What was your stongest feelin of De Ja Vous?

Question

Have you had that strange feeling like you have already lived a life event but you have no actual memory of it? 10 points to the one that makes the hair on the back of my neck standup.

Answer 1

Obviously there's no way to prove what I'm saying is true -- you're either going to accept it or not -- your call.

I was once driving down the street and stopped at a red light. Just before the light turned green I had a deja vu that a green sedan was going to run the red light, come hurtling through the intersection and plow into me as soon as the light changed and I entered the intersection. When the light changed, I didn't go (as I normally would have) -- and sure enough, a green sedan tore through the intersection, running his red light. I would have been killed if not for that deja vu.

Like I said, you can believe it or not; but it just happens to be the truth. I still can't explain it.

Answer 2

I don't think I can make the hair on the back of your neck stand up but I get the feeling of Deja Vu atleast three times a week. It is really weird and I have to stop for a few moments and think to myself ... Has this happened to me before? And of course, I can't really remember so I'm caught up thinking about it for a while. I have also had times where I dream about something and it happens a few weeks later. This has only happened twice in my life that I can recall though. I am majoring in psychology so I keep a journal of my dreams by my bedside.

Answer 3

1) it's called Déjà vu
2) it is not a recall from a 'event that you have no memory of' but a memory glitch:

In recent years, déjà vu has been subjected to serious psychological and neurophysiological research. The most likely candidate for explanation is that déjà vu is not an act of "precognition" or "prophecy" but is actually an anomaly of memory; it is the impression that an experience is "being recalled" which is false.This is substantiated to an extent by the fact that in most cases the sense of "recollection" at the time is strong, but any circumstances of the "previous" experience (when, where and how the earlier experience occurred) are quite uncertain. Likewise, as time passes, subjects can exhibit a strong recollection of having the "unsettling" experience of déjà vu itself, but little to no recollection of the specifics of the event(s) or circumstances they were "remembering" when they had the déjà vu experience, and in particular, this may result from an overlap between the neurological systems responsible for short-term memory (events which are perceived as being in the present) and those responsible for long-term memory (events which are perceived as being in the past).

Links with disorders
A clinical correlation has been found between the experience of déjà vu and disorders such as schizophrenia and anxiety, and the likelihood of the experience increases considerably with subjects having these conditions. However, the strongest pathological association of déjà vu is with temporal lobe epilepsy. This correlation has led some researchers to speculate that the experience of déjà vu is possibly a neurological anomaly related to improper electrical discharge in the brain. As most people suffer a mild (i.e. non-pathological) epileptic episode regularly (e.g. the sudden "jolt", a hypnagogic jerk, that frequently occurs just prior to falling asleep), it is conjectured that a similar (mild) neurological aberration occurs in the experience of déjà vu, resulting in an erroneous sensation of memory.

Pharmacology
It has been reported that certain recreational drugs increase the chances of déjà vu occurring in the user. Some pharmacological drugs, when taken together, have also been implicated in the cause of déjà vu. Taiminen and Jääskeläinen (2001) reported the case of an otherwise healthy male who started experiencing intense and recurrent sensations of déjà vu on taking the drugs amantadine and phenylpropanolamine together to relieve flu symptoms. He found the experience so interesting that he completed the full course of his treatment and reported it to the psychologists to write-up as a case study. Due to the dopaminergic action of the drugs and previous findings from electrode stimulation of the brain (e.g. Bancaud, Brunet-Bourgin, Chauvel, & Halgren, 1994), Taiminen and Jääskeläinen speculate that déjà vu occurs as a result of hyperdopaminergic action in the mesial temporal areas of the brain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu

Answer 4

There is also the theory that Deja Vu is when our thinking lines up with what is written in our Akashic record.

Answer 5

The feeling that I'd had deja vu before.

Answer 6

"déjà vu", grrrrrrrrrr !!!!!