Deja vu. Have you experienced it?

Question

What causes this? and what are your experiances? (apologies if the spelling is incorrect )

Answer 1

Sure, probably 20 times in my lifetime that I can recall, but they are always subtle, small clips of time that I have them, no more than 5 minutes. Who knows, maybe it's something in our subconscious?

Answer 2

As far as my experience with deja vu is. I've been having it for as long as I can remember.At least once a week. Sometimes two or even three times a day. Within the last few years I have even been able to tell what's going to happen next. It's only about half a second ahead but I remember dreaming it and then it happens. It even applies to what I'm thinking at the time. The way I figure it it's either a trick of the mind but that doesn't explain why I know what's going to happen next. Or it's some goofy idea about astral plains and whatnot.

Answer 3

The term "déjà vu" (French for "already seen", also called paramnesia) describes the experience of feeling that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously 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
The similarity between a déjà vu-eliciting stimulus and an existing, but different, memory trace may lead to the sensation. Thus, encountering something which evokes the implicit associations of an experience or sensation that cannot be remembered may lead to déjà vu. In an effort to experimentally reproduce the sensation, Banister and Zangwill (1941) used hypnosis to give participants posthypnotic amnesia suggestions for material they had already seen.
VR

Answer 4

I usaully get cautious about things when I experience this,I guess its just a primal fear mechanism,my first experience was on a Christmas day.It didnt occur to me until the event was in progress,I had two different toys I was trying to fit together and I realized that I had dreamt it two weeks before,the actual event and the toys(which I had never seen or heard of at the time of the dream)but there I was and it was real(since then deja vu's come and go,fragments but never as clear as that first time)

Answer 5

I recently read a website about deja vu and it said that the scientific explanation for it was that your brain sent the information it's receiving in the present to the memory part of your brain. Pretty much, your brain confused itself.

I never feel like it's something I've experienced before, I always feel like I had a dream that became reality.

Answer 6

Again and again! I heard it's because one either has an old soul or is reliving an out-of-body experience like astral travel.

I've felt this when passing through new places and feeling that I've been there or that the environment looks so familiar.

Answer 7

It's an effect of the Brain!
Half of the Brain Shuts down temporarily,The other half resumes service.
The side of the brain that stops first captures an Image,moment,speech etc.Then what happens is the other half of the Brain resumes this and replays this moment back-Giving the effect of living then moment before!
Hope that makes sense!

Answer 8

I HAVE EXPERIENCED IT A LOT. MY BEST EXPLANATION OR THEORY ON WHAT A DEJA VU IS, IS A DREAM THAT YOU HAVE HAD BEFORE. WHY ELSE WOULD YOU FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE DONE SOMETHING SO STRONGLY? THAT IS WHAT I THINK.

Answer 9

very often deja vu is a product of anxiety; keep a journal of what happens before and after you experience this phenomenon and you will see a pattern; i would guess there is something stressful involved and you will determine this by your journaling....good luck and breath deep

Answer 10

Yes, it has happened to me a few times. The weirdest and most unexplainable is when I dream of something and then it happens, or when I just know something with no logical reason to think of it and then it happens. I don't know why it happens, but there have been times it helped me. Crazy huh?