I’ve had the usual “feelings of deja vu”, but back in August I had several minutes of "I know what this person is going to say ad I know how that person is going to respond, etc. They weer paraphrasing, but I was correct. I’ve since learned that the reason was Complex Partial Siezures of the left temporal lobe.
I know what they were going to say because my brain was making it up.
I’ve since started on meds.
Interesting time though.
I experience deja vu often, and this is my typical experience for it. In these cases I can sometimes even remember specifics about the dream to the point where I can determine with high accuracy what is going to happen. It’s almost always a dream I recall having had within the previous day or two. It doesn’t really feel the same at all though if I explicitly remember and expect a prophetic dream and it plays out.
I do sometimes also have the same experience but not tied to a specific dream, but I’m sort of at a loss in explaining those, especially since they’re far less common.
Of all the threads to have a simulpost in…
You were able to guess what they were , generally (“paraphrasing”) going to say based on what you knew about them and the situation. Of course. We all do it all the time. In your case, apparently the phenomenon assumed a deja vu like quality that set it apart from the typical intuition involved.
That’s a bit different from knowing exactly what they were going to say, perhaps in response to something unusual you somehow knew was going to happen (like a plate falling and breaking and them saying, “Oh, wow, no biggie…I’ll go get the broom”, down to the exact words, inflections and expressions).
If “Complex Partial Siezures of the left temporal lobe” can explain such experiences, we’d better start investigating that part of the brain for precognitive and/or telepathic potential.
The older I get, the less often it occurs.
That makes it just a visual thing. It feels far deeper than that to me (the handful of times it’s happened), potentially involving all sorts of nonphysical relationships between people and objects, not just the image of a scene.
This is me too. I’m about to turn 43 and I can’t remember the last time I had déjà vu. Maybe it does become less common as we age.
I often have a dream in which I think, Oh, this dream yet again! And then I wake up and I realize I’ve never had that dream before.
I could have sworn I saw that Martian princess before…
I read somewhere that deja vu occurs when one of your senses picks up pme thing that you have experienced before. For example, you walk into a room you have never been in before and on the table is a ceramic piece similar to one that was in your house when you were six years old, or somerone in the room has the same hair as someone you once dated or they are playing a song that you once heard in an elevator. Your subconscious registers this and you think “I’ve been here before.”
I feel like I’ve been here before and, you know, it makes me wonder what’s going on under the ground. If I’d had another turn around the wheel, I would probably know just how to deal with all of you.
Speaking as someone with loads of experience in this area, many people who have complex partial seizures have what is called an “aura” (or a simple partial seizure) right before the seizure. The best way anyone can describe it, is it’s very similar to déjà vu.
Last time I had a simple partial seizures it is a **very **strong déjà vu effect. I was watching TV and it wasn’t that what they were saying seemed familiar, I already knew exactly what was going to be said. It was also a déjà vu déjà vu feeling, because I “knew” that they were having the same conversation they had the *last *time I had a seizure watching TV. Of course immediately after it ended I had no idea what they had been talking about. Weird enough for you?
I’ve also had “jamais vu” in association with my seizures. The temporal lobe handles long-term memory, and somehow it gets that scrambled with my short-term memory. If after a partial seizure you ask me what year it is, odds are I won’t know. Once when my wife asked me “Who is your wife” (stored in long-term memory) of course I knew the right answer! When she asked me next “Who am I” (short term/present) I had no clue.
There is an infamous story about a conversation we had once when I was coming out of a seizure.
Wife: What month is it?
Me: December. Duh.
W: Who lives next door?
M: Melinda
W: Spell “stop”
M: Seriously? I’m feeling better now!
W: Just spell it!
M: Fine! S – T – O - . . 
. . Shut up!! :smack:
Not only do I get déjà vu, I occasionally get meta-déjà vu (that is, déjà vu about having déjà vu). Now that’s a weird feeling.
That’s not very like deja vu at all. I think it’s probably really hard to describe it to someone who’s never experienced it. It’s not a feeling of prescience, it’s more like – recognition? It’s pretty startling, at least to me.
Poll within a poll: For those of you who get it, how long does it last? Just a moment? Seconds? Minutes?
Ditto.
I’ve never had it and can’t imagine what it is like. ETA: I’ve also never had anything I could describe as precognition.
I’ve had it many, many times. When I was younger smoking hash would often put me in a state of continual déjà vu for hours. Not always pleasant when you’re high - especially those few times when it combined with a slight sensation of dope-induced paranoia.
The only paranoia I get from the Dope is, “I hope no one posts that clever response to the OP before I do!” 
I get my primary Dope paranoia from Skald’s posts. YMMV, of course.
I get it once in great while. Sometimes low key, sometimes Whoah!
Much of the time I think its just me doing something pretty similiar to something I actually did in the past.
The worst is Vu ja’ de’.
The feeling that you absolutely, positively have NOT been in this situation before. That can be a good thing, but usually it is bad, very bad 