intense prolonged deja vu and cannabis
hey everyone,
during the past few weeks i have been experiencing strange episodes where i feel as if i have seen the events happening around me in a previous dream.
the first time it happened was when i was at a party and i was offered some cannabis. i accepted and i was soon extremely inebriated and having fleeting feelings of deja vu.
later on, when i sat down at a table, i started having an intense feeling of recognition of everything i was seeing and everything people were saying.
soon it reached the point where i could feel as if i almost knew what was going to happen next, and i could (at least it felt like i could) recall thoughts i had had about the dream and the people in it.
i found this extremely distressing as, although i have used cannabis previously, nothing like this has ever happened.
at the time i was trying to work out what was happening and the significance of it.
it was so intense that it felt as if i had definitely dreamed everything that had happened before, and i could even recall my thoughts about the dream after i had woken up.
since then similar episodes have occurred when i smoke cannabis, however none of them were anywhere near as intense as the first. it has even reached the point where i have had similar but very fleeting feelings when i have been completely sober (almost like deja vu just that it is extremely visual and related to my surroundings as opposed to some action happening).
here are the conclusions that i have reached. either the events i witnessed were paranormal (me having dreamed the future), had some paranormal significance (the first time it happened i found it impossible to rule this conclusion out as the episode had not ended, and therefore i thought that if it was a warning and/or act of some higher power then the important part was yet to come), or it was an effect of the drug (as a result i am experiencing these feelings and/or have some form of mental illness).
have any of you ever experienced feelings similar to this or know of anything like this happening? i am genuinely afraid for my mental health, and any thoughts or comments would be greatly appreciated.
ps. if this would be better suited in a different forum then i apologise. i just thought i needed the help of some scientists :D