Quite often I experience something that I've seen, heard or read in a dream in my waking life and it seems to be increasing in frequency...any thoughts?
2006-11-13 19:05:26 · 18 answers · asked by left of center 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
I'm NOT worried about something being wrong with me...actually I find this to be quite a fascinating part of my life.
2006-11-13 19:34:38 · update #1
I have deja vu in that I have an overwhelming sense of familiarity to people or places from time to time with no logical explanation for it. Good question.
2006-11-14 01:06:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do not have it on a daily basis but once in a while. I did have it just an hour ago. I will tell you...
Well, on Sunday, my beloved grandmother died. I loved her very much.
So today I was downloading music from Limewire while I was on here. So I minimized the mozilla window and saw my grandma's face as the desktop. I stared at it. I was feeling very weird, and I knew I was having deja vu.
I was wondering why I was having it while sitting at my computer. Then I remembered.
Well six months ago I had a horrible dream about my grandmother dying. In my dream I knew she was dead. I was downloading music and I minimized a browser window to find the same picture I have up now in it. Everything that happened in taht dream, happened just an hour ago when Iwas experiencing deja vu.
It was really creepy, I must say. Afterwards, I started to cry.
2006-11-13 19:52:00 · answer #2 · answered by Sarah* 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is when you see something, your brain is taking in the data abit like a computer, but with deja vu the data going in goes in twice,that fast you think you've seen or read it before.May be you need to relax or if the problem persists,see someone.
I have experienced this myself,but i have to say that i thought it was happening again when i met a woman on holiday in France,and told her that i knew her from some where.It turns out she was sat on the same row a little further down at a Phill Collins concert a couple of years earlier.
2006-11-16 00:27:19 · answer #3 · answered by Countess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is nothing wrong with your brain.... deja vu is a quite common experience, sometimes easy to explain with facts that are alike and happen in different times. We have the perception to have done the same thing, or said the same words, but they were done or said in a different, but similar situation. Other times the explanation is not so easy, but the fact that is more frequent in young rather than old people (should be the contrary with the first explanation...) gives rise to several theories, some of which rather interesting but difficult to prove. Every day, however, is remarkable...
2006-11-13 19:18:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Deja Vu is common enough that we have a term for it. Yes I experience them. A location will remind me of a premanition, I'll remember some strangers walked by and said something, then those same people appear and play it out, just the way I remembered. It's hard to believe that some scientists try to explain it away.
Is the Deja Vu movie out yet?
2006-11-13 19:17:18 · answer #5 · answered by J Z 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The experience of déjà vu seems to be very common; in formal studies 70% or more of the population report having experienced it at least once. References to the experience of déjà vu are also found in literature of the past, indicating it is not a new phenomenon. While it has been extremely difficult to invoke the déjà vu experience in laboratory settings, therefore making it a subject of few empirical studies, recently researchers have found ways to recreate this sensation using hypnosis.
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.
2006-11-13 19:11:33 · answer #6 · answered by toni 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Appearantly there's a pill for that. As it is a result of misalignment with something inside your brain. So says the scientists anyways.
But I've gotten "deja vu" which I swear I dreamed weeks before and can almost remember the rest of the dream that has almost nothign to do with the deja vu, as many of my dreams are fragmented. I don't know how they'd explain that, but I'm sure they'd try, just to get a pill into you.
2006-11-13 19:08:38 · answer #7 · answered by spirenteh 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I had deja vu when we went to Gettsburg Pa, I told my husband and this is Devil's Rock and I had never {in this life} been there. Sometimes when I dream I am making bread in an old blackstove and hearing the fire of guns
2006-11-13 21:11:37 · answer #8 · answered by devora k 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It used to happen to me pretty often, but not so much now. I seem to go through periods of frequent deja vu and then almost none at all. I'm not sure what it might mean, however.
2006-11-13 19:07:49 · answer #9 · answered by i luv teh fishes 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I absolutely experience it daily and have my entire life. There are lots of theories out there as to why, but I haven't figured it out yet. I go through periods where it's almost constant all day long and then it drops back down to only once or twice a day. It can be unnerving, but you do get used to it after a while.
2006-11-13 19:18:15 · answer #10 · answered by favrtdtr 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