is there any meaning to deja vu?

Question

i have them often, ive experieced deja vu twice in the past week. is there a reason why some people experience deja vu more than others?

Answer 1

Yes, it is the sensation that something has happened before ( like in another life). You might just be able to perceive when things are repeating itself or when you have had a similar experience in reality or in your sleep.

Answer 2

Déjà vu is considered a common phenomenon. Surveys show that about one third of the population has had the most common form of déjà vu sensations (1). Due to the subjective and often indescribable nature of the associated feelings, it has been difficult, to determine who is actually experiencing déjà vu. In general, however, déjà vu is "any number of hard-to-explain sometimes upsetting occurrences of unexpected recognition, in which the person involved has trouble identifying an antecedent for the events and/or places which seem so strangely and intensely familiar (1)." Déjà vu has been defined as "familiarity without awareness (13)." While the situational cues of a déjà vu are familiar, there is a definite lack of awareness about the specific source of the memory.

Arthur Funkhouser (1) defines three types of déjà vu in an attempt to more clearly delineate between associated, but different, neurological experiences. These are déjà vecu (already experienced), déjà senti (already felt) and déjà visité (already visited). Déjà vecu is the most common déjà vu experience and involves the sensation of having done something or having been in an identical situation before and knowing what will happen next. These sensations are often felt through several senses: seeing, hearing, taste, touch and proprioceptive perceptions. The experience is often incredibly detailed and is usually connected to very normal activities. Although the episode itself lasts from only a fraction of a second to several minutes, it can often be remembered in minute detail long after the episode has occurred. One experiencer says, "There came this strange, almost physical up-welling of visual experience, a visual warping, and at the same time an eerie realization that everything happening now had happened before, maybe many times (11)."

Answer 3

I have a friend at school that used to get deja vu, but now she's really freaked out because she hasn't been getting it in a month. For some reason, she thinks she's psychic. Well you're not psychic, and it's just normal for some people to get deja vu more than others. But everyone gets it at some point in life. You're fine.

Answer 4

Deja vu is French for already seen. it fairly is used to describe a feeling you get once you're saying or do or see some thing and sense which you have completed that earlier or been there earlier.

Answer 5

There are many theories that suggest that everything is actually happening simultaneously and that we only perceive them in a very narrow timeline with appears to be going forward. Déja vu is a crossing over or a brief expansion of our perception. Since everything is happening at the same time in this concept, it makes sense that once in a while it will seem like we've "done this before".

Answer 6

It could be that your unconscious it trying to tell you something. Consider specifically the context and situation in which your alleged deja vu occured.

If it keeps pursisting or if you are intersted in the meaning, consider checking out the concept of remote viewing.

Answer 7

It's believed to be caused by the neurons in your brain misfiring. Everyone experiences them from time to time.

Being tired or taking some meds could possibly also create a deja vue feeling.

Answer 8

I used to have it every now and then. But now i have panic attacks, anxiety and some depression.. I get them a lot more often now. It must have something to do with my anxiety..

Answer 9

I suggest you notice in which situations this happens - perhaps it is trying to tell you something...

Answer 10

not a philosopher, but it's telling you something. Perhaps not to do it again and do something different