Has this ever happened to you? The feeling you've done this all before....

[Azier the Swordsman]

This happens to me on occasion. I really can't explain it. Sometimes, a certain event will take place in my life or I'll do something significant.... and I get the nagging feeling that it's happened before. I know for a fact it never did, but I swear I feel as if I remember it from a previous time.

Example: Let's say I do something extremely embarrasing.... something I know I'll remember for the rest of my life... (likely even laugh about it later on) and this is for sure the only time that this has ever happened to me. Yet... I can't seem to shake the feeling that I've been through all this before. Even though this is the only time... it just doesn't feel like it.

Has this ever happened to you?

[Ashley]

Though I have absolutely ZERO scientific proof for it, I think I have a theory about deja vu. I think it's an accidental triggering of chemicals in your brain that make you FEEL like you've done it before, but you really haven't. Think about it--everything in your body is controlled by hormones, endorphins, chemicals, etc. etc....to me the idea is really not that far fetched. Like I said though, I'm no doctor Shooby so don't go quoting me to the scientific journals of our day. I do remember having an experience like that when I was 6 and it terrified me. O_O

[ShiroiHikari]

I've had that feeling before...I don't understand it and I don't have any theories. But I can relate.

[Kiba-kun]

i have dreams about me doing stuff and then it happens in like 3 days time of course i dont rember the dream untill it happened but ya the feeling of deja vu is there almost all the time

[The Last Bard]

Yes, I get this feeling quiet often actually. Although I don't have any thoughts on why this happens.
I don't know though...it's one of those weird, unexplainable things I guess.

[smooth_operator]

I don't know if this is relevant, but this has happened to me in dreams. Inside the dream, I have felt that I remembered a certain place or thing. But when I wake up and think back about the dream, that thing I remembered there never existed before, inside or outside the dream...

Yeah it's a little hard to explain.

[edo]

Though I have absolutely ZERO scientific proof for it, I think I have a theory about deja vu. I think it's an accidental triggering of chemicals in your brain that make you FEEL like you've done it before, but you really haven't. Think about it--everything in your body is controlled by hormones, endorphins, chemicals, etc. etc....to me the idea is really not that far fetched. Like I said though, I'm no doctor Shooby so don't go quoting me to the scientific journals of our day. I do remember having an experience like that when I was 6 and it terrified me. O_O

Ashley is preety much right. Basically, the event happens to trigger some chemicals and processes in your brain, and the result is that your memory of the moment that just passed is "copied" into your memory of another time. So even though you might be SURE you dreamt about what just happened another time, you memory has just been "rewritten". I find it sorta cool.

[Ssjjvash]

i have dreams about me doing stuff and then it happens in like 3 days time of course i dont rember the dream untill it happened but ya the feeling of deja vu is there almost all the time

This happens to me sooooo much! When it happens, I'll be like, "Holy cow, I just had a dream that this happened!"

Sometimes, it feels very creepy.

[EireWolf]

Happens to me occasionally. Usually it's not a significant event, but something quite mundane, or a place I know I've never been before. I also have deja vu about dreams.

[umathurmanlover]

yeah, thats totally weird, it happens to me alot....it baffles me and gives me the chills...I even have those dreams too

[Kaligraphic]

I've had that feeling of déjà vu, but I think it was just that my life was so routine that I really had seen that situation before. (Yes, everyone's favourite Kali really used to live a super-boring life.)

Déjà vu is also associated with temporal-lobe epilepsy, and may be one of the precursors of an attack. It may also be experienced during the seizure.

There is a similar, but reversed condition called jamais vu, where you feel like something is unfamiliar even though it isn't. I've had that sometimes with perfectly ordinary words (like, for instance, 'day') that suddenly feel oddly alien. I don't get that so much now, but I used to back when I was in High School.

Déjà vu also appears to be a backup program for Mac OSX, and is the name of a chain of strip clubs. (There was one near a church that I used to go to. Wait - I went to the church, not the club, let's get this straight.)

[mitsuki lover]

As Yogi Berra once said,"It's Deja Vu all over again!"

I believe temproral-lobe epilepsy also is what many believe to be the
main cause behind a lot of the so called cases of alien contact and
abduction.

How the brain works is still pretty much unknown.

(Note:I should add that I have Gran Mal Epilepsy...that is that is the
form that my medication is for,although I have also had on occasion
had Petite Mal form where everything just goes fuzzy for a few seconds
but I know I'm off the subject here.)

Now as far as Deja Vu goes,there are a lot of reasons why it occurs.
One possibility,that nevertheless is not proveable for now,is that it
could be an example of unconscious contact with a parallel world where
such an event may have already occured.Then again there is no proof
of parallel universes existing.

[Myoti]

What I'm about to say will probably make you think that I'm just plain crazy, but it was my dad (who is a certified pastor) that first thought this up.
Mostly it does have to do with Deja vu. However, I have had experienced where I imagine something up for no reason that I've never seen before and see it quite vividly. Being a "random" thought, it's soon pretty much forgotten. Then, a few days time later, I actually see that thought... in the real world.
It may sound wierd, but I believe that people can occasionally see into the future, though the things we see are typically just useless. XP

[Zilch]

Happens to me too. I get Deja vu all the time...

