what is deja-vu? ive had it many time over the years but not for a year or so until tonigh.

was sitting here on he pc (as always) and mr mob left the room). a phone beeped its dying battery beep and Joey (cockatoo) said "hello". my cousin (who was here) laughed and replied "bring bring" which in turn started off the other two birds and then Joey really started and started impersonating the phone.

that was a total deja-vu moment and i hate them! i know ive sat and been here/witnessed this before exactly the same thing but in a different time.

so what is deja-vu?

ive had it before loads of times, the strangest when i drove under a bridge at a particular time when a particular song played on the radio and a yellow train ran over the bridge.

wow, i think i've read this post before

Its like when I went to the dentist the last few times. No matter what time of day I go theres always a bus sitting at the bus stop along the road.

(I'm not being sarcastic, I don't live in a city so theres not always buses sitting there).

there is a medical explanation unfortunately.

Its because you brain works in two halves, sometimes they go slightly out of sync, so one side recognises it slighty before the other, making you think you have seen/smelt it before.

Salsa - I never knew that. That's quite possibly the most interesting information I've heard all year. Cheers!

no it is not, it is when they change the code in the matrix.

do you not know anything -

well explain this one then, if it is out of synch brain stuff why when i had a deja vu a bout 2 weeks ago with was a bout 10 seconds long i saw what was coming !! as i had seen it before and knew the events that followed it before they occured, now that did freak me out a little bit.

That is a premonition rather than deja vu

salsa spouted:
That is a premonition rather than deja vu

well i had the "o i have seen that" oh "deja vu" surely you cannot mix em ??

yup, because a premonition you could actually say you have before the incident, with deja vu it tends to be an ' I have seen it before' thing, but it happens instentaiously (sp?)

I would help with that spelling Sals, but I can't actually work out what word you were trying to spell
;-)

Instantainiously ? Ah sod it just say In a instant :)

Ah, in that case it's instantaneously.

If the 2 halves idea is correct why would meditation increase its occurence.I can back that up with first hand experience too.

Fireboy was right, it's when they change something in the matrix. Next time it happens, check they haven't bricked over your windows.

fireboy spouted:
no it is not, it is when they change the code in the matrix.

do you not know anything -

well explain this one then, if it is out of synch brain stuff why when i had a deja vu a bout 2 weeks ago with was a bout 10 seconds long i saw what was coming !! as i had seen it before and knew the events that followed it before they occured, now that did freak me out a little bit.

Matrix schmatrix. You're clearly a Jedi.

Gentreau spouted:
.................check they haven't bricked over your windows.


bloody pikeys!

I'm agreeing on the premenition(sp) and de ja vu thing on this. Like I've done before whilst dreaming dreamt something and then a few days later it has happened exactly how I dreamt it so I guess that was a premenition but if its instant then it could be explained by the two halves thingy

The two halves thing works, people with severe epilepsy sometimes have the central cortex (which communicates between the two halves) severed - this means that they will never experience deja vu.

The other side effect to this is that as one part deals with cognition and the other part deals with associations, if you show somebody a pen with one of their eyes but not the other, without this middle connection they'll know what it is called but not what to do with it. Swap eyes and they'll know what to do with it, but not what it is called...

Maybe then they'll go, "hang on, I've seen this thing before..."

I thought it was when information (visual and audio) went straight to the memory handling part of your brain without being 'filtered' by the perceptiual part first. So what you are remembering are experiances as they happen sort of a 'Now' recolection.

This happens all the time with some autistic people, they have an inability to filter out and forget information (like the rainman thing or the boy that can draw buildings from opnly seeing them once)

anyone else remember that theory??

Hans

Hans

I've never heard of that theory but is it the same thing of waking up from having had a dream and being convinced that you've had it before?

That's called a hangover! :)

I wonder what the French call deja vu?

I think you'll find the answer in this thread:
http://www.dogbomb.co.uk/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17060