could a deja vu be the world repeating it self for us?
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Maybe...Maybe...Maybe...Maybe...Maybe...
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I don't experience it as often as I used to, and I've no idea why. Theories abound but as with many strange phenomena I'm not sure there is a satisfactory explanation for it. It's just that inexplicable sense of having lived a moment in time (usually quite a brief and fleeting moment in time) before. Whether it's an unconscious familiarity with something real or imagined or a conscious sense of actually having lived such a moment before is impossible to say with any certainty. (And yes, you have asked this question before... but when and where is another matter entirely... spooky, huh?) ;)
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Scientists have since determined that the medial temporal lobe is involved in our conscious memory. Within the medial temporal lobe are the parahippocampal gyrus, the rhinal cortex and the amygdala. John D.E. Gabrieli at Stanford University found in 1997 that the hippocampus enables us to consciously recall events. He also found that the parahippocampal gyrus enables us to determine what's familiar and what isn't (and without actually retrieving a specific memory to do it). \n\nWhile about 60 percent of people say they have experienced deja vu, the rates are highest among people between the ages of 15 and 25. The upper age varies among researchers, but most agree that deja vu experiences decrease with age. There have also been higher reported occurrences among those with higher incomes, those who tend to travel more and those with higher education levels. Active imaginations and the ability to recall dreams has also been a commonality among people who report deja vu experiences. \n\nSome researchers also report that the more tired or stressed you are, the more likely you are to experience deja vu. Other researchers, however, have seen just the opposite. They report that the more refreshed and relaxed you are, the more likely you are to experience deja vu. Obviously, the jury is still out about a lot of things related to deja vu. \n\nOne reported finding is that the more open-minded or politically liberal a person is, the more likely they are to experience d fast vu. However, this may also mean that the more open-minded you are, the more likely you are to talk about something potentially seen as "weird," like deja vu. \n\nSo, that hamster thing that you think is a weird recollection of maybe a past life or something of yours, think again? Maybe you have dreamed something of same exact thing and was able to retain it in your mind. Either way, it is weird though. Well goodluck buddy!
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Quite.  Deja vu is a simple case of the brain storing information in the long term memory AND the short term (or working) memory simultaneously.  \n\nWe have two parts of the brain dedicated to memory: long term and short term memory.  Short term memory lasts for about only 30 seconds, while long term memory can last a lifetime.  Normally, information is first allocated to short term memory and then through association or repetition, it is transfered to long term memory.\n\nBut once and a while, the brain will simultaneously allocate a piece of information to both long and short term memory.  Since it's still in our working memory, it's fresh on our minds, but we also feel like it's something we've experienced a while ago also.  That is because we are also "retreiving" this information from our long term memory even though the thing just happened.
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The term déjà vu (French: "already seen", also called paramnesia) describes the experience of feeling that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously. The term was created by a French psychic researcher, Emile Boirac (1851–1917) in his book L'Avenir des sciences psychiques (The Future of Psychic Sciences), which expanded upon an essay he wrote while an undergraduate French concentrator at the University of Chicago. The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eerieness" or "strangeness" or "weirdness". The "previous" experience is most frequently attributed to a dream, although in some cases there is a firm sense that the experience "genuinely happened" in the past.\n\nThe experience of déjà vu seems to be very common; in formal studies 70% or more of the population report having experienced it at least once. References to the experience of déjà vu are also found in literature of the past, indicating it is not a new phenomenon. However, in laboratory settings, it is extremely difficult to invoke the déjà vu experience, making it a subject with few empirical studies.\nTypes of déjà vu\nAccording to Arthur Funkhouser there are three types of déjà vu:\n\n[edit]\nDéjà vécu\nUsually translated 'already seen' or 'already lived through,' déjà vécu is described in a quotation from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens:\n\nWe have all some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances - of our knowing perfectly what will be said next, as if we suddenly remember it![1]\n\nWhen most people speak of déjà vu, they are actually experiencing déjà vécu. Surveys have revealed that about one third of the population have had these experiences, more often (and perhaps more intense) in people between the ages of 15 and 25. The experience is usually related to a very banal event, but is so striking that it is remembered for years afterwards.\n\nDéjà vécu refers to an experience involving more than just sight, which is why labeling such "déjà vu" is usually inaccurate. The sense involves a great amount of detail, sensing that everything is just as it was before. Because of this, theories that the situation was just read about earlier or experienced in a previous life are invalid, as those experiences could not recreate the exact situation due to a lack of sense involvement or the presence of modern surroundings.\n\nMore recently, the term déjà vécu has been used to describe very intense and persistent feelings of a déjà vu type, which occur as part of a memory disorder. As described in Moulin, C.J.A., Conway, M.A. Thompson, R.G., James, N. & Jones, R.W. (2005). Disordered Memory Awareness: Recollective Confabulation in Two Cases of Persistent Déjà vecu. Neuropsychologia, 43 :1362-1378.\n\n[edit]\nDéjà senti\nDr. John Hughlings Jackson recorded the words of one of his patients who suffered from temporal lobe or psychomotor epilepsy in an 1889 paper:\n\nWhat is occupying the attention is what has occupied it before, and indeed has been familiar, but has been for a time forgotten, and now is recovered with a slight sense of satisfaction as if it had been sought for. ... At the same time, or ... more accurately in immediate sequence, I am dimly aware that the recollection is fictitious and my state abnormal. The recollection is always started by another person's voice, or by my own verbalized thought, or by what I am reading and mentally verbalize; and I think that during the abnormal state I generally verbalize some such phrase of simple recognition as 'Oh yes - I see', 'Of course - I remember', &c., but a minute or two later I can recollect
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Deja vu isn't anything metaphysical or divine. It is a well know psychological phenomena that occurs because of certain neurochemical changes, although the details have not been nailed down. For example, one idea involves a trigger to the parahippocampal gyrus - which is something in the brain.\n\nBasically it _feels_ like you are experiencing something you have experienced before, when in fact you are not. The deja vu feeling is being generated by a hiccup in the brain. Ocassional feelings of deja vu are not uncommon, quite the opposite in fact. Generally it is not something to worry about, although it can be a symptom of temporal lobe epilepsy.\n\nThere is also something called jaime vu, which is the opposite. You actually experience something familiar but it _feels_ like you have never experienced it before.
