Is it true that if you dont expierience deja vu, youre heading down the wrong path in life?
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There's nothing of that sort.\nOver the years, many scientists ignored déjà vu completely due to its frequent association with past life experiences, ESP and alien abductions. These associations gave the study of déjà vu a bit of a stigma. Recently, researchers have set aside some of those associations and have begun putting brain imaging technology to work. Firmly placing déjà vu within the study of memory, they hope to discover more about how memories are formed, stored and retrieved.\n\nThey 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). While about 60 percent of people say they have experienced déjà vu, the rates are highest among people between the ages of 15 and 25. The upper age varies among researchers, but most agree that déjà 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 déjà vu experiences.\n\nSome researchers also report that the more tired or stressed you are, the more likely you are to experience déjà 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 déjà vu. Obviously, the jury is still out about a lot of things related to déjà vu.\n\nOne reported finding is that the more open-minded or politically liberal a person is, the more likely they are to experience déjà 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 déjà vu. \n\nLeading Theories\nWhen we're on a cell phone and driving, our attention is divided. Déjà vu may work the same way.\nDivided Attention (the cell phone theory)\nRecent research by Alan Brown has attempted to recreate a process that he thinks is similar to déjà vu. In studies at Duke University and SMU, he and colleague Elizabeth Marsh put the idea of subliminal suggestion to the test. They showed photographs of various locations to a group of students, with the plan to ask them which locations were familiar. Prior to showing them some of the photographs, however, they flashed the photos onto the screen at subliminal speeds -- around 10 to 20 milliseconds -- which is long enough for the brain to register the photo but not long enough for the student to be consciously aware of it. In these experiments, the images that had been shown subliminally were familiar at a much higher rate than those that were not -- even though those students who had actually been to those locations had been pulled from the study. Larry Jacoby and Kevin Whitehouse of Washington University did similar studies using lists of words with similar results using lists of words.\n\nBased on this idea, Alan Brown proposed what he calls the cell phone theory (or divided attention). This means that when we are distracted with something else, we subliminally take in what's around us but may not truly register it consciously. Then, when we are able to focus on what we are doing, those surroundings appear to already be familiar to us even when they shouldn't be.\n\nWith this in mind, it is reasonable to see how we might walk into a house for the first time, perhaps while talking to our host, and experience déjà vu. It would work like this: before we've actually looked at the room, our brains have processed it visual
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Does anyone know what causes Deja Vu?
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It's called "Deja vu". It is when the neurochemical pathways responsible for the sensation of memory recall are triggered randomly; and so what is currently happening to you FEELS like a memory, but actually isnt. \n\nEveryone gets it.
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yes. it happens when you think more than two activities and this is the reason why your mind fails to recall what you should do first. simplify your way of planning or way of thinking.
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Off and on I believe yes. It depends on what you think is a realistic dream or not. Realistic dreams I believe in some respects are predictions, depending on how you live your life and what kind of path you take. I think those kind of dreams trigger those deja vu feelings when we are awake, alerting you possibly to a realized outcome that you had dreamed about previously.\n\n  The unrealistic or fantasy dreams I believe are symbolic of events that all was,are, and are about to take place. In order to decipher those dreams, you will probably need a dream dictionary to decode what those dreams mean.
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It happens to everyone, you go on with your life cuz there is really nothing to Deja vu.
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Concentrate on this: There are some things in our life that we want them to happen. For eg. one may wish to be married to a person of his choice. So what we want to happen with us is something which is always there in our sub-conscious mind. And since we have no control over the inactive part of our brain (almost 90%) we see our wishes in our dreams.\n\nOtherwise, dreams may also be te fears or fancies in our sub-conscious mind. eg. the fear of ghosts etc. \n\nIn no way they are related to our future. But yes, if you convert your dreams to reality, they better are.
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Deja vu is a normal experience that everybody gets. However frequent and intense Deja vu can occasionally be part of an Epileptic seizure from the Temporal lobe - but dont worry, everybody gets Deja vu.\n\nIt is not a feature of Alzheimers.
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Don't let your past cast shadows on your future.\n A good friend told me that once.I've no idea where he got it from but it makes sense.Your past is just that...your past.We all make mistakes,just don't let them rule your life.
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well society calls it deja vu usually. if you have drems about things that havn't happened yet then they happen, it's called premanition. usually you just think of it as a dream even if it's realistic so you forget about it until it happens days, weeks or even years after the dream occured. there isn't really an explanation to these kinds of things. it's something that the tv show unsolved mysteries needs to look into
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I do believe that it is.  For the past is what forges our future.  For example, all the things that happen to you in life help make you the person you are today.  You choices in life either make you a stronger person, or will defeat you in the end.
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Yes, It happened to me 17 years ago, I left my country to move Here USA , it is nothing wrong to experience and expand your horizon, it is about LIFE, Now if you are moving because you are escaping from your problems, it is not a good idea, because you are going to carry them with you. what i try to say is ask your self what is your GOAL or GOALS, and then go for it...\nremember:\n "Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality."\nP.S.: you also have to work over there you know? He He.\nBest of Luck to you in your new adventure!!!
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I have deja vu in that I have an overwhelming sense of familiarity to people or places from time to time with no logical explanation for it.  Good question.
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Of course.  We do it today.  When you fly from NY to LA, you go BACK in time.  When you fly to LA from NY you go FORWARD in time.  Time is man made.  It's how we measure our existence.  \nIf you want to experience something more than once, you will have to improve your deja vu skills.
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The next time you get deja vu, you know, at that moment you realize you've done this before - try to figure out what will happen next!  You can't!  But if, as most people think, you've lived the experience before, you should have no problem remembering what is to follow. Here's why you can never remember what will follow.  When we experience anything, our brain records it and stores it as a memory.  Then that memory is "filed" so that when we recall it, we can determine the sequence of the event, i.e. was this recent, or years ago?  When the brain "misfiles' a current event as being something in the past, it recognizes that event and we feel we've experienced it before.  But actually, our brain is comparing the current event to itself!  That's why we can never follow through with what happens next...because it hasn't happened yet!  And that, my friend is deja vu!
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The one we assume is 'now', but actually took place before now and it takes awhile for us to 'catch up'....science has already established that our brains are programmed with a delayed reaction anyway.   I think deja vu is due to either reincarnation, or the fact that time is not linear. mail me if you ever want to talk about it...time is one of my favorite subjects in the world, and greatest dilemmas!
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Life is a journey.  If you aren't learning something new everyday, you aren't doing it (life) correctly.