Déjà vu and the Brain, Consciousness and Self
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UGH! I Just Got the Creepiest Feeling That I Have Been Here Before:
When I have a deja vu experience it feels like I had dreamed it and that it is a memory. I rarely have these experiences though I have had them since childhood. I mean rarely by maybe one or two a year. Sometimes more or sometimes less. Though at present I have had a hard time recalling any of these experiences. I know that once it was in a discussion among four or five friends and we were talking about something. Another time it was in another country but again in a group setting. And there is a vague memory of an early experience going somewhere with a friend. Now when these happen, I'm never afraid or alarmed but surprised actually and intrigued by the possibilites of life and consciousness or subconsciousness.
I wonder if there is a possibility that I actually dreamed of the future but with my mind or brain not having anything to associate the dream with the experience is in my subconscious waiting for the arrival of the future. This leads me to believe that perhaps there is a destined path or a predetermined future, but perhaps it is just a physiological weakness common to mankind...? ... Charles Osburn, 6 March 2006
There are a lot of paranormal things I have been experiencing. I need to get them out there and be known, for some reason, and if I don't I don't know what to do.
I am a 22 year old, female, college student, majoring in criminal justice. I have no real interest in psychic, or paranormal happenings, but apparently they have an interst in me. I didn't realize that what I experience as deja vu is very uncommon. I've recently started to research this subject just for my own personal interest. I am having a hard time writing this comment because the recent urge to tell someone about my experiences is almost overwhelming. I consider myself an intelligent, well educated person, who is level headed, and so what I am about to say makes me very anxious. I know that there is something amazing (I can't think of any other word) going on in me, and every day it seems to intensify. I believe I've always been in tuned with my sixth sence, but for the past six months it has just exploded. Deja vu is a big part of it, but there's more to it. For me, deju vu happens at times of change in my life, but really it happens all the time, but I seem to be more aware of it at those specific times. The following happens as an "either-or" kind of thing. Deja vu is either like I'm reliving an actual experience for the second time, or it's a reacuring dream. I have deja vu of having deja vu. The moments last for about 10 seconds, but they hit like a ton of bricks, and it takes a few breaths for me to calm down and shake it out of my system. I can feel the deja vu coming on, and then I can literally see what is about to be said, heard, felt, inhaled, done, etc. It is so crazy, and emotional, and strange, and I'm amazed as to how long I've been able put those moments aside and go on with my life. I can't put this aside anymore. It's impossible to explain in words the vibes, and feelings I have been having. I have been always able to sence when something big is going to happen, either personally, individually, or globally. My sister and I share these feelings, which we just discovered a few years ago. My sister and I also seem to share this very real, and very apparent mind connection (telepathy??). We have lived 3 hours away from eachother for over 7 years, and we talk maybe twice a week, but we always seem to be experiencing the same concerns, thoughts, motives, emotions, etc. We call eachother at the same time often, and like I said, we only talk two or three times a week. Really random things that come up in conversation turn out to be the thing that will solve one another's problems. I don't know, it's hard to explain, but I need advice. I need to tell someone who knows something in this realm in the chance that they can point me in the right direction. I'm really not this scatter brained usually. My experiences go so much deeper, I wish I had more time and space to write about them, but maybe someone will get my drift!
Thanks for your time ... Evann, 24 April 2006
So I am one of those who finds the "standard" explanation completely untenable.
I suspect we have precognitive experiences from time to time in the dream state, then remember them when the events take place as deja vu ... Matthew Cromer, 4 May 2006
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UGH! I Just Got the Creepiest Feeling That I Have Been Here Before:
Déjà vu and the Brain, Consciousness and Self
Julia Johnson
We have all some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances - of our knowing perfectly what will be said next, as if we suddenly remember it! (Dickens in David Copperfield - chapter 39 (1))
It happens to me and it has probably happened to you. It is sudden and fleeting, leaving as unexpectedly as it came. While the experience is striking in its clarity and detail, it is difficult to recapture or recount. Generally, it is left unexplained and is described in a vague sense, often simply as, "Wow, I just got the strangest déjà vu." Because it is so difficult to research and seems to have no deleterious effects on daily and long-term nervous system function, déjà vu has been left largely to the wayside of neurobiological investigation. In all of its ambiguity, déjà vu is still a perplexing phenomenon that has not yet been fully explained. The value of truly understanding the source of déjà vu and its circuitry is in uncovering one of the many keys to the role of the conscious self in the functioning of the brain.
What is déjà vu and how does it work? Déjà vu is considered a common phenomenon. Surveys show that about one third of the population has had the most common form of déjà vu sensations (1). Due to the subjective and often indescribable nature of the associated feelings, it has been difficult, to determine who is actually experiencing déjà vu. In general, however, déjà vu is "any number of hard-to-explain sometimes upsetting occurrences of unexpected recognition, in which the person involved has trouble identifying an antecedent for the events and/or places which seem so strangely and intensely familiar (1)." Déjà vu has been defined as "familiarity without awareness (13)." While the situational cues of a déjà vu are familiar, there is a definite lack of awareness about the specific source of the memory.
Arthur Funkhouser (1) defines three types of déjà vu in an attempt to more clearly delineate between associated, but different, neurological experiences. These are déjà vecu (already experienced), déjà senti (already felt) and déjà visité (already visited). Déjà vecu is the most common déjà vu experience and involves the sensation of having done something or having been in an identical situation before and knowing what will happen next. These sensations are often felt through several senses: seeing, hearing, taste, touch and proprioceptive perceptions. The experience is often incredibly detailed and is usually connected to very normal activities. Although the episode itself lasts from only a fraction of a second to several minutes, it can often be remembered in minute detail long after the episode has occurred. One experiencer says, "There came this strange, almost physical up-welling of visual experience, a visual warping, and at the same time an eerie realization that everything happening now had happened before, maybe many times (11)."
Déjà senti is different from déjà vecu in that the episode of recollection feels more like the recovery of long sought after information. The sensation is one of satisfaction at having retrieved a memory although the memory was not actively sought. This form of déjà vu does not involve any feelings of premonition and the episodes quickly dissipate from memory. Déjà senti has been strongly associated with the partial seizure experiences reported by temporal lobe epilepsy patients. The extended nature of these episodes has allowed for more detailed descriptions of the feelings associated with a déjà senti event. "It was as if one of my dreams had simply been sucked out of the actual, physical environment and set to playing again in every detail (11)." Déjà visité is a more rare event in which a person visits a new place and feels that it is familiar. It is associated more with spatial dimensions while déjà vecu is associated with situations and processes. Déjà vu experiences can be in one of the three forms described above or can be a mixed version with a combined déjà vu effect [The above from (1)].
What causes a déjà vu episode? There are several possible explanations for what is occurring during a déjà vu experience. One possibility is simply the occasional mismatch made by the brain in its continuous attempt to create whole sensical pictures out of very small pieces of information. Looking at memory as a hologram, only bits of sensory information are needed for the brain to reconstruct entire three-dimensional images. When the brain receives a small sensory input (a sight, a smell, a sound) that is strikingly similar to such a detail experienced in the past, the entire memory image is brought forward. The brain has taken the past to be the present by virtue of one tiny bit of sensory information. It is this mismatch of past and present sensory information that causes the sense of disconcertment and unease associated with a passing déjà vu [The above from (2) and (3)]. This theory provides a satisfactory explanation for the physical effects of déjà vu. These appear to be similar to the effects of mismatch between sensory input and corollary discharge signal information to the brain. It does not, however, seem to provide sufficient answers to individual (even my own) accounts of déjà vu, where the memory image pulled up is not necessarily from a true past event.
Another explanation for déjà vu is that there is a slight malfunctioning between the long and short-term memory circuits of the brain. Somehow, specific information shortcuts its way from short to long-term memory storage, bypassing the usual mechanisms used for storage transfer. The details concerning this shortcut are not yet well understood. When this new, recent piece of information is drawn upon, the person thinks that the piece is coming from long-term storage and so must have come from the distant past (6). A similar theory says that the error is in the timing of the perceptive and cognitive processes. Sensory information is rerouted on its way to memory storage and, so, is not immediately perceived. This short delay causes the sensation of experiencing and remembering something at the same time, a very unsettling feeling (2). One other explanation is that déjà vu is actually the process of remembering memory connections, of following the impulses and synapses (4). All of these neurobiologically based explanations for déjà vu seem plausible and intriguing and perhaps there is some overlap or combination that accounts for the different experiences we call déjà vu.
Other explanations for déjà vu have been given by psychoanalysts, such as the manifestation of wish fulfillment. Here, déjà vu is the subconscious repetition of a past experience, but with a more positive ending (2). The realm of parapsychology proposes that déjà vu is a chance for reincarnates to get a sneak peak into a past life. Most scientists scoff at these "magical" explanations for neurological events, citing that they break many of the laws of nature (6). Some, however, point to more recent findings in physics, such as the possibility of particles that can travel backwards in time (tachyons), time loops and multiple universes. They say that these may give cause for more non-traditional ways of seeing causality and for the possibility of neurological "time travel" (1). This means that, maybe, just maybe, understanding déjà vu as a means of seeing into the past or future cannot be so immediately dismissed. It is certainly food for thought for the rising debate, anyway.
