I'm experiencing a lot of deja vu

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And synchronicity recently.

Do any of you experience a lot of deja vu? What do you think it might be?

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I get a lot of de jav u and medical people have informed me that its a psychotic symptom and lots of schizophrenics get it

Or it could be because of all your meditating your finely tuned to 'source' and on the right wave lengths. If there is 'inter being' then getting mini premenitions (de ja vu) would be a good sign that you were intune to the collective consiousness.

When I was 13, I actually could remember the dreams I would have before they would happen. I even ended up writing them down because I knew people thought I was full of crap. But I ended up doing the same thing for my boyfriend's accident a couple of weeks back, about 3 months ago. A whole 3 months worth of dreaming, and I quickly told him of everything. Heck, I even remember dreaming of the movie I was going to watch, which I did, and it freaked me out, cause it was like I watched the entire movie before I even knew what the name of it was. lol If it's schizophrenic and psychotic to do this, how come spiritual people are so capable. The funny thing is, is while they think this is a psychotic symptom - I can't hallucinate, and I know myself very well and am very self-aware. But nowdays I just realize I already dreamed this before it happened.

My theory is that because we become so overwhelmed easily, that our brains dream this stuff up so we are better prepared for the stress ahead. Because if we didn't dream it all, it would probably be a much more stressful situation. But I think our sub-conscious is always constantly working for us to help us prepare ourselves.

I get deja vu loads. Certain people would say it would be memories of my "past lives", which is nonsense of course.

I don't get it an awful lot but, I had memories (vague) of past lives 2x and maybe that was deja vu. I also got deja vu like "normal" people get it. I heard some theory of information traveling through different paths in the brain so they don't hit the cortex simultaneously. Makes a bit of sense to me. I don't think you get schizophrenia for having it, I think it could happen with any brain (even normal) or any that is a little unusual.

A few times I had jamais vu too.. and it's the same creepy, horrid feeling I think that deja vu gives me.

What's jamais vu? I've heard the term before but don't quite know what it is.

Psychosis? Huh, I thought I read that deja vu is related to seizure or seizure-like activity in the temporal lobe.

Like someone earlier said, I get the feeling at times but at mundane moments about mundane things. Like sitting in the car at a stoplight with the radio going, and remembering a year earlier being at the same light, with the same weather, same shirt, same pedestrians, same cars around, same radio program... but the radio program is live and about current politics, and it makes no sense that I would've heard it before (and also, the president was someone else the previous year).

If not for the logical glitches, I'd never know that they're not real memories. And I suspect that that happens a lot, in my case.

Because of what the medical people had said to me and because I get a lot of psychic type experiences at times, I thought I would get out this book from the library about 5 months ago.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Schizophrenia-P ... 93&sr=8-35

It was very good and in it he provides good evidence for there being a link between schizophrenia and psychic phenomena. Traditional psychiatrists think its just a delusional feeling, but this chap provides evidence that they really are. It is an extremely interesting read, and really made me think, well worth a look if your interested in de ja vu and syncronisity.

The author is very interesting as he is a psychologist who had a psychotic episode himself so knows it from the 'inside'. He also experienced psychic phenomena includeing 'tapping' such as people hear at saionces, but others can hear it too so its definately not delusion. He first trained in geology too so is scientific evidence based in outlook rather than wishy washy.

not that I think you have schizophrenia, I just thought it was an interesting read on the subject.

if it's true that are other dimensions, then a possibility is that the you in a parallel world is "leaking" some unknown energy that you're picking up as a memory that hasn't happened yet. seems like a plausible explanation to me as quantum mechanics (newer) allows for many additional dimensions.

I will go with the scientific explanation that it is an anomaly of memory, giving the impression that an experience is "being recalled."

This explanation is substantiated by the fact that the sense of "recollection" at the time is strong in most cases, but that the circumstances of the "previous" experience (when, where, and how the earlier experience occurred) are quite uncertain. Likewise, as time passes, subjects can exhibit a strong recollection of having the "unsettling" experience of déjà vu itself, but little or no recollection of the specifics of the event(s) or circumstance(s) they were "remembering" when they had the déjà vu experience. In particular, this may result from an overlap between the neurological systems responsible for short-term memory (events which are perceived as being in the present) and those responsible for long-term memory (events which are perceived as being in the past). The events would be stored into memory before the conscious part of the brain even receives the information and processes it.

Another theory being explored is that of vision. The theory suggests that one eye may record what is seen fractionally faster than the other, creating the "strong recollection" sensation upon the "same" scene being viewed milliseconds later by the opposite eye. However, this theory fails to explain the phenomenon when other sensory inputs are involved, such as hearing or touch. If one, for instance, experiences déjà vu of someone slapping the fingers on his left hand, then the déjà vu feeling is certainly not due to his right hand experiencing the same sensation later than his left hand considering that his right hand would never receive the same sensory input. Also, people with only one eye still report experiencing déjà vu or déjà vécu (a rare disorder of memory, similar to persistent déjà vu). The global phenomenon must therefore be narrowed down to the brain itself (i.e., one hemisphere being late compared to the other one).

(Courtesy of whoever wrote the Wiki article).

From Scientific American: