Deja-Vu Experiences

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When I was between the ages of 10 - 25 I got deja-vu alot and frequently. And I always feel like i know what's going to happen next and a couple of seconds later i was right. Has anyone had this experience happen a lot in their life? Do you think this happens more often to us than to NT's? WHY does this happen? Any thoughts.....



"The term déjà vu is French and means, literally, "already seen." Those who have experienced the feeling describe it as an overwhelming sense of familiarity with something that shouldn't be familiar at all."

Heck,yeah!All the time!Sometimes I see it in my DREAMS and it'll happen the next day.


-SpaceCase

I've experienced quite a bit of deja vu in my lifetime; sometimes it happens through dreams, and sometimes I just know what is going to happen next. I remember once in a game of Star Bingo in eighth grade (it's basically just bingo for how how many star sheet things that you get, and you get lots of prizes and candy and pop, etc.) and I was guessing all the numbers in my head; lots of them were right! It was really weird.

I have also had déjà vu, many times in fact. On occasion I've had the disconcerting ability to predict what will happen in next five minutes.

It's subject that intrigues and bothers me very much; I can find no logical explanation.

Edit: I removed the erroneous inclusion of the word the between predict and what. Why do I make these errors? They're more than normal typos, perhaps brain typo would be a good term?

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I get it a lot. A friend of mine has suggested that it happens more when going through lifechanging events. Deja vu is usually a very brief thing. It could be misfiring in the brain, causing a simple sense of recognition or familiarity. In such a quick chain of events it might seem as though you are predicticing, but only be an illusion.

Now five minutes is something different I think. Dream prescience as well. This does happen to me on occasion, which makes it much easier to believe, otherwise I would be as sceptical as anyone.

Very much so, especially when I was younger (like ages 3-5). I'd go through an experience and get a really really strong feeling like I'd lived through this in a dream

Yeah, I've been getting that a bit lately too.

Something else I wrote about on another forum though, something that's caught my interest more though, are flashed backward to something timeless, much larger than life, and steeped in a certain kind of etherial sublime beauty. It's hard to explain but it's an immense feeling that I sometimes get with music or other more visual things. When I do get it with music, it's like I get a glimpse of something kinda avalon-like in nature or the tune will sound like some great ancient anthem that I'm remembering from some other much grander place from like 10,000 years ago. I know that might sound kinda wierd but it's like something way larger than my life just hit me anytime I catch that.

I'm glad somebody posted this as I tried to about a month ago but the net crashed and I lost my message. I suffer from chronic deja vu with an episode approximately every 2-3 days. The shortest is generally a few seconds but I've had sensations that have last even a whole day in a series of sequences lasting up to half an hour at a time. Personally, the way it happens is that I'll just be in the activity of living an average day in my life when something recognisable will appear, it could've been in front of me before or never, its irregardless. It could be a mathematical equation, the smell of crayons, the colour of bricks, a visual pattern in the carpet. Once one goes, a series of subsequent 'patterns' unfold and I'm hit with the shock of what's going on. I've had potentially every possibility under the sun told to me, including a brain-shift, subconscious recollecting of previous patterns, undoing time etc. Some people have seen The Butterfly Effect too often. It's not a black out or anything. The way I often describe the feeling is that "I become conciously aware that everything in the universe around me that exists has been shifted slightly" and that can be quite a disturbing feeling, depending on the level of episode that is. I figured after learning about Asperger's that perhaps something like this 'brain shift' of patterns would be common amongst aspergians, but I'm not entirely convince it is one thing or the other any more. I really would have to equate it to a feeling like someone would happiness or sadness etc. Any how, that's what it's like for me.

Of course you did, Dej: ALL people between the age of 10 and 25 'know everything', so everything they are told seems boring and repetious to the point of deja vuis. Of course, once you hit 30 you realise that you know nothing at all, and it all becomes new again!

I have deja-vus all the time...

I have deja-vus all the time... I think it has a scientific explanation...

Scientific explanation:

IT'S MAGIC!

They've said that once in a while when your brain is chemically writing down your memories it will cycle over itself from how and in a strange kind of way read and write at the same time - hence the feeling that the current moment is connected some unrecollectable point in the past.

What interests me more though than deja vu are those occasional flashes of a place something like heaven, deeper than deep emotions, feeling of being connected with some element of something that's older than time itself and has more epic significance than anything of this world could possibly have. This feeling I think has another name, which I've forgotten, but it's a lot more powerful, a lot more mysterious, and it's something I've wanted to know more about for a while as to whether or not it has a biochemical base to it.

Over the years I have spent some time analyzing my own deja-vu experiences. In my experience deja-vu has been an error in memory re-collation. What happens is a certain set of circumstances causes a partial memory re-collation or emotional response but doesn't recall the whole memory. Therefore it seems like you have done this before because you don't fully make the connection between the current circumstances (the trigger) and when you last experienced them (the memory). I have had this error happen when it links back to dreams as well. I believe this is more emotionally based than pure memory but I don't fully understand it.

I have experienced this a lot more (and more intensly) since I started having more serious anxiety problems. At least with me I believe this is what they call a manic episode (bipolar type stuff). I will feel really good, like I have a purpose in life, I understand everything, and that I am connected to something greater. I imagine everyone has these at some point but maybe not to the degree of people with other issues like autism or bipolar disorder. My guess is that this is what cocaine must feel like. Some sort of dopamine/endomorphine thing?

Sounds like ecstacy. There is evidence to suggest that some religious people have higher levels of these chemicals naturally occuring in the brain.

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Ah yes Ecstasy. Ecstasy releases serotonin, right? That would fit right in with the bipolar and anxiety type issues.

I wonder if someone that already has problems with anxiety or bipolar would get worse after using ecstasy since it would completely blast out your whole store. I guess it depends on if your body isn't releasing enough serotonin or if your body doesn't manufacture enough serotonin.

That's one thing I worry about with SSRI's. If your body isn't releasing enough serotonin and the SSRI is preventing re-uptake then your body may decide that it should release even less serotonin therefore making the problem worse than it was.