Hi--I've answered deja vu questions before, but everyone seems pretty happy with short, simple explanation I give for this, so here it is again (hope this helps!):
We have 2 separate memory centers in the brain--one stores long-term memories, and the other stores short-term memories (including all the little trivial crap that we quickly forget). Anyway, your senses usually send everything through the short-term storage first, then on to the long-term center if it's something important, or makes a big impression on us...whatever. Once in a while though, events gets sent to the long-term center first (ahead of the same events that are passing through the short-term center). So, what happens is, when the short-term center sends that memory to the long-term center--surprise!--it's already there, and we thus experience this weird deja vu feeling.
That's a tiny bit simplified, but it's accurate. Again, I hope this helps---there's nothing paranormal, or involving evil spirits, friendly spirits, or astral projection, or time travel going on. Relax everyone--this happens to everybody, it's 100% normal.
2006-08-05 06:40:56
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answered by stevenB 4
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Is interesting how complicated some people can make a simple process.. The most important things in life are very simple, yet the intellectual mind is somehow compelled to make it a mystery. As was seen in the drawn out explanation of one of the entrants.. which actually didn't explain deja vu at all. It did explain the memory implantation..but does not explain how that memory from decades or centuries ago, got there this time.
2006-08-08 22:01:21
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answered by mrcricket1932 6
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I've heard the answer about it's a psychological misfire. However, how does one dream of something...let's say something completely banal...that is totally meaningless then the next day bam...it happens. Explain that.
My whole life I've had dreams that later come true...of people I'm going to meet, places I'll visit or tasks I'll perform. It's strange and weird.
I've recorded these and then later...bam. It happens. This is no misfire. So when the deja vu hits...it's the real deal.
2006-08-06 00:54:54
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answered by sketch 1
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yes, alot, my whole live seems like deja vu, like i just moved right, and i had to go to a new school ive never been to or seen. so on the first day of school i was going inside the school, as soon as i steped foot in it, it seemed ive been there before, i keep getting deja vi feelings. My new house, it feels like ive been there and lived there before, it freaks me out, but hey what can we do?
2006-08-08 01:23:29
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answered by Anonymous
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YES I HAVE AND I AGREE WITH THE ANSWER THAT STEVENB GAVE WITH REGARDS TO SHORT AND LONG TERM MEMORY THOUGH I DO NOT THINK THAT THIS CAN EXPLAIN IT ALL. IT DOES NOT EXPLAIN PREMONITIONS. I HAD A VISION OF MY FATHER IN THE HOSPITAL A LONG TIME BEFORE HE EVEN GOT SICK. I KNEW IT WAS LIFE AND DEATH. MONTHS AND MONTHS LATER AS THE DR'S WERE SAYING PNEUMONIA I WAS SAYING NO IT WASN'T. THEN THEY SAID DOUBLE PNEUMONIA AND THEN BRONCHIAL PNEUMONIA. FINALLY AFTER CONVINCING THEM TO GO BACK AGAIN AFTER MONTHS OF THEM NOT KNOWING WHAT IT WAS THEY FINALLY DID AN MRI OR CAT SCAN OR SOMETHING. I THINK FULL BODY MRI BUT NOT SURE. THEY FOUND CANCER. JUST BEFORE HE PAST AWAY I SAW THAT SAME HOSPITAL WITH ALL MY FAMILY MEMBERS IN THE SAME PLACE AS MY PREMONITION OR DREAM OR DEJA VU OR WHATEVER. I JUST WISH THEY HAD LISTENED TO ME FROM THE BEGINNING. MAYBE HE WOULD STILL BE HERE NOW, THAT THEY WOULD HAVE CAUGHT IT THAT MUCH EARLIER.
2006-08-08 01:42:34
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answered by Kat 2
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I do sometimes and I just accept it for what it is.Because I really don't know what it is.The way I look at is THE GOD telling me that everything is already planned out.And HE alone knows what will happen before it happens.Sometimes I see things in real life that was in my dreams.And it will happen maybe a month later or even 1 week later.But as soon as it happens I instantly have a major thought that I can not explain.And when it is with my friends who know me and my beliefs who are in tune with me look at me when it happens as if it happens to them too.But this is the best explanation I can give.
2006-08-05 13:25:31
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answered by Mitchell B 4
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Deja vu is a supreme form of intelligence.
It becomes very common when you make your brain ingest a lot of information, and when your intellectual activity is high.
The mind constructs logical sequences of developing situations...and you see previously foreseen situations.
It is fantastic and rewarding.
2006-08-05 21:07:03
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answered by Sweet Dragon 5
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I think I had deja vu over this boy in school.do you know what it means? i know what it means it means like when you're really in love with that person. like Beyonce and Jay-Z Beyonce is crazy about her man and i know you had deja vu before i just know it's okay to tell me.
2006-08-05 13:33:30
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answered by Raven C 2
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All the time. Personally I rather enjoy it. Unless its the bad ones that are warnings. Even so I appreciate those becos they are protecting me from danger. Its from premonitional dreams, and it can also be a way to show you that you are on track with your chart, kind of a reinforcement that you are on the right track in life!
2006-08-07 09:09:12
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answered by Jen 3
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I used to frequently experience it when I was a kid, but it's very rare for me now, and when it does, its very small in comparison to the occurrences from childhood. The youngest age I remember having it at was three years old.
2006-08-05 17:44:45
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answered by Anonymous
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