Déjà vu

[Grego1983]

Hello people, Bit of a rant here.
I have been having weird deja vu experiences ever since I was a kid. I am now 41.

I have tried to explain to people about what I have been getting them all my life but they just don't seem to understand what i am talking about.
It drives me nuts that i can't explain it to people and have them take me seriously as it is a very strange thing to experience.

When it hits you it's like a dream that only you seem to notice as it is happening.
It feels very surreal and familiar, like you've already done whatever it is that you are doing once before but only now realize it.
While it is happening you then look at the items around you, the surroundings and the people you are with if any.

You then say to yourself that "I have seen this before" "I have experienced this exact moment before".
Then your buddy, partner, son, mother, father, animal companion or perfect stranger then looks at you like your a total fool.
You then feel like a fool too because you just had a very weird thing happen but can't find the words or convince them that you just had a strange experience.

You then put a lid on it and keep it to yourself and it is a horrible feeling like i mentioned before being able to have that happen and not be taken seriously.

It's actually pretty cool but it's only cool to you because only you know about it. It also only happens when its a stupid mundane thing at least for me.

Anybody else have that happen also? It's a lonely feeling.

It feels like the lamest superpower.

[Waterglass]

Hello people, Bit of a rant here.
I have been having weird deja vu experiences ever since I was a kid. I am now 41.

I have tried to explain to people about what I have been getting them all my life but they just don't seem to understand what i am talking about.
It drives me nuts that i can't explain it to people and have them take me seriously as it is a very strange thing to experience.

When it hits you it's like a dream that only you seem to notice as it is happening.
It feels very surreal and familiar, like you've already done whatever it is that you are doing once before but only now realize it.
While it is happening you then look at the items around you, the surroundings and the people you are with if any.

You then say to yourself that "I have seen this before" "I have experienced this exact moment before".
Then your buddy, partner, son, mother, father, animal companion or perfect stranger then looks at you like your a total fool.
You then feel like a fool too because you just had a very weird thing happen but can't find the words or convince them that you just had a strange experience.

You then put a lid on it and keep it to yourself and it is a horrible feeling like i mentioned before being able to have that happen and not be taken seriously.

It's actually pretty cool but it's only cool to you because only you know about it. It also only happens when its a stupid mundane thing at least for me.

Anybody else have that happen also? It's a lonely feeling.

It feels like the lamest superpower.

I have also had Deja Vu. It began early on in life and it was so strong tat I was able to recognize as to the where a meeting was heading in business and I altered my response accordingly so it came out in my favor.  Its considered a gift. 

Too bad it never happened in a gambling venue or the stock market.

Lame? Yes, the majority are just routine, daily events in life without drama or stress. The business meeting was the only time it was of any use to me. 

Just once!

[Grego1983]

I have also had Deja Vu. It began early on in life and it was so strong tat I was able to recognize as to the where a meeting was heading in business and I altered my response accordingly so it came out in my favor.  Its considered a gift. 

Too bad it never happened in a gambling venue or the stock market.

Lame? Yes, the majority are just routine, daily events in life without drama or stress. The business meeting was the only time it was of any use to me. 

Just once!

I'm glad that you had a positive outcome to one of your experiences.
All i got was a "That's nice dear" from my partner.

[Waterglass]

I'm glad that you had a positive outcome to one of your experiences.
All i got was a "That's nice dear" from my partner.

Yea that really never did much for me nor have my other spiritual "gifts"

[Grego1983]

Yea that really never did much for me nor have my other spiritual "gifts"

I always thought i was special for having these experiences because nobody i knew of ever had them.
I felt that there was a reason for them like i could use it to do something, then i started to feel stupid whilst trying to explain it to people so now i just keep them to myself.

I'm just happy to know that i'm not the only person out there with this "gift".

[Maxmars]

I always felt that the recurring 'deja vu' effect had some greater meaning... especially since it was so eerily presented in my life.

But most materialistic-minded science seems to dismiss it as a 'brain thing' relying heavily on psychology theory to explain it away.

Add to that the similar way people react to it in my life (same as yours, "Yeah. It happens... it's weird.... whatever.)  And it kind of reinforces that a) no on cares, b) no one has a clue, and c) "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."

I can accept that the mind/brain relationship 'creates' impressions which echo in our experiences, but the truth is it doesn't explain "everything" about deja vu.  And dismissing it as a purely physiological phenomenon might be not doing justice to the countless experiences it has affected.

[ArMaP]

I have had to happening to me some times, never something special.

A few years ago I decided to try to remember the first I was in that "scene" and I started noticing small differences. Most things were the same, but things like the position of an object on a table were different, in one case the object was there, in the other it wasn't.

I didn't reach any conclusion about it.

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I can accept that the mind/brain relationship 'creates' impressions which echo in our experiences, but the truth is it doesn't explain "everything" about deja vu.

What doesn't it explain?

[Grego1983]

I always felt that the recurring 'deja vu' effect had some greater meaning... especially since it was so eerily presented in my life.

But most materialistic-minded science seems to dismiss it as a 'brain thing' relying heavily on psychology theory to explain it away.

Add to that the similar way people react to it in my life (same as yours, "Yeah. It happens... it's weird.... whatever.)  And it kind of reinforces that a) no on cares, b) no one has a clue, and c) "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."

I can accept that the mind/brain relationship 'creates' impressions which echo in our experiences, but the truth is it doesn't explain "everything" about deja vu.  And dismissing it as a purely physiological phenomenon might be not doing justice to the countless experiences it has affected.

Wow, I think you are spot on that it is not something that can be explained away so easily with science, like a mysterious quirk.
I have always been extremely gifted with my imagination, art and creativity more so than anyone in my whole family and have always been the odd one out with a broader range of speech and problem solving capabilities so i just thought i got deja vu all the time because my brain was wired differently than others.

Side note: I suspect my broad vocabulary was from playing too many videogames back in the day where in-game speech wasn't a thing and we had to read everything.

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I have had to happening to me some times, never something special.

A few years ago I decided to try to remember the first I was in that "scene" and I started noticing small differences. Most things were the same, but things like the position of an object on a table were different, in one case the object was there, in the other it wasn't.

I didn't reach any conclusion about it.

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What doesn't it explain?

I know what you mean.
The last few times it happened to me i tried to remember certain things but there were small differences like the placement of objects and the like but it is such a surprising moment when the deja vu happens i'm too busy being caught off-guard and in the moment.

It's nice to know of others with deja vu experiences, it makes me feel at ease somehow.

[85303]

Try to wrap your head around having a deja vu experience whilst experiencing a jamais vu experience, while recollecting something you aren't sure if you remember correctly...

I experience symptoms from both sides of the fence and I'm not sure their opposites as much as different experiences.

I bring jamais vu because I spent a long long time thinking it was deja vu because I had no alternative.

[FlyersFan]

Everyone gets it at times.
It's a glitch in the brain.
Natural happening.
It's blamed on dual processing and memory correction.
Dysfunction of memory circuits.
Sometimes people who get it have temporal lobe epilepsy. 
Nothing supernatural about it.