Why is it that after an event has occured you feel as if...?

Question

as if the event had occured before too...though you were completely unfamiliar with it before it occured? does this have anything to do with the concept of previous life?

Answer 1

it's deja vu. it's caused from dreams. happens ALL the time! crazy huh?

Answer 2

As previous posts have indicated, the label is Deja Vu.

However, applying a label to it doesn't explain it.

One of the simplest explanations is that the event reminds you, in some way, of thoughts/feelings associated with other events.

For those who accept the concept of other lifetimes, then ...
Yes, you could be tapping into events of other lifetimes.

Related to that is the concept of simultaneity of time -- which means that there is no past or future, all events in all lifetimes occur simultaneously. Is it so strange then, that an event in one lifetime can trigger the same or similar event(s) in another?

Answer 3

Hi Meghana

How about this:

I walk into a room and a friend of mine already in the room says: "Ah, here comes Whonose"

I think I remember this exact sequence of events happening before.

Can this be related to what happened in a previous life?

ONLY IF, that room existed, and looked exactly the same, during my prevous life, my name was Whonose in that previous life, and my friend was also in that room, and looked exactly the same (even down to their clothes) in MY previous life.

How likely would you guess that might be?

Here's another possibility:

When we take in information from the outside world it takes time to process. When you get the meaning of what you've just read it will already be anything from half to three quarters of a second since you read it.

We also know that the brain doesn't have only one copy incoming information. For example, information from the senses may be duplicated with one copy going to the thalamus, and one copy to the amygdala. The route to the amygdala is quicker, so putting these two facts together we have a very simple scenario in which you get two copies of the same message about the same experience.

Normally the two messages merge into one - just as you are only aware of one "picture" of the outside world even though your eyes are sending two, slightly different, pictures to your brain.
But what if there were a fractional delay for one of the two messages so that you become aware of both messages, instead of sensing them as just one message. In that case you would experience the event and then genuinely experience it again - as though it had happened before.

Given that we're talking about mere milliseconds here, it would take very little delay for the deja vu effect to occur. On the other hand, our brains are so efficient that, as with stereoscopic vision, it very seldom allows that kind of slippage, and deja vu experiences are pretty rare.

Answer 4

Yes, it is usually referred to as "deja vu". It is based upon a neurological "glitch" so to speak.

Here is an article that goes into it in depth: http://mb-soft.com/public/dejavu.html

Answer 5

i know what you mean some time i felt like at times as well As my self its just how it is sometimes in life.

Answer 6

yes it srely does.....btw it has hppnd to me once or twice