Deja Vu

[Jay Bee]

I don't know if this subject has already been posted here but would be very interested to hear other viewpoints. Please post me the link if it already has been discussed............... I posted this on another forum a few days ago and only have had 2 responses........which makes me wonder if Deja Vu is something that only some people get.......I really thought it was a very common phenomena??

I was listening to Sylvia Brown yesterday on my iPod (free downloads from Hayhouse radio) and she was talking about Deja Vu. I do have these feelings now and then and was talking to one of my friends about it and she says she has NEVER experienced it........although her daughter gets them all the time.

Anyways Sylvia was saying that we choose this life when we are non-physical it's like a blueprint....before we come into this physical life. And when we experience Deja Vu it is like a remembering of things, that we are remembering the life we chose for ourselves..........that's why everything feels so familiar....

Anybody else experience Deja Vu and what do you think?

Barb xx
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and after my 2 responses this is what I wrote:

Hi Adrienne

That's funny you should only have had deja vu experiences for a week and a half ago, until I talked to my friend recently I was under the impression that EVERYBODY had them, you know just one of those things we take for granted, like sleeping or our hearts beating kinda thing

And yes Kevin I know about the "crossed circuit" in the brain theory, which is the one I used to believe until I got into this "alternate" way of thinking I now have.......

If somebody had tried to explain things to me like the Matrix up until about 5 years ago I would have thought they were nuts LOL!!

Deja Vu really is an interesting phenomena isn't it? And it's kind of eerie when it happens to you.....there you are sitting in the same chair, at the same desk having the exact same conversation with somebody and you just KNOW that you KNOW you have done this before......

–noun
1. Psychology. the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time.

If it is an illusion well it's a bl***y good one!!

I am very interested in your replies and just how common this is??
Barb xx

[Lallymac]

I find when I meditate regularly, I experience deja vu on a daily basis. Its like having a reverse time delay. My kids go through patches of experiencing it regularly to not at all.
My understanding is that our minds release from the physical world time restraints during sleep and can free wheel, skip ahead or back in time. I guess deja vu is evidence of time being a physical world illusion.
Lallymac

[Erin Pavlina]

Yes, to me deja vu is like remembering the future. Time is not really linear anyway, so if we can remember the past why not remember the future or the present as it is happening.

[OlderWiser]

Hmm, I haven't had a deja vu experience in a long time, now that I come to think of it. I used to get them fairly regularly, though.

There are different kinds of deja vu for me. There's the one where I go, "Oh, wait, I dreamed this," (I've had dreams that come to pass since I was a kid), there's the one where I go, "I know I've been in this place before," and there's the one that feels like a sort of temporal hiccup, so to speak (just a little odd blip). Oh, and there's the kind where it means they're changing something in the Matrix. *smirk*

Sometimes I think deja vu (at least some of the kinds of deja vu I experience) is a sort of synchronicity, just a little nod that I'm where I should be, etc.

[DaveTyler]

I thought time didnt exist, we're always in the now? Thats why we will never travel time, cause future isnt made

[Mr.Mustache]

Originally Posted by DaveTyler

I thought time didnt exist, we're always in the now? Thats why we will never travel time, cause future isnt made

You can look into probable futures though.

[Restrikted]

Originally Posted by Jay Bee

Anyways Sylvia was saying that we choose this life when we are non-physical it's like a blueprint....before we come into this physical life. And when we experience Deja Vu it is like a remembering of things, that we are remembering the life we chose for ourselves..........that's why everything feels so familiar....

I have only one problem with this theory. If you choose your life before-hand, what about the people who, in their mind and yours, have a crappy life? Why would someone choose a life of bankruptcy, hating your job, and drug-dealing?

[Erin Pavlina]

You don't choose bankruptcy and drug dealing ahead of time. You choose the circumstances but not the details. So you may choose to be born into a wealthy family or a poor one and then let the chips fall where they may.

Read this blog entry for more on that.

[Jugga J]

from a scientific perspective, when we look around, we want to see things that makes every time we look around different from other times. If theres nothing it can distinguish it from an original time. Then we experience Deja Vu, you usually have it in a very bland environment, where there isn't much to distinguish from an original time. Or something along them lines.

[Nico Kempe]

Uhhm, I've seen this topic before!

I do not believe in coincidence because I believe many of my "Deja-vu's", as it's labelled, are not caused my a brain hickup at all.

To me, time is, like Erin said, not linear. I like the analogy that time is a bunch of movie frames played in a specific order. Oh but that IS linear.. :/
Probably frames can be swapped and thus future nows can be created/chosen.
Anyway, I can talk about time for hours (heh, hours, in a world of 'now'), but in short, time is a strange thing but I do believe people can look ahead in time.

I myself have had several moments where I knew exactly what was going to happen before it actually happened. I do believe I have dreamt those moments in earlier nows. Then again, if there is only now, your memory of that now is created at that specific now. Just like if you have memories of your past, and there is only the now, then you must be creating those memories now, or else you'd have no memories..
So you're in a situation, and suddenly you create a memory of that exact same situation, thus resulting in a deja-vu.
I guess the now is to blame for deja-vu's then.

Eat that you scientists

[Jugga J]

how is that 'eat that'....

Thats just your opinion based on a perception of time that time is not linear (which scientists first put forward first)...theres no evidence behind your claim. Least you have your own opinions though it must be said.