Reading the "theory of your existence" thread made me think of this.

I was in Hawaii once with my practice wife. We were out driving and decided to run by the grocery story - if we could find one.

I drove right to it. Down this street..left at the light, around the curve, etc...

Grocery was in back of a shopping center - couldn't be seen from the street we were on.

But I knew right where it was - and exactly how to get there.

She asked how I knew it was there - I had no clue. I mentally retraced the route there and really had no idea how I knew where I was going.

I just knew where it was.

Anybody else?

It happened once when i was 15 minutes old, i had to go pee..so i just went..i don't know how i knew but i just did it....haha j/k

Well, if I understand it, conventional thinking now indicates that Deja Vu is the two hemisphere's of the brain being slightly out of sync, so one side of the brain processes the information from your surroundings slightly slower than the other, giving you the sense of "I've been here/seen this before!"

GotZoom:

That doesn't sound like dejavu to me, sounds like some other type of phenomenon.

I recall on my Basic Training for the military, when doing a navigation excercise, when we were plotting our next nav point, I said "I know where that is, let's go" and we went. It was simply me subconciously adding up on the factors, and having some familiarity with the area, adding up where we had to go.

Well, if I understand it, conventional thinking now indicates that Deja Vu is the two hemisphere's of the brain being slightly out of sync, so one side of the brain processes the information from your surroundings slightly slower than the other, giving you the sense of "I've been here/seen this before!"

GotZoom:

That doesn't sound like dejavu to me, sounds like some other type of phenomenon.

I recall on my Basic Training for the military, when doing a navigation excercise, when we were plotting our next nav point, I said "I know where that is, let's go" and we went. It was simply me subconciously adding up on the factors, and having some familiarity with the area, adding up where we had to go.

Interesting...however in my case there was absolutely no familiarity with the area. I had never been to Hawaii.

I had no factors to add, no prior knowledge of even what road I was on or where it was going.

This is a repost, isn't it?

Well, if I understand it, conventional thinking now indicates that Deja Vu is the two hemisphere's of the brain being slightly out of sync, so one side of the brain processes the information from your surroundings slightly slower than the other, giving you the sense of "I've been here/seen this before!"

But...why does it sometimes feel like it happend, not a little bit ago, but that you are living the same experiance AGAIN after a long time ago you already did this or saw this happen? Your definition sounds possible...BUT, this is what I've done.

I had the Deje Vue experiance and I rememberd at that point, so I decided to predict to myself (not to indicate I was crazy others around me) what was about to happen next. Words people said...people that walked by, etc.

It happened as I rememberd it. Now, it does not work every time but it works enough to be like...HUH?

But...why does it sometimes feel like it happend, not a little bit ago, but that you are living the same experiance AGAIN after a long time ago you already did this or saw this happen? Your definition sounds possible...BUT, this is what I've done.

I had the Deje Vue experiance and I rememberd at that point, so I decided to predict to myself (not to indicate I was crazy others around me) what was about to happen next. Words people said...people that walked by, etc.

It happened as I rememberd it. Now, it does not work every time but it works enough to be like...HUH?

I've done the same thing. I remember one time on my way to highschool, I drove down one of the main roads and named what car would be coming out of every side street and what they would do when they approached the intersection. I've been able to predict what people will say on occasion as well, but the driving incident was by far the most impressive to date.

I get it all the time. Usually I'll dream it a couple weeks before hand. It gets to the point of where I know what the next song on the radio will be and small details, and if it involves someone saying something, I'll say exactly what they are about to say.
This one time when I was 18, me and my best friend went up to meet this girl he had been talking to for a long time online. My friend and I get a hotel room, and he calls her gives her the motel room number and she says she'll call us when she gets off work. So we're sitting around watching this movie "Fluke" about a reincarnated dog, and I pick up the remote and mute it and look at the phone. My friend looks at me and says "What?" I said "She's dialing" right after I said that the phone rang and scared the CRAP out of him. I ended up doing it again the next day. She also didn't tell us when she would get off work since she didn't know. So I don't think it had to do with the time. It was just an interesting turn of events.

I remember reading about how it's caused by a chemical imbalance of sorts, which routes what you are experiencing now, thru your memory-place in the brain.

