Any information on deja vu?
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Psychologists have NEVER been able to concretely prove what causes deja vu. There have only been theories.
One theory is that the situation you are in reminds you of another situation you have been in, whether recent or long ago. You have lost the sort of "path" within your mind to that particular memory that allows you to remember it, but it's still there. Therefore, the subconscious is aware of it, but your conscious is not. This "situation" may be the lamp on a nightstand or the layout of a room, which may subconsciously remind you of how your grandmother's room looked when you were three (just an example).
Another theory is that the part of your brain that encodes what you are seeing, and the part of the brain that processes what you see sort of have a "rear-end collision" in that one is faster or slower than the other for a second or two. Explained more clearly, it seems familiar because you HAVE seen it before, it's just that it was a split second before.
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Nope,idk.
Man, I feel like I have seen this question before.weird.
i have the feeling that ive answered this before.strange
Been There, Done That!
Any information on deja vu?
When I was a child, I used to get deja vu sostrongly, I was sick to my stomach. It always worried me but it went away. Now I'm 26 and in the last year it's come back even stronger. I feel like I'm going to throw up sometimes it hits me so hard. I'm very worried, and if I can't do anything to make them stop, I'd at least like a little knowledge about the subject, good- bad- or otherwise
deja vu doesn't make u sick it is a just feeling. Like u have been in a certain situtaion before. I get that feeling all the time. I do tend to get dizzy but thats it. Maybe go to the doctor
i wouldn't worry about it! consider yourself lucky. i had a deja vu just last nite and it frequents quite often. i just get by, as though, heh, crazy but fornuate. don't know much else to tell you. best of all, don't be afraid.
Well we have a strip club here called Deja Vu!! Maybe it might help you out!!
if you're really gettin physically ill i'd suggest you see a psychologist.i think deja vu might have to do with reincarnation issues
All over again?
I have that sometimes too. I don't know why or how I can really help you.
The term déjà vu (French: "already seen", also called paramnesia) describes the experience of feeling that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously. The term was created by a French psychic researcher, Emile Boirac (1851–1917) in his book L'Avenir des sciences psychiques (The Future of Psychic Sciences), which expanded upon an essay he wrote while an undergraduate French concentrator at the University of Chicago. The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eerieness," "strangeness," or "weirdness." The "previous" experience is most frequently attributed to a dream, although in some cases there is a firm sense that the experience "genuinely happened" in the past.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deja_vu
Deja-vu happens to me everyday, except i dont feel sick about it. I dont understand what you mean by sick and y you get sick. can you please add details on your question after you read this and tell me y u get sick? (just curious) but think it fells cool cause i know whats going to happen after that. No, actually its freaky, but some people believe (like me) that its cause you've lived you life over & over again. But other believe that its just all in your head. It sounds cool that you have it. Y dont you embrace that you have a gift like that?
its normal!i get it all the time...my parents freaked when i told them that aunt cindy was going to be asleep for a really long time and 2 days later she went in a comma on my birthday. it happens all the time to everybody at least once..some are stronger than others.it has something to do with science and the energy or whatever
I know exactly what you mean asside from the nausea part. I have actually been getting Deja Vu A LOT this week and I am wondering why. I feel like something or someone is trying to tell me something..or something, I don't know. It usually comes every once in a blue moon but I have experienced Deja Vu several times this week. I wish I could tell you why but it is a complete mystery to me. Some people say it is when your brain takes too long to process something but I completely disagree. I think it's more unexplainable.
Right now, scientists are trying to develop a drug to sort it out. Seriously! Extreme cases are caused by a chemical imbalance, so hold on and you might be able to get rid of it!
Severe cases of Deja Vu can be linked to disorders. People that have schizophrenia, or anxiety often have severe cases of deja vu. There are also some recreational drugs that increase the feelings of Deja Vu. for more information on Dejav Vu and the connections to mental disorders please see the Wikipedia article link below under 'Source'. You will find it very helpful. It provides information on what Deja Vu actually is, what the symptoms are, relations to disorders and drugs, and other similar feelings.
If you think you may have some sort of disorder that may be causing this problem, I would suggest seeing a doctor.
it is something that happens again and again. i have it alot of times.lol.. and it sometimes make me sick to but if you think in to the futer you wont think about having daja vo you will be thinking of what you will be doing when your older and stop worrieing abot the past and think ahead you wont have it any more and for the stomacke pain you can take pepdo besmo lol..
i know thats nasty but it helps alot or. maylana thats taste better than pepdo.
love nicole.
I have a theory on Deja Vu.
I believe that this happens when you are very tired or bored. It rarely happens when you are intense or fully concentrating on something. My theory is that when you are tired you have a stimulous (picture/circumstance ect) hit your brain and your brain (that is understimulated at that time) only partially processes it. As the stimulous continues and your brain re processes the situation it begins to feel that you have been in that same circumstance before. Thus Deja Vu.
I have no scientific back up for this but to me it makes sense.
So for your situation; maybe get some extra sleep or start to do something intense as soon as you feel a deja vu starting. Hey.ya never know.I may be on crack..or maybe..just maybe it will help.
Well I was told in one of my Biology classes that people experience deja vu when they come in to a place or meet a person because the brain doesnt fully recieve its message of the new surrounding area until the second strike making it seem like you were there before.
But from what your talking about it doesnt sound like a deja vu but some mental trip!!lol
I sounds like something very traumatic happened.
