Interesting facts on deja-vu...
By Jennifer21
@Jennifer21 (2476)
United States
April 29, 2007 9:55pm CST
Everyone has had it, deja vu, a feeling as though you have actually been there before and cannot explain it. Well I will explain to you my beliefs and actual facts on deja-vu. I will show you facts I found on wikipedia, which is remarkably similar to my beliefs. I find this topic quite intersting.
Well, as all lot of you some of you may know, REM sleep occurs every 90 - 100 minutes, 3 to 4 times a night, and lasts longer as the night progresses. The final REM period may last as long as 45 minutes. Less vivid dreams occur at other times during the night.
You may remember the final dream of the night, the one you wake up to. But you can have many a night. You don't really remember those dreams there in between.
I have always believed that these deja-vu feelings are all of the dreams that we have each night that we cannot remember. You feel as though you have already been there because you have, in your dreams.
But there is a way to find out for sure. See, most people wake up sometimes during the night, and when you do, you will most of the time just have woken up from a dream. WRITE IT DOWN! Have a notebook by your bedside and make a note of it. That way you have a way to 'look back in time' and see if your deja-vu is actually your dreams. I have done this a few times and proved it to be true. (I have studied quite a bit on dreams).
Well, now I will show you what I found to back up my beliefs:
The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eeriness", "strangeness", or "weirdness". The "previous" experience is most frequently attributed to a dream, although in some cases there is a firm sense that the experience "genuinely happened" in the past. Déjà vu has been described as "Remembering the future."
See, the reason it is a way to 'remember the future' is due to the fact that your dreams happen BEFORE deja-vu. And if deja-vu is your dreams, then obviously, if you can remember these dreams, you can fortell the future. However maindane your dreams may be, it can still be quite interesting to see.
So tell me your experiences and beliefs of deja-vu. I am curious, give me your thoughts.
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@HeavenUnaware (1757)
• United States
30 Apr 07
Personally, I'm not one to believe the dream reasoning. I never really gave it much thought until a few years ago when I was reading a book by a well known psychic and she gives her own explanation of what Deja-vu means.
I'm not even sure I fully buy what she says but I like it - it gives me a sense of peace and makes me feel better when it happens. In the past, I thought it was some really weird 6th sense now when I happens, I think of what I read and try to think of it the way she describes it.
Here's kinda how she explains it (without me having to get up and get the book) - she states that before we are born we plan our 'earth' lives out in Heaven with God. We plan the struggles we will experience and the joys. Everything is a lesson. When we have Deja-vu it is God's way of reminding us that things are exactly as we planned them to be and that we are on track as we should be. They are 'familiar' to us, because we ourselves planned them to happen before our birth.
I like thinking this way (whether I think it's true or not) because often times I'm dealing with a struggle when I have Deja-vu and I will immediately feel better because I know everything is going to be o.k. .. life is going just as it's suppose to be going for me.
So that's my 2 cents on the subject. *lol*
@pixiepie (2)
• New Zealand
18 Jan 10
yes i too have heard this theory from my aunty who is extremely spiritual. when you experience deja-vu you're being told you're on the right track.
i find it comforting and useful.
for instance with my previous boyfriend of four years i don't recall ever having deja-vu in his company, but with my new love interest of the past month, who is much better suitted to me i have experienced it twice!
must mean something... (fingers crossed)
@Olin_Redeemer (1)
• United States
2 Apr 10
I'm sorry, I just can't buy that explanation. I have had deja vu many times, and a few of those times, I have to say. I remembered the event having taken place, but the end result was DIFFERENT than what really ended up happening. It was all very real, and unpleasant when I see that a new reality has imposed itself on an existing memory that seemingly "never" happened. No trolling, or anything, just my two cents as well. I don't know what it is, but it really eludes me as to what it could really be, and that really bothers me.
@_sketch_ (5742)
• United States
20 Jul 11
Actually, although most people only remember their last dream, I have remembered four dreams from a night before without waking up in between. So one can remember the dreams in between and in pretty good detail too.
I do write down all of my dreams. I have been keeping a dream journal for quite some time now.
I believe that definitely in some cases, deja vu is the result of our dreams, but I cannot say that I am sure that this is the only cause of it. I also do believe in prophetic dreams, though again, I would not say that this is the only reason for "remembering the future." I do not really believe in time and so I can see why someone would be able to remember the future. If we are living all time simultaneously, then there is no reason why people shouldn't be able to tap into that.
I have had a lot of experiences with deja vu. I know a girl whose house always gives me deja vu. Now I have only been there a few times, but every time I have gotten the strongest sense of deja vu. It is so strange because she had just moved in not too long ago and she said she has gotten it frequently ever since she moved in. It is so strange. I wonder what it is about that house. Maybe the house just has a strange energy charge or something.
I have gotten deja vu so strongly that I have been really confused before. It is too hard for me to explain what I mean. Sorry. But it was very weird. But also kinda cool. I love the feeling of deja vu.
@filmbuff (2909)
• United States
30 Apr 07
I have expereinced deja vu a lot over the course of my life and really can't explain it. At times I'm sure it's some kind of precognative ability-- dream related or otherwise, but other times it is of something so inconsequential that I have rethink what any purpose for the deja vu is.
Not wanting to damper anyone's views or beliefs, because I'm not sure that I even buy the following scientific explanation for deja vu. I've had it explained to me that deja vu is basically a hiccup between your brain and senses, when the sensations you experience are being stored away as memories, nanoseconds before you experience whatever is happening in real life. So basically it seems as if you living in the moment, and recalling a memory at the same time which explains the feelings of having done it before and the general weirdness of it all. It's scientific explanation, but again I'm not sure that I agree with it although it does seem plausable *at times.* Other times however, it doesnt. So you be the judge.
@lilyoungfella (1196)
• Philippines
30 Apr 07
Ohh yes. I've experienced deja-vu many times already and i always feel mystified by it. lolz Nice information you got here.
@mykmari_08 (2464)
• Philippines
2 Mar 09
Foremost, I'm quite relieved to discover that I'm not the only one in this situation. Personally, I'm not sure if what I have experienced for several occasions could be appropriately classified as 'deja-vu'. But from the looks of it, I guess I really have experienced 'deja-vu'.
There was one instance, when I told my spouse about a dream which felt like it's in the real world. Naturally, he didn't believe me. But after several days, it happened like how it transpired in my dream and he was amazed and surprised at the same time.
Like many other people, I also get a creepy feeling about it; and that's basically the reason why I am somewhat hindered to learn more about it and understand things related to the 'psychic' world. But honestly, I am curious about issues like the body or spiritual body going out of the physical body, knowing the future beforehand, supernatural abilities, and such. I feel that studying about these things and relating them with my experiences might help me understand myself even more.
@reizhielle (206)
• Philippines
6 Feb 10
i also feel that sometimes...sometimes i felt that what is happening seems already happened in the past..it feels so weird
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
30 Apr 07
I've experienced Deja Vu far too many times and in far too many specific situations to buy the dream excuse. I've heard people claim that it happens because you had a dream similar to your real life experience, but that's really just an easy explanation for people who want it to be simple. I've had Deja Vu to the degree where I can stop people in mid sentence as it happens and tell them everything that will happen in the next 60 seconds. The odds on me having a dream SO identical are a million to 1.
@joice86 (1078)
• Philippines
30 Apr 07
yep, i always feel that way. Sometimes i have a dream, then when i wake up, i wonder if did i have a dream last night, or is that dream a reality. I really don't know. It's just a strange feeling when i am having a dream. Then at times, i am just thinking of something and then remembering if that thing really happened.