This is a repost, isn't it?

A-hahahahahahaha! Good one!

Well, I "knew" that the challenger was going to blow up the morning it did. But that kinda thing is not Deja Vu, that's foresight.

Deja Vu is the feeling that you've already done this/that before.

Many people have experienced déjà vu at some point in their lives. In fact, 70% of the population report having experienced déjà vu at some point. A higher rate of occurrence appears between the ages of 15 and 25, but psychologists are unsure of why this is exactly. (Some attribute it to a late stage of brain development.)

from http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A695469

That's an interesting note and I never though about it before but it's true, I did have many intense deja vu experiences during that age, but not as many now. Back in college I'd go through entire days with a feeling of deja vu.

Well, if I understand it, conventional thinking now indicates that Deja Vu is the two hemisphere's of the brain being slightly out of sync...

That fits my experience of it. I've never been able to predict anything during a deja vu. It's more like I'm remembering things 1 millisecond before they happen - just enough time to give that feeling it's happened before, but not enough to act on the information. Very frustrating.

The experiences people are telling regarding knowing places they've never been to before sounds more like past-life (or whatever you wanna call it) experiences...

I do, it happens to me quite often and they are very vivid. Its kinda scary...

i do too... quite often to me.... in school, playing games, at friends house... it happenes anywhere...

i usually have dreams about seeing things in my periphreal vision clearly then a few days later i see those same ppl i dreampt up in teh same room and situation. It scares the shit outa me.

We know so little about the mind.

Well in eastern north carolina, there is a strip club called deja vue. no i have never experienced it.

I've done the same thing. I remember one time on my way to highschool, I drove down one of the main roads and named what car would be coming out of every side street and what they would do when they approached the intersection. I've been able to predict what people will say on occasion as well, but the driving incident was by far the most impressive to date.

Yeah…I have no clue what it is, but it happens…very strange…

Photic, you have some weird stuff happening there

Well, I "knew" that the challenger was going to blow up the morning it did. But that kinda thing is not Deja Vu, that's foresight.

How did you know that?

The 15-25 year old thing makes a bit of sense because I'm now 27..near 28, and I don't remember having it much anymore. Like already stated...we know so little about SO MUCH...

I thought deja vu was just a glitch in the programming? :confused:

I thought deja vu was just a glitch in the programming? :confused:

That's what I was thinking! Those experiencing de ja vu need to look out the window. If they see a brick wall, then someone's about to pull their anal probe out, or sumthin' like that. :rolleyes:

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Last night I had dream that seemed very real.
In it, I was watching the news and they announced that Dave Chappelle was dead. He was shot in the head.
I woke up this morning thinking he had died, only to realize that it was just a dream.

what about Vuja De? the feeling nothing like this has ever happened to anyone anywhere anytime?

some say deja vu is a flash of memory from your past life, based on the fact that after death you are reborn as the same person and relive your exact life over again, repeating this pattern for all time. it makes me dizzy. but then i drive my rx8 and everything seems much simpler.

i have it happen with me a bunch, same thing as other people have said, where you know what is going to happen before it actually does. Always freaks me out when stuff like that happens

Reading the "theory of your existence" thread made me think of this.

I was in Hawaii once with my practice wife. We were out driving and decided to run by the grocery story - if we could find one.

I drove right to it. Down this street..left at the light, around the curve, etc...

Grocery was in back of a shopping center - couldn't be seen from the street we were on.

But I knew right where it was - and exactly how to get there.

She asked how I knew it was there - I had no clue. I mentally retraced the route there and really had no idea how I knew where I was going.

I just knew where it was.

Anybody else?

A waist is a terrible thing to mind.

This thread is a Deja Vue.

Every time I tlak about the war, or the republicans on this site.... :p

Reading the "theory of your existence" thread made me think of this.

I was in Hawaii once with my practice wife. We were out driving and decided to run by the grocery story - if we could find one.

I drove right to it. Down this street..left at the light, around the curve, etc...

Grocery was in back of a shopping center - couldn't be seen from the street we were on.

Anybody else?

was that on Kauai? In Poip Beach? i think i have been there.

(heh, heh)