• Our new ticketing site is now live! Using either this or the original site (both powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!

Experiencing Déjà vu.

Status
Not open for further replies.

david1212

Established Member
Joined
9 Apr 2020
Messages
1,754
Location
Midlands
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.
 
Sponsor Post - registered members do not see these adverts; click here to register, or click here to log in
R

RailUK Forums

61653 HTAFC

Veteran Member
Joined
18 Dec 2012
Messages
19,347
Location
Yorkshire
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.
 

Cowley

Forum Staff
Staff Member
Global Moderator
Joined
15 Apr 2016
Messages
18,898
Location
Devon
I tend to experience it when I’m tired.
 

simonw

Established Member
Joined
7 Dec 2009
Messages
1,402
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.
 

61653 HTAFC

Veteran Member
Joined
18 Dec 2012
Messages
19,347
Location
Yorkshire
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.
 

simonw

Established Member
Joined
7 Dec 2009
Messages
1,402
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.
 

Busaholic

Veteran Member
Joined
7 Jun 2014
Messages
14,671
A rather good album by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, must be around 50 years ago now - ah, deja vu.... :smile:
 

Busaholic

Veteran Member
Joined
7 Jun 2014
Messages
14,671
This is really weird - the thread title is now coming up twice, but my previous witty contribution only makes it once:?:
 

Cowley

Forum Staff
Staff Member
Global Moderator
Joined
15 Apr 2016
Messages
18,898
Location
Devon
Ok this is even making my head hurt now. We’ll just keep it in the one thread from here. :lol:
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Top