Comments on: Science Explains Deja Vu…Or Not

By: Denise

Denise — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:59:55 +0000

I've seen things 20 years or so before they happened. But it's not like a vision or a dream. I'm actually physically there. I've seen my future and past selves……Has anyone else experienced anything like that?

By: Bert Johnson

Bert Johnson — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:29:57 +0000

I get it all the time. There are two forms for me, one is a dream realization, the other is simply "remembering" rather than "experiencing". It's disconcerting, since it makes me question the validity of my memory. I wonder if my subconscious isn't tailoring past memories and experiences to heighten a sense of self-importance by convincing myself I somehow am "remember future events". For example: I broke up with a girlfriend two years ago – she was two months pregnant with someone else's child. I told her that I saw her taking a dusty haired girl to see her father – the girl had a boy's haircut and was often mistaken for a boy. Three months ago, we started writing again, and now live together in Austin, TX. She has a dusty haired daughter whose father lives in L.A. and demands that she comes to see him rather than him come to Texas. It's frustrating – did I really "know" this situation several years ago? Is it self-fulfilling prophecies coupled with a lucky guess on her child's gender? When I meet someone for the first time, yet I believe I know them already, am I projecting a preformed idea of a personality I've decided onto someone who doesn't fill that role, and therefore never witness the true person through my delusions, or is there a possibility that somehow my brain becomes, as Vonnegut would say, occasionally "unstuck in time"?
B.Johnson

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:25:58 +0000

Interesting article, I've already read much of the information from misc. places but still well written.

I decided to post on this article because for about two years I have experienced something that seems very similar to "dÃ©jÃ vecu".

Actually, I've experienced it to the point of questioning whether I was having seizures.

The best way to explain it will sound a bit absurd, so bare with me.. It is a very similar feeling to dejavu, except for the experience is that of, remembering the current situation from the future-tense, as if I've experienced not only the current moment I'm in, but as if that moment is just a small speck of memory on a timeline I've already lived through, and I even have glimpses of future moments of having these dejavu experiences. It seems progressive also, Like the experience leads somewhere, to an end of some kind. This leaves me with a feeling of awe and amazement, but it's a bit scary too so.. I'd like to know if anyone has experienced something similar to this before before I sucker out the big bucks for an MRI.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:40:11 +0000

I've had 2 specific 'deja vu' moments… or I suppose they would fall more into the category of 'dreamed ahead of time'. While still living in Massachusetts, I dreamed of being in a large, open room with wood floor — standing and talking with five people. A year after, I moved to Washington state (a place I had never lived before) — and a year after that, I was suddenly 'in' the dream — where my mind said "Hey, I've seen this and know what's going to be said next, etc."

Again, had a 'dream' of a corridor with a metal 'stripe' with red on each side of it bisecting the long corridor. 18 months later, I was in basic training (another state and place I'd never been before), and stood at the intersection of two corridors. Looking down 'mine' — was the metal and red (fire break in the structure).

Neither really falls into the 'mistaking similar places/circumstances' since they were 'seen' long prior to moves to new states/cities/situations that were not 'familiar'.

I suppose 'precognition' is the closest match — though there is one idea not really mentioned. Since it is 'my' mind and vision and memory, am I 'just' receiving my own transmissions — sort of out of the normal temporal 'chain of event's — guess that sort of goes into the idea of the akashic record …. more hand wavey metatheory than most scientists want to deal with.