Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 1:52am.
hi, im 18 years old. having read a large portion of this article, including the comments, i must say that i am deeply relieved!!!!! All this time i thought i was the only person in the world that has such experiences and at the same times, fearing to death about it... Like many who have shared in this article, i had experienced deja vu's in the past as a kid and i never really paid much attention to them. It wasnt until a few months ago when i read up about it and the idea started to frighten me a little becuase i keep wondering how is it possible for one to tell the future, or to have a past life? and so, i was helplessly engrossed about it and i tried digging up from my memory some past dejavu experiences i had and in the process, i started having more and more of this experiences. day by day the numbers grew until i cant even remember a day when ive never had one deja vu experience. This was never the case in my life when i was younger. So i was frightened and i developed a fear, a phobia of it, and everytime this happened, it would suck the happiness outta me, leaving me choking in my doubts and confusion and i could hardly breathe too. ive developed a fear of familiarity, no matter how tiny it is. but as i continued to read into it, i came across this article and i realised that this is probably due to the way our brain works. AS we all know, there is no one, no scientist able to fully comprehend how our brain works because it is simply too complex for a human to understand. and i must say it is a masterpiece of God's creation. I feel that no matter how much research is done, no one can really tell how the brain works, and i believe all these experiences that we have are the result of the many calculations of our brains,our senses and everything to do with our minds. colours, smells, shapes, light, all these and many others are factors that our brain remembers, and stores and no one can really tell how our minds play with these things. So i feel that we shouldnt jump to conclusions about having past lifes and stuff because we have seen how life in the old days were through movies, documentaries, and pictures. our mind registers those images and thus we can imagine things unthinkable.
like someone else commented, its not mystical, but more of psychological.
i hope my sharing would be of some help to others.
thanks!
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hi, im 18 years old. having
hi, im 18 years old. having read a large portion of this article, including the comments, i must say that i am deeply relieved!!!!! All this time i thought i was the only person in the world that has such experiences and at the same times, fearing to death about it... Like many who have shared in this article, i had experienced deja vu's in the past as a kid and i never really paid much attention to them. It wasnt until a few months ago when i read up about it and the idea started to frighten me a little becuase i keep wondering how is it possible for one to tell the future, or to have a past life? and so, i was helplessly engrossed about it and i tried digging up from my memory some past dejavu experiences i had and in the process, i started having more and more of this experiences. day by day the numbers grew until i cant even remember a day when ive never had one deja vu experience. This was never the case in my life when i was younger. So i was frightened and i developed a fear, a phobia of it, and everytime this happened, it would suck the happiness outta me, leaving me choking in my doubts and confusion and i could hardly breathe too. ive developed a fear of familiarity, no matter how tiny it is. but as i continued to read into it, i came across this article and i realised that this is probably due to the way our brain works. AS we all know, there is no one, no scientist able to fully comprehend how our brain works because it is simply too complex for a human to understand. and i must say it is a masterpiece of God's creation. I feel that no matter how much research is done, no one can really tell how the brain works, and i believe all these experiences that we have are the result of the many calculations of our brains,our senses and everything to do with our minds. colours, smells, shapes, light, all these and many others are factors that our brain remembers, and stores and no one can really tell how our minds play with these things. So i feel that we shouldnt jump to conclusions about having past lifes and stuff because we have seen how life in the old days were through movies, documentaries, and pictures. our mind registers those images and thus we can imagine things unthinkable.
like someone else commented, its not mystical, but more of psychological.
i hope my sharing would be of some help to others.
thanks!