Here's one school of thought and how to deal with it:
When someone gets injured or hurt emotionally, it reduces your conscious brain power and another part of you takes over. And when a similar situation occurs, you experience physical symptoms and strange compulsions to action to avoid whatever happened last time. You are in a state susceptible to suggestion and any spoken words can become commands taken literally. You would tend to emulate the most powerful person in the original trauma. Much of this experience is repressed.
By re-experiencing it, and remembering EVERYTHING, whatever instructions or spoken words you received would be recalled, and then your conscious mind would realize that those commands are rediculous and you are freed of them.
Out of boredom, I've dropped in to put forth an idea I've had for a few years about deja vu.
From my personal experience, I have also noticed that each deja vu experience consists of two events. Let's call them A and B.
The first event, A, is a dream -- daydream, REM, or nightmare perhaps. But it's not a physically real event in our everyday defintion of "what's real". Event A is just a dream in which you experience an even in your life in which you feel you have been "there" before. In my deja vu experiences, my "event A" always consists of a sense of things around me that I know could not be there as I had not yet encountered these objects before. So clearly the experience is a just a dream. It's not "real".
The second event, B, is the real event. You are awake (as much as you are every day between morning and night -- in our own definition of being awake). Event B, for me anyway, always consists of acknowledging that I'm "awake" and conscious of what is going on around me, that I have "seen it before", but the distinct difference from this event from event A is that *everything* around me is familiar. So it must be "real".
I'll give an example in my experience then end by giving some "comfortable" hypothesis for why deja vu occurs.
I don't remember ever experiencing deja vu with more than just events A and B, and both A and B have always (to my recollection) been distinctly:
A='dream with confusing "landscape"' and
B='conscious reality with a familiar "landscape"'.
So for me, based on my personal observations, I have only known deja vu as a two-event phenomenon.
Here is the example to illustrate this. About four years ago I had a dream (Event A) in which I was talking on a personal level with my boss in his office and we were mulling over some ideas on the chalkboard about how to best represent our data for a paper we were publishing. I looked around his office -- noticed a flat panel monitor on his desk, empty bookshelves to my left, and the blinds were wide open on the windows -- yet the lights inside were turned off.
Now, in reality, four years ago I was working for someone else -- and did not start working for my current boss (the one with whom I dreamed having a confusing deja vu dream). In fact, I did not start working for him until about three years ago. Four years ago, his office was filled with books, the blinds were always closed, and the computer monitor was a CRT (TV-like) on his desk -- not a flat panel. On top of that, I genuinely never would have been working closely with him -- on a personal level -- at that time doing research with him let alone setting up details on how to publish a paper I hadn't even begun to work on! So this was my "event A" -- the DREAM of confusion and feeling like it happened once before -- but knowing that it didn't as the "landscape" was impossible at that time.
Just two weeks ago, I had the deja vu experience in reality (Event B). NOW he has that flat panel on his desk, his bookshelves are empty because his office is moving to a different building, and he has kept the lights off in the office, because the outside light is so bright -- having opened the blinds every day. In fact his office is nearly bare (something I remembered from the previous event -- event A) On top of that, we have something very important to publish and have been talking about how to present the data. .In fact, I laughed when I realized this was happening "again" and remarked to my boss that "all this happened already. It's a deja vu experience."
Now, my hypothesis is relatively simple. There is no physically conclusive reason -- until someone can prove otherwise -- that fundamental particles in the universe cannot travel "backward" in time. Suppose, for the moment, that some backward-traveling particles move through your brain (in the future) during Event B, and that you manage to "intercept" these particles during a dream (whether sleeping or during a daydream) in the present (Event A) in the form of a visual memory/dream. There is no reason why this cannot be possible -- again, as I said, until someone can prove to me that fundamental particles cannot travel backward in time. And such a hypothesis isn't too bad for starters. In fact, I think that identifying Events A and B is important. In my experience BOTH exist and never have I recalled more than two events related to a deja vu experience.
I've seen somewhere that some postulate that two different brain processes -- are they 'memory' and 'perception' -- "fire" simultaneously to make a deja vu experience. Well, from my experience, deja vu is a two-event phenomenon with well-defined distinctions between them, A AND B -- a DREAM and a REAL EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE . . . someone may have a better explanation as to why, for example "memory and perception fire simultaneously." I suggest that if this is the case, then perhaps it's that backward-time-traveling particle(s) that causes such an interaction(s). When I was younger, I remember reading about tachyons. Recently I read that perhaps positrons (essentially postively-charged electrons) may be positively charged simply because they always travel backward in time -- instead of forward like electrons. So the idea of backward time traveling particles is out there -- and they show up in legitimate textbooks-- but perhaps merely as ideas as they clearly have not been demonstrated experimentally.
Something to think about. If the person who asked this question is so concerned then another recommendation is simply to be more observant of your deja vu experiences and soon you may too realize which event is the DREAM and which event is the REALITY. Whenever it happens now I simply marvel at the wonderful nature of it. There are simply things in the universe which we do not know nor understand. They are not forever hidden from us as we see them from time to time -- but almost always fail to recognize them. So be observant, and put a smile on your face the next time it happens. It'll likely happen naturally -- now that I've made you aware of --- well at least one possibility (based on my own personal observations). Be observant. It makes like much more pleasant and far more interesting!
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