it's as if it's something in our brains or something? Does anyone know why this is ???
201076
It's an uncontrolled reflex. Most scientists can't explain it either.
321312
Great question.  I think that we are real, but we might be in someone elses dream.. DOes that make sense?
153901
No.\n\nI think we create things to make us feel better.\nWould be nice to know someone is really walking with you, wouldn't it?\n\nWell, I think it's kinda creepy.
403926
Both are entirely possible...but lets explore this a little more if it was "just your mind," who gave you such an amazing mind? Who helped your mind create that extra pain killing chemicals to help you feel better?\n\nThe way I see it, either way, it would be appropriate to thank God. \n\nThanks
22473
You're psychic....or you have some sort of psychic ability! \n\nFor the people that you hear from, maybe they're picking up on your mental thought waves.....it's all energy! Maybe they are tapping into it somehow!
199053
It's called Deja Vu, and is actually a borrowed word brought into English from the French language.\n\nAs far as I know, we're really not sure exactly why it happens.\n\nThere are several theories - 1 states that somehow our consciousness and our brain run momentarily out of sync, which cause our brain to take visual input from an experience but processes it a little later, so that by the time we realize what we've seen our brain has actually already "seen it" (but we're talking at very high processing speeds). \n\nAnother theory states simply that we have been in a similar situation before but have just forgotten, so when we are in it again it seems new to us but somehow just vaguely familiar.\n\nYet other esoterics say that it is actual memories from past lives.\n\nHappy researching!
508909
It could be a form of synesthesia.  Synesthesia is basically when your brain gets a bit cross-wired.. for example, a visual stimulation triggers an auditory perception.   So perhaps, your visual stimulation is triggering some emotional perceptions.\n\nActually, now that I think about it, it seems more like empathy.\n\nSounds interesting, though!
86747
i think the connection is in ur mind
676425
One explanation I've heard is that the brain is storing the present into memory so quickly, we perceive it as happening in the past.\n\nThere are also the theories of parallel universe travel or having dreamt something very similar to the present.
268922
Could be something else, or could just be your mind messing around with you. It's all up to what you believe. Deja vus aggrivate me.. i'm glad i haven't had one in over a year
46897
I don't know, sometimes that happens with my mom and myself. Like a very vivid dream that makes no sense until a while (sometimes a very long while) later it happens and seems totally normal until you get this rush of deja vou. Or a stream of thoughts that doesn't seem to make any sense, sometimes even about ppl you have yet to meet, you dismiss atthe time, then you have it again later just in daily life and it is like, whoa, that was weird.
110984
How do we know that atoms aren't conscious?  If we are made of the same spacedust that everything in the universe is, albeit in a complex and dynamic arrangement, then perhaps all matter and even time itself has a form of existence and experience.  Maybe we are not even individuals.  Just because most people think they are making decisions for themselves doesn't mean they are just running on some form of autopilot.  I read that the part of the brain involved in complex decision making processes finishes neural activity sometimes up to two minutes before a person thinks 'they' have decided.   On the matter of whether God created us for his own sake, I think it would be alot more likely that people created the concept of God for their own sakes.  If we are in God's soup, I'd liken our fate more to that of a fly than a cracker.
306798
It's all we can believe at the moment. Our understanding only reaches that far back. First there was nothing and then there was all this. The only other choice is, First there was something and now it is this. Both arrive at the same place you notice. Here and NOW. So whether it was nothing or something, it still brings us to here. \nWhat we do in moment to moment is more helpful to us all. To Love and care for all things.
107961
"Thoughts" are really a phenomenon of consciousness, and we don't know why we are conscious. Science has shown that the brain knows our "thoughts" before our consciousness does, which makes knowing what a thought is even more complicated.\n\nIt has something to do with our brain, which is a very large complex combination of neurons interacting with each other, and with two separate lobes communicating with each other.
147190
"It's a common thing amongst Time Travellers." I've experienced De-je vue millions if not billions of times, no joke, most of the time, I'm sure I've experienced stuff in dreams. When it happens it lasts for up to a minute and I can accurately describe what events will occur round me during those moments. I wonder how many people are going to give a religious answer to this?! :0)
140090
There are many things that we do that do not require our conscious brain.  Whatever things you are talking about, perhaps the subconscious got started on it before the consciousness got involved.  When cockroaches feel stimulus on their back legs, they begin running before their conscious mind knows why they are running.  It's just like the other poster said, the impulse telling your hand to pull oout of a fire doesn't require your conscious mind to make a decision, it starts the process for you.\n\nIt's an interesting idea that this might have to do with quantum wierdness, but I think experiments woudl reject that.  I encourage you to keep thinking of things like this and hypothesizing.  Eventually you may be teaching us instead of the other way around :-)
558847
Maybe it use to be shaped like a diamond, and maybe we did just put so much thought and energy into it being round that it became that way. Maybe we are not even living on the world that we think we are living on. Maybe we are all just part of some big atmospheric mind of some sort. Maybe we really are nothing but a dream, who knows.