It is important to note the level of consciousness involved in a déjà vu episode. There are common threads that run through many déjà vu experiences. "When you are in the midst of such an occurrence, you are conscious that everything conforms with your 'memory' of it" (1) and "I know exactly what is going on around me when it happens. (9)." This implies that the participation of the entire brain capacity is not required to produce a déjà vu experience. Perhaps more importantly, there is a significant role played by at least a portion of the conscious person and the I-function. "It was like being in a long-running play, complete with the sense of being 'on' and standing
What is this role of the self in déjà vu? "To what extent is it possible for the core awareness to preserve ... images and emotions before they're swallowed up again and sealed tight? (11)" One epileptic déjà vu experiencer claimed that he could consciously recapture the feelings and notions associated with déjà vu simply by writing down the images that appeared during the experience. Later, he found that the memories had not vanished as before but could be brought back to a conscious level simply by reading the notes. The experience was brought back to him as if it was a conscious daydream (11). The striking implication here is that part of the conscious self, the I-function, is intimately involved and may be communicating with the processes of a déjà vu.
Perhaps to some, déjà vu is not worth its research weight in synapses. It may seem to many to be just an oddball, quirky brain trick that we learn to incorporate into our daily routine. Investigation into the implications of this neural event, however, seems to lead towards more in-depth knowledge of ourselves.
Quite a few of us who have "already-seen" would dare to see even more---would actually follow that dangerous, disappearing, inbound road consciously and witness for the first time what is usually jamais-vu and hidden, and I mean the steady dark frolic of neurons and the ghost that is called ego (11).A better understanding of déjà vu may lead us closer to an understanding of the complex relationship between ourselves and our memories. It may light a path for a clearer view into how we incorporate ourselves into our memory and into how our memory is incorporated into our conscious selves. How can this be futile?
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(1) "Three Types of Deja Vu," in Perspectives - A Mental Health Magazine, on mental health net, by Funkhouser, Arthur.
(2) "Been There, Done That," by Geary, James, TIME Magazine 149/18, May 5, 1997.
(3) "You're Not Really Losing Your Mind," by Peterson, Karen, USA Today
(4) "If You Think About It...," by Shaughnessy, Ed.
(5) "Scientific Approaches to Consciousness," a volume in the Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series, edited by Cohen, Jonathan and Schooler, Johathan.
(6) "Do Dreams Predict the Future," in FAQ Maintainer.
(7) "Premonitions or Deja vu Sensations?" by Dr. Dewey.
(8) "Partial Seizures," by Ryan, Diane.
(9) "deja vu feelings," by Moyers.
(10) "Mind, Body, and Seizures," by Benak, John.
(11) "Yellow Brick Road," by Media, Frank.
(12) "Reincarnation," in The Skeptic's Dictionary, by Carroll, Robert Todd.
(13) "MEMORY: a record of the past."
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Dear Sir or Madam, I have read your article regarding de javu on the Internet. I experience that starnage phenomenon very often approximately twice a month. That caused me to find some information or explanation about it. Your hypothesis regarding the time delay in processing of the visual information looks quite reasonable. There is one thing I would like to note. In that article you said that the phenomenon is exclusively visual. However, when experience de javu not only my visual sense remembers the situation but also all my other senses are at work (I remember sounds, tastes and even smells). I would like to hear your comments on my case since you are a specialist in this field. Sincerely, Galymhzan T. Koishiyev Kazakhstan, Almaty k_galimjan@ok.kz
Thanks for referencing my MGH post. I took that work quite further and developed a formalized theory for seizure control based on my own research. This work culminated in a trip to Prague in 1999, where I presented a paper on my research at a neurology/epilepsy conference in Prague. That paper was subsquently published in 2000 in the British medical journal "Seizure." If anyone is interested in a copy I'd be happy to email it to you. While the seizure frequency has subsided quite a bit over the last ten years, I still have the experiential seizures a couple of times a month. I'm more than willing to discuss any questions anyone might have about this or related subjects. Thanks! John Benak jbenak@austin.rr.com
I have experienced a deja vu and it was very strange.When i do a definite action i have the feeling that i have done it before.It also heppened to me to know people who i have never seen before(to have the feeling that i know them).But the strangest thing happened when i was in the States for the summer the previous year.(I am from Europe and i have never been in the States before).It happened during my visit of Six Flags.The moment at which i heard the music and saw the entrance of it i felt something.It was something like fear.........something very strange.I did not know where was this coming from.I had that strange feeling all the time we stayed there but i was trying to interpret it like a great exitement that i am there.At the time we were about to leave it happened.I was there waiting for my friends to come.For a fraction of a second i felt i am somewhere above the others.I could hear vopices but they seemed very apart.I was stared and moveless.I was looking at a small bench almost unnotisable.There were many trees around it.What i remember is vouge because it was so strong and i was so upset after it.I felt that i am sitting in that same bench with somebody and i can almost say that i pictured myself there.The feeling was very strong.I even knew the time (i can say it was a long time ago when people were wearing these funny renessance clothes ).Then i could feel only how my friend took my hand and the whole scene disapeared suddenly.I remember being very scared after that.My friend kept on asking me if everything was all right.I was left without answer.I deceided to try again .I went to the same place but this time i could remember nothing.Everything had disapeared.It looked so normal.But the feeling of fear was left.I dont know if it is normal to be afraid.I have always been afraid of the dark and unknown and i was always trying to prove to myself that whatever it is happening it has an explanation.But now i feel afraid more than ever becauser there is no explanation on what happened.I am not afraid of the feelings that i am repeating an action (because i calm myself down by saying "ok maybe i dont remember when i have done it") But how to calm myself with what happened.I felt not only that i have been in a place where i actually have never been before but i pictured myself there, i felt the time separating my moveless body from the bench i was sitting maybe in some of my past lifes.I hate the idea of the past life.I am afraid to know that there is something beyond.Can you give me some explanation to what i have experienced(scientific)? Thanks
Hi, I have just read your article about Deja Vu's,My name is Timothy, I am currently 18 years old and am having a real hard time with deja vu experiences. I have had the casual experiences throughout my life, even in childhood, but these experiences would come and go in a matter of seconds. This brings me to my "problem". For the past 2 or 3 months I have been experiencing deja vu everyday, literally. Not just once a day either. Sometimes I might have the experience throughout the whole day. This is driving me insane. I have been looking and searching everywhere for some type of answer but have found very little. When I experience deja vu, I get a fearful feeling along with the feelings of familiarity and confusion. I get this feeling of fear from the deja vu itself and from past experiences with deja vu. In past experiences when I would have frequent deja vu's, a tragedy (such as a death of a friend or family member, or even the 9/11 attacks and the Tsunami) would occur. So I started to see these experieces as a sort of warning. So now every time I have a deja, I get really afraid and almost paranoid, fearing that soon I may lose someone dear to me or that some type of catastrophe will occur. Over these past months, only one distant family member has died. Yet the deja's continue to occur. I am wondering if there is some sort of way I can control how the deja experience effects me. I don't expect you to have any answers for me, but I am hoping that maybe somehow you could try to help me and possibly help stop these things from happening or at least lessen the occurence. I deeply thank you for listening. Sincerely, Timothy J.
I have alot of dreams that you could say come true but they are really insignificant (i.e. I had a dream I hit the ground really hard and someone shouted "God D*** It!! about a week later I was playing a football game (I'm a highschool athlete by the way) and I was running the ball and I got tackled and the exact same scene, though only a few seconds, occured which I realized right away. I'm not really expecting an explanation though it is welcome I just happen to notice alot of people write so I thought I would.
To Timothy and the other deja vu'ers writing here...research is ongoing regarding deja vu / deja vecu...if you would like to help with it, I'm also beginning to post some links (at http://myspace.com/espiralli), including those to Art Funkhouser's article "Three Types of Deja Vu" and to the Deja Vu Survey.... Timothy, you are what I refer to as a "perpetual", meaning someone who has gone from the usual fleeting dv incidences to a continual state. Don't be frightened - it doesn't mean catastrophe...it's a different form of consciousness, and one that you can become accustomed to and that can be beneficial to you and to others if you do not succumb to doubt and fear. Art Funkhouser's survey includes the choice of "continuously", and in so doing I suspect it will eventually clarify that there are many functioning perpetuals "out there"...which may in turn eventually help to clarify the true meaning of deja vu / deja vecu, elevating it out of the realm of "dysfunction". That will take time, and your help, and the help of many other deja vu'ers, perpetual and otherwise. Together we change the status quo. Espiralli
I find that the article about déjà vu provides an excellent overview of this intriguing phenomenon (or, better, phenomena). I am trying to collect data about déjà vu and it would be a great help if persons who have experienced or who are currently experiencing it in any of its forms would fill out a questionnaire I now have up on the Internet at silenroc.com/dejavu Many thanks and best wishes, Art Funkhouser, Bern, Switzerland
FOUND THIS PAGE WHILE SEARCHING,A VERY GOOD EXPERIENCE TODAY, I HAD AN EPISODE OF DEJA VU AND MY WIFE HAD THE EXACT SAME EPISODE AT THE SAME TIME,HOW CAN I EXPLAIN THIS????IN OTHER WORDS ,CAN TWO PEOPLE HAVE THE SAME FEELING AT THE SAME TIME????
i am a 21year old indian girl doing my B.E in electronics n communications.i stay in the hostel(india).my parents are in england.its been a year or so when i was travelling by bus alone,i felt voices ringing in my ears that sounded very familiar n that i hav heard b4, n all of a sudden my hands felt numb n cold n i felt weak. it stayd on 4 abt 2 mins n den i cudnt remember wat it was. wen i reachd hostl i narratd dis 2 my friends n again i felt the same but it was mild den. then it came once or twice after dat n i consultd a doctor n he said it might b dejavu n i need 2 do an EEG n a cat scan after my xams since iam busy wid my xams. but nowdays thi dejavu is disturbing me frequently on the mornings of every xam n even during the xam...its not true dat dejavu is only prominent in the sense of sight coz in my case it is the hearing. pls help me.
