Deja Vu

[2Slow4U_Noob]

Originally Posted by FireBball972

actually, once I woke up at like 2:30 in the morning and was struck with some weird inspiration for a story, and I wrote a 3 page story right there for an English assignment, off the top of my head. I won several high-school writing awards for that story. Pretty weird stuff, but hey, I'm not complaining

i wish i could wake up at 2:30 in the morning with the winning lottery numbers in my head!

[lamehonda]

...or tomorrows stock quotes

[-Davo]

Originally Posted by FireBball972

actually, once I woke up at like 2:30 in the morning and was struck with some weird inspiration for a story, and I wrote a 3 page story right there for an English assignment, off the top of my head. I won several high-school writing awards for that story. Pretty weird stuff, but hey, I'm not complaining

The opposite happend to me.

I woke up at 2:30 in the A.M and though "Man, I'm hungry" so I ate all the chicken in the fridge, and I got in a lot of shit the next day, cause apparently that was the dog's food

[NeonAtron]

it might be a sleep thing because a while ago, i got this new x-box game i would be up late in to the night playing it. then when i got too tired i cut it off- the next morning i resumed playing and would and advance and get brand new characters but it would feel like i did the exact thing last night! but once i layed off the game i was coo.

[twospirits]

While this might not qualify as a deja vu type of situation, but I have the following happen to me alot, and was wondering if any others have too.

When I'm driving or going someplace (usually a place where I've never been too) I drive by some spot not out of the oridinary and I say to my self or get the feeling that "I'll bet I'll come back to this place" and I swear in less than a few days (never more than a months time) I do end up back at that place for something, whether its business or personnal. Its downright freaky at times. I guess you can say its reverse deja vu.

[PJF220]

I've had a few freaky experiences but have not had any for quite some time now. I remember one very strong deja vu time when we were on holiday in Ireland. Non of my family had been there before and we went into a restaurant. I began feeling a bit odd as the wallpaper seemed familiar and I knew something spooky was going to happen. We sat down and I took a menu and my dad passed a comment that he didn't have one and I knew he was going to say it and knew his exact words. I then said I was experiencing deja vu and my dad said I was being silly and then all of a sudden the strange feeling left and the experience was over.

Another time I opened a cupboard and went to get a drink. There was three bottles to pick and I get deja vu again and knowing I was having it, I wondered if I could change 'the future' but I couldn't and picked up the bottle I knew I would.

Or, as a theory, could it all just be they were not real experiences but very life-like dreams that get stored away in your memory and your brain 'thinks' they were real life experiences that you remember at points later in life? - ie in my situation where I was on holiday, maybe I had a dream whilst I was away that was extremely life like that I didn't remember having. Now when I think back, I remember having a deja vu experience but it could just have been I am now remembering a dream that I didn't know I had and think it is deja vu?

These days I have recurring dreams rather than deja vu. I wake up and think 'I deamt that dream before' but then I ask myself 'did I dream it before or did my dream tell me I had dreamt it before and this was the first time?'

I really should keep a notebook with dates and times of these things so I can clear it up once and for all.

[NeonAtron]

Originally Posted by PJF220

These days I have recurring dreams rather than deja vu. I wake up and think 'I deamt that dream before' but then I ask myself 'did I dream it before or did my dream tell me I had dreamt it before and this was the first time?'

I really should keep a notebook with dates and times of these things so I can clear it up once and for all.

Very interesting... The same has happend to me. And that is a good idea, that way you can be sure.

[twospirits]

Its funny you mention that, I've been told on numerous occasions to have a pad and pen close to the bed to write down what I dream if I wanted too. But as usual I never do thinking I would remember and I end up not remembering after a few moments. Very good idea.

[2Slow4U_Noob]

Originally Posted by PJF220

I've had a few freaky experiences but have not had any for quite some time now. I remember one very strong deja vu time when we were on holiday in Ireland. Non of my family had been there before and we went into a restaurant. I began feeling a bit odd as the wallpaper seemed familiar and I knew something spooky was going to happen. We sat down and I took a menu and my dad passed a comment that he didn't have one and I knew he was going to say it and knew his exact words. I then said I was experiencing deja vu and my dad said I was being silly and then all of a sudden the strange feeling left and the experience was over.

yeah thats what happens with me. Never mention that you are having deja vu because that wasnt part of ur original memory so it ends the experience right there.

[PJF220]

well, the weird thing was, in that experience in the restaurant, I knew I had said to my dad that I was experiencing it so I couldn't stop myself from saying it.

[leadfootGTP]

the theory that ive heard about it ( which makes sense to me cause it usualy happens when im tierd or whatnot) is that your brain is fatigues, and slows down to a point where it processes what you are seeing or where you are twice in a row, so the second time to process it you feel like you have seen it before in a dream...but hove you ever noticed that you can never pinpoint when you had the supposed "dream", i donno, this theory just makes the most sense to me

[2.2 Straight six]

i dont know how it works but i always like freeze and stop for a moment and think but i've done this before or that this has happened before but one deja vu is the "why are you ignoring me?" thing i get from a friend wait that's not me thinking it's happened before. it happens every fucking day.