Any information on deja vu?

Question

When I was a child, I used to get deja vu sostrongly, I was sick to my stomach. It always worried me but it went away. Now I'm 26 and in the last year it's come back even stronger. I feel like I'm going to throw up sometimes it hits me so hard. I'm very worried, and if I can't do anything to make them stop, I'd at least like a little knowledge about the subject, good- bad- or otherwise

By "sick", I mean just that. A very intense rush that causes this dizzyness like I've been spun around by the most insane rollercoaster or something. It is coupled by this feeling like I've been in that exact moment in time already (around 1 minute) and everything that is happening makes me think "Yup, I knew that was gonna happen and this was gonna happen" It starts slowly, then it gains momentum and peaks midway into an intense sense of repitition coupled with the nausea (in hundreds of episodes, I've never had to vomit, but every time I think "this is the time where I'm gonna throw up), then it lessens in intensity and finally disappears. For a full minute I am like out of my mind. God forbid anyone ask me a ? or something because I don't even know what's going on (actually I know EXACTLY what's going on- and that's the problem... lol)

Oh and William, stay off the drugs...

Answer 1

Psychologists have NEVER been able to concretely prove what causes deja vu. There have only been theories.
One theory is that the situation you are in reminds you of another situation you have been in, whether recent or long ago. You have lost the sort of "path" within your mind to that particular memory that allows you to remember it, but it's still there. Therefore, the subconscious is aware of it, but your conscious is not. This "situation" may be the lamp on a nightstand or the layout of a room, which may subconsciously remind you of how your grandmother's room looked when you were three (just an example).
Another theory is that the part of your brain that encodes what you are seeing, and the part of the brain that processes what you see sort of have a "rear-end collision" in that one is faster or slower than the other for a second or two. Explained more clearly, it seems familiar because you HAVE seen it before, it's just that it was a split second before.

Answer 2

Any information on deja vu?
When I was a child, I used to get deja vu sostrongly, I was sick to my stomach. It always worried me but it went away. Now I'm 26 and in the last year it's come back even stronger. I feel like I'm going to throw up sometimes it hits me so hard. I'm very worried, and if I can't do anything to make them stop, I'd at least like a little knowledge about the subject, good- bad- or otherwise

Answer 3

I know exactly what you mean asside from the nausea part. I have actually been getting Deja Vu A LOT this week and I am wondering why. I feel like something or someone is trying to tell me something....or something, I don't know. It usually comes every once in a blue moon but I have experienced Deja Vu several times this week. I wish I could tell you why but it is a complete mystery to me. Some people say it is when your brain takes too long to process something but I completely disagree. I think it's more unexplainable.

Answer 4

Severe cases of Deja Vu can be linked to disorders. People that have schizophrenia, or anxiety often have severe cases of deja vu. There are also some recreational drugs that increase the feelings of Deja Vu. for more information on Dejav Vu and the connections to mental disorders please see the Wikipedia article link below under 'Source'. You will find it very helpful. It provides information on what Deja Vu actually is, what the symptoms are, relations to disorders and drugs, and other similar feelings.

If you think you may have some sort of disorder that may be causing this problem, I would suggest seeing a doctor.

Answer 5

The term déjà vu (French: "already seen", also called paramnesia) describes the experience of feeling that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously. The term was created by a French psychic researcher, Emile Boirac (1851–1917) in his book L'Avenir des sciences psychiques (The Future of Psychic Sciences), which expanded upon an essay he wrote while an undergraduate French concentrator at the University of Chicago. The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eerieness," "strangeness," or "weirdness." The "previous" experience is most frequently attributed to a dream, although in some cases there is a firm sense that the experience "genuinely happened" in the past.

Answer 6

I have a theory on Deja Vu.
I believe that this happens when you are very tired or bored. It rarely happens when you are intense or fully concentrating on something. My theory is that when you are tired you have a stimulous (picture/circumstance ect) hit your brain and your brain (that is understimulated at that time) only partially processes it. As the stimulous continues and your brain re processes the situation it begins to feel that you have been in that same circumstance before. Thus Deja Vu.
I have no scientific back up for this but to me it makes sense.
So for your situation; maybe get some extra sleep or start to do something intense as soon as you feel a deja vu starting. Hey...ya never know...I may be on crack..or maybe..just maybe it will help.

Answer 7

Well I was told in one of my Biology classes that people experience deja vu when they come in to a place or meet a person because the brain doesnt fully recieve its message of the new surrounding area until the second strike making it seem like you were there before.
But from what your talking about it doesnt sound like a deja vu but some mental trip!!lol

Answer 8

deja vu doesn't make u sick it is a just feeling. Like u have been in a certain situtaion before. I get that feeling all the time. I do tend to get dizzy but thats it. Maybe go to the doctor

Answer 9

I sounds like something very traumatic happened.

Here's one school of thought and how to deal with it:
When someone gets injured or hurt emotionally, it reduces your conscious brain power and another part of you takes over. And when a similar situation occurs, you experience physical symptoms and strange compulsions to action to avoid whatever happened last time. You are in a state susceptible to suggestion and any spoken words can become commands taken literally. You would tend to emulate the most powerful person in the original trauma. Much of this experience is repressed.

By re-experiencing it, and remembering EVERYTHING, whatever instructions or spoken words you received would be recalled, and then your conscious mind would realize that those commands are rediculous and you are freed of them.

Answer 10

Deja-vu happens to me everyday, except i dont feel sick about it. I dont understand what you mean by sick and y you get sick. can you please add details on your question after you read this and tell me y u get sick? (just curious) but think it fells cool cause i know whats going to happen after that. No, actually its freaky, but some people believe (like me) that its cause you've lived you life over & over again. But other believe that its just all in your head. It sounds cool that you have it. Y dont you embrace that you have a gift like that?