Hi, I've had many expierences on, the feeling of reliving a moment, where I know I've been in the same place before, and that evrything and everyone is where they should be, and say what i knew they were going to say. But there is something else that happens often. It happened more when i was younger but still happens to this very day. This may sound crazy, and i'm not making this up, but say today i think of a movie or a song i haven't heard in a long time (briefly), and i wont say anything about it. I wont even try to listen or look for the movie that briefly popped into my head, but usually a day or two later its on tv, or on the radio. I mean i know it doesnt sound right, or sounds lame...but it's eerie. Its almost as if I have a sense of something that i want to see, and somehow it appears. Its never rapid, and its not in my control. And i wasnt reading the tv guide, it just happens. How is that possible? its not just one time or me even trying to make it happen it just does. What would your answer be to this? Like any explanation? Deja Vu happens to me once in a blue moon, but i can remeber the last time i had it, probably a year ago, and the time delay sounds relevent but, couldint it be possible that our dreams, and daily life can connect on another level? not magic or any of that but what if we are just reliving our lives in a constant pattern, where we've done this before, and that deja vu is an echo through time. I know there is no evidence, and i'm just thinking and typing but any answers or response would be extremly intresting, and helpful. thanks again -tom
greetings! i am also one of those who often experience this sense of deja vu. the delay in the visualization and conduction to the brain is somehow reasonable. however, howcome my other senses can also experience it at the same time. especially my hearing. there's also one other thing i want to share with you and the readers. when i was a kid, i always thought that i've been in a place where my parents and i were riding a yellow bus. we were having a trip along a rocky mountain with sculpture of different faces on it. it was only in highschool that i realized it never really happened when i saw that particular mountain on the television. the twist is i've never gone to any other country other than philippines. what could this particular feeling be...? thank you very much. my this help you explore more discoveries regarding deja vu.
Throughout my life I've experienced feelings of deja vu', but one particular incidence was of great importance. For me, the sensation is not "just visual", as some have written, but the totality of the entire experience of what is going on, including sounds, words, smells, everything. In fact, I've felt that I've known exactly what someone is going to say and have deliberately not said anything in a desire not to disturb the moment. One day while having a deja vu experience, one of the people I was with an was very aware and they asked me if I was O.K. I said, Yes, and that I'd just had this deja vu experience. His reply was, he'd observed my pupils dilate, my muscle tone slacken and my cheeks flush! For the 1st time in my life someone had witnessed physical changes that accompany this mental state. Although I've never come to a complete understanding of why this experience occurs, it is totally random, I can confidently say it's nothing mystical, but definately physiological.
Dear Sir, I have been having these so called "Dejavu" experiences right from my teen years and they are still persistent now, at the age of 30. I don't think that any reasearch is advanced enough to explain this phenomenon yet. Though it was scary at first, I eventually leart to like and even enjoy such experiences, as its just a part of life.
I have been experiencing deja vu for almost my entire life, but today I had the most vivid of all: I was watching a TV show, one that I have never seen or heard of before, and then the feeling started, I saw that before and I actualy recited three lines before they were spoken on the show. Unfortunatley now I cant remember much. My question is if deja vu is caused by some temporary mulfunction of the brain, how could I have known the future ?
Dear Madam / Sir! Deja vu... I anwered my professor during a lesson when he asked the students: "..what do you think is de-javu?" Answer given: "..if I can explain our brain in simple terms as a computer..the eyes, ears (and feeling) - the input devise see under certain circumstances "something" - which information is then send to our Microprocessor to interprete and to send this info the "concious" mind and in the same time to the memory from which we can draw when we are in "muse"... But some time our "microprosessor" has a little malfunction and gives this information to our memory only (or first (more likely) and the "concious mind" receives it from there first.(or double with time delays in x. 10-x seconds(?)) So, we "think", we have seen this already, we have been there...heard - can in fact foresee whats happens next - because our "computer" is to fast - but can be tricked." We had a long, long quiet moment in the classroom. I have sometimes (2-3x year)this feeling and mostly accours when I come home, had stress in work... and hungry (think "feast of the tibetan Monks and others) It seems that your own body energy which drives us plays the trick. Our brain contains light, which is a certain frequency,-visible. We are in fact moving (more or less) antennas in a light (protons...photons...)surrounding atmosphere, our head being at least 170 cm above ground and moves with ~1300 km/h through the air. So we are quite exposed to "field" out there. In situations where our energy "balance" goes to one side we can expirience this. To some "it happens", others are able do it.. I am not a fan of a sect or simmilar, I just took long journeys (by reading and trying to conclude) through history and as engineer I can say I stay by impirical methods first - so I don't loose the big picture. B.T.H.O.T.G.A.O.T.U. best regards Manfred Kraus, Durban South Africa
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Additional comments made prior to 2007
I just read your article on deja vu. I was hoping you
would consider my case and offer insight. I might loose my credibility
by disclosing this bit of information, but I began experiencing deja vu
on an evening while I was smoking marijuana. It was so severe and
frightening that I thought it was a sign that I was about to die. From
that point on into the next two years, I would have "episodes"
several times a day. The following year it dwindled to once a day and
eventually once every couple of days. It was so disturbing to me, that
I stopped smoking and got my life straight. After dealing with it for
so long, I thought I was loosing my mind. Some times it would be more
severe than others, but was always the same "I've been here and done
this" feeling. A year ago my sister died while I stood beside her
hospital bed. I had deja vu several times that day, but only a handful
of times since then. Prior to that I was still experiencing it every
few days. Deja vu had controlle
d my life for years, and that day it disappeared. I feel relieved
but without any answers. It may have been initially caused by drugs
(I've never tried anything but pot), but it stuck around for as long
as it wanted and took off one day without a notice. There has got to be
something more to it! Do you have any possible explanation?
I've lived with it for so long that I feel that I own the subject. I would appreciate anything you could offer on my particular situation. Thank you ... Angel, 13 August 2005
I've lived with it for so long that I feel that I own the subject. I would appreciate anything you could offer on my particular situation. Thank you ... Angel, 13 August 2005
Hello, I have just recently been thinking about my past deja vu experiences as well as any precognitions, but deja vu more due to a topical class that I am having today for discussion in an English School (maybe a little heavy for ESL).
When I have a deja vu experience it feels like I had dreamed it and that it is a memory. I rarely have these experiences though I have had them since childhood. I mean rarely by maybe one or two a year. Sometimes more or sometimes less. Though at present I have had a hard time recalling any of these experiences. I know that once it was in a discussion among four or five friends and we were talking about something. Another time it was in another country but again in a group setting. And there is a vague memory of an early experience going somewhere with a friend. Now when these happen, I'm never afraid or alarmed but surprised actually and intrigued by the possibilites of life and consciousness or subconsciousness.
I wonder if there is a possibility that I actually dreamed of the future but with my mind or brain not having anything to associate the dream with the experience is in my subconscious waiting for the arrival of the future. This leads me to believe that perhaps there is a destined path or a predetermined future, but perhaps it is just a physiological weakness common to mankind...? ... Charles Osburn, 6 March 2006
ok my names ricky de lacruz but im just saying this is all very weird to me becuz i have 5 to 6 deja vu's a week and i dont know...its not just dreams i have either i mean like ive had all three of those different deja vu's and they're cool and all but its all confusing...cuz i dont just dream it now and feel it now i predict some things...i dont know if im just putting the obvious together and saying a date and stuff but i dont know like i use a feeling in the pitt of my stomach to make decisions and it works most of the time and i mean thats alot 90-100% the other 10% is school haha but yea im amazed by the feeling and i love it but i dont know I want more ... Ricky De La Cruz, 2 April 2006
When I was 17years ols - 36 years ago - my parents & I were arguing while in my room. I was hit in the head/face and knocked out by my father. When I came to I noticed the onset of an intense deja vu. At the time I didn't even know the term, and really didn't know what was happening. As my parents spoke to me, I could tell exactly waht they were about to say. I could see their actions before hand. For my part I kept silent. After about 15 minutes of this I became fairly scared and announced - speaking for the first time myself - that I couldn't take it any longer and so I wanted them to leave, to break this off. My mother left the room. As a 17 year old by my room was most often quite a mess, with things and clothes all over the floor. Among the items was a Marine Corp knife my father had given me years before. It was in its sheath on the floor in front of where I sat on my bed. I saw it there and also saw in my mind my future actions as though seeing them from my own eyes as I would see anything from my own perspective,I did not see these actions as though from an outside observer. I saw each step of the next few seconds as a separate step. First, while still seated on the bed, I saw myself reach for the knife. Seeing this, I felt compelled to act it out. I did not feel I could stop it from happening. As I fullfilled this image by following through, I saw the next step I was about to do. I saw myself pick up the knofe and unsheathe it.So I di it. As I picked it up and unsheathed it, I saw myself approach my father who was standing above me, watching. So I did that. As I unsheathed the knife and approached my father, I saw myself put it to his throat and tell him to get out of my room. So I did that. As I did, I saw myfather grip my wrist, take the knife from me, and put it behind him and walk away safely. Then he did. All along I felt calm, reassured that nothing would happen. This more or less broke the spell. But then for about a year I would experience deja vu at least two or more times a month, which would last as long as I wanted them to - five minutes at a time easily. I could stop them by doing what I have called 'changing the script', or simply deciding on what I knew was an incorrect scenario. As I knew A would say to B such and such, I would decide , for example, that A would get up and leave. As this was not 'scripted' it would bring the deja vu to an end. This lasted about a year or so and since then I still have deja vu, but nothing like that. Mostly, as afar as I know, I have them as anyone does - infrequently and only in a flash ... Kim Emerson, 21 April 2006
I NEED ADVICE.
