I keep having a ton of deja vu

[Sea]

And it's driving me crazy!

It's been happening 1-4 times everyday for the past 3 weeks. I've been trying to track down what's been causing it and I've been realizing slowly that I've been dreaming them, but they pertain *exactly* to my situations. I was playing a video game online for example and I predicted exactly what would happen for about 15 seconds straight - just events that would happen in exactly the way I predicted down to the every detail.

These memories I find usually come from dreams. Sometimes I remember specifically what dream they come from and they're recent, but just yesterday I had one that it felt like I dreamt it maybe 6-8 months ago. 0_o

Any idea on the general reason for them? I searched through the forums and found a few threads, but didn't really want to bump them as they were pretty old.

[Bene]

So its like precognition- you've been dreaming of it before its exactly happening?

Perhaps there is no reason- your psychic senses are just waking up.

[tintin]

me too.i get them a lot.but i kinda enjoy em.its like the moment just folds in,the present ie
and for a short period of time im in this jelly like feeling.and experience these emotions and see a particular scene of the person im with.
i get a lot of it when im with my S.O.like when i just started getting to know him i had one of the 'warps' and i see this lady waiting.just waiting.she spends her whole life waiting.for this person.her feeling of being in suspended animation.time stood still.her whole life was paused.and anger that after all her pleading he still went off to fight.never came back.and that fills me (right now)with so much sadness
sometimes i start expressing what i was feeling then, in real time.and its so strange that he starts responding 'from there' because there is nothing of the sort going on in real time.just out of nowhere i had this question bubbling out of me and i asked angrily-"why did you make me wait??!" and he replied and explained what happened.
post jelly id feel very satisfied and reassured .eh strange.

[COLEE]

i have exactly the same thing, its kind of freaky. Most of the time it feels exactly like i have dreamt it aswell, i will be driving past a place i have never seen and will realise it is something i have dreamt or an event will happen that seems has happened before say in a dream, weird.

[Nellyo99]

Funnily enough i've had this a lot as well.
Would really love to hear what your explanation for it is.

[astra]

There seems to be alot of this going around! I get it quite alot too. In my school days, I used to dream my entire day at school the night before, and then be quite bored my second time around. Probably accounted for my high marks without studying though

I remember reading once that deja vu was actually a chemical reaction in the brain. Something about a temporary imbalance leading to a memory of an occurrence being very quickly stored before you consciously recognised that it had occurred - ie one part of your brain moving faster than another, and then your mind rationalises it by telling you that you've either experienced it before or dreamed it, or creating false vague memories. It quite intrigued me at the time.

I'd hazard a guess that for a majority of people this would be the cause, and then there are also people that have a precognitive gift starting to develop. Either way, it's quite a fascinating phenomenon.

[bluestar]

I have a theory about deja-vu. That at some times, we are all capable of prophetic dreams (even about ordinary everyday events) And we spend at least 2 hours dreaming per night, but how many dreams do we normally remember when we wake up in the morning? A fraction of what we have actually dreamed, most often.
It makes me wonder if the deja-vu experience isn't a prophetic dream which we had, but have forgotten. Then, when the event which we had dreamed about takes place in our everyday life, it shocks us into sudden memory, but because that memory is not clearly recognized as 'a dream', we think we have experienced a certain thing/place/etc before.
I don't know if this is so, or not, generally. But I did once manage to trace a deja-vu flash to a dream which I had prior to that event, forgotten.
Also, oddly, concerning the actual life-event I was able to briefly 'see' what was about to happen next.It flowed perfectly for a couple of minutes, and then cut off.

[scarcarnage]

Too bad those deja vu's don't occur for something useful. Like all the sudden "remembering" today's lottery numbers.

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[changingbetter]

Originally Posted by scarcarnage

Too bad those deja vu's don't occur for something useful. Like all the sudden "remembering" today's lottery numbers.

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[bluestar]

Originally Posted by scarcarnage

Too bad those deja vu's don't occur for something useful. Like all the sudden "remembering" today's lottery numbers.

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I wish.................! Although once, when I was a student, I had (what turned out to be a quite nasty Ouija Board Entity) tell me the winner of the Irish Grand National!! My friends and I didn't even KNOW there was an Irish Grand National! When it told us the winner, we did not believe it, and certainly didn't put money on it. Ah well....

[Mato Kinze]

Deja Vu is mostly a slight and temporary chemical imbalance in the hypothalamus. An excess of a particular chemical excites the memory center causing a feeling that what you are currently experiencing is a memory.

It's just a simple out-of-balance mixture of Glycine (a neuro inhibitor) and Cholecystokinin (a response modulator).

There was a study done in the early 80's by a group of Neurologists at St. Louis University Hospital just breaking into the Brain Mapping field that was able to reproduce Deja Vu feelings in individuals with intracranial EEG electrodes by disrupting the flow of those particular chemicals.

It was quite by accident as the Neurologists were actually working on Epilepsy patients and trying to control seizure disorders.

Of course, that's not to say that there isn't some underlying "cause" of the chemical imbalance itself, but that at least is the "scientific" explanation of Deja Vu.

[tintin]

Originally Posted by Mato Kinze

It's just a simple out-of-balance mixture of Glycine (a neuro inhibitor) and Cholecystokinin (a response modulator).

[timothydrake]

Yes I have many Deja-vus as well. I am afraid of them in fact. Will I dream that one day I will die horribly? Will I be alone and lonely? Or will I be a rich man? Be involved in a orgy with supermodels and I am the only guy? I truly would rather begone with deja-vu and make my own future.