Deja Vu...your thoughts?

[monkeybomb45]

So I heard this theory that deja vu happened because one of your eyes would intercept images like 1/100th of a nanosecond after your other eye, so the event happened once, but your brain comprehended it twice (so close together but still noticeable) so it felt like you had done it before. Then it happened to me with people talking and background noises, but I thought maybe the same theory could be applied to your hearing also. But last night, I had deja vu with my thoughts. What I was thinking combined with the images in my mind (my eyes were closed) same colors and everything. So it kind of disproved that theory. What do you guys think?

[devonin]

From everything I've heard on the subject, the sensation of deja vu was when incoming stimuli were misrouted through the memory centres of the brain instead of the sense centres of the brain, so in essence you would feel as though you were remembering something precisely as it happened.

This crossing of synaptic lines is also usually presented as an explanation for things like synesthaesia, and why people on various mind-effecting drugs can appear to experience sensations through different senses than usual (such as feeling as though they can see sound)

[sciron37]

How is Deja Vu different than premonitions? I've had deja vu, and then in my dreams I would live out an event, then a week later, or a month later, the event happens Just how I remember it! And they're all simple but weird events, like me getting on the bus and watching a person sneeze then changing the song on my ipod and someone says something, stuff like that. It's weird cause I know what will happen, and it happens! just like it did in my dream! Not kidding, only told my parents about this a long time ago when I was younger.

[FalcoLombardi]

maybe its all in ur head

[Chrissi]

Originally Posted by sciron37

How is Deja Vu different than premonitions? I've had deja vu, and then in my dreams I would live out an event, then a week later, or a month later, the event happens Just how I remember it! And they're all simple but weird events, like me getting on the bus and watching a person sneeze then changing the song on my ipod and someone says something, stuff like that. It's weird cause I know what will happen, and it happens! just like it did in my dream! Not kidding, only told my parents about this a long time ago when I was younger.

Deja vu is when you get the creepy feeling that whatever's happening has happened before. I seem to get it quite a bit.

Premonitions are nothing like that. They are when you think you know what's going to happen in the future.

[evilcowgod]

I have Deja Vus all the time, at least once a week, when I SWEAR this has happened before, whether it's the same circumstance, what somebody said, what happened, etc.

[monkeybomb45]

Originally Posted by sciron37

How is Deja Vu different than premonitions? I've had deja vu, and then in my dreams I would live out an event, then a week later, or a month later, the event happens Just how I remember it! And they're all simple but weird events, like me getting on the bus and watching a person sneeze then changing the song on my ipod and someone says something, stuff like that. It's weird cause I know what will happen, and it happens! just like it did in my dream! Not kidding, only told my parents about this a long time ago when I was younger.

this is not deja vu...deja vu is different that premonitions...deja vu, you dont know what is going to happen, you just feel like you have done it, but you dont get that sensation until AFTER that moment in time has passed

[ellabella20]

I think that theory is logical. I've also read that, like when you see a person out of the corner of your eye, and you look over and the person's not there, it is caused with your brain recolecting a certain event on what happened at the place your at and the brain sends and image of a person from that event and, you no how one of your five senses is sight, the image is retrieved from your sight and it is there for a nanosecond and then it's gone. Does that seem logical?

[OmegaVanity]

I heard that if you have deja vu on a regular basis, your brain is healthy. Of course, that just might be a myth.

[sciron37]

I stopped having Deja Vu when I went to college and drank a lot... damn, guess that proves I killed a lot of brain cells I stopped drinking though, I only drink tea so maybe I'll start having deja vu again?

[stfuitsbrandon]

Originally Posted by sciron37

How is Deja Vu different than premonitions? I've had deja vu, and then in my dreams I would live out an event, then a week later, or a month later, the event happens Just how I remember it! And they're all simple but weird events, like me getting on the bus and watching a person sneeze then changing the song on my ipod and someone says something, stuff like that. It's weird cause I know what will happen, and it happens! just like it did in my dream! Not kidding, only told my parents about this a long time ago when I was younger.

same thing has happened to me SO MANY TIMES!

[three17s]

So I heard this theory that deja vu happened because one of your eyes would intercept images like 1/100th of a nanosecond after your other eye, so the event happened once, but your brain comprehended it twice (so close together but still noticeable) so it felt like you had done it before. Then it happened to me with people talking and background noises, but I thought maybe the same theory could be applied to your hearing also. But last night, I had deja vu with my thoughts. What I was thinking combined with the images in my mind (my eyes were closed) same colors and everything. So it kind of disproved that theory. What do you guys think?

[bluguerrilla]

It's a glich in the matrix.

Now that I got that out of the way, when I experience it it's more like something that's happening currently reminds me a of a dream I've had before or something there abouts. If that makes any sense.

[rst20]

Originally Posted by bluguerrilla

It's a glich in the matrix.

I was just about to say that!

I've heard that it has something to do with your brain recognizing some piece of what you are experiencing (such as hearing some 'familiar' sound, sight, or smell that you might have felt before) and then concocting some sort of "false" memory to accompany it.

[Relambrien]

Originally Posted by devonin

From everything I've heard on the subject, the sensation of deja vu was when incoming stimuli were misrouted through the memory centres of the brain instead of the sense centres of the brain, so in essence you would feel as though you were remembering something precisely as it happened.

This crossing of synaptic lines is also usually presented as an explanation for things like synesthaesia, and why people on various mind-effecting drugs can appear to experience sensations through different senses than usual (such as feeling as though they can see sound)

This seems the most logical. If a message somehow got transfered through a different path, say to a memory-based path instead of a sense-based path, then it would be logical to assume that the brain would interpret the information as having happened before. And although that specific information isn't interpreted as being a sense, the next set of information, which is received nearly instantaneously, would be routed correctly and interpreted correctly. Therefore, you could receive information that something is happening and that same thing has happened at nearly the exact same time, resulting in Deja Vu. (I'm too lazy to put accents).

[SulferDragon]

Originally Posted by OmegaVanity

I heard that if you have deja vu on a regular basis, your brain is healthy. Of course, that just might be a myth.

I must have the healthiest brain on the whole site then. Oh dear, that was deja vu...

Seriously, I get it sooo much.

[liljonrules]

I belive that deja vu is cause by nothing other than....








MAGIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[devonin]

Originally Posted by liljonrules

I belive that deja vu is cause by nothing other than....

MAGIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Explain and support please?

[seththelezzy]

Please you guys, proper grammar is needed in CT.


But I think that Deja Vu is completely logical from what monkeybomb said. But when people start filing it into the "supernatural" catergory, it just gets out of hand. It is a mind matter and nothing else.

[Wlfwnd91]

As has already been said, Deja Vu is the feeling that something has happened before, not that you've seen it before. So, therefore I agree with the theory of senses being misroutted through the memory section of the brain which would cause you to believe that the event had happened before. I guess the only problem is that we don't actually think that it physically happened before,but possibly happened in a dream. So, does that mean that it leaves (in a sense) our memory to go back into the senses perception part of the brain? Cause if we literally thought things had happened multiple times we'd all be pretty messed up. But.. eh, I'm so out of it, and I hate this keyboard and I'm at school. I'll try and express my thoughts better later, but this was all just kind of running through my head while reading through these posts.