There are a lot of paranormal things I have been experiencing. I need to get them out there and be known, for some reason, and if I don't I don't know what to do.
I am a 22 year old, female, college student, majoring in criminal justice. I have no real interest in psychic, or paranormal happenings, but apparently they have an interst in me. I didn't realize that what I experience as deja vu is very uncommon. I've recently started to research this subject just for my own personal interest. I am having a hard time writing this comment because the recent urge to tell someone about my experiences is almost overwhelming. I consider myself an intelligent, well educated person, who is level headed, and so what I am about to say makes me very anxious. I know that there is something amazing (I can't think of any other word) going on in me, and every day it seems to intensify. I believe I've always been in tuned with my sixth sence, but for the past six months it has just exploded. Deja vu is a big part of it, but there's more to it. For me, deju vu happens at times of change in my life, but really it happens all the time, but I seem to be more aware of it at those specific times. The following happens as an "either-or" kind of thing. Deja vu is either like I'm reliving an actual experience for the second time, or it's a reacuring dream. I have deja vu of having deja vu. The moments last for about 10 seconds, but they hit like a ton of bricks, and it takes a few breaths for me to calm down and shake it out of my system. I can feel the deja vu coming on, and then I can literally see what is about to be said, heard, felt, inhaled, done, etc. It is so crazy, and emotional, and strange, and I'm amazed as to how long I've been able put those moments aside and go on with my life. I can't put this aside anymore. It's impossible to explain in words the vibes, and feelings I have been having. I have been always able to sence when something big is going to happen, either personally, individually, or globally. My sister and I share these feelings, which we just discovered a few years ago. My sister and I also seem to share this very real, and very apparent mind connection (telepathy??). We have lived 3 hours away from eachother for over 7 years, and we talk maybe twice a week, but we always seem to be experiencing the same concerns, thoughts, motives, emotions, etc. We call eachother at the same time often, and like I said, we only talk two or three times a week. Really random things that come up in conversation turn out to be the thing that will solve one another's problems. I don't know, it's hard to explain, but I need advice. I need to tell someone who knows something in this realm in the chance that they can point me in the right direction. I'm really not this scatter brained usually. My experiences go so much deeper, I wish I had more time and space to write about them, but maybe someone will get my drift!
Thanks for your time ... Evann, 24 April 2006
I'm another person who has had multiple deja-vu experiences, including two particularly "deep" experiences where I actually said to myself "this woman is about to say this" and she then said exactly what I predicted.
So I am one of those who finds the "standard" explanation completely untenable.
I suspect we have precognitive experiences from time to time in the dream state, then remember them when the events take place as deja vu ... Matthew Cromer, 4 May 2006
I was interested to come across your review of deja vu. It may be of interest for you (and your readers) to be aware that in my book 'Is There Life After Death'(Arcturus in the UK and Chartwell in the USA - available in bookshops and on Amazon). In this book I come up with a totally original explanation of deja vu. I propose that we are all existing in a three-dimensional 'recording' of our own life - a recording of a life that was once lived for real but is now on permanent re-run (like the film Groundog Day). In the book I attempt to explain the hard science behind such a seemingly bizarre suggestion. The sensation of 'living this moment before' is brought about by a 'judder' in the replay mechanism like a jump in a DVD recording. Recall what happens to Neo in "The Matrix" when he perceives his 'deja vu'. What is happening is the 'reality programme' was being amended ... Anthony Peake, 25 September 2006
I started searching for info on deja vu specifically to see if there are any theories/hypotheses on more than one person sharing a deja vu experience simultaneously. It looks as though one of your readers in Nov 2005 also had the same question. I have always had a passing interest in deja vu because it seems so unnatural and mysterious but fleeting. There was an occasion during a phone conversation that I stopped to announce I was "having a major deja vu", only for him to say he was too. The sensation of reliving a moment is startling enough but to share it was altogether another matter. If you've come across any sources that have explored it, I'd greatly appreciate knowing. Thank you ... April, 25 October 2006
Hello there, I am a 15 year old guy who has experienced deja vu. This has been happening to me for about 2 years since i can remember which was at the age of 13. It is very sudden and it always happens sometime later in my life. Its mainly me seeing the image I dremt about, or sometimes a sound. But when it occurs, I know its deja vu and I know I've seen or heard this before. I am aware that I have seen this in the past, but I am also aware that it was definitly in a dream I had. Unfortunatly I can never remember the dream until it happens and I see it when I am awake. Another unfortunate thing about it is that it is always an insignificant experience. I would really like to know if there is some way to trigger these experiences, and maybe some sort of way to expand what I see into the future. Thank You, and hope to hear from you. =D ... Adam Bridges, 8 November 2006
I have always had deja vu to a degree, coming and going...Two years ago, deja vu lasted almost three months, non stop, went to bed with and woke up with it. My doctor is aware of it and suggested a mental health issues. I do not believe it is a mental health issue...It comes and goes, sometimes a few second, few minutes, few hours, all day...I am 49 years [old] ... Robert, 15 November 2006
In referrence to de javu, I have my own theory. Recently, within the last year or two, I have had feelings of de javu quite often. What I find strange about them is i know why i feel so familiar with a persons face, conversations, situations, and settings. I have very vivid dreams and remember most of them, definetly more than most people. I've come to find that most of my "de javu" instances are portrayals of scenes had in previous dreams. I believe that somehow, we have de javu because we have dreamt of situations, conversations, etc. Since most people tend to have little or no memory of most of the dreams they have, this could explain the reason they do not know why they have that sense of familiarity. I know for a fact that most of my feelings of de javu are related to previous dreams I have had, even some which I have had when I was a young child.
I also can say that I have had precognitive as well as clairvoyant experiences. On these "psychic" abilities, I believe most people have or will experience some situation where these are apparent to them. However, other people seem to possess these qualities moreso because they simply understand how to control or grasp these concepts easier than others ... HM, 24 November 2006
My best friend passed away in November last year and ever since then I have been experiencing frequent deja vecu. I was doing research on deja vu, because initially that is what I thought it to be, however I knew my experiences were somewhat different from your "typical" deja vu. It feels as though I am reliving certain moments of recent happenings all over again. Once I get that flashback, I try recount to where it was when it happened, to see if maybe I am confusing it with something else and then I get a huge Shock, because I have a memory of the exact same thing that happened a while back, I remember conversations etc. I then came across an article posted in the New York Times about deja vecu and it seems very similar to what I am experiencing. I went to a therapist and she said that it is related to PSTD and the mind can manifest or distort memories. However, I am not yet convinced and these flashbacks are very real to me. Please help, as I find this to be hugely distressing ... T, 26 January 2007
I know this seems to be an old site but it is intriguingly interesting. I have had those common deja vu experiences as does everyone, but lately they have been getting weird, lasting for up to 5 minutes maximum. Every time I say something it brings me straight back to the deja vu. I even deja vued once that I was having a deja vu ... Cayla, 1 February 2007
Hi, i do not see much point talking about my experience here, but if someone is willing to explain the Deja Vu I had today to their best knowledge, it would be much appreciated. Please e-mail me at steviedeee@hotmail.com and i will tell you what i felt and percieved. Thanks! ... Steve D, 27 February 2007
i have dejavu and im pretty sure i ben and done that same thing b4, im pretty sure because sometimes i could tell what my friends gona say b4 he does when im having a dejavu. but the weirdest one i had was yesterday. i was in another country for more then a year and i had a really weird dream i was with my friends and we went to pick up someone else from an apartment and we weere making fun of him cuz he came out looking real goofy and when i woke up i told myself not to forget this dream because it seemed so real and so i could find out if dreams come true. About 8 months later me and my friends went to the apartments because one of our friend lives there and thats when i had the dejavu he came out wearing shorts and being real goofie and we started making fun of him and thats when it hit me that i really had ben through this and this is what i saw in my dream that seemed so real ... Turk, 3 March 2007
The answer to deja vu is simple. It's God. Scientists and philosophers just can not explain certain things. That's why it is the way it is. Have some faith. It is simply God's way of telling us he is greater than we are and smarter we humans ever could even possibly get ... Christina, 16 April 2007
serendipity (i have been here before) yes, perhaps you have. but how? it may be a memory from your life in the spirit realm. is it a clone of another experience?
is it an aspect of spiritual reality? in other words, is it a look into the spirit realm? perhaps there is a certain significance bearing upon your personal search for something, a reminder perhaps, or an opportunity to relive a certain experience and to try again. but it is startling and the important part may be that it is a very awake and conscious experience. serendipity is super real. there is no doubt whatever that it is not imagined. i can only speculate and guess and ask questions
about it. however i hope i have made a positive contribution to the study. i may have further insights, so please keep in touch with me. fond regards and read me on "BLOGGER" by google ... Doug Rosbury, 20 April 2007
I have just finished reading your DÈj‡ vu and the Brain, Consciousness and Self.
