is experiencing deja vu, evidence that life is predestined???

Question

is this a gift or does everyone experience it(deja vu)???

Answer 1

Everyone experiences it. It is an illusion.

You encounter a situation and your brain gets confused. It files the memory as being days/months/years old instead of seconds old.

If it was real, it would be evidence of post-destination.

Answer 2

I've had strange deja'vu things my whole life. When I was a little kid I would have a dream, and then the dream would happen. It was usually so insignifigant. It started to happen so often that I would remember my dreams and be able to predict small things in my future. Usually it was a dream about me freaking out about somethine. Then when it would actually happen, I'd remember the dream and I wouldn't freak out.

Life is not predestined. Although quite often I would have those deja vu moments, and try to change what was happening. It seemed like there were multiple forces in my life. There was certainly a negative, greedy, power-hungry, self-destructive force that was guiding me and had a tight tight grip. Although I would often have the oppurtunity to take whatever I wanted. However, it usually meant hurting someone close to me. In my own rationalization I'd just tell myself that they were weak. Because well...they were. However, when I didn't take advantage of the weak I lost a lot of things.

When I gave myself over to the Lord Jesus Christ, there was a different force driving me. I recognized the old force. I knew what it was the whole time. I just...rationalized away. There's a difference between a psychopath and a sociopath. They both are people who excert anti-social behavior, however a psychopath is beleived to be born that way. A sociopath is someone who's developed this way of thinking. Coming from a confessed sociopath (not that I killed anybody, but... I had no feeling. I would have killed somebody if it served a purpose. I had no more consciense. No more feeling towards right and wrong).

Once when I was really really stoned this chick tried to tell me having Deja Vu means you're on the right path. However, she was full of ****. I don't know what she was into, but it was some occult stuff.

Last Deja Vu I really remember was about 4 years ago. It all had to do with this mushroom trip...and just... it was weird. I won't explain. Needless to say, when it happened in real life it was trippy....especially since I was just starting to trip when I remembered that dream.

Now what I used to call Deja Vu feels more like time slowing down. Like, an intense moment where I have to make the right decision. Where as before I was a slave to my compulsions/etc. I am slowly learning to understand free-will. Those deja vu's are like crucial moments. Even if it's a seemingly nothing decision. E.g. I'm making out with a chick, should I try to get the pussy or should I slow down. Someones passing me a blunt, should I hit that? This dude is pissing me off, should I hit HIM?

Then I get this other feeling. It's like...a flashback sort of. It feels like, the feeling I used to have when I was a little kid. It's great.

People call things quantum physics and such. Yet I think you have to apply both God and morality to quantum physics if you're really going to understand. Scientists recently discovered (early undeveloped theory) that although there are 10 dimensions, ultimately it's all just one dimension. Hard to explain. I don't have the link anymore.

Answer 3

I'm not a neuro-surgeon, or an expert on this subject, but I have a theory.

As others have said, I think it must have something to do with the temporal lobe which controls short and long term memory. My theory is that it's a quick "malfunction" in the temporal lobe where-by your short-term-memories (what you are experiencing at that immediate moment) are mistakenly, and simultaneously, being placed or accessing the long-term-memory part of your temporal lobe.

What happens therefore, is that you percieve the moments as if you are remembering them (retrieving them from your long term memory). The reason this seems most apparent to me is the fact that the feeling of deja vu happens for an instant where you begin to sense that you are remembering the experience, but you can't actually foresee the rest of the moment you are experiencing. You just feel as if you COULD have perceived it. It's never a feeling of "I know what is going to happen" it's always "I KNEW that WAS going to happen."

From my understanding, I think you could imagine your temporal lobe as a filing system containg a section for "new" files, and for "old" files. As you experience deja-vu, it's like your files are being doubled and placed and in the "old" and "new" sections at the same time. Therefore, you think that the files were there all along.

At least that's MY theory.

Answer 4

It comes with humanity when you're born, but the older you get the less you notice it...Something like dieing nerves in a part of your body.

The term déjà vu is French and means, literally, "already seen." Those who have experienced the feeling describe it as an overwhelming sense of familiarity with something that shouldn't be familiar at all. Say, for example, you are traveling to England for the first time. You are touring a cathedral, and suddenly it seems as if you have been in that very spot before. Or maybe you are having dinner with a group of friends, discussing some current political topic, and you have the feeling that you've already experienced this very thing -- same friends, same dinner, same topic.

The phenomenon is rather complex, and there are many different theories as to why déjà vu happens. Swiss scholar Arthur Funkhouser suggests that there are several "déjà experiences" and asserts that in order to better study the phenomenon, the nuances between the experiences need to be noted. In the examples mentioned above, Funkhouser would describe the first incidence as déjà visité ("already visited") and the second as déjà vecu ("already experienced or lived through").

As much as 70 percent of the population reports having experienced some form of déjà vu. A higher number of incidents occurs in people 15 to 25 years old than in any other age group.

Déjà vu has been firmly associated with temporal-lobe epilepsy. Reportedly, déjà vu can occur just prior to a temporal-lobe epileptic attack. People suffering an epileptic seizure of this kind can experience déjà vu during the actual seizure activity or in the moments between convulsions.

Since déjà vu occurs in individuals with and without a medical condition, there is much speculation as to how and why this phenomenon happens. Several psychoanalysts attribute déjà vu to simple fantasy or wish fulfillment, while some psychiatrists ascribe it to a mismatching in the brain that causes the brain to mistake the present for the past. Many parapsychologists believe it is related to a past-life experience. Obviously, there is more investigation to be done.

Answer 5

I think most people experience it, but it is not evidence that life is predestined. There are a couple of reasons why people get deja vu. One way is by dreaming of a situation and experiencing a similar one the next day. Another way is by experiencing two similar situations.

Answer 6

You know, this is a good question because I often wonder the same exact thing! I don't think it's a gift...everyone experiences deja vu I believe. But yea...I think that life just may be predestined.

Answer 7

I get deja vu all the time...where would the gift come from and why, if that was the case?

Deja vu is only the feeling that is induced when the brain makes misplaced associations and neural connections.

Answer 8

I won't comment on the deja vu, but I do believe in predestination, and IMHO you're on the right track. It's worth a look.

Answer 9

Deja vu is meaningless. Its just a trick involving pathways in the brain that make you think what you are experiencing has happened before.

Answer 10

Perhaps, it's evidence that life is predestined... who knows... or it could mean you have precognitive dreams... or just you have deja vu... like how many licks it takes to get to the center of a toostie pop... the world may never know.