yes I agree. Things like deja vu and sychronocities are starting to make me think that free will is an illusion. Those like what are the chances type things seem like they could be put off by the tiniest change in events. |
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So I just had an idea and thought I would share it and see what other people think. What if the reason we have deja vu in real life is because we have already experienced that moment in a dream (dreaming about the future). The reason we don't know we have dreamed it, is that most of the population has terrible dream recall. |
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yes I agree. Things like deja vu and sychronocities are starting to make me think that free will is an illusion. Those like what are the chances type things seem like they could be put off by the tiniest change in events. |
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake
The more experiences I have with deja vu, the more I think it's just a little glitch in the brain's processing. It's what makes the most sense to me. |
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Deja vu happens when your subconscious starkly realizes something once, and then stores it, and your conscience starkly sees something similar later. |
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It's a glitch in the Matrix. Duh. |
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Deja-vus could also simply be explained as the minds ability to predict any possible future situation so yeah I pretty much agree with the OP. What else would be the evolutionary purpose of dreams? |
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"Reject common sense to make the impossible possible." -Kamina
Most of the time when I get dejavu I am absolutely certain i've dreamed it before. But that might not be accurate |
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ya when ever I have deja vu its like crap this happened in a dream before!! but then I didn't remember the dream until it happened in waking life. |
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake
For me there are two types of deja vu; dreamed one and the one which ive seen/felt while awake(like a vision). |
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I get deja vu all the time. I obviously have no tangible proof of this, but to me, it always feels as if I either daydreamed it before or it came in my head when I was not paying attention to my thoughts. When I was younger, I felt like I could predict certain events. "I'll get a phone call from X today telling me that Y can't come over to play" and it happens. |
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I posted this in another deja vu thread but I'll post it again since this is such a popular topic. |
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I just got deja vu from this thread |
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake
Haha that's what I was thinking too. I like the "future has happened before" explanation but the theories here seem much more plausible :p |
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I've always wondered about this. For part of two years, decades ago, while I was in Jr. HS., I went through an extreme period of deja-vu. It was mostly just dropping in on conversations in the hallways, and I'd be wonder struck to be hearing and feeling the exact words and emotions I'd seen in a dream about two days earlier. It was happening almost on a daily basis for awhile. Rarely experienced that since. |
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I had it twice in the past two days. Both times looking in the mirror doing something. The first one feels like I just had the dream a couple days before, like a fragment. |
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake
But deja vu only happens to me when i have done those things before and i know i have. Its not like i get random deja vu. |
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That's an interesting analysis. Considering deja vu is an anomalous phenomenon, maybe that anomaly could be explained by dreams in which we experience future events. Dreams are experiences which are forgotten, but still reside (somewhat) in our memory, so if one were to experience something similar to which he had dreamt, in waking life, this could trigger the sensation of deja vu, but not quite the entire memory of the dream in which it occurred. |
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Last edited by MindGames; 12-16-2010 at 05:02 AM. Reason: Wanted to include quoted information
I've experienced deja vu before without remembering the dream many times up until just a week ago, when I had a precognitive dream (Long story short, I had a dream that someone was in my livingroom that I hadn't seen in months, they had no plans to come over, they were just there as I was walking from the laundry to the bathroom with clothes in hand. The same occurrences took place the following morning, the difference was that exact person was standing, not sitting.) I had written it down in my dream journal, which I had to honestly CHECK after I got out of the shower, because I thought I was going crazy. |
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