Regarding Deja Vu Regarding Deja Vu

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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You know, I get the strange feeling that I’ve posted this before… :stuck_out_tongue:

Seriously, I want to ask y’all about your own deja vu experiences. This happened to me a while ago; I had a vu where I saw that something moderately bad would happen to me because I was going to say something stupid to a female friend of mine. When the time came for me to put my foot in my mouth, I instead was able to break out of the vu and say something much better, saving a friendship that probably wouldn’t have survived. I was a little freaked, because, at least in my experience, normally I can’t change what happens – and that includes mentioning that I’m vu-ing – until it’s all over. Has anyone else had one of these kinds of premonitious visions? I’m working on a theory as part of my Meaning Of Life ™.

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I have had some deja vu experience. Usually for me its conversations. I’ll realize I’ve said something before and that someone is gonna reply this way. I can’t snap out of it and change it though. Also less often with experiences.

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My experience with Déjà Vu is as ‘suddenly remembered bits of dreams’. I’ve not had them in quite a while but I had them a few times a year when I was younger. Sometimes they were just the view I saw, other times they were as long as 10 seconds worth of interaction. I found that I could change the interaction from the ‘remember dream’ as well as ‘dreaming the changed interaction’.

Interesting stuff.

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Mine are nothing stupendous, just the usual “been here before” feeling. Never involve conversations, just amorphous feelings.

The only one I remember that stands out was when I was a kid. My sister, Dad and I were travelling out west. We stopped in a little nowhere town I’d never been before. (We kept scrupulous track of “new” states we visited.)

We were walking around town after dinner as was our custom. We’d been idly talking about finding someplace to buy ice cream cones for desset. We stopped at a corner, and I said, “There’s a drugstore that sells ice cream 2 blocks that way.”

My Dad and sister looked at me strangely, but we went that way and sure 'nuff, there was an old fashioned drugstore with an ice cream counter.

Before anyone goes “wooo-hooo” in finest Twilight Zone fashion, I gotta say it coulda been pure coinky-dink. Most small towns are laid out about the same. I could have been remembering a similar town.

Also, we could have passed it driving into town; just don’t remember. Though in honesty I have a totally rotten sense of direction, and can barely figure out which way to turn outside the motel room door.

Anyway…that’s it.

Veb

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I get deja vu frequently (a couple of times a month), and it’s always conversations (I’m obsessed with language). At the time I can always remember having dreamed the exact situation (sometimes up to two minutes’ worth).

The dreams happen 3 weeks to a couple of months before the conversation. I’ve even dreamed of places I’ve never been (such as my current apartment, before I moved. Even the chair I bought when I moved here was included.)

You can’t expect me to believe there’s nothing strange going on!

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I haven’t had any of these experiences lately, but when I was younger, it seemed to happen often. Mine usually involved conversations, but…I remember they also involved smells. Does that happen to anyone else? When you’ll smell …something…and just know what’s going to happen next? Used to really mess with my head.
Hasn’t happened in quite awhile. I think our minds are more open when we are younger, or perhaps, we just aren’t so tired.
learae

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Haven’t I posted to this thread before?

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I tend to have whole situations repeat themselves. There’s one in particular that has happened at least four times. The location, the people, the dialogue. Everything.

It’s kind of trippy.

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When I was younger I had one really weird incident of deja vu. (Out of many, this is the most weird.)

I was 11 and at summer camp. It was the first time I had ever been to camp and away from home. This camp had some pretty weird rules, one of which was *no running *. So naturally, when we were out of the sight of the counselor, we ran and ran and ran.

One day, just out of the sight of the counselor as we were heading for the lake ( Lake Muckybottom) I was leading the pack of girls who shant run who were running like a pack of wild chickens and there was a low tree branch blocking the path. I had remembered dreaming of this exact scenario LONG before ever going to camp.

The only difference was that in the dream, Bigfoot was hiding behind the tree branch. ( Hey, it was the 70’s and Bigfoot, Yeti and Nessie were getting lots of TV time.) I pumped my skinny arms and propelled my 70 pound body past the tree brach hoping that I was too fast for Mr. Sasquatch and he would attack some other, perferably fatter & slower, girl. Alas, no Yeti attacked. Drat!

Several years later, (this has never happened before or since and is the most Twilight Zone-ish of any of them.) I was with an old boyfriend going to his families cottage that I had never been to before.I had never been to this area before (it was out of state.)

