Submitted by Hugo (not verified) on Sun, 04/13/2008 - 10:17am.
Dear Madam,
I found this web page after having a deja vu while writing a paper on my computer. As I was writing my wife said something to which I answered and as I was answering I was remembering the moment, her sentence, my answer, everything, as it had happened before. I googled "deja vu" and came up here. But what made me write this was reading about an experience of one of the readers (posted on 01/22/2006) regarding something that happens after we think about it. I have had this type of experience a few times in my life. The latest was just a few weeks ago. As I am starting my car, I am mumbling a song and as soon as I turn the radio on the song is playing! It has happened too many times and with so many different songs for me to deem it as merely a coincidence. Sometimes it is not even a hit song. Another type of experience is again with the radio. I am driving and I think about a song that I haven't heard in while, usually oldies and, despite the fact that I am not listening to an oldies radio station, the song is played some time that day. It is very awckward. Another experience is with penalty kicks in soccer. I usually "sense" when the penalty is going to be missed. I can't explain it. It is as if I knew already that it was going to be missed. When I feel the "mood" of the miss I say "he's going to miss" and I am almost always right. When I don't feel that "mood" I don't say it and usually he scores. It is not infalible but I am more than 50% right. I would say around 75%. So this is what I had to share with you. Thanks for listening.
Best regards,
Hugo
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Dear Madam,
I found this web page after having a deja vu while writing a paper on my computer. As I was writing my wife said something to which I answered and as I was answering I was remembering the moment, her sentence, my answer, everything, as it had happened before. I googled "deja vu" and came up here. But what made me write this was reading about an experience of one of the readers (posted on 01/22/2006) regarding something that happens after we think about it. I have had this type of experience a few times in my life. The latest was just a few weeks ago. As I am starting my car, I am mumbling a song and as soon as I turn the radio on the song is playing! It has happened too many times and with so many different songs for me to deem it as merely a coincidence. Sometimes it is not even a hit song. Another type of experience is again with the radio. I am driving and I think about a song that I haven't heard in while, usually oldies and, despite the fact that I am not listening to an oldies radio station, the song is played some time that day. It is very awckward. Another experience is with penalty kicks in soccer. I usually "sense" when the penalty is going to be missed. I can't explain it. It is as if I knew already that it was going to be missed. When I feel the "mood" of the miss I say "he's going to miss" and I am almost always right. When I don't feel that "mood" I don't say it and usually he scores. It is not infalible but I am more than 50% right. I would say around 75%. So this is what I had to share with you. Thanks for listening.
Best regards,
Hugo