YES!! This happens to me ALL THE TIME! I thought I was the only one tbh. Anyway, it's so weird, like I feel like I've been to the place before, even the sounds and what people are talking about I've heard before. It's weird...
Staffybull97
07-24-2008, 05:42 PM
Oh yeah, I get it a lot. It is very weird. It used to make me think something was wrong with me.
I hate it.. when it happens, I like anticipate the things people say BEFORE they say it. It's just a huge mindfuck.
Staffybull97
07-24-2008, 05:45 PM
Yeah it is a mindfuck. Also, sometimes when I get it I feel really dizzy.
jim_genius5
07-24-2008, 05:50 PM
I hate it.. when it happens, I like anticipate the things people say BEFORE they say it. It's just a huge mindfuck.
Do things turn up as what you expected? I mean it never actually happened to me with that extent, it usually lasts for less than a second and everything returns back to normal.
Thomas B.
07-24-2008, 05:53 PM
Its happened to me before for like a second. It doesn't make my dizzy or anything.
Do things turn up as what you expected? I mean it never actually happened to me with that extent, it usually lasts for less than a second and everything returns back to normal.
Yeah, happened yesterday actually. At my friend's house for his birthday, and I was in his room walked towards the doorway and got deja vu bad, was expecting a woman or a girl to come upstairs for some reason, but that's the only time it didn't actually happen. Got dizzy, etc.
jim_genius5
07-24-2008, 06:05 PM
Haha if that's how deja vu happens to you then it's a serious mindfuck!! I never get dizzy and I don't really "hate" it. They say on Wikipedia that it's some sort of unsynchronization between both hemispheres.
iKlipse
07-24-2008, 07:20 PM
When I spa with my trainer I get a lot of Deja Vu and it can mess me up a bit with my concentration but a lot of it actually helps me predict the moves that he is going to make before he makes them. Also when I listen to the radio or when someone is talking I can usually predict what they are going to say.
There has been times where I have been to places and saw something, the words were on the tip of my tongue and someone says it just as I was about to say it. Its pretty weird but fun also.
Tyler
07-24-2008, 07:28 PM
Have you ever sung a song, then turn on the radio about 5 seconds later, and that same song is on?
I have when i was like 13. lol
Staffybull97
07-24-2008, 07:30 PM
Yeah, I've had that a couple of times. It's like the radio read your mind:D
jim_genius5
07-25-2008, 12:00 PM
Or may be the brain has some sort of psychic ability that can "hear" radio waves!
You reminded me of something, if I randomly think about the family guy episode where Peter and Lois run for schoolboard president, that same show would be on later on that day. Like ANY episode of ANY fucking show, if I think about it, it will be on the tv. It's really, really weird. Happens like, 5 times a month. I can't force myself to think about it and expect it to be on, it had to be like something that reminds me of it, then I'm like "Oh yeah that episode!"
Tyler
07-26-2008, 10:45 AM
Yeah, its weird.
I was singing Yellowcard the other day waiting for my friend to pick me up, and litterally one minute later, his car comes down the corner blaring Yellowcard - Only One.
I told him about you guys. Hahaha
TwistedArachnid
07-26-2008, 03:10 PM
I think it comes from our perceived memories of dreams. You dream a lot in your lifetime, and while you don't remember everything in them, I think it's in your brain somehow. And when something happens, that might trigger the feeling you've done it before, even if the dream you're drawing on is really different. Does that make sense?
walter
07-28-2008, 12:29 PM
Yes, I get this almost everyday. Sometimes, it's so strong that I feel like I am able to say what the person is about to say even though I don't know what they are about to say... (It makes sense if you think for a second :P)
Sometimes, it feels like what I am doing is planned or something and I have no control over what I am saying. Like, I know what is about to happen and it actually happens just the way I thought it would. Sometimes I know I'm about to say a certain thing and I try to say something else but I just end up saying what I "intended" to say. It may be in my head, but it is certainly a strange feeling :P.
Holster
07-29-2008, 03:53 AM
I get this quite often, it's a bit weird how you feel you've been there or experienced that before. And I usually do this with my mum, one of us says something, then the other one says "omg i was just about to say that!" haha, it happens all the time.
guilty.by.association
07-29-2008, 05:15 AM
Yeah i always get it, i remember when i was 14 i was sitting in science class and i got deja vu and i knew what the teacher was going to teach. I was ultimate noob with science yet i knew all the chemical names and wierd stuff she was about to teach. I said them before she said and I got in trouble for "reading her class plan" before the lesson or some shit.
Deja Vu got me in trouble :(
danhex
07-29-2008, 05:43 PM
yeah that sh!t is crazy, say ill go to my aunts house and everyone is getting ready to do whatever, i could sware i knew what everyone was gong to do and that i heard the conversation before, etc etc...idono..makes me think that my brain is off a couple of seconds from what im hearing , no exp. here for me.
John JJ
08-09-2008, 01:13 PM
It is a trick of your mind. Something happens, you thought it already happened, but it doesn't happen, until until it happens. And when that happens, you thought it already happened, but it hasn't happen. I gave a lot of thought about this. :P
DiscoBombs
08-09-2008, 01:21 PM
What really bothers me is when I see something in a dream for a split second, then see the exact same thing irl anywhere from a day to a month later. Freaks me the fuck out.
