I've personally experienced deja vu- it feels like you are experiencing something which you have experienced before, its very strange- but could it be that its just concidence?
2006-12-12 06:36:11 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Coincidence happens in a different part of the brain -kind of the calculating part, whereas deja vu happens in the visual sector almost entirely. Well, it does for me.
2006-12-12 06:40:26 · answer #1 · answered by Tertia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coincidence is two strange things happening at the same time - like you are just about to call a friend and the phone rings and it is them. Deja vu is the feeilng as you say that you have been somewhere or done something before, so they are both different.
2006-12-12 14:39:06 · answer #2 · answered by JoJi 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You say that you have experienced Deja-Vu but what evidence do you have for this? The brain is a very complex object and powerful 'machine' and the vast majority of it's processing power is done sub-consciously. Very little (relatively) is understood about the way it works and certainly about the way it organises itself. Since all we have to judge it's workings are our own perceptions (judging perceptions with perceptions is not good scientific practice) of data in and reaction to data, we lack proper scientific method for testing it. This creates what psychologists like to call a black-box effect. An area we cannot know about through observation.
The point here is that the one thing you should never trust is your perception.
What we do know is that the brain is very good at pattern matching. So it could well be that a part of your brain has stored an experience and your sense of deja-vu is not that you have been here before but instead your brain finding two very similar experiences and grouping them together. Note this does not have to be something that you have experienced directly, it could well be something you have been told about, something you saw in a film or something you had a dream about.
The fact that you feel deja-vu could be the brain matching two similar circumstances, and yes, that means it is coincidental that you feel you have been there before.
2006-12-12 18:22:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Read the definitions of both terms, deja vu and 'coincidence'. They have NOTHING to do with each other.
2006-12-12 14:38:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think a coincidence is more like when you think "i want a cup of coffee" and then someone comes by and says "hey, wanna go grab a cup of coffee?" something that coincides with a thought or a feeling or something you have just said or done.
deja vu is like the exact thing is happening again but you know it didn't already happen... or did it?
2006-12-12 14:50:18 · answer #5 · answered by somebody's a mom!! 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A coincidence is when two related things happen but by complete chance...e.g. you go shopping for your best friend and your best friend is there shopping for you!
A de-ja-vu is when something happens and you get the feeling that its happened before...e.g. you go shopping for your best friend and when you walk into the shop you get the feeling that you've been there before...the same deco...the same people etc...
De-ja-vu and coincidences are two different things and hence easy to distinguish between but yeh the feeling of de-ja-vu could be just a coincidence...so you could get a feeling of de-ja0-vu but its because you HAVE been to that shop before....
2006-12-12 14:49:33 · answer #6 · answered by Rukiya 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
It's the conscious and unconscious brain acting out of sync.
The unconscious registers an event a millisecond or so before the conscious.
The conscious then thinks it's been here, done that before.
It hasn't. It's a time lag thing.
(A bit little switching stations from digital to analogue on TV, you see the same bit again.)
2006-12-12 14:45:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when something happens the exact same way twice, in the exact same order, thats deja vu, but when just something happens or happens for the first time, that is coincidence
2006-12-12 14:45:41 · answer #8 · answered by Paris, je t'aime 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
WOW I WAS JUST GONNA ASK THAT QUESTION
2006-12-12 14:39:49 · answer #9 · answered by hazegrey 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