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Deja Vu - Already Seen.\n\nThis can be many things.\n\nJungian theory states that we all have soul memory.  So if you are in a spot that an ancestor was - maybe you have a flashback.\n\nAll animals have instints - These are genetic memories.  Again flashbacks.\n\nSometimes one side of your brain process faster than the other, or you store a current event as memory BEFORE your cognitive side actually mulls over it.\n\nThen somtimes it's a step back in time.\n\nThen sometimes it's a quick premonition.  Like the time I overheard a boy in the front of my class talk to another about his vacation and I knew the whole entire conversation before he actually said it....  But that could be a wierd coincidence.....\n\n....
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Deja Vu. It is French for already seen. I don't believe in it myself. I have heard it explained as your mind mixing memories of real past events with elements of the new experience. I am not sure if I find that really believable either.\nhttp://people.howstuffworks.com/question657.htm\n\nIn this article they note the age point. This might be a normal event in a maturing brain. I would not let the mention of epilepsy scare you because people with no epilepsy get it too.
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i think its crazy to have deja vu. but i also think that it is one of the amazing things, it has you trippin out
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It's from the french and it literally means "already seen".\nSo Déjà vu: Is a feeling where you strongly feel like you already have seen somthing that is hapening, like if you had already lived it. Some times it can be so strrong that while you're in the middle of somthing you can even prdict how things will take place. \n\nFurther than that I must admit myself to be ignorent. So i'll be watching the up comming answers.
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I have experieced this several times. People have told me it's deja vu, but deja vu is only a strange feeling that you have done something before, not actually dreaming about it.\n\nI was able to experiment a bit (very limited), where in some cases I tried to follow how the dream played out, and in some cases I tried to do it differently.\n\nMy conclusion...\n\nI don't know. I have never met anybody else with the same experience, and haven't been able to find anything on the internet either. Don't worry about seeing the future though, if things come true, they will, if they don't, they won't. Worrying about it won't help a stich.\n\nI would suggest looking into "lucid dreams" which is the closest thing I found where one can control their own dreams, which I have also experienced. Interesting stuff.\n\nGood luck, and try to enjoy it, there aren't too many mystical things in the world today.
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Sorry I don't feel like preaching tonight, so just ask yourself this, if not for reincarnation, how do you explain deja vu.
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I think we are reborn into a new body but with small fractions of memory of the life we led before.\nI think these bits of memory are there to help us in our new lives.
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if u meant the dreams that u had while u were sleeping,no,it wont come true..sometimes we had this thing called deja-vu,but are the deja-vus happen to all of our dreams?no..what we will dream tonite,even if it happens to be true,it will not be the entire dream..\n\nif u mean hope n wish,then u must work hard to achieve it..even if it does not come true,than at least u have something to learn from ur hardwork..
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The Group Mind is in the present and, yes, there is some evidence that all humanity tunes in to itself and thinks/feels alike at times.  The Collective Consciousness is probably a genetic memory phenomenon of all the memory we share from our genetic past experiences.
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Yes. I've done that alot... But it's usually where i dream about it and then it happens the next day. I have a lot of Deja Vu moments and i also have insomnia sometimes. It really kinda freaks me out when i have Deja Vu twice..
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It has actually been suggested that our dreams are a state where we are programmed to do whatever is is we're going to do the next day, month, year, etc. As for myself I really don't know, I guess that's kinda how I look at it. I find that sometimes they might be telling us something, or that they may simply be flashbacks from our past.