What is Deja Vu? (Blog)

[Erin Pavlina]

Use this thread to discuss the following entry from Erin Pavlina's blog:

What is Deja Vu?

[LillyoftheValley]

...deja vu is there to say, “You strayed off your path a little but now you’re back. Congratulations! Now let’s continue…” And continue I do.

Erin, I LOVE this thought!

What I've noticed about my Deja Vus is that whenever I experience them, I'm either pretty unsure of my path, or I'm in complete alignment with my source/purpose.
So I think about them as a reminder that there's a part of me that's watching from a timeless place.

Like it's singing to me ''Tiiiiime is on my siide, yes it is...''

Question for all: have you ever shared a deja vu?

I had a few sinchronized ones with my sister back when we were kids.

[KeithHandy]

Whenever someone says "oh my god, I'm having deja vu!", I always immediately ask "is me asking you this part of it?" -- sorry if "messing with people's heads" is not exactly a noble motive.

People do also sometimes use the term in the more boring sense of "here we go again", but I always make sure that people clarify whether they're actually having it or just using it as a figure of speech.

[KeithHandy]

P.S. -- do you take requests? How about a similar article about "the little shiver down the back"?

[Erin Pavlina]

I will definitely do a "shiver down the back" blog entry. In fact, I was just doing a reading for someone who asked me the same question about what it means. Synchronicity?

I also dislike it when people say they are having a deja vu when in fact they mean they have gone through that event in their actual past. It's like when vegetarians say they eat fish.

[Susie]

Some people experience deja vu 24/7-- there is a study being done on it now. Here's an article:

Giving déjà vu a second look

Many of us have experienced déjà vu - the unsettling sensation of knowing that a situation could not have been experienced, combined with the feeling that it has. It is usually so fleeting that psychologists have until recently thought it impossible to study. But for some people, the feeling of having been there before is a persistent sensation, making every day a ‘Groundhog Day’. Psychologists from Leeds’ memory group are working with sufferers of chronic déjà vu on the world’s first study of the condition.

Here's the rest of the article.

[KeithHandy]

Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina

I will definitely do a "shiver down the back" blog entry. In fact, I was just doing a reading for someone who asked me the same question about what it means. Synchronicity?

Before you ever write such an article, I have a preliminary feeling about the shiver. I'd like to state it here and then see how close your take is.

Often when I get that shiver, it's immediately after a key statement in an internal dialogue. It's sort of like a cosmic highlighter pen saying "pay attention to this thing you just said to yourself".

It can also happen when I'm internalizing song lyrics. A few years ago I found myself getting that shiver (sometimes with tears) in response to Radiohead's The Tourist, where Thom Yorke sings "hey man, slow down, slow down ... idiot, slow down". This is just a variation on the same thing, it's still me having an internal dialogue, only there happens to be something external to myself supporting it.