Personaly I thought it was fantastic.. I have always thought that Deja Vu was somehow important and I totaly agree with you that the study of deja vu could reveal so much about yourself. So I thought I would discribe my feelings when I come accross a time of Deja Vu.
I am a 22 year old Male and I have had plenty of Deja vu already.. some weak and some strong. The way most people describe Deja vu is a little different to how it comes to me, most people have the feeling they know what is going to happen next or that they have been there already. But when I get Deja Vu (this is going to be hard to explain so bare with me) like you said its unpredictable when its going to happen but when it happens i dont know what is going to happen next its only when i see what happens i know in my head ive seen it befor e.g i cannot predict what someone is going to say or do, but when they say or do whatever it is druring the Deja Vu its more of a reminder.. also when I have Deja Vu im more relaxed than most people.. normaly someone who encounters Deja Vu stops and says they are having Deja Vu and tries describing what is happening to someone else, I used to do the same.. untill i turnned about 19-20 I just started "going with the flow of it" keeping the moment to myself and analysing it after it had finished.. some people believe a dream can be interperated into real life such as a pot of gold could mean you win $20 on a scratchy.. and so forth, I tried this method on a few of my Deja Vu times and found that some were quite acurate and some way off key. The other thing i have noticed about myself is that when i dream my sleep feels very short and dried out but when i dont dream its like im dead... I have no clue weather dreams and Deja Vu are related but they could be. both unpredictable when u get them and some dreams can even be extreamy familliar. well its late and i got work in the morning.. i hope you reply with thoughts on what i have said.
and sorry about the bad grammer and spelling. but i was never one to study in a class room instead i would be Day Dreaming :D
I hope you can make some sence of all this.
oh and the other thing I was going to mention is that I have a terrible memory.. its actually that bad i have "conditioned" myself into a few things i would normaly forget or lose. such as my keys wallet and mobile phone have to either be in A. wallet and keys in right pocket and mobile in left or B. on my bedside drawer. haha... odd how someone with such a bad memory has alot of Deva Vu ... Ashley Parker, 16 June 2007
Interesting articles on Deja Vu. I've been trying to research it as a particular incident happened to me in 1991 that I still think about on a regular basis. I was on a aquisition trip to England for the company I was working for. I had never been there before. We were driving, in a limo with 4 other peers, to a business location near Norwich. Suddenly I felt a warmth, like taking a hot shower on a cold morning, come over me with an extreme sense of calm. I looked out the window at the fileds & village homes and felt like I was home or in my old neighborhood? I certainly didn't say anything to my peers as I thought it pretty strange. It only lasted about 2 minutes. I immediately started to try to analyze it. Never said anything to anyone about it until 10 years later. I had become interested in tracking my lineage. After much research, I found that my 10th great grandfather was born, raised, & married within 10 miles of where I had had the experience. Coincidence? I don't know. It was real to me ... R. George, 20 June 2007
okay i have been having deja vu a lot lately. It is about stuff where i have never been and people i have never ever seen before are in my dream. Then a fews weeks or months later my dream occurs. I don't understand how people i have never met be in my dream so vividly and then i meet them and they look exactly the same ... Caitie, 23 July 2007
One person asked, "How can two people have the same exact Deja Vu episode at the same time?" Well, I had the same experience. I told my girlfriend about what I just experienced and she said she also had just experienced, the asked me, "what did it have to do with Rex?" was floored because my just occurring episode had Rex (one of our friends) as part. So, 1st we had simultaneous episodes and 2nd, we ad a common link to the content, in this case Rex. Any comments or thoughts? This certainly suggests something more than individual brain function ... Jim, 25 October 2007
man!!!i still cant figure out what causes this ''deja vu'' thing..its creeping me out..i mean,its not gestures or anything,its the real thing,everything is moving except you.first,im watchin a movie,and then,i stopped or paused for a sec. and looked at the movie screen,then there it was,deja vu, and it really is getting on my nerves and thats not the only one..there are thousands of times that i encountered somethn like this..some PARTS of this deja vu thing,i HAVE already dreamed of,yah know,before it happened,i just realize it when im done doing that certain action,pissing me off man.i dont know how to stop it ... Nicole, 29 October 2007
hey every1 check this dajavu must be connected to epilepsy because ive had both at the same time . Il talk through it. When i was younger i was walking down the street then i noticed this guy . I swear right then everything came back to me like it was watching tv or a film over and over again you know . Then i thought this has happened before. Right then i had a feeling in my stomach, i ran home dazed got down on the sofa and had the seisure the worst one ive had ever and ive had over 40 seriously. I also had an elusion then on the sofa of a rainbow-coloured parrot. This when i was like 8 iam 16 now and i dnt have then hardly now. Ive also heard epilepsy goes back to jesus times (on this picture i seen it had it annoted that a kid on it had a seisure . Email me your experiances . Because its all an interest of mine badboy_tomo_2006@hotmail.co.uk ... Mr. T, 15 November 2007
Julia wrote an awsome article on deja vu. i think people shouldn't freak out about it i am very happy that i have deja vu cuz sometimes it helps me realize what's around me. there's been numerous times that i've had a dream (usally with houses)and i'm in this place for a while and unusual events start to happen. Then later on usually days or weeks i'll see that same place that i thought would have ever existed. Sometimes when there's alot going on and i'm really busy during the week i'll have deja vu every day. There's also those days when i can remember my dreams and it actually happens. i think it's pretty awesomed ... Claudia, 13 December 2007
Hello, I'm 18 years old...I'm from Italy and I've experienced several strange dej‡-vu...I mostly don't remember what they were about, - I just know I had a dej‡-vu but not what were the words or actions I considered familiar at the time - but I happened to remember one of my last dej‡-vu clearly enough...besides,some weeks ago, I had another and it was like I had foreseen all that was happening...still, according to my dej‡-vu I should have said a particular sentence that in reality I didn't say...pretty weird ... Maurizio, 5 January 2008
20 year old male and recurring deja vu
I am 20 year old male. I have had some occasional deja vu experiences throughout my life but nothing like what has happened since September 2007. It hit me like a freight train one afternoon. It was the most surreal and disturbing experience I have ever had and have to a degree. Imagine the most realistic and strong deja vu/vecu you can think of and that is what I experienced. Out of nowhere I felt like I had just traveled back in time; every moment and thought was a living memory. I went insane! I was so taken and convinced by this feeling that I started believing to a degree or theorizing that I had actually somehow traveled back in time. I had almost constant deja vu for about three weeks even in my dreams; I don't know how I kept my sanity. It was so real that I started to contemplate any and all possibilities about the universe including star trek-like phenomenon and the idea being doomed in hell for eternity for not accepting god or living by Him/Her/It. Deep inside I hoped and survived on the idea that it was just some illusion formed by stressing my brain to the point of some sort of psychosis etc. After about three weeks of this insanity it finally started to taper off in frequency and severity. It still comes and goes for sometimes hours at a time, even four months after this started. For example I had deja vu dreams last night and it has happened throughout today and to some degree while I write this very comment.
You see, I had been taking medium-large doses of psilocybin about once every 2-3 days for about a six weeks. That September afternoon was the end of week six. I have used cannabis off and on since I was about fifteen. I have taken large doses of DXM approximately thirty times (from what I have researched a connection has been established between use of psychedelics and recurring deja vu/vecu). I have also experimented with a number of other psychedelics. These are all good scientific explanations for my experience. I probably just stressed and twisted my mind to the point where something happened neurologically to cause this/that issue. I also have a history of depression other psychological quirks starting since I was young. I cannot tell you how this has changed me, lately for the better but in the past for the worst. Other people have said deja vu makes you more aware of yourself and your surroundings, it sure has for me. Hope this entertains or helps somebody. I stopped most all my use psychoactives and that seems to be helping. God bless you all and God forgive me for the dumb satanic dabbling.
-erik
deja vecu
ERIK, could You contact me on e-mail please?
For about four months i have deja vecu all day long, even my dreams are happening again..like second time...so real... have you taken any SSRI, or other drugs to stop it? Peace for all who suffer continous deja vecu.... It changes everything.. You are not alone...
