Deja Vu

Tomcat825

Tomcat825

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So I had yet another Deja Vu today and i'm not gonna lie... they freak me out a bit.

It got me thinking about whether there has ever been any tests (or if tests are even able to be performed on such a thing) on what actually causes this and if there would potentially be a way of almost controlling Deja Vu. Controlled vision for the future anyone?

What do you guys think about it? Do you get it often? Scare you at all?

Google here I come.
 
Tomcat825 said:
i'm not gonna lie... they freak me out a bit.
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Why would you lie?

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My personal theory; backed up with zero research, is that Deja Vu is just a chemical imbalance in the brain. Gives you the notion of feeling you've already experienced whatever it is you were/are experiencing.
 
FabienO said:
Why would you lie?

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My personal theory; backed up with zero research, is that Deja Vu is just a chemical imbalance in the brain. Gives you the notion of feeling you've already experienced whatever it is you were/are experiencing.
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Err, I have a habit of saying that for some reason. Some people would lie and be macho and say it doesn't.


Your theory sounds plausible, but what about when you actually know what is about to happen?

PS, I love your link to chrome ;)
 
I Get them all the time, mostly dream sive had that stick in my mind then can be a day a few months even a year or two and BOOM im there same scene same things happen....

The annoying thing is if something bad happens in the dream I know it's going to happen but yet cant seem to stop it or avoid it, it's like I want too but it's wired that i can't....

Blows my mind out :-)
 
Tomcat825 said:
Err, I have a habit of saying that for some reason. Some people would lie and be macho and say it doesn't.


Your theory sounds plausible, but what about when you actually know what is about to happen?

PS, I love your link to chrome ;)
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Same thing, the imbalance is as convincing as a hallucination, or psychotic breakdown. Just less sinuous. Your eyes play tricks on you, so does your brain :). Once again, just my own idea.

I once dreamed my mum slipped down some stairs, I woke up to a loud bang, and my mum had just slipped down the stairs (non-serious). Did I predict the event, or did my brain simply treat it as a previously occurred event as it was happening?

I mean on a not too dissimilar note, there's a religious section of the brain :P
 
So I had yet another Deja Vu today and i'm not gonna lie... they freak me out a bit.

It got me thinking about whether there has ever been any tests (or if tests are even able to be performed on such a thing) on what actually causes this and if there would potentially be a way of almost controlling Deja Vu. Controlled vision for the future anyone?

What do you guys think about it? Do you get it often? Scare you at all?

Google here I come.
 
There have of course been lots of tests and research into deja vu, from the last time I looked into it the most recent "answer" is that you get some sort of sensory mismatch, so you actually experience it the first time and then have a mental replay, almost immediately, it's like time based sea sickness. You get a slight mismatch between two signals reaching your brain.

Mine almost always feel like something I've dreamt before, and sometimes I can have thought about how real a dream was after it, so I've consciously remembered it was a dream (it's not just a feeling), but then psychologically you're going down a different path of pattern matching, and especially with the fuzziness of dreams it's easy to see how you could bend what's currently happening to a vague structure of something you've previously dreamt.
 
This could be complete crap, but i thought i had read/heard that having lots of deja vu was a sign of some sort of medical condition?? I don't want to cause you any alarm or anything but might be worth looking into a bit more :/
 
I get it when I'm really tired or hungover. I just presumed it was my brain doing some bad processing.
 
I get it a couple of times a year, maybe 5 or so spread throughout, not sure as I don't count them but I do know I get a fair few at least anyway xD.
The annoying ones for me are when I have deja vu, and someone is about to say something. It feels like it's on the tip of my tongue what they are about to say but obviously I have no idea what it is till they say it. Like an annoying itch / twitch xD.
 
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