Deja Vu Deja Vu

[holeg2212]

When one experiences a feeling of familiarity, strangeness, or weridness or like and event they have experienced has already happened! We all have experienced Deja Vu, share your thoughts or the last time you remember it happening...

[Truthed]

I can't remember specifically the last time this happened to me, but what do you believe causes it? Past lives?

[ALien]

i have deja vu all the time, sometimes it really creeps me out and i will sit there thinking i KNOW this has happened already in my life

[holeg2212]

What i think it is, Is when the brain witnesses an event but gets confused and stores it directly into the part of your brain used for 'Long term' memory... giving then sensation and confusion that this has happened before in some past time as opposed to an event occurring currently and being stored in the short term memory area. After all the brain gets confused sometimes for example during a sentence sometimes you say words backwards and don't mean to. Example:"I went on to the fair and went on the coaster R... I mean Roller coaster".

We've all done that.

[Area-51]

Oh man, I've got DeJaVus all the time. Just happened today in school. Chillin'there at the table and thought:,, damn, I know that situation!"

Well, I've git those expierience normally once a week, sometimes more. But very often though.
pretty (-;

[Talisyn]

This happens to me a lot but i occasionally dream the future. It's not quite how it sounds. When i say this people normally get confused and think i have some control over it. It works like this I have my dream over the night and by morning I've forgotten it(though not always) and the only sign I have that I've had one is i look in the mirror and see the remnants of a major nosebleed.

Anyway normally its pretty mundane stuff like me walking down the road or something and I'll suddenly get a flash of a memory of the dream and in a split second the whole dream will be remembered and I do as i see fit.

Although every now and then I've changed things like conversations so that instead of a blazing row at the end we agree to disagree. The most exiting one was I was at a bus stop after school and the usual throng of kids where spilling out on to the road and one fell out into the path of the incoming bus, I managed to stop it happening in real time though i got some odd looks as i grabbed the kid and pulled him away from the road.

Any way thats my deja vu's don't know if they count or not but that'd be my say on the matter.

Although when i did my research on it i did find an article that said a normal deja vu is someones long term/short term memory getting muddled up.

[Area-51]

Originally Posted by Talisyn

...... It works like this I have my dream over the night and by morning I've forgotten it(though not always).......and I'll suddenly get a flash of a memory of the dream and in a split second the whole dream will be remembered and I do as i see fit.

THE EXACT SAME WAY I EXPIRIENCE MY DEJAVU's.
Sometimes I have some sort of "day-dreaming". I just sit down or something, than I 'm dreaming something. Let's say a car crash, doesn't matter, because I had so many of those, that it doesn't matter if I now come up with something.
But to get back to the dejavu. In the exact moment, were one car hits another (in the dream now), and normally at a car crash come sound, something breaks, falls down, explodes etc. in the real world, to replace that car crash soun. I know, it's hard to explain. but it can be really funny

But it doesn't really have something to do with dejavu's

[Talisyn]

Dr. Robert Van de Castle summarizes some of the key progress points in the area of psychic dream research in his book Our Dreaming Mind. In 1819, H. M. Wesserman successfully projected messages to experimental subjects while they slept and dreamed. While the general content of the dream was successfully received, some of the characters in the dreams were changed.

An Italian psychiatrist, Dr. G. C. Ermacora, published a paper in 1895 titled “Telepathic Dreams Experimentally Induced”. This work documented successful efforts of a medium to transmit dreams to a young girl. Perhaps the best-known research in this field was conducted at Maimonides Medical Center, in Brooklyn, New York by Stanley Krippner and Montigue Ullman in 1964. These trials clearly showed positive correlations for transmitting information to dreamers who had no prior knowledge of the subject material. Dr. Van de Castle himself was a subject during these sessions and achieved considerable success in having dreams that were closely correlated to the target pictures.

Dr. Van de Castle further documents the evidence for psychic dreaming based on a fascinating questionnaire approach. Survey questions sent to several thousand individuals listed in Who’s Who In America resulted in 430 replies claiming some kind of ESP experience and dreams were involved in 25 percent of these cases.

Dr. Louisa Rhine at the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University compiled by far the best-known and largest body of such dream evidence. Dr. Rhine collected over 7000 accounts of ESP experiences. The majority of these accounts were dream related and were precognitive in nature. The material for this work was collected by advertisements in various well-known popular media.

Dr. David Ryback, a psychologist in Atlanta, used a questionnaire survey approach to investigate precognitive dreaming in college students. His survey of over 433 participants showed that 290 or 66.9 percent reported some form of paranormal dream. Using very rigid standards, Dr. Ryback examined those responding to the survey. He rejected many of these claims and reached a conclusion that 8.8 percent of the population was having actual precognitive dreams.

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