Thread: Resisting Deja-Vu's

WOW, that's some really interesting stuff. I personally have deja-vu's VERY rarely. And when I do, they are really vague and disappear in a few seconds. I don't know if it's so much predicting the future, as it is just chemicals in the brain doing something mysterious stuff. Hey, real scientific answer, I know .

Anyone else out there have any input on this?

Hey, maybe it's a glitch in the Matrix?

Haha, all jokes aside, I've always held the position that Deja-Vu is nothing more than your brain messing up on you.

I've heard a theory that your internal clock withing the brain slows down temporarily and gets behind your body's internal clock. This in turn creates the sensations of experiencing an event twice.

I normally try to change it too. Since I don't always remeber what will happen next untill it does I normally do something random which I wouldn't normally think of. I would say more often than not it works but not always.

I don't really buy that thing with your brain being slower, because I don't think you can slow down for that long. Never had one last a minute, but I have 10-20 seconds. Which seems to long for that.

I've heard that one side of your brain, or the middle section of your brain connecting the 2 halves, slows down so you recieve sensory information twice.

Check out a post I put up a few minutes ago about a similar topic to do with with lucid dreaming and deja vu. It was actually more to do with deja vu in the end I think.

One extra bit I can add to that is that I found a similar account to yours about not being able to change what you have seen (and believe me, I totally believe that you have seen it before it happens, not a timing malfunction in the brain). It was on Robert Pearson's (?) web site about OBEs that I saw this other account, chapter 25 I think it was. In that example he has a very long deja vu and tries to change things a number of times but fails to. I wish that I'd had the opportunity to try it out myself, but to date there is only one deja vu I have had that I am genuinely convinced that I recalled events before they happened (i.e. had the potential to try changing it).

So I don't have a theory about why it wouldn't be possible to change it, unless the Holographic Universe theory I mentioned in the refered to post really is what the world is about, in which case perhaps everything is already part of a 'recorded' holographic plate (I think they call it the implicate in The Holographic Universe, where the explicate is the image projected from the plate). Perhaps it is possible to move your perception around within it in but not change it? Although the book does have a lot of examples of people directly modifying the implicate...

very kool! i have that all the time! but i never really talked about in depth as much as u have! i think i'll try to embrace it like u! to tone and highten it! thankz!

Stay it kool.

Another way that a deja vu is like a lucid dream is that you fight to hold on to it like you do with a lucid dream. It used to be a struggle for me to hang on to a lucid dream once I realised I was dreaming, but I seem to have the hang of that now. When I had the deja vu that I was able to recall it faster than it was happening around me, it was very much like trying to hang on to a dream and not wake up.

So I think you do have to embrace it. It is scarey the first 10 times you have a deja vu, but then you get used to it, and then you read that 70% of other people experience the same thing from time to time, and then you start to realise that when it does happen you have the opportunity for a brief moment of time to experiment with it.

The same kind of approach as dealing with lucid dreams. When you have a lucid dream, you really want to try out something new, learn something more about what you can do in there. Unlike lucid dream I don't think anyone can write a book on how to have a deja vu in 30 days, infact there seems to be a complete lack of books on the subject. I noticed amazon has a new book on deja vu that came out 2 months ago. It might be worth a read. The fact that this book seems to have 4 theories of what it might be just confirms that they aren't anywhere near being certain of what it is.