Deja vu and Dreaming

[odds]

My friends and I were talking the other day- first about deja vu, then dreaming came up. Deja vu is, by definition, the illusion of having already experienced something actually being experienced for the first time. Hypothesize that you've just experienced a state of deja vu. Now, what if you had dreamt that same situation the night before, but don't consciously recall that dream. The situation occurring in your waking life may be the missing factor that sparks the light in your brain, revealing that lost dream. Expand and share your thoughts on this!

[Gwendolyn]

I have experienced De ja vu before, and relized immediately after that I had in fact dreampt the same situation the night before.

[Burns]

I've had dream Deja Vu before - while I was dreaming, I had this weird feeling that I've had the same dream before. It's happened a couple of times - probably more during dreams that when I'm awake. I estimate I experience Deja Vu about once every 3-6 months.

[Neruo]

Yes. Deja vu is eighter from a dream. Or you have an over active part in your brain that causes a few people to have Constant deja-vu. Those people can't even watch tv, they 'seen' it all :0

[Crow]

I personally think there are many kinds of 'deja vu' experiences. Some deja vus seem to originate from dreams (about half of my mine do) and some seem to come from normal daily life - be it the past or future! They're of varying intensity, predictability and interuptability, and often accompanied with a similar feeling I get when I first go lucid in a dream. Of the ones that come from dreams, some are from old dreams and some are recent although I've never felt that I dreamed something just yesterday and deja vu'd it today. It's interesting that people do that though. Seems like it's something to do with the different possible ways of perceiving and experiencing time.

[bradybaker]

Deja vu is thought to be caused when your brain gets mixed up and percieves the same information twice, milliseconds apart. Your brain then tries to figure out what the hell just happened and it comes up with the story that it must've happened before.

[Gwendolyn]

Originally posted by bradybaker Deja vu is thought to be caused when your brain gets mized up and percieves the same information twice, milliseconds apart. Your brain then tries to figure out what the hell just happened and it comes up with the story that it must've happened before. That is pretty interesting, if not somewhat comical.

[Slight]

I've never heard of what bradybaker wrote, where you got that from? I personally only had de-ja-vu's that made me think "that happened before!!" .. it never made me recall a dream .. but since the impulses for my thoughts come from the subconscious, and in this case it awoke a memory, I must have dreamt about it before ...

[gameover]

Where did that come from bradybaker? Interesting thought but Im not sure there's any basis for it. For me personally I doubt deja vu has anything to do with dreaming. Ive never experienced deja vu and found any connection with any dream. Bradybaker's post would make the most sense to me since It feels exactly like I had experienced it before...not dreamt it before, and I don't believe in any magical ability for information to travell backward in time to my dreams. If it were possible this power would have been harnessed a long time ago and the world wouldnt make much sense. It doesn't make sense that a dream could get any information from the future. With that said, deja vu is a pretty strange experience.

[APM]

Actually, this is the predominant method I use to remember my dreams. Every day, it seems, if I can't remember my dream, something I do will always at least spark the fact that there was a memory there, even if I have no information whatsoever.

[The Dreamer Soul]

I don't really have CONSTANT Deja vu where I remember ... TV shows... but pretty much anywhere from weekly to monthly (its random kind of) I'll at least experience Deja vu once. I can't make any connection between dreams, but I have it so often... it's very cool yet... weird at the same time. Maybe I'll start a "Deja Vu Journal", a DVJ! And mark the dates and times I get it, haha. Though I don't think I would be able to carry it ANYWHERE...

[monster]

[qoute] bradybaker wrote: Deja vu is thought to be caused when your brain gets mized up and percieves the same information twice, milliseconds apart. Your brain then tries to figure out what the hell just happened and it comes up with the story that it must've happened before. [/quote] everyone, this is an actual theory. if you ever take a psychology class, the professor should know of this. scientists try to make it out like deja vu is just your brain randomly putting together bits and peices of different memories, thus making it seem as though you've "been here before" they haven't been able to explain the rush that you get when it happens (go figure...) i don't believe this because when i get deja vu, i believe it is truly a recolection of a dream, event or memeory. i've experience deja vu and realized that i had a dream of the exact moment years earlier! it happens all the time to me, hey--it could be my brain just being overactive, or could it be a glimpse of a past life.....?

[Levi1057]

I have read several different theories on that matter. One of which is that the information in the brain gets mixed up and your long term memory processes the moment before your short term does, giving you that feeling that you have done this before. A more interesting theory that I heard by word of mouth about 2 weeks ago was that you are actually having a moment where your astral self is leaving the physical self for just a split second. Since time is basically non existent in an astral realm your astral self processes the information of the events first then your physical self catches up leading you to believe that the event has happened before. Some one apearently is doing a study trying to prove ^that theory, but as of late I have yet to find any info on said study.