do you ever get dejavu?

Question

like the feeling youve done or said that exact thing. really weird

Answer 1

Everyone would experience déjà vu at least once in their lives.

Déjà vu is French for "already seen." Déjà vu is an uncanny feeling or illusion of having already seen or experienced something that is being experienced for the first time. If we assume that the experience is actually of a remembered event, then déjà vu probably occurs because an original experience was neither fully attended to nor elaborately encoded in memory. If so, then it would seem most likely that the present situation triggers the recollection of a fragment from one's past. The experience may seem uncanny if the memory is so fragmented that no strong connections can be made between the fragment and other memories.

Thus, the feeling that one has been there before is often due to the fact that one has been there before. One has simply forgotten most of the original experience because one was not paying close attention the first time. The original experience may even have occurred only seconds or minutes earlier.

On the other hand, the déjà vu experience may be due to having seen pictures or heard vivid stories many years earlier. The experience may be part of the dim recollections of childhood.

However, it is possible that the déjà vu feeling is triggered by a neurochemical action in the brain that is not connected to any actual experience in the past. One feels strange and identifies the feeling with a memory, even though the experience is completely new.

The term was applied by Emile Boirac (1851-1917), who had strong interests in psychic phenomena. Boirac's term directs our attention to the past. However, a little reflection reveals that what is unique about déjà vu is not something from the past but something in the present, namely, the strange feeling one has. We often have experiences the novelty of which is unclear. In such cases we may have been led to ask such questions as, "Have I read this book before?" "Is this an episode of Inspector Morse I've seen before?" "This place looks familiar; have I been here before?" Yet, these experiences are not accompanied by an uncanny feeling. We may feel a bit confused, but the feeling associated with the déjà vu experience is not one of confusion; it is one of strangeness. There is nothing strange about not remembering whether you've read a book before, especially if you are fifty years old and have read thousands of books over your lifetime. In the déjà vu experience, however, we feel strange because we don't think we should feel familiar with the present perception. That sense of inappropriateness is not present when one is simply unclear whether one has read a book or seen a film before.

Thus, it is possible that the attempt to explain the déjà vu experience in terms of lost memory, past lives, clairvoyance, and so on may be completely misguided. We should be talking about the déjà vu feeling. That feeling may be caused by a brain state, by neurochemical factors during perception that have nothing to do with memory. It is worth noting that the déjà vu feeling is common among psychiatric patients. The déjà vu feeling also frequently precedes temporal lobe epilepsy attacks. When Wilder Penfield did his famous experiment in 1955 in which he electrically stimulated the temporal lobes, he found about 8% of his subjects experienced "memories." He assumed he elicited actual memories. They could well have been hallucinations and the first examples of artificially stimulated déjà vu.

Love & Blessings
Milly

Answer 2

Yeah it's been a really long time since I had dejavu but when I used to get it all the time it was crazy. I would know everything that was going to happen for about 10 seconds but I never changed it from happening. I was so intrigued that I wanted to see if I really knew and I did it's the craziest thing. Instead lately I have had what they call lucid dreaming and that has been a bigger mystery than dejavu for me. Being totally conscious and aware in your dream is like living life in another world. It's so surreal and amazing at the same time. ahhhh lifes so mysterious

Answer 3

frequently. I once did a test (not a real test, just one to test our knowledge of fire safety), and i swear I knew what the guy behind me was going to say as he said it (well, i mean that I'd seen it before...or remembered it, I'm not too sure how it works). But all the seating arrangements around me were the same as I remembered them, even though the people in my class this year are different to those that have been in my class in recent years. Freaky huh?

Answer 4

Yes i have experienced that feeling even before i personally read about it or knew about it,the fact of the matter is that human mind works in strange ways and no one can deny that despite all the advancements of science we have still not been able to explore more than a very small fraction of our minds.

Answer 5

Yea not with black cats thou but mainly with me buying something at the shops and coming home and seeing an ad of the same product I have never seen befoure.



Hoo haa and aaa haa hoo haa hee?

Answer 6

yes. i know people will make fun of it, but yes. but i dont think it is not very funny if you witness an accident, which you have actually seen before. then have the feeling that maybe you could have dne something to prevent it. how would you feel about that?

Answer 7

often, and about really insignificant things. i remember it happening as far back as fifth grade. never about anything real important, though. it scared me at first, but i think its kind of neat now when it happens. i always assumed it was simply due to the repetition of everyday occurrences.

Answer 8

Yes, it used to happen, quite often. But now I occasionally, experience Alzheimer's. I think that's from old age.

Answer 9

when you sleep you go to delta level, that's where the mind can see the future.so sometimes, we remember seeing the future.This a theory of mine.& mine alone.It would take a lot of explain it all.I will one day write a book to explain it.

Answer 10

all the time