RE: My deja Vu
When i was little i used to have reoccuring dreams night mares so to speak it terrified my mom and me. There was three different dreams two i can remember the most frequent were the first which i was in a white floor all the medical surgical utensils and a miaachine of some sort not a regular hospital machine other then that it was balck alll around me and the the somewhat partial room it was brain sugery and they had put the wrong brain in. i would feel emense pressure and start to shake my mom would hold me for hours trying to calm me down the one night i was wide awake getting ready for bed and it started happening i felt tense scared and felt the shakes i yelled for my mom and when she came in all i saw was this dream in little boxes everywhere i looked like little theatre screens everywhere. the next day we were informed my uncle had passed away in his sleep the dreams had stopped. The other one was again a floor but this time with a very tall pyramid of blocks multiple colors im talking like 4000 blcoks and i was standin alone and they fell again emmense pressure waking up in a cold sweat screaming i screamed alot in my sleep can u tell me what to do also i am concerned about reoccuring deja vu every 2 days or more and several times in a day lasting from a few seconds to half an hour please help
Okay, so can anyone explain
Okay, so can anyone explain to me about having deja vu, and then seeing events take place in my mind that never actually happen as I see them?
I have deja vu, meaning "I have had this happen before, and then I see and feel events that were supposed to happen right after my deja vu but did not".
Last night I was doing my
Last night I was doing my homework, which is all stuff I am just learning, new to me-- subnetting, ip addresses and subnet masks, binary math conversions--not common type stuff. Anyhow I had a really strong deja vu that I had seen and done this paper that I was working on before. How did I deja vu something that I am just in the process of learning? Rita-28yrs old
I would guess that I have 3 to 7 deja vus a month. sometimes I have weird repeats of dreams (some that I had as a kid), and smells trigger stong memories for me.
Same Thoughts
I want to ask something about deja-vu: I have experienced it a lot of times. In your article, you mention that a person believes that he has already seen, or heard, or felt something he experiences right now. Like he knows what it's going to happen but he can't say it and when it happnes he thinks "I knew this would happen!" I 've felt this way too, but sometimes I feel that I am actually not only seeing and hearing and feeling things that I have already experienced in the past, but that I am thinking the same things I have thought in the past. As if I am following a similar "train of thought" (I don't know if this is the right expression), while at the same time I am seeing and hearing the same things I think I have seen or heard before. In fact, what amazes me is the connection between what I think and what I see. For example, yesterday, during a lesson in school, I heard the sound of cars from the street outside, and then I thought of a bus, and at the same time one girl from the class stood up and said something while I was thinking this bus and then I said to myself: "This has happened again, a few days ago!" A few seconds after I realise that I am experiencing a deja-vu, it ends. It is not only a picture or a sound, but a very specific combination of many different things, that lasts only for 20-30 seconds. How can this be explained?
theory for deja vu.
I am a 26 year old housewife and mother, and I've had numerous experiences of deja vous from as far back as I can remember. I have pondered over the hows and whys for years, but I was asked my thoughts on the subject the other day, and I was just as intrigued by my answer as my friend was(as I have a tendancy to answer questions without the need for the usual thought processes), I have never read, heard, or thought this theory before, and I believe I've had a type of revelation from my subconcious. So tell me what you think!
My answer to the question "what is deja vous?" was :
Well, I believe everyone has a kind of destiny, that we've all planned before incarnation in order to spiritually progress. Basically we've chosen our "destination", but we're making the route up as we go along(free will). Our higher self/consciousness(spirit) knows all, and has always got our true life path running in the back of it's mind(kinda like a pre-recorded video), no matter what we do, or how much we've veered off-course, which is why we sometimes make spontaneous, life-changing descisions, or get drawn to certain people and situations(our higher self pulling us back on course). Deja vous occurs when our life(thats a bit off-course), gets back on course. At the moment of deja vous, life and fate touch, so we experience both at the same time momentarily, thats when we say "woa, deja vous", and we start thinking, which in turn usually makes our waking mind take over, and our link to our higher self is disconnected(which is why most deja vous only lasts seconds-until realisation!). I believe having a deja vous experience means I am on the right track to fullfill my destiny, and I usually find them quite reassuring, especially just after making a big descision, as then I feel I'm doing the right thing.
I then went on to say: it's as if you are walking along the kerb, or a low wall, sometimes one of your feet slip off, but the other one stays on the kerb(imagine the foot on the wall is your fate, and the foot thats slipped is the life you're living). When you bring your other foot back onto the kerb, you momentarily look down to check your footing, thats when you see your two feet, which fleetingly look more or less the same(aka. deja vu), then you look up again to wherever your headed.
My deja vous experiences vary in frequency, duration and intensities, but all aspects are noticeably more if I'm at a major turning point in my life.
My experiences
I've had deja vu experiences many times for as long as I can remember. I've asked my parents and siblings about their experiences and while they all have experienced it, the effects of deja vu for them seem very small compared to myself.
The deja vu experience for me almost always consists of the following: sudden disorientation, minor dizziness, a sickness in the pit of my stomach, a haunting sense of fear and the feeling of "otherworldliness". I have the intense feeling that everything going on around me has happened before and that I can predict what is about to happen. The experience seems primarily visual and verbal, with senses like touch, smell and other non-verbal sounds being almost nonexistent. During several of the longer bouts I've actually tried to predict what would happen with mixed results; I would try to predict what someone would do or say before they did and while they might partially say or do whatever, it would never fit exactly what I predicted. Another poster also mentioned breaking the deja vu by "leaving the script", which I've also experienced. When deja vu happens, it tends to feel like there's no end to it until I "break out" of it by forcing my own will on the world around me and breaking the predetermined script. It was interesting to hear that others experienced the same thing. My deja vu usually occurs anywhere between 20 seconds to just over a minute with the lingering feeling lasting anywhere between several hours to several days.
The strangest part of deja vu for me is that for the last few years it seems like my mind has been adding additional content to my "experiences" that seems straight out of a horror movie. For example, last night I had deja vu in the shower and I could distinctly see in my minds eye that a snake was coiled above the shower head and about to strike me. It's like it already happened and I could see it happening before it did. I forced myself to look and needless to say the snake wasn't there and it didn't happen, but it was definitely scary and still lingers in my mind. In other instances it will be other things like spiders crawling on my legs or my brother getting hit by a car. I don't watch horror movies nor do I watch much TV. I'm generally not into scary stuff.
Strange stuff but it's nice to see others talking about their experiences.
Deja Vu/ Conscious / vs Subconscious mind
I was wondering if anyone has thought of the possibility of the Deja vu being related to a time delay between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind processing information in the brain.
Also, those who had experienced Deja vu simultaneously with another person... perhaps this relates to the subconscious mind tapping into the collective consciousness.
I have noticed an increased frequency of deja vu, which seems to me to be related to how consciously aware I have been of my "inner voice". In the past, my inner voice would slip in here and there and I would notice it occasionally, whereas lately, my inner voice has been more like a constant flowing stream and I am more consciously aware of it.
It seems to me that during a Deja vu, my subconscious mind has already seen and "analyzed" a situation or event and is sending an important message to my conscious mind to "take note of this situation and what is happening, it is important-- what you do/ say can only be said now and can never be said/ done again" Or "take note of this situation and its symbolism for you, what you are learning is important and will be needed again someday". Or, "do you recognize that you have done this kind of thing before? Do not make the same mistake again." Or, "Do you hear yourself talking? The advice you are giving to this person is the advice you should be taking for yourself in your own life too" Or "what you are thinking of doing is not the right thing to do-- do the right thing." Kind of like a sticky note is being sent from my subconscious mind and being placed on my conscious mind. It is like a "surfacing" of my subconscious mind to my conscious mind and my conscious mind is also taking note of the time delay in processing the information.
It is like the subconsious mind is analyzing the event, writing a report about it -- time stamping it, and sending it to the conscious mind-- "take a look at this report before you act."
It is almost as if my subconscious mind is more "in tune" with God, the collective unconscious and "knows" things and their meaning at a deeper level and wants my conscious mind to act in accordance with this deeper/higher meaning.
Can anyone relate to this?
Simone
Can anyone relate to this by Simone
This is not so much about you deja vu experiences, Simone, but rather about your "inner voice" that has become more like a constant flowing stream. The comment I wanted to make is in relation to your last statement wherein you state that your wiser or more knowledgeable inner voice wants you to act in accordance with its higher knowledge.
It is my belief that any higher self, or inner voice, does NOT want you to act in accordance with its advanced knowledge, per se, but rather to contemplate the particular highlighted life situation, come to a higher understanding oneself and then act according to one's own understanding. You may have meant this yourself but I thought it was worth clarifying.
One of the biggest problems of humanity is brought about by the acceptance by our society for individuals to live in accordance with "knowledge" that they have been taught to memorize as opposed to acquiring their knowledge through personal experience. A true teacher is not interested in their students ability to parrot back memorized answers. Your inner voice will often tell you when there is meaning at a deeper level of which you are currently capable of understanding but it will never tell you to operate according to its understanding.
