Thread: Deja Vu

hmmm let me try.

ive had that happen to me a few times but never felt sick. (were u on shrooms or anything else that could hurt your stomach?) if it left your heart pounding maybe you were somehow going into a dream state while being awake? sounds kinda cool. not sure why we have dreams ahead of time then later when it happens our mind gives us dejavu to let us know. maybe a warning of some kind. (woah kinda like the warning in the matrix heh).

Haha, nah I hadn't done shrooms up until this last year. I don't believe I have had such an occurrence since a couple years back. Maybe it has something to do with puberty or maturing in some way. Or maybe I am just completely nuts. Thanks for the reply though, your insight is appreciated.

Originally posted by RollinStoned
Each time this has happened, which is certainly less than I can count on both hands, the experience has left my heart pounding and me feeling sick to my stomach. Has anyone else ever experienced such vivid deja vu, and if so please explain to me what it could mean.

Ok, thank goodness you've had this happen too. I've done this since I was 8 and it really freaks me out. I get really dizzy, heart pounds and sometimes I get so sick I feel like I am going to throw up. I thought for a while that it might be migraines or panic attacks (both can have similar symptoms) but I've tried medicines for both and neither has worked. I also went to the doctor to get tested for hypoglycemia, but that didn't turn up anything. Unforunately this happens to me all the time. I'll usually go through a spell for a week every couple of months I'll have it happen randomly anywhere from one to ten times during that period. :-/

I wish I knew what to do about it, but I don't have any advice for you. :

Originally posted by RollinStoned
Kajtek's precognition post got me thinking about this sort of thing. I am sure you are all familiar with Deja Vu, as we have all probably experienced it ourselves. What strikes me as odd is the several times in my life where my deja vu has lasted for nearly a minute. Normally when I have deja vu it consists of only one event that lasts less than a couple of seconds, but in these rare cases, as soon as I recognize the deja vu, it continues and every sequence of it I have seen somewhere before -- as far as I know in my dreams. Each time this has happened, which is certainly less than I can count on both hands, the experience has left my heart pounding and me feeling sick to my stomach. Has anyone else ever experienced such vivid deja vu, and if so please explain to me what it could mean. The only reasonable explanation I have come across is that I was hallucinating.

Check yourself for epilepcy. During epileptic attacks one can get deja vus thar last for hours (!)

I haven't got any of does, but some that lasted for more than a heartbeat. When that happens you can acctually tell what will happen later. It's Craaa-zy.

i think it sounds like precog ive had the same thing happen multiple times and some while awake.

I really don't think it could be precog, at least not for me. Honestly, in my case it never predicts anything and I'm always awake when it happens. It just feels familiar and surreal. :-/

Man I wish somebody knew what this is, it's been happening all bloody day! -_-

I used to have lots of Deja Vus, once 3 times in one day. Some lasting for a second, others lasting for several, never a minute though.

well this doesn’t answer any of your questions, but I just had a vivid dejavu about a movie I was watching, it lasted about 5 seconds and I could see in my head the exact scene that was about to happen about a second ahead of time...

the thing is, that I remember distinctly dreaming about that scene in the movie, and also had it not been a movie and it had been real life I would be dead right now


So maybe dejavu is a defense mechanizm that we have that helps us to see danger like a second or two ahead of when its going to happen, and the way this happens is that when we get distressed and feel danger it unlocks parts of dreams from the early REM periods in the night, and maybe it unlocks them from weeks ago or something like that because every time iv had dejavu Iv remembered while I was having it that I had seen the exact thing in a past dream...

also I always notice that my small dejavu periods end and then I just find myself searching for whats next and making things up, and then the dejavu just goes away

Originally posted by SantaDreamsToo

So maybe dejavu is a defense mechanizm that we have that helps us to see danger like a second or two ahead of when its going to happen,

Deja Vu's are memory illusions.

One of the theories is built on the fact that the mind is acctually 0.5 seconds after the subconcious mind. Sometimes the subconcious mind puts something in the memory, and then when the concious mind sees the same thing it goes weird and thinks the memory that was added 0.5 seconds before was added ages ago. Don't know if what I just wrote made any sence though.

Another theory is that you see something, checks for earlier memories that are alike, and then you find a memory that is very much the same indeed, though not excactly. The mind then changes the old memory so it fits the new expierience.

Those are the two most konventional theories. The first is the most accepted one

One could believe that deja vu's are acctually a pre-cog thing. But why would the mind see only a few seconds ahead? why not several minutes?

Well...

those sound like good theories that may be true but it cant account for when u feel dejavu after seeing something u dreamed about exactly months before hand. guess nothing can

Originally posted by PutBoy

One of the theories is built on the fact that the mind is acctually 0.5 seconds after the subconcious mind. Sometimes the subconcious mind puts something in the memory, and then when the concious mind sees the same thing it goes weird and thinks the memory that was added 0.5 seconds before was added ages ago. Don't know if what I just wrote made any sence though.

hmm...This seems like the most applicable theory as far as my ecperience goes. I just wish it didn't make me so sick. [/img]

They're weird, Deja Vus. I mean, when having one you can instantly tell; "oh, deja vu", But you never really know what it was really. I think it's just a certain feeling, and not really anchored in reality in any way.

yah i get de ja vu alot.

like ill be walking with some friends and then think wait, ive seen this, then i remember what i saw and what happens next and it does. or watching a movie and thnking, ive seen this move already, which is impossible since like its at the cinema and this is the first time im watching it, and from that point on i keep remembering more scenes minutes before i see them. sometimes ill just see an advert for a film and know ive seen it already. or sometimes at the ending of a film, ill be like wait a minute, ive seen all this before and ill remember the exact place i saw it which is as i said, impossible at the cinema, and ill have remembered seing it on my tv in my lounge when nobody was there, even remember the day sometimes. I either hollicinate of future events and forget straight after then remember them when the time comes, or just dream them and remember them later. i used to get them years ahead, have a scene in my head that i didnt create its just there like a false memory, and then a year later it'll happen, the exact way.sometimes even 3 years. but i get less of that now and more in the moment type of things.