BlackSilver65
08-13-2008, 12:07 AM
I freaking love when that happens. I was sitting in math class one day and my friend Marky just started having this conversation and I was like holy crap this has happened before, then one of my friends walked in and waved at me and I was like WTF this happened before I swear to god, then I realized how sweet it was.
BlazingEvanator
09-02-2008, 06:52 PM
sometimes ill think of someone and theyll call or the phone will ring and ill know who it is before looking at the phone.. its kind of annoying sometimes. Or ill see a scene play out in my head and it will really happen..
Tendercrisp
09-02-2008, 08:12 PM
I just finished reading this graphic novel (meaning big-ass comic) called Watchmen. And I now have a different idea on how deja-vu occurs after a little monologue one character gave about humans and their perspective of time.
Imagine if time wasn't sequential, imagine if everything that has ever happened, everything that is happening, and everything that ever will happen is all "happening" at once. But humans only have the ability to look at time one occurence at a time.
But, for split seconds we are able to experience an event that is going to happen in our future. Whether it be through a dream or whatever other means. And when that event actually occurs, we get this strange sensation that we've experienced it before.
Blah. Sorry if this post was confusing. Hard to explain what I'm thinking.
Staffybull97
09-02-2008, 08:26 PM
I just finished reading this graphic novel (meaning big-ass comic) called Watchmen. And I now have a different idea on how deja-vu occurs after a little monologue one character gave about humans and their perspective of time.
Imagine if time wasn't sequential, imagine if everything that has ever happened, everything that is happening, and everything that ever will happen is all "happening" at once. But humans only have the ability to look at time one occurence at a time.
But, for split seconds we are able to experience an event that is going to happen in our future. Whether it be through a dream or whatever other means. And when that event actually occurs, we get this strange sensation that we've experienced it before.
Blah. Sorry if this post was confusing. Hard to explain what I'm thinking.
Wow, that makes a lot of sence. I never thought of it that way.
JRussell89
09-13-2008, 06:35 AM
It has happened to me several times throughout my life. It's strange, but it's also kind of cool.
Xegethra
09-15-2008, 01:15 PM
Have you ever sung a song, then turn on the radio about 5 seconds later, and that same song is on?
I have when i was like 13. lol
i do that....a lot of the time i think of a tv program and a certain episode and sometimes it comes on a day or two later....it is weird. doesnt happen all the time but often enough to notice it....i think people are unlocking their psykick abilities...
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nah only joking about the psycick stuff but still. all this shit that happens is too interesting to ignore
now to read the rest of the topic, damn cold beat me to it, but still it looks like it happens to more people too, exept mine isnt same day, its a few down the line
i also i heavily got it when i first started dressing like i do now, its just so strange. and tendercrisp makes some sense indeed. its all kinda cool. i get it quite a bit, when i first started college ever at all i got it too
Rocker-5
09-15-2008, 04:03 PM
i have the same thing in my dreams
like once i dreamt of my mom telling me something exiting
and around a week later she told me the same thing
what a coincidence :P
Phantom
09-16-2008, 01:09 AM
Yeah it is a mindfuck. Also, sometimes when I get it I feel really dizzy.
Me too; and sometimes it would give me the chillz.
...And here's an even stranger Deja Vu problem I experience while sleeping. I'll be dreaming then like half way through the dream I'll find myself saying "haven't I seen this before?! ... Haven't I been here once?"
Then I'll wake up and only remember the Deja Vu part.
flint.44
09-16-2008, 05:08 PM
I frequently experience Deja Vu, mostly about conversations that I have, rarely about locations.
Xegethra
09-17-2008, 06:01 AM
i get a bit of both, i even had it playing gta 4 for the first time and later about halfway through the game i had it again
JRussell89
10-05-2008, 03:45 AM
The thing that really bothers me is I'm not sure if I dreamed it previously or not. Also, the frequency that the deja vus occur is so irregular. It's kind of like your brain is trying to upload a memory but it can't synchronize it properly so you "see" it again. I don't know, it's very confusing and sometimes frustrating.:confused:
Grimmy
10-05-2008, 04:18 AM
The thing is though that deja vus actually occur because our life is already programmed into our brain. And sometimes our brain malfunctions and we see snippets of our future without knowing it. Ya know that we use only 10 percent of our brains, right? Well the rest is our future.
That's my theory and im sticking by it
flint.44
10-05-2008, 11:48 AM
Deja Vu is only a random anomaly with the brain. Basically, the brain gives off a feeling of remembrance, even in an instance that has never happened. It makes the person experiencing Deja Vu believe they remember doing something, and thus believe they have already done it or foresaw the future. It is unknown what causes this to occur, and there is no way to provoke it.
ELXSQUISHY
10-05-2008, 12:28 PM
ya ive had deja vu in the past, it always comes to me in a sort of dream, like ill go to sleep, dream about something and wake up and i cant remenber the dream, only flashes of it if that, that a few days later something happens and i get the "this happened before" feeling and i remnber the dream clearly its weird and it always leaves kinda dazzed for a few minutes