Everything else you said in your note is totally consistent with what I have said here but it extremely important for people to recognize that the expanded consciousness does not seek to enslave us by our adherence to sets of rules that may be applicable in expanded spheres based on the understanding in those realms. This is my understanding.
Deja Vu "swarms"
Periodically, and without any sort of "trigger" or associative event I've been able to nail down, I get plagued by what I can only describe as "swarms" of deja vu.
When this happens, for a period of time (usually several days), I'll have multiple instances of deja vu take place. The memories are usually vague -- primarily, I just feel overwhelming physical sensations of repetition. I "feel" that I've done this before, felt this before. It's very hard to describe.
The experience is terrifying. I dread them. When they arrive, I'm placed into a near-panic. The knowledge that it's "all in my head" just doesn't help all that much. The fact that they'll keep coming makes them torture. Like being dropped into a temporary prison in my head.
So, what I'm getting at is this: Is there any way to shut off, or decrease either the frequency or intensity of deja vu? I'd be willing to do just about anything to get away from these.
Should I seek psychiatric help? Is there any form of treatment or therapy which can help with deja vu? I realize that most people don't mind -- but the continuing nature of my deja vu episodes makes them incredibly hard to weather.
Thanks in advance, any help or advice anyone can give.
Let me introduce myself, My
I am doing a project based on the topic of Deja Vu. While I was doing my research, I happened to see your page about deja vu. I hope you don't mind, I used it as a resource. The reason why i'm trying to contacting you is because I have a requirement of a live interview. Since you have really impressed me with what you have posted online, I thought that you would be a really good peron i could ask questions about your own thoughts. If you'd rather give me a call back i would gladly give you my number. Here are some of my questions:
( I've noticed that you posted you page in the year 2008. I probably will ask you questions in which you have already answered, but since poeple's thoughts tend to change, maybe your opinions have become way different than before).Thank you for taking out the time
1. When does Deja vu usually happen?
2. How does it occur?
3. How does it effect people internally and physically?
4. When deja vu is oftenly reoccuring, what does it mean?
Deja vu with physical symptoms
Thank you for the article that you have offered on line here. Reading many of the responses here, I would like to offer my experiences as a professional health care worker. I have been in the critical care/trauma and emergency department areas for 27 years.
I have observed many people and listened to quite a few with the same experiences concerning the area of types of deja vu. In all three the majority of them were quite explainable just from history taking. They involved the following, keeping in mind the trigger word FREQUENT Deja vu episodes, meaning, daily,frequently per monthly:
1. Frequent or infrequent use of recreational drugs such as ecstasy, heroin, mushrooms, cocaine, HGB, marijuana.
2. Known epileptics and sometimes a deja vu is pre emptive to having one referred to as a type of 'aura'; recovering from an absance seizure.
3. Presence of brain trauma or tumor, advanced syphyllis stage 3, advanced lymes disease(brain infestation of parasite), Brain stroke (CVA) or pending stroke (TIA),migraine
4. Hormonal imbalance such as one would experience during menstruation, diabetes mellitus,hypo/hyperthyroidism, male/female gonadal disease or surgical removal of,pituitary malfunction adrenal disease or pregnancy.
6. During use of Dr. prescribed medication to treat pain, psycholgical treatment medicaitions, steroids prednisone like,or during untreated pain episodes.
7. History of psychological trauma, depression, sleep disorders,anxiety disorders.
8. Constant source of stress or fear, social pressures.
What accompanied these histories were subjective observations of the client such as:
1. Metallic taste in the mouth.
2. Fragrance of flowers or pungence
3. Hearing "musical tones"
4. Feeling "lighter" or "weightless", feeling "out of body".
5. Feeling "nauseous"
6. Having a "headache"
Objective observations of the health care taker were as follows:
1. Diaphoresis (sweating), cold clammy feel to the skin, pallor.
2. Sudden dilatation or constriction of the pupils.
3. Facially, sudden blank stare, disinterest in surrounding environment, sudden relaxation of facial muscles,seizure.
4. Hypersalivation or vomiting
5. Difficulty in verbal expression, echolalia (repetative, speech) or loss of.
Of course this is not nearly complete, but you may see my point. My reasoning in sharing this is as I shared earlier, I have been in the health care field for a while. I believe the body as a whole is an intelligent organism as it has its working mastered and is very alert as to its goings on and having said that it speaks to us and lets us know in subtle ways that something may be awry. It might just be in your best interest to get a check up regardless of what age you are.
Now in the absence of the majority of the above, it could be nothing more than age related or something right out of the unexplained. But not to forget, that the body is subtle and of that body there is a mind. So if you should have an unexplained episode, maybe it would be advantageous to act on it as premonatory response and take your day slow. Decidedly, don't rush in your driving or going up and down the stairs or just be still and quiet for a moment and enjoy the surroundings or the present events of your present reality and take stock in the possibility of something bigger out there that is beyond comprehension that enjoys us wondering of it. I would not be surprised if there was a greater incidence of such experiences in mothers, cause I know my mother had eyes in the back of her head and never learned how she knew some stuff, but it fits the profile.
It was good to read in this article the mention of the possibility of physics and the movement of protons being a type of explanation as they move about and may possibly carry information between planes of past and future bumping into us and leaving us a glimpse. As a matter of fact if anyone is interested, there is a groundbreaking experiment for what is loosely called the search of the "God Particle". It involves a machine, the LARGE HADRON COLLIDER. It is easily googleable. Enjoy reading of it. There is a three part video on YouTube as well.
Respectfully with blessings to all
George
A survivor of severe head trauma at 4 years old
A survivor of Testicular Cancer at age 35 (now 53 cured{
Experiences infrequent deja vu
Practicing Registered Nurse and loving it! And you would too.
Experiences
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
Deja Vu
It happened quite a few years ago... How is it 2 strangers can have Deja Vu at the same instant?
Deja Vu
hi, im fifteen years old and i have had daja Vu often since i was eight or nine, however in the past year or so its been happining for and more often, so i get it a couple of time a week. it used to be that it would just be that a word would trigger something and it almsot felt like i was in a dream i got the feeling i had had a drema about it or was still dreaming this only lasted a couple of seconds. However now i get Daja Vu for perhaps a minuete or two, its usually triggered by something someone says, though it can be visual, i can see the scene playing in my head a couple of seconds before it actually happens, and i often know what another person is going to say to me, ive go so far as to say what they say at the same time as them, it really scares me so nowdays i 'change the script' as i call it, meaning as soon as i start to know what im oging to say and they are going to reply, i say something different, so the eery sensation is lost. Its like ive dreamt of it happening, or its happend beofre even when it hasnt, often it feels like its happend more than once. Also A coupel of times a been to a house ive never been into before, and inside im having a normal conversation and suddenly i will know whats going to happen, and in my 'dream' i know i turned and so something on the wall, or a dog came in in one instance, and so ill turn and the object or person who ive never seen before will be there just as in my dream.
Once i had a dream of a place ive never been or heard of before, when i described it to my mother she recognised the place and took me there, and it was exaclty like in me dream.
Its really bothering me and i would apprecaite a reply, just to sortof try and understnad whats happening to me.
Thanks
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!
Theories on Deja Vu
I've had a few theories when it comes to explaining this phenomenon. I have deja vu a lot. It flares up and goes away. As often as a few times a day to every few weeks. I have read that simple partial seizures are accompanied by deja vu. Other symptoms include hallucinations (the prior experience in this case), muscle spasms/twitches and a few other things. All three of the named symptoms apply to myself. Also it has been documented that a strong sense of deja vu occurs immediately before an epileptic seizure. I had the feeling that the part of the brain that processes memory - the hippocampus - could partly be to blame. It may misfire and confuse two similar scenarios and make the person experiencing believe that they were the same.
One thing I have noticed personally, while reading various comments, is that a few people who experience deja vu often have bad memory, so it could be a problem with the hippocampus. Confirmations? Rejections?
constant deja vu...
I'm completely frustrated w/ this constant deja vu that I have. It happens every single day; at least four times a day. I don't understand it nor do I want it. I'm quite confused whenever it happens. Everything seems so familiar and I start thinking I am going crazy. Not sure if it is in actuality, a problem with the pre frontal cortex as I've read on the internet or...if there is something else that I am missing. I just wish that it would stop. I even have problems with my memory now. I can't seem to remember much of anything that has happened in the past few months that normally I wouldn't really forget. If anyone knows how to make all this deja vu stop or if there is a way to get tested for something please let me know. Thanks...
-Troubled w/ Deja vu & Memory.
Deja Vu and Marijuana
I found this page via a Google search and I thought I'd post about my situation -- I was a very heavy marijuana smoker. I decided to stop and it's been about two weeks now that I've been completely sober. All of a sudden today I am having Deja Vu about every half hour or so all day today. It's very strange. I never experienced this while smoking marijuana.
DEja Vu
since last many days.....i have been reading a lot abt Deja Vu...its a real mystery...however, i have been reading about it in relation to a competition for which my topic is "Deja vu"........can anyone giv me new insights for the topic????As in like how can it be converted for good??? like if i knw this is going to happen and this is bad...and this is happening to me this very moment and after a min I m goin to meet wit an accident....can i change it????
pl help....
I have Deja Vu and i cant control it.
