There have been numerous times that I've felt deja vu after a dream. Feeling that I've been somewhere before or that I recognized a person but have never been there or met that person before. Sometimes I can sense walking to a situation that I've experienced before. When I feel like that I always say 'Deja vu.' I get strange looks but it seems to stop the feeling I had. I wish I had deja vu when I got stuck in an elevator.
Several times I have been to a place for the first time and thought it seemed familiar. Then I remembered being somewhere similar in a dream. I don't know if that is what is meant by deja vu, but it is weird. It's never a place I intended or knew I would be going to when I had the dream, so it can't be anticipation. It could be a landscape, a building or a town that I feel I have been to in a dream. It's never exactly the same, just that I can remember certain features.
Yes, Ruth this is exactly what I mean. The strange thing to me is that if I had a dream about it I surely don't remember. Sometimes the feeling is so strong that I rack my mind trying to remember why I feel I know a person who has never met me before or been somewhere I've never been before. It is really weird.
I have situations where I am doing something and then think didn't I just do that or I can remember seeing something that I know it is the first time I have seen sort of scary.
I think I have before. There have been times when I was watching a movie and felt very strongly that I had seen the movie before even though it was impossible. Although this was probably due to the fact that I probably saw a similar movie before and just connected it to the new movie.
One of the things I was taught many years ago is that we exist on several spiritual planes. When we dream, we may go to our life on one of these various planes and if we wake up rapidly, we will remember a bit of the place that we actually visited. As far as bad dreams or nightmares, it is only spirits that we meet who are not yet developed and enjoy scaring us. This may be true or not, but it is what I was taught.
Nice to know I am not the only one who has experienced this. It has happened to me on more then one occasion. I remember once I dreamed I was working in a place that I didn't know with people I didn't know. Years later I had a major sense of deja vu when I went to work in that exact place with those exact people. This is just one example of the times this has happened to me. There have also been so odd dreams that seem to have had hidden messages to me that have come to pass.
I used to get deja vu a lot when I was younger. It didn't have to do with dreams, I would just go somewhere I'd never been and I would recognized it and knew that I'd been there before. Or I'd be talking with someone, and realize that I'd had that conversation before. Or recognize someone I just met. It was never 100% concrete, but more "around the edges", if that makes sense. A few times, I even went to my parents and asked them if I had ever been to the place before, thinking that maybe they had taken me as a child, and I was having a memory of it. They would always say no, and look at me strange. They actually did that a lot!! It was an interesting feeling. It makes you wonder about some of the eastern philosophies. But I haven't felt that in a really long time. I kind of miss it.
I have done this, and I think most, if not all people have, at one time or another. A lot of people over the decades have written it up to some metaphysical phenomenon. A friend of mine in the medical field tells me that they're pretty sure it's just a misfiring neuron. He says we are actually "remembering" things that never happened. Who knows?
Remembering things that have never happened - this is a discussion by those of like minds. I'd rather stick with 'seeing things that are going to take place or may take place.' Has anyone seen the movie with Denzel Washington 'Deja Vu?' Good movie. It's seeing the outcome of his deja vu experience. This is probably as believable as one can get to understanding what deja vu is.
I have a recurring dream about a large mansion with hundreds of rooms. I keep getting lost and always trying to find my way out. But the strange part is, I feel that I have actually been to this place.
Hi Brittany! I think I will stick to the metaphysical version. "Misfiring neuron" just doesn't make too much sense to me.
I think it is a case of our magnificent brains at work.....always striving to make sense of the senseless.... solutions looking for a problem. So much of our brain is unused..... "where no brain has gone before"!