We’d just gotten off the highway and were taking an service drive to get to the small back road that would take us to the cottage. It was about nine at night and raining very heavily. It was extremely dark. ( I have particularly sucky night vision too.)

Suddenly, I get this vision before my eyes, it was like the entire windshield became a tv screen, only in my mind. I said to my boyfriend in a very calm voice, " Up around the curve ahead there is a trucker who is broken down on the side of the road. He’s got his flashers on and he is setting up the orange cones. Up on the left a little farther is a lighting store, all the lights are going to be turned off and the owner will be coming out, locking up for the night."

My boyfriend didn’t look at me like I had lost my head, he just thought I was screwing around, I guess, but said nothing. Then we passed the truck and driver out in the rain and the lighting store. Everything happened just as I said it would.

He then realized that there was no way I could have seen this ( or anticipated the lighting store guy) from the high way and said, " How did you…?"

“Deja vu.”

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This wasn’t really deja vu, but I have experienced it a couple of times since staying at home with the kids and the other day, it seemed to happen all day.If I had any marbles left, I would swear I was losing it.

I kept on looking out my kitchen window and saw my neighbor walk her daughter to their van about twenty times. Walking the exact same way, bent over, holding her daughters hand. And the radio seemed to be stuck on one song every time this happened. ( That song by Christina Aguilerre, What a Girl Wants.) For well over two hours it kept on occurring.

Then I decided there was a glitch in the Matrix and I felt better.

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For those of you wondering about my theory (that is, all two of you) I’m thinking that the precognitive part of deja vu stems from a part of our logic node that’s gotten so good at picking up certain subtle clues in our surroundings and drawing conclusions from them that we can think without thinking. I’m still gathering evidence, but I think the theory holds up pretty well to my experience, and I’d like to see what everyone else thinks of it.

Bombardment of “You idiot” criticisms commences in 5… 4… 3… 2… 5… 4… 3… 2… …Whoa, there it goes again…

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If you act in a play, you start getting deja vu after just a few similar rehearsals. You are sure something has just been repeated and you look around to see who else noticed the gaffe. There wasn’t one, as the rehearsal videotape proves. (Rod Serling…is that you calling again?)

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I have had many deja vu moments in my life. I will try to relate some of them here. BTW, BrainWeasel, I agree with what you say, up to a point. While I have had many situations that could be explained that way, I have also had many, many others that most definitely could not be. There’s a lot more to this than that.

One of the main things that happens to me, is that I have never in my life gotten really, truly lost. Always, even in places, neighborhoods, etc, that I’ve never been to before, cities, states, you name it, I always know just where I need to go, what direction I need to head, to get where I’m trying to get to. It’s like I almost ‘see’ where I am and where I need to go from there. Spooky at times for people with me, but I’ve gotten used to it.

Another type of deja vu is the premonitions I get. These are much more frightening to me; made more so by the fact that it always involves someone I really care about, and that it is always bad news. ALWAYS. Like the time I got a feeling of extreme dread, and after dwelling on it for a while, I figured out it was something to do with my Mom. I called to San Antonio from Omaha, calling the hospital ER and asking for my Dad. He came to the phone very puzzled, they had just gotten there, and they were still evaluating Mom. He freaked when he heard it was me, and that I knew something had happened to Mom. It turned out to be a TIA, sort of a mini-stroke. How did I know from 1,300 miles away? Don’t know. Just did. Logic told me where Dad would take her, but as to the rest…

I could go on and on with examples of this, but I think you get the idea. Hope this helps you out, BrainWeasel.

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I have had Vuja De…
That is where you know positivly that you haven’t been here before!

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No, no, Vuja De is the feeling that you will be in this place again some time in the future. I get that all the time…in fact, I’m getting it very strongly right this second.

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Last night I was watching The Antiques Road Show when a commercial came on. I picked up one of the many books I am reading, I think it’s “The Straight Dope Tells All” (book 3?), and I read Cecil’s discussion of the myth of snakes grabbing their tails in their mouths and rolling after people. When the commercial finished I put the book down and watched as, right away after the commercial, one of the appraisers examined two antique snake necklaces and fastened them mouth to tail and discussed the “snake of love” and the great circle formed by the snake.

I experienced a sense of deja vu for about one second due to this coincidence.

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I always thought it was a glitch in the matrix, but hey, that’s just me… :smiley: