Can you answer this truthfully.?

Question

If you visit a place far away from where you live have you the feeling that you have seen it before but in a different context?

Answer 1

sometimes u dream about something and dont remember it but when u see it u feel like u've been ther before....its happened to me many times

Answer 2

It's happened to me many times as I've moved around the UK a lot when my hubby was in the RAF! I recognised Bristol, a Castle in Wales, and the Mull of Kintyre and knew things about them before I physically saw them. I used to think it was spooky till I really sat down and thought about it. I HAD seen all of the places before or heard about them. TV Films stories my Mum told or books I'd read. Do you know that our brains record everything we have ever seen or heard from birth. Think how many times you have seen Paris! I've never physically been there. If I did I'd expect to feel that deja vu but I'd know why now! It's the physical presence that triggers the sub-conscious recall! I knew that street in Bristol had a little shop hidden away because my Mum told me it was there! The fact she'd last told me 25 years before and I didn't remember her telling me about it then didn't make any difference. I felt I'd been there before . It's actually a pretty famous street and it's been on TV. Those images only registered sub-conciously but it reinforced my recognition. My hubby drives all over Europe and he say's it's happened so often he's stopped feeling surprised too.
You really have seen it in a different context!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 3

Yes, that can happen. There can be several reasons for it.

As someone said, alot of towns and cities are made on the same general format - so if you know one well you will know ones that copy it.

There are also times where visiting a distant city can bring back past life memory - if you believe in that. I know that I went to visit a cathedral town in the UK I had never heard of and I knew about it's layout and history in the distant past. In an odd way it was like coming home. I made regular visits to it after that until I moved again.

Answer 4

Definitely. But are we only drawn towards places to visit because they remind us, in some way, of places we already know? Is it an affirmation that we have made the right choices in the past? Do you visit places your parents took you to? I do. Now my dad has passed on, it's a strange feeling to go to Sherwood Forest. Sometimes I've just sat in my car in the car park and then driven home. Just to go through that process is re-assuring. I don't need to get out and go and visit the Major Oak, etc, just to know I can go there is enough. Maybe I seek out places like that, for instance, because it makes me feel good. Good question.

Answer 5

Sometimes if we have visited some similar places in the past
but we dont keep a fresh memory of them in our brain because in today's world we have so many other things to
keep fresh in our memory, the memory of places visited
earlier goes into our sleeping memory and then we visit some
such similar place, we get the feeling as we have seen it
before in a different context.
Good luck dear.

Answer 6

A few times. I occaisonally get the feeling that I am looking at something I hahve seen before, but I can't place it. It's like it could be the same object or placec, but might not be, and it really isn't... and then the feeling fades after a moment.

Answer 7

Yes, several times. The Guangzhou China, Paris France, and the Ring of Kerry.

Answer 8

Many times. But if you look around you, you'll find that many places look alike. Perhaps a bend in a road, or a building, or even a set of road signs can, and often do, jog our memory of somewhere we know.

Knowing what is just around the corner of somewhere we have never been before is unusual, but I have been in that situation a couple of times.

But perhaps my brain just fell asleep for a split second, before my eyes sent the information. Who knows!

Answer 9

Yes I visited Manchester once and worse still I felt that I had actually once been a Mancunian - but then I snapped out of that particular nightmare and woke up here in Leeds.

Answer 10

Deja Vu - yes i've experienced this on several occasions when visiting places for the first time. Anyone got ideas on what causes it?

Answer 11

Been there, done that... Blueridge Mountains, West Virginia. I only drove through there with my folks, but it was downright creepy. Never been there before, but I felt like I had.

Then one time we got stuck in a traffic jam. On one of the cliffs were these big 3 crosses made of piping (a lot of Baptists around there, they put those up near the freeways.) There were crows perched on them. Sounds dumb, but it was really eerie.