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Experiencing Déjà vu.

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It is debatable if premonitions / Déjà vu are grouped within supernatural or considered separately given not mentioned already. If the latter this post needs to be split into a new thread.

Over the years I have had many dreams that have come true. Sometimes the real 'event' is just a couple of days later, sometimes weeks later. Some examples are
- doing a job using a tool I did not possess at the time of the dream but subsequently bought e.g. pruning with extending loppers
- working with somebody I have never met
- driving along a road I have never been before and passing a landmark e.g. large building
- a discussion or a thought while having a discussion

Taking the first it is more than just a subconscious thought that I ought to by some extending loppers but 'reliving' the experience of standing in exactly the same position to reach for the branch to cut, the light & weather being the same and the loppers being the exact ones i.e. same colour handles.
Overall it is hard to describe, the best analogy perhaps as if watching a recording of a TV programme before the live/first broadcast.
 
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It is debatable if premonitions / Déjà vu are grouped within supernatural or considered separately given not mentioned already. If the latter this post needs to be split into a new thread.

Over the years I have had many dreams that have come true. Sometimes the real 'event' is just a couple of days later, sometimes weeks later. Some examples are
- doing a job using a tool I did not possess at the time of the dream but subsequently bought e.g. pruning with extending loppers
- working with somebody I have never met
- driving along a road I have never been before and passing a landmark e.g. large building
- a discussion or a thought while having a discussion

Taking the first it is more than just a subconscious thought that I ought to by some extending loppers but 'reliving' the experience of standing in exactly the same position to reach for the branch to cut, the light & weather being the same and the loppers being the exact ones i.e. same colour handles.
Overall it is hard to describe, the best analogy perhaps as if watching a recording of a TV programme before the live/first broadcast.
Sometimes we have a dream about something happening, and then that thing (or something similar) happens... that in no way means that we had a "premonition". Some events are quite predictable, and if we're thinking about something that's coming up in our lives it's quite mundane that we would have a dream where that event is involved. We worry about loved ones no longer being around, particularly if they're ill or getting older. That your brain would play this scenario out in your dream is again quite mundane. Thing is, we remember the hits and forget the misses. If you dream about being in a car crash, and then you are in a car crash, the dream will seem significant... but we don't question when we dream about falling from a great height but don't do so in real life the next day. I often have dreams where I'm trying to get out of the way of traffic, but (because of sleep paralysis during dreams) it feels like I'm wading through treacle. I've not yet ever found myself in a waist-deep puddle of sticky stuff in real life.
 

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I tend to experience it when I’m tired.
 

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It is debatable if premonitions / Déjà vu are grouped within supernatural or considered separately given not mentioned already. If the latter this post needs to be split into a new thread.

Over the years I have had many dreams that have come true. Sometimes the real 'event' is just a couple of days later, sometimes weeks later. Some examples are
- doing a job using a tool I did not possess at the time of the dream but subsequently bought e.g. pruning with extending loppers
- working with somebody I have never met
- driving along a road I have never been before and passing a landmark e.g. large building
- a discussion or a thought while having a discussion

Taking the first it is more than just a subconscious thought that I ought to by some extending loppers but 'reliving' the experience of standing in exactly the same position to reach for the branch to cut, the light & weather being the same and the loppers being the exact ones i.e. same colour handles.
Overall it is hard to describe, the best analogy perhaps as if watching a recording of a TV programme before the live/first broadcast.
My understanding (which ties with the dictionary) is that what you describe isn't dejavu. dejavu is the sense that something you are experiencing happened before. You enter a building for the first time, but get a sense that you have,been there before, that kind of thing.


A dream that comes true is more like a premonition.
 

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My understanding (which ties with the dictionary) is that what you describe isn't dejavu. dejavu is the sense that something you are experiencing happened before. You enter a building for the first time, but get a sense that you have,been there before, that kind of thing.


A dream that comes true is more like a premonition.
A "dream that comes true" is a coincidence.
 

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A "dream that comes true" is a coincidence.
Well yes, I was trying to be gentle. Most of us dream every night and some of those dreams will come true. we just forget about all the ones regarding come true.
 

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A rather good album by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, must be around 50 years ago now - ah, deja vu.... :smile:
 

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This is really weird - the thread title is now coming up twice, but my previous witty contribution only makes it once:?:
 

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I experienced deja vu when I used to watch TV soaps. Same tired old, much repeated plots apart from using different characters.
 

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I've often thought that it involves experiencing something for the first time and your brain immediately storing it past memory.
 

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My understanding (which ties with the dictionary) is that what you describe isn't dejavu. dejavu is the sense that something you are experiencing happened before. You enter a building for the first time, but get a sense that you have,been there before, that kind of thing.

Correct. I get it occasionally, it’s a strange feeling. Sometimes it literally stops me in my tracks and I question whether I really have been in the exact same situation before! More often than not it’s in connection with something random and insignificant, which makes it all the more odd. I’m not sure what the explanation is, if indeed there is one.
 

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Apparently the normal deja vu experience is due to the fact that your subconscious mind functions faster than your conscious ( it's why you blink without thinking, for example) so you experience a sight/sound etc and then your conscious mind catches up and subsequently feels that it's happened before ! that's what I read somewhere anyway,since understanding it, I've never experienced it !
 
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I experienced Déjà vu reading this thread... o_O



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A song from the album that got me into metal....

'When you see familiar faces
But you don't remember where they're from
Could you be wrong?

When you've been particular places
That you know you've never been before
Can you be sure?

'Cause you know this has happened before
And you know that this moment in time is for real
And you know when you feel Deja vu

Feel like I've been there before
Feel like I've been there before
Feel like I've been there before
Feel like I've been there before

Ever had a conversation
That you realise you've had before
Isn't it strange?

Have you ever talked to someone
And you feel you know what's coming next
It feels pre-arranged

'Cause you know that you've heard it before
And you feel that this moment in time is surreal
'Cause you know when you feel Deja vu

Feel like I've been there before
Feel like I've been there before
Feel like I've been there before
Feel like I've been there before'
 
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