Hi im 14 years old and ever since i was nine i've been having alot of Deja Vu. Sometimes i get Deja Vu and a small scary feling that goes down my spine it feels like the inside of my back is getting a cold breeze,and after i have it something strange or bad happens and the Deja Vu i get is strange,for example;one time i traveled to Lake Tahoe and whent on a bike ride and during the ride i had Deja Vu and i saw my friend falling of the bike but when i rememberd it the person falling was wearing a black robe with a cape and a hod.It was terrible because my friend twisted his leg and had to be sent to the hospital.I get alot of that kind of Deja Vu Im sort of used to it because i get it now and then like almost every day but its not always bad sometimes got thing happen when I have Deja Vu.But thats not what freaks me out the worst times are when i get Deja Vu in my sleep,can you imagine getting Deja Vu in your dreams and right after that wake up and have Deja Vu of your dream its the odest feeling.Getting Deja Vu of Deja Vu it makes my head hurt so much.So any ways i came here to get help i need to know if anyone out thre has the same Deja Vu that i have,and i also want to know if there are any cures to Deja Vu because i hate having all that strange Deja Vu so please help me if you have any answers or to let me know that im not the only one with that kind of Deja Vu. *__*
hey i have Deja vu to. but i
hey i have Deja vu to. but i am able to control it.
im the same age as you.
ex. 3 years
when it happens i can usualyy change what happens like when i get in fights. i have deja vu and then it happens again but i use it and when that person punched me instead i dogded it.
so your not alone
I have been a worrier all my
I have been a worrier all my life - too many reasons to go into - but I have experienced deja vu / deja senti from when I was a small child. At various stages in my life - illness, financial worries, job worries, pregnancy etc I have noticed an alarming increase in the number of deja vu's experienced. I too have had what Jared described as deja vu "swarms" - thank you Jared I thought it was only me!!
What I know to be true is that they happen at very stressful and anxious times and they lessen both in number and intensity when life is less stressful. I try to look at them as warning lights telling me to relax and not stress. However the worry that these are ocurring tend to fuel my anxiety and thus increase the number of deja vu!! This is of course a vicious circle.
Just know that none of us are mad, our brains are complex machines which we may never quite understand. A very good friend confessed to having the same thing years ago - we both kept it secret as we both thought we were going mad. But I haven't gone mad in 40+ years and nor has she!! Reading this and writing this gives me hope - they are scary but perhaps they are just part of us like eye and hair colour.
Thinking of and understandng you all x
Re-visiting
Here's part of a paragraph (discussing anti-matter) that may or may not be of interest to deja vu'ers/vecu'ers, from "Physics of the Impossible", by Michio Kaku (a leading physicist in today's world): "...Even if parity-reversed and charge-reversed universes are not possible, an anti-universe is still possible, but it would be a strange one. If we reversed the charges, the parity, AND THE MARCH OF TIME, then the resulting universe would obey all the laws of physics. The CPT-reversed universe is allowed."
I'm a continual deja vecu'er, and have been for the past 36 years (chronologically, I'm almost 55). Before becoming a continual, I experienced deja vu on occasion, back to early childhood. Even as a young child, I could sense the multi-dimensionality of this magnificent creation we call reality. We've made great headway in our comprehension of the mystery of life, but we still have a ways to go.
Someday, we'll augment the current medical/neuropsychological studies of deja vu/vecu with dv research within the physics realm. How do I know that? I know that because I'm a continual deja vecu'er. I've always known it, just as I know that it takes the footwork and the participation of many deja vu'ers/vecu'ers to bring it about. I'm thrilled to see so many speaking up since my last visit here (almost three years ago, before I opted for the word "continual" vs. "perpetual".)
Do you remember Plato's "Allegory of the Cave?" I wish the best of hope and tenacity to you in your dv journeys!
Espiralli, August 12, 2008.
Visual info processing delay
I had the same problem for a while. I think the main problem is the time elapse is processing the information by the brain. But this could be debatable.
Daydream or Deja Vu?
I've searching the Internet and can't find anyone with my same problem. I'm hoping you or someone can explain this. It feels like deja vu where I'm remembering a sequence of events that is so familiar and for the moment real...but in reality none of it ever happened. I don't just recall the events I feel it. It's hard to explain. I just talked to my mom and the same thing happens to her. For example, I'm doing dishes and I stop because I'm overwhelmed with a negative feeling, I'm upset, my husband is upstairs right now mad at me and I feel terrible. I remember that we got into a fight a minute ago. In reality he's upstairs But there was no chain of events that made him upset at me. He's just going about his business. Its like a memory but with the full range of feelings that one would have if it really happened. Moments later I snap out of it and realize that memory is totally wrong. I'm fine. And I go about my day with a little of that lingering feeling... like... that was weird.
Did I just do some sort of Daydream? Or is it Deja Vu where I'm remembering something...even though it never happened? I'm hoping that maybe you can provide me with some sort of logical answer.
Thanks, Kissandra.
going deja crazy
Alright so heres my deal with the whole deja vu thing. I'm 18 years old and have experienced random deja vu episodes ever since i can remember. But all of a sudden I am experiencing it everyday all day! And I really can't take it anymore, im going insane and I'm becoming very depressed and emotional about it. Mostly when I have deja vu i'll see a random person on the street or a customer at work that ive never seen before and i feel like i know them. Also during my episodes i get headaches and feel light headed and nauseous. My question to anyone is, is there a reason why this is happening to me? Could it be from substance abuse or something like that? And most importantly how do i make it stop?!! Please give me some advice, i need to know if this is all in my head or not because i feel like im going crazy.
Thanks
Emily
Deja vu and nausea
Hi, Emily,
If you're deja vu is accompanied by headaches and nausea, you might see about having a neurological checkup. Such symptoms are often related to temporal lobe epilepsy seizures. If you do a search for temporal lobe epilepsy you can read up on it. There are good medications available to control it - if that is what is causing your "attacks". Let me know how it goes.
Art Funkhouser, deja vu researcher
Deja vu all my life
I recognized long ago when it's happening. It's a sense of going on 'pause mode', I sense/feel it first, stand still, then listen and look around for what is going on. Do I stop breathing? Strongest episode was 23 years ago. A wonderful summer day when family, & kids were small, all playing in the front yard. I felt it start so I just stopped and watched everyone horseplay for about 1/2 hour. This episode I always treasure. Didn't know at the time my mother in it would be dead in a year of cancer.
The feeling you get when looking thru old photo albums, that makes you want to cry and pulls your heart out.
Lots of seeing dreams have eased up, thank God. Dreamed exactly when my father, and then mother were dying.
Current is watching new TV premiere episodes and I've seen them before. Annoying
Hello I am someone who
Hello
I am someone who occasionally has deja vu. I am definitely not any kind of expert on the matter but I just had an episode which led me to this posting and reading everyone's opinions/questions and theories. I feel that the deja vu experience is one's inner self taking a sort of snapshot of something they know will soon change. Also, possibly a mile-marker may have been reached in the deja vuer's existence and we are made aware of this. When I was sixteen yrs old I frequently had deja vu experiences, soon after that, I moved away from where I lived and became depressed, had problems with relationships, Law Enforcement, my family, You name it. Yesterday morning on the ride to work with my friend and coworker we spoke about life and religion among other things as we occasionally do. Later in the day I had a deja vu experience as I was sawing a peice of lumber for a case I was building. Everything around me seemed like a recreation from a previous version of events, like a computer rebooting from a backup file I took this to mean that I am on course or that my journey in life had reached an intersection between where I am in life's journey and where I should be. I know it sounds weird I'm not great at explaining things but sometimes things just seem to be illuminated or highlighted for us to take note.
Deja Vu
Hi I'm 19 and I have Deja Vu everyday sometimes it will happen 5 or 6 times. This has been happening to me since I was 4. When I happens I see weird pictures and I smell this really bad smell. I don't know what causes it.
Please, I need some advice before i lose it
Well, i'm not really sure where to begin or how to explain the things that i am going through. I know that many people might consider the following words to be a go getter lie, but i assure that i would not make thi up for some attention over the internet. For the past several years I have been plague with an almost constant deja vu. At times I feel normal, then suddenly i am swept away in a sense of awareness that draws me away from my peers. Living with a constant deja vu would normally have little effect on me, other than i would think it was cool. however, for about as long as i can remember i have had dreams that come true in one form or another. When i was a little kid, i had many dreams about my family dying. Cows once ate my whole family, and another time a bunch of dogs and an alpha male had killed everyone in my home but me. needless to say more, my family was torn apart when i was 12 years old. although the dreams did not com exactly true, it was there direct meanings that did. now, what has pushed me to open myself up to whoever is reading this is that for about 7 months now i have been having dreams almost every night. And these dreams are coming true exactly as i dream them. I dreamt about a month ago that i somehow broke a potatoe scooper with one of those little buttons that released the potatoes, and just recently, it happened. Although i remember the dream in distinct clarity, it did not occur to me that i had dreamt this dream untill a moment of deja vu swept over me. My dreams and my everyday deja vu experiance lead me to believe that something is going on(can't explain), and i try to fight against myself to prove that i am sane. if anyone out there goes through the similiar, please contact me. thank you
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