deja vu ?

WIZE

is the experience of feeling sure that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation

but why does it happen .

FreudianSlippers

Presque vu is worse.

EverEvolving

deja vu ?
is the experience of feeling sure that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation

but why does it happen .

Iwannahurl

I knew you were going to ask that.

TeddyTedson

Hasn't this thread been done before?

easyeason3

It's magic.

Zon

I feel like I've read this thread before

Angron

Maybe this universe already happened before, then collapsed in on itself. A second big bang occurred, and the universe is playing out a second (or perhaps more) time(s) in the exact same way, and the deja vu is a shadow of the existence from the old universe.


Or maybe I'm just pulling some sort of philosophy from my ass, we may never know.

Random

cowans on the telly again. that's why.

antodeco

Its where the brain sees something but a synapse misfires so the brain sends it again.

aaronjumper

I feel weird

MagicSean

I believe it's caused by a glitch in the matrix.

arybvtcw0eolkf

I believe the answer is that the older we get, the more it happens. Because we experience things which resemble an earlier situation very closely and as we get older we forget the smaller details - so the larger picture seem's very similar..

Hope I've explained that properly.

WIZE

Denny M wrote: »

Maybe this universe already happened before, then collapsed in on itself. A second big bang occurred, and the universe is playing out a second (or perhaps more) time(s) in the exact same way, and the deja vu is a shadow of the existence from the old universe.


Or maybe I'm just pulling some sort of philosophy from my ass, we may never know.

wow:eek:

JerryHandbag

I think its got something to do with parallel universes, the earths gravitational pull, and chocolate biscuits.

cleremy jarkson

One's mental experiences are (obviously) derived from waves of electrical activity passing through a lump of meat...sometimes there is a misfiring and the part of the brain that informs us that some mental image is a "memory" gets activated at the same time as we witness something that is in fact new... basically deja vu is just our brain making a slight fcuk up, but because our mental experiences are all we really have, we view this misfiring as being something mysterious and deep, rather than taking an objective stance that it actually isn't

starlit

I tend to get premonitions rather than deja vu.

Logical Fallacy

WIZE wrote: »

is the experience of feeling sure that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation

but why does it happen .

It's normally a case of real life coming close to a scenario we have already experienced in a dream, as the amount of dreams we have far outweighs the amount of dreams we remember.

extra-ordinary_

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

It's normally a case of real life coming close to a scenario we have already experienced in a dream, as the amount of dreams we have far outweighs the amount of dreams we remember.

...we've already dreamed all our possible futures.

Logical Fallacy

extra-ordinary_ wrote: »

...we've already dreamed all our possible futures.

Hardly, as if that were the case we would have the feeling of deja vu nonstop.

RichieC

Mack Rhythmic Gas wrote: »

I believe the answer is that the older we get, the more it happens. Because we experience things which resemble an earlier situation very closely and as we get older we forget the smaller details - so the larger picture seem's very similar..

Hope I've explained that properly.

I got it way more as a kid, I rarely if ever get it anymore.

PapaQuebec

Mack Rhythmic Gas wrote: »

I believe the answer is that the older we get, the more it happens. Because we experience things which resemble an earlier situation very closely and as we get older we forget the smaller details - so the larger picture seem's very similar..

Hope I've explained that properly.

I used to experience it often as a young teenager. Very weird feeling that almost made my physically sick.
Never experienced it as an (52 year-old) adult!