Do you get déjà vu?

I used to get deja vous all the time. Litterally about three to four times a day in my teenage years. I've not had it in a while though... and I no longer dream. Maybe a sign my spirit and imagination were finally crushed! :P
 
I have it all the time, I once read that it can happen if you see something but it doesn't fully 'register' in your brain until milliseconds later so you think you have already experienced whats going on, but you're not....you've just got LAG :p
 
I have had it a fair bit in my life, had one the other day whilst I was washing up.

The way I understand the reason for it happening (in my limited ability to describe it) is when you see things daily or repeat the same task albeit slightly different, it gets imprinted into your head subliminally. Then as a result of when you see or do something similar later down the line, you think you've seen it in your head before or had the "premonition" even though it's not really, it's your mind ****ing with you.

It's weirdest when you get a good dose and you feel it happening and then someone says something you KNEW they were going to say what they did. To the point of you then making the statement "I'm having déjà vu" and you knew you were going to say that too! :D

*Head implodes*
 
I think everyone has at some point, whether they remember it or not is a different thing.

There is a theory that Deja Vu is caused by your mind trying to catch up with itself, ie. you have a split second pause in thought and then your thought process does a catch up with itself, thus giving the impression you have been there/done that before.
 
I have it a lot.

Worst one was when i was on Holioday in spain i had the ones where you go "ok i know exactly whats going to happen now i turn this corner someone says this ...."

hate them ones
 
I looked this up once & it's something to do with messages being sent from one side of the hemisphere of your brain to the other, When you get Deja vu the message is sent from one side to the other but the other doesn't register it so it's sent again which gives you the deja vu.
 
The most compelling theory I read was that your brain stores something that is happening to long term memory rather than short term memory. Because your brain is using your long term memory the "timestamps" appear to be wrong, so you feel as though it is something that happened a long time ago, or at least longer than your short term memory.
 
Not sure if it's the same thing, but when playing a game on a certain point in the map such as GTA4 or something, I might have the radio/tv on and subconsciously hear what's on it, and when I reach the same point or scenario on the game map again I can remember what was heard on the radio/tv. After a few days I will forget though.
 
Yateszy said:
Not sure if it's the same thing, but when playing a game on a certain point in the map such as GTA4 or something, I might have the radio/tv on and subconsciously hear what's on it, and when I reach the same point or scenario on the game map again I can remember what was heard on the radio/tv. After a few days I will forget though.
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Nah, not the same thing. If I were to listen to my old Dead Ringers tapes I'd remember bits of Deus Ex, and if I were to listen to an old Jeremy Hardy tape my wife had I'd remember bits of Jedi Knight 2. It's just associations, and sound is very powerful in terms of creating those sorts of associations.
 
4T5 said:
I looked this up once & it's something to do with messages being sent from one side of the hemisphere of your brain to the other, When you get Deja vu the message is sent from one side to the other but the other doesn't register it so it's sent again which gives you the deja vu.
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Lies.

Blatantly a gltich in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
 
So know has owned up to not having it before... I need to tell me dad there's something wrong with him :p
 
sigma said:
Can you go lucid? I tried ages ago then stopped, then accidentally nearly did it but then there has been nothing since, not that I've tried, mind.

I can remember this morning's (don't think it was last night as I woke up then went back to sleep) dream quite clearly.
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Yea I can lucid, its fun stuff. I read loads about it and how train the brain to lucid dream. Took a while but I got there after a while.

When I get a lucid dream I really dont understand I still write it down.

But when a odd moment like a night out with a friend and or meetings when they occur in real life I go straight back to my dream notebook :p and low and behold some of the times I have written notes on on a meeting or night out in my log sometimes as far as months ago. Which really really freaks me out.
 
I have dreams which then at a later date are reenacted exactly as I remember them. Its never about anything terribly important, and its only about minutes at most, but is typically specific and long enough to convince me its not just a coincidence.

I don't believe its possible to have premonitions, logically it doesn't make sense for a person to see stuff before it happens. I figure its my mind fooling me, as the deja vu eureka moment only really comes at the end of specific parts of the dream.

I don't have many dreams (of which I rememebr), but they tend to be weird, and as I begin to realise this I wake up. I think its early stages of Lucid dreaming, but I've always been like this, and it doesn't seem to have progressed any.

Sometimes when I'm asleep, and not dreaming, I'm aware of whats happening around me. But it feels a bit like my consciousness has been supressed to a lower level, like background noise, but if realise this and can wake myself up if I so choose to. It feels weird and takes a few seconds, but its deffo not like being disturbed in a normal sleep.
 
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