Do you believe in Déjà vu? Is it a reflection of our past?

Philippines
February 27, 2012 7:15am CST
Déjà vu is the experience of feeling sure that one has already witnessed or experience a current situation, even though the exact circumstances of the prior encounter are uncertain and perhaps imagined as defined by wikipedia. have you experienced it? when you experienced it,what thoughts came to your mind? is it a reflection of our past? if it is, what does it mean ? i'd like to know your thoughts on this subject matter.
6 responses
@_sketch_ (5742)
• United States
29 Feb 12
I do believe in déjà vu. I have experienced the feeling a great many times. I have heard many different theories about what it is. It's really hard to say what it truly is, but the one I like most is "remembering the future." Some people think that time isn't really linear. That's just how it is perceived. Some say that experiencing déjà vu means that you are on the right path. I don't think that anyone can really give a definite answer to this question yet. Perhaps we'll never be able to. Maybe it's a glitch in the matrix. Regardless of its cause, it is an amazing and powerful experience and one that I really enjoy.
• Philippines
29 Feb 12
right path? hmmm well for me i would often wonder if im in the right path or i am taking the wrong road and doing the same mistake to have an experience like that.
@_sketch_ (5742)
• United States
29 Feb 12
Well for me déjà vu is a positive feeling, so I never would have associated it with making a mistake and the things that I was doing while having the feeling never seemed like anything negative.
• United States
25 Apr 12
I have experienced it many times and at times I feel as if I know what is going to come next. I have heard many say we have it because we have experienced it in a past life before and some say that it may back up the idea that reincarnation exists. As for me I'm not really sure what to think because I was raised to believe that after we die we either go to heaven or hell and there is no such thing as reincarnation. I've always thought deja vu was a very interesting subject and I love to see what others opinions are of why we have it.
@bird123 (10658)
• United States
28 Feb 12
Have a case of deja vu? Look closely for a change has been made. The body can be fooled but the spirit can not. That's why you feel like you have been there before. You have.
• Philippines
29 Feb 12
Yeah, partly I believe Déjà vu. A friend of mine told me what is it like, then I came to think that perhaps it is really is. I had this kind of encounter wherein, You are just new to that place yet you know that you had been there. I really can't recall where it was because I had already suppressed my thoughts.
@laura1991 (177)
29 Feb 12
ye i get it randomly all the time. maybe its like part of a previous dream or something like that. maybe we all have a small phycic part in our brains and deja vu is that coming out.
@Extourmed (191)
• Bulgaria
11 Apr 12
Well, I don't know how to put this into words properly, but I had a deja vu experience when I was ten. That felt like deja vu, but but had a precognitive premonition element. I was sitting on the bottom bunk of a bunk bed talking to two of my sisters, whilst we were talking, I felt I knew that the exact situation had happened before, instead of continuing the conversation I knew I had to do something. I said this has happened before and I had a fuzzy recollection of something and couldn’t really visualize it, as it as it was happening too quickly, I said stop, Ive got to do something and I immediately stood up held out my arms and caught my younger sister, who was on the top bunk. Now I am sure people have many jokes that could be spun from this, but I know in my heart and will remember till the day I die that moment. I had a sense of foreboding at that moment, when my sisters were talking and I had a gut feeling that I had to change what the deja vu moment had been. So no matter what any scientist says about the right hemisphere (or left) not catching up with its other side and the synchronizing in order to induce that feeling, all I can say is that in my heart and soul I know that it is not true in all cases if any at all. I believe that it can be a way of giving one a choice to change something that is about to happen. If I had not reacted in the way I did, I am sure that my sister would have hurt herself. I have had mild deja vu moments prior to and subsequently, but none with such a feeling that I needed to change the ensuing events. Before you ask my sister had never fallen off the bunk before. I realize that skepticism is rife and disbelief abounds, but I would pass any polygraph on this point, not only because I believe it to be true, but because it happened. I don't believe it was a dream, that I had had for my dreams are rarely like this in my experience. I believe it has to do with the possibility that premonitions are possible. I hope that at least someone who read this, will believe if not in my assessments of the reasons behind this deja vu event at least in it happening so. Sorry if this has brought a serious tone to the previous comments I was looking up epileptics and how they sometimes fell a sense of deja-vu prior to a seizure. Anyways, I believe that I have said enough. Thank you for your time and I would really be interested if someone else had a similar event in which there deja vu led to them preventing a misfortune befalling someone.