Whoa! I just woke up this morning, after reading this thread several times in the past week, and I experienced deja vu in a dream! While retyping the dream I realized something. As I thought about the fish jumping high into the air and almost into the neighboring backyard, I'VE HAD THAT DREAM BEFORE. It's just really weird since right after the fish, the deja vu set in, and this dream identical to how it was before (specifically the flight of the fish).

The dream is in my dream journal, I used my heightened senses to smell urine underwater from about 20 feet away.

Does this mean this dream is actually important, if it's repeating itself (identically)?

Sometimes this happens to me. My "deja vu" moments usually last a while. Sometimes in school, I will be sitting in a class, and then randomly in the class, I feel like this has already happened and I get very sudden flashes of what's going to happen next. This also happens in conversations sometimes.

Originally posted by Chympara
Sometimes this happens to me. My \"deja vu\" moments usually last a while. Sometimes in school, I will be sitting in a class, and then randomly in the class, I feel like this has already happened and I get very sudden flashes of what's going to happen next. This also happens in conversations sometimes.

I very rarely have Deja Vu, but the most noteable time was 6-7 months ago in World History. I was sitting in my class listening to dear Dr. Chinoda talking about something or other... The ancient Phonecians I beleive... Anyway, All of a sudden it just hit me. I knew what was going to happen through the whole rest of the class, I knew word for word what was going to be said, and what would happen. Just to see I decided to write down the side of my paper one of the little stories he told word for word. I then showed it to a friend next to me and said that he would tell this story of his childhood. About 5 minutes latter he started to tell that same story word for word as it was on my paper. My friend thought I had sat in on one of his earlier classes and was just trying to mess with him but it really freaked me out.

Later I wondered if I could have changed something, but that gets into all sorts of theoris in time that are a bit complicated... XD Just wanted to share a personal experiance.

A few times I get deja Vu but its only for a few second and it dosent have any affect on me.I do a reality check every time it happens because its somthing out of the ordinary.Quite possible its seeing things we have dreamed in the past.How much dose the brain remeber anyway?How much of life is stored inside of us?

Originally posted by eyeofgames
A few times I get deja Vu but its only for a few second and it dosent have any affect on me.I do a reality check every time it happens because its somthing out of the ordinary.Quite possible its seeing things we have dreamed in the past.How much dose the brain remeber anyway?How much of life is stored inside of us?

i heard everything is stored in there somewhere

yo, sup. Ok i experienced that deja thingy lately. When i was watching a movie, and that movie made me feel that deja thingy. And i think it lasted more than a minute or so. I think i saw the movie before, but i just totally forgot about it, so when i watched it again, BOOM, deja thingy.

This is normal i guess.

Not sure what u meant though.

"deja thingy"?

Originally posted by DopeyGuy
yo, sup. Ok i experienced that deja thingy lately. When i was watching a movie, and that movie made me feel that deja thingy. And i think it lasted more than a minute or so. I think i saw the movie before, but i just totally forgot about it, so when i watched it again, BOOM, deja thingy.

This is normal i guess.

Not sure what u meant though.

maybe what happened to me happened to you:

me and this old friend of mine were incredibly stoned and i ordered that friday 3 movie on payperview. i completly forgot i saw it but when i saw it again i was having 'deja thingy' too.
like i had no idea what scene was next but when i saw it i knew ive seen it before. like the time i beat that half life opposing force mod. same thing

Originally Posted by RollinStoned

Kajtek's precognition post got me thinking about this sort of thing. I am sure you are all familiar with Deja Vu, as we have all probably experienced it ourselves. What strikes me as odd is the several times in my life where my deja vu has lasted for nearly a minute. Normally when I have deja vu it consists of only one event that lasts less than a couple of seconds, but in these rare cases, as soon as I recognize the deja vu, it continues and every sequence of it I have seen somewhere before -- as far as I know in my dreams. Each time this has happened, which is certainly less than I can count on both hands, the experience has left my heart pounding and me feeling sick to my stomach. Has anyone else ever experienced such vivid deja vu, and if so please explain to me what it could mean. The only reasonable explanation I have come across is that I was hallucinating.

Im so happy you made this post it makes me feel like im not the only one. ive taken shrooms once because i felt like having a deja vu for 5 hours i had a terrible trip and its really messed with me. there was this other time i smoked wax and i dont smoke much weed or at all anymore, but anyways it had such a powerful effect that it had similar effects of the shroom trip and my heart started to beat so hard i completely tripped out. and everytime i get these feelings i feel like im working towards some answer. any time i think about what i was thinking about when i was on my shroom trip my heart start pounding and i get this immense feelings of anxiety. i could go on on and if you want to talk more about it message me id love to share.

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