Happens to me too. I get Deja vu all the time....


Happens to me too. I get Deja vu all the time....

Happens to me too. I get Deja vu all the time....

Happens to me too. I get Deja vu all the time....


Happens to me too. I get Deja vu all the time....


Happens to me too. I get Deja vu all the time....

[mitsuki lover]

Reminds me of that scene in the police station from Boogiepop Phantom
where the one officer states that he feels like they had the conversation
before.

[Steeltemplar]

There was a great game for the old NES called Deja Vu.

There was also a fantastic Star Trek: The Next Generation episode by that title. My personal favorite.

Yeah...I do get deja vu at times. It's been awhile.

[Kaligraphic]

I remember that episode - with the time loop. It's good, but not my favourite.

[Lyren]

However, I have had experienced where I imagine something up for no reason that I've never seen before and see it quite vividly. Being a "random" thought, it's soon pretty much forgotten. Then, a few days time later, I actually see that thought... in the real world.
It may sound wierd, but I believe that people can occasionally see into the future, though the things we see are typically just useless. XP

That happens to me all the time and I completely agree. I personally find it kind of cool and interesting when it does happen. I will see a glimpse in my mind for a fraction of a second, and then like half a year later it will happen. Seeing into the future a little bit or just Deja Vu? I don't really know.

[yukinon]

I believe temproral-lobe epilepsy also is what many believe to be the
main cause behind a lot of the so called cases of alien contact and
abduction.

Whaaaat?

Deja Vu is totally a glitch in the Matrix. Because cats aren't supposed to talk.

[shooraijin]

You can also see deja vu in early schizophrenia, especially when frequent. Now that I've freaked everyone out, deja vu also occurs in normal people.

A paper on it: http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/39/22/25

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deja_Vu

By the way, this is fun: http://www.dejavu.org/

[Mave]

Dejavus happen to me all the time (sometimes it happens 3-4 times). I'm not bothered by them enough to come up with any theories. Heh

I hope my dejavus are not related to my dreams though. I've dreamt watching two of my friends/acquintances have accidents or die in front of me before.......

[uc pseudonym]

This isn't common for me. There are times when something feels extraordinarily familiar, but I realize that it is merely something that has a familiar aspect. However, there is one incident that sticks out in my mind and puzzled me for a good portion of the day it occurred.

Years ago, I had a US History class in which we did (nearly) nothing but take notes off an overhead while the teacher lectured. One day, the notes felt very familiar. I remembered numerous things, down to the phrasing of specific lines. There were even lines that I remembered prior to actually being placed on the overhead. Everything about the notes was familiar, yet I didn't have them in my notebook and no one else remembered them.

There are, of course, explanations. I can think of a number of things that could conceivably have caused partial repetition of some notes (and most of my classmates were zoning anyway). Still, it was one of the most surreal experiences of my life.

[mitsuki lover]

What is rather scary is when you meet a person for the first time and you have the strange feeling that you know them from somewhere else.

[agasfas]

When I was a young teen, I had the feeling of Deja-vu all the time. Now that I'm a bit older, I rarely get it. Reading the different articles about how De-ja-vu may happen is a bit interesting.

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[Yojimbo]

Yeah I get deja vu every now and then. Not as often anymore as say a couple years ago. Oh well it's just one of those things I don't think too much about it.

[Htom Sirveaux]

As Yogi Berra once said,"It's Deja Vu all over again!"

I believe temproral-lobe epilepsy also is what many believe to be the
main cause behind a lot of the so called cases of alien contact and
abduction.

How the brain works is still pretty much unknown.

(Note:I should add that I have Gran Mal Epilepsy...that is that is the
form that my medication is for,although I have also had on occasion
had Petite Mal form where everything just goes fuzzy for a few seconds
but I know I'm off the subject here.)

Shoot yeah, I'm epileptic too. A grand mal seizure is a scary thing all right. And I do get a weird sense of deja vu just before it hits.

[Pent]

I get deja vu on occasion. But what has really been wierd lately is a different form of deja vu I have had. The kind that Neo has in the matrix. Something will happen. And then a couple seconds later the exact same thing will happen again. For example I was in my car looking out the window. We went by a gas station. I notices a blue car just pulling into that gas station. Then I looked away. When I looked back we went by the exact same gas station! And the blue car was just pulling in again. So I looked out the back of the car in suprise and there was only one gas station! I think in this kind of deja vu your mind either repeats a scene, or maybe the second time was the only real time you saw it, but your mind puts the first time in you memory. But if your mind repeated a scene, then wouldn't you be behind everyone else in time? Or maybe this is an actaul glitch in time. It just repeats itself. Kind of hicupps. Or maybe the first time you see what you see you are actaully seeing a couple seconds into the future. My last two suggestions are farther out there. But I think this kind of deja vu is much harder to explain then the other. The other I think you are in a scene much like a dream you had but didn't remember. Because we usually have like 3 dreams. And only remember the last one we had.

[SilverHeaven]

i have them alot in my dreams but alot of time it is of one of my two brothers being harmed but sometimes it is of the things i wouuld not expect. but when they happen im suprised becuase they seem so real that i thought they happened.

[Jasdero]

You know, I have to say that I do get that feeling every now and again. o_o It's irritating.