Have you ever experienced Déjà vu? If so how often, and how extreme?
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Yes, it happens to me at least once or twice a year.  a very strange sensation.  Usually lasts less than a minute, though.
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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.
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me, it has happened to me before
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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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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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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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Well , I think I might have had one once, but it wasn't meant to be that way.. My brother had hit his head and split it open to where you could see the bone blood was everywhere. We where running to my parents to tell them but the weird thing is that I dont remember it from running behind him I remember it from looking down on him from above the trees. I still dont know how or why I would remember it like that till this day..
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Yes i have. I was about, 5ish. (Im 13 now) My family moved in with my granmother when we moved from Michigan. I had a bad dream or something and I went to my parents room. (I'd never done it before) My mom just rolled over and told me to go back to bed. On the way back to my room, I saw a flicker at the corner of my eye. Looking directly at it, I saw nothing. Changing tactics, I looked out of the side of my eye.  A old man was standing there, watching me. Scared out of my wits, I asked, "Who are you?" He looks at me and smiles then disappears into thin air. The next morning, I told my grandmother what had happened. She cried and told me " That was your Grandfather, he was just being your gardian angel, Torrie."  From then on, I got up every night, watching for him but he never came back.
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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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Nobody knows for sure. "During the past two decades, however, a few hardy souls have reopened the scientific study of déjà vu. They hope to nail down a persuasive explanation of the phenomenon, as well as shed light on some fundamental elements of memory and cognition. In the new book The Déjà Vu Experience: Essays in Cognitive Psychology (Psychology Press), Alan S. Brown, a professor of psychology at Southern Methodist University, surveys the fledgling subfield. 'What we can try to do is zero in on it from a variety of different angles,' he says. 'It won't be something like, "Boom! The explanation is there." But we can get gradual clarity through some hard work.'\n\nThe four current theories are \n\n1. dual processing\n2. neurological \n3. actual similarity in memories\n4. double perception\n\nTo get more information on these theories, please read the article linked below.
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Oddly enough yes, but it freaked me out soo bad that by the time I could even mention it I failed to remember if anything freaky was going on in my life or in the house at that time.  What happened...\nMy girlfriend was staying over, we were in bed, all lights out.  I saw a young boy pass by the microwave(the clock was not visible when he passed) and disappear at the door to the living room.  He passed completely through the kitchen, approx. 10ft or so.  There was no one in my house it could have been, and to confirmed that I was not just merely hallucinating, right after the image vanished my girlfriend asked, "Did you see that?"  That all it took!  I was freaked out and freaked out a the mentioning of it for years.
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Yes.Several times. it is a dejá vu.
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It's happened to me many times.  It "could" mean that or many other things too---astral projection, reincarnation, a universal consciousness, memories from our ancestors, various psychic abilities, etc.
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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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De-ja-vu is awesome! It's when you are doing something, anything and you get this feeling that you have been there and none it before and you think you know what you are going to do next. You almost feel Phyic for 1min. But that's the thing it doesn't last every long. Who know's when it happens it just does.... Some people never experience it. Hope i've been of some help to you
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Would that be "deja vu" that you mean?\n\nHaven't we already seen this?
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Well, there's nothing for certain. But I have surely had several dreams that have become true. Like everything in it. Gives you the sensation of deja-vu.