Dejavu, I’ve come to realise on my own that they are simply a state of mind which are similar to that which we had felt before, and not that the event has occurred before. This could be triggered by similar events or themes that we observe, and anomaly of hormones concoctions released by our body.

The problem usually is we forget those exact moments that we are retrieving from memory, I have had a glimpse, or a notion of what they were, and they are not the same as what is happening at present, it only feels the same. Like a dream which we forget when we wake, only the feelings which remain.

The feeling of familiarity, without memory to equate it to, makes us think that what’s happening right now, may have already happen.

Your thoughts please.

Yes i also experience before sometimes in some places. I dont really know what this happens but maybe its just that situation being SIMILAR to something we've felt before and cant clearly remember. Hence we thought that we've experience this before.

or maybe that we've dreamt about something like this before. Then when faced with something near our mind thought its the same thing

Deja Vu is very abstract.
It's hard to describe in words.
It's the kind of feeling and expression you have when you felt like you've been through that moment before and you are repeating/reliving it.

Ya true.Its a feeling but it never happened before. Just a feeling it happened before

I guess everyone also experienced Deja vu before
yeah.... its very abstract, hard to describe I think its probably the things we dreamt, like there's so many dreams we've dreamt even though we don't really remember all of them.... and when we've come across something more or less similar in reality, we'll feel like it had happened before..
But that's just me hehe

True true. We dream everyday and 90% we cant remember the dreams. Maybe when we faced with the same situation in real life, then the memory of the dreams emerge and we kind have the feeling of been there

Yaya, exactly that Not easy to put into words

You feel like,
'hey, i've seen this scene before' and 'hey, i've dreamt about this before'.
but then again,
you don't remember yourself dreaming that stuff, but all you know is that everything is eerily the same.

ya ya true..btw why are we repeating the same things over and over again in this thread? Kinda un-phd like to me..

Hm. Yes...

Haven't i seen you say this before? In fact, haven't I MYSELF said this before?? It's...it's like...deja vu!

LOL, good one
I've seen cases on TV where a person has "forseen" the future... can't remember what it was, something about a plane crashing during a festival and he "predicted" that the pilot survived and he really did.... Wonder whether that has anything to do with deja vu or not
Or perhaps there's really such a thing as 6th sense?

Like most everyone else who posted here, I've gotten my deja vu experience mostly from the fact that I've dreamt something beforehand, then seeing it happen in real-life sometime after that.

My opinion is that there's definitely something more to our dreams than just unfulfilled wish fantasies, but the problem is separating the noise (dreams that will never happen) from the real deal. And until a dream really happens, we will never really know if it's "fake" or not.

So, I'd say it's a potential 6th sense. We just haven't really learned to use it well enough yet.

deja vu should not be mistaken as predicting future or premonition.

Cause with deja vu, you do not see it in advance. You will only realize it while the event is happening or after it happened.

http://www.cracked.com/article_17103_5-way...-your-head.html

yeah, i had my daily doses of reading in there.

From wikipedia:

Déjà vu (pronounced /ˈdeɪʒɑː ˈvuː/ ( listen) DAY-zhah VOO; French: [deʒa vy] ( listen), meaning "already seen", from Greek παρα "para," "near, against, contrary to" + μνήμη "mēmē," "memory"), is the experience of feeling sure that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously (an individual feels as though an event has already happened or has happened in the recent past), although the exact circumstances of the previous encounter are uncertain. The term was coined by a French psychic researcher, Émile 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. The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eeriness," "strangeness," "weirdness," or what Sigmund Freud calls "the uncanny." The "previous" experience is most frequently attributed to a dream, although in some cases there is a firm sense that the experience has genuinely happened in the past.[1]

This post has been edited by VMSmith: Sep 15 2010, 06:09 PM

What are you trying to say with that definition? Maybe you do not understand what I am trying to say. Okay here is my second attempt.


With deja vu...

The event happened, for example, an accident. You will only REALIZE that your have seen the images before WHILE it is happening or AFTER it has happened.


With premonition....

Before the event happen, you will yell...accident....you will KNOW the accident going to happen BEFORE it happened.


Both also deals with images or experience you had previously.

This post has been edited by abubin: Sep 15 2010, 06:15 PM

yea yea I have that experience too,
quite often sometimes.
and even you can recall that event, you just don't know what will happen next until it comes

Deja vu aside, when u mentioned dreams, i too think that dreams hold a hidden potential. Few yrs ago, there were things that i couldnt do, physically i mean like sports skill, then when once i dreamt of me being to do it in a sequence of dreams and few weeks later i was able to do it!!

Well said bro
With deja vu we won't know/feel that we've actually experience the event until we experienced it

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Added on September 15, 2010, 7:38 pmWah... "The Power of Dreams" haha
I dunno about dreams but I've always believe the human brain holds hidden potentials

This post has been edited by [PF] T.J.: Sep 15 2010, 07:38 PM

Yeap. This is a much better definition.