Dejaveux - what does it mean?

[Rawkinlocs]

I'm not even sure if I spelled it correctly or not...but hopefully you all know what I'm talking about.

My husband believes that when he has dejaveux (sp?), it indicates his life/path is on track. I know that I have them and he's been having them often lately. There'll be times when something will be going on or occuring and I'll just get this like "WHOA!" feeling come over me and it'll be as though it's something that happened before.

What does it mean to you or have any of you read or learned what it means when one experiences it?

thanks in advance!

[Revvell]

*shrugs* Hell, I dunno. :p

Revvell

[VeganVixen]

I get that so much ,like I will be talking to someone and be like wasnt I doing this before -I have a theory ~what if its our subconcious telling the future ,either in a dream or just somewhere in our mind,I THINK ITS SORT OF a more common psycic ability....

[DotfromOz]

It's spelled "deja vu," Rawkinlocs. If you wanna get really fancy, there's an accent over the "a," as I recall, but most English texts just spell it as I did.

Yeah, I'd agree with VeganVixen. Geez, I'm gonna owe her royalty payments at the rate I've been agreeing with her lately! :D

[sweetgoddess]

Hey Cherie. Deja vu! This is a french term that means already seen.
I like how your husband thinks of it...thats great.

Im my spiritual path, we believe in reincarnation. That we, Soul live more than just one life, and have had so many, many experiences. So we relate it to past-life experience.

Basically, you look at something or someone, or have an experience and you feel something inside of you vibrate.Like a bell being struck, the feeling echoed in Soul, its ripples move outward to the conscious mind and physical senses.

:)

[Rawkinlocs]

Thanks all for the replies (and correct spelling ;) )!

[VeganVixen]

I get that feeling and beleive in past lives and past spirits who are there for a reason -a bond that surpasses centuries!!!

but this is a different thing completely ,I ACTUALLY SEE IT!I "play" the video in my head and have seen myself IN that spot talking about THE SAME thing -its VERY vivid!!!

When I was little I could close my eyes and isntantly see moving stars (like the screensaver),then a bunch of black and white drawings -and I would look for the puppy drawing -then see "movies"

you guys might think im CRAZY but I saw TWO FLAMING TOWERS FALL DOWN when I was 7 in the park and hiding in a jungle gym while playing hide and seek -when I told my freind hiding next to me she thought I was NUTS -at the time I thought it was "the end of the world or something"- but 9 years later I knew what it was........

[rawruh]

I agree with all the opinions above. The spiritual philosophy which i am into kind of puts them all together. it is the subconscious knowing the future, but something can only be in your subconsious if it's already happened! But actually it has happened before! Because time, like seasons, and everything else in natural world is cyclic. Therefore to see the future is also to recall the past. So Notradamas wasn't actually seeing the future, he was remembering the past - the previous cycle of time! It all repeats identically, but we forget it, except for these few moments. The whole story. all your births are recorded in your soul, like a record that plays out.

Anyway i don't expect anyone to dig this, but it's an interesting concept. Which for me explains a lot of things.

Also it could be just recent past life memories, but that is more like, i feel i've been here before. I know the streets of this city, though i've never been here before. Rather than the wierd flash you get with Dejavu.

also, i think i read somewhere, that it could be just your brain delay in registering the scenery you are in. so you get a been here before feeling but actually it was only a nano-second before that you were there, but you were unconscious of what you were taking in.

[sweetgoddess]

i read somewhere, that it could be just your brain delay in registering the scenery you are in.

oh well that one's no fun! pooh-pooh! ;)

[rawruh]

yeah, that's the kind of boring theory that desperate scientists come up with to prove to us niave believers that spirituality is an illusion, and God is just a chemical reaction in your brain.

[Rawmommie]

yep, I read years ago in Scientific America that scientist attributed deja vu to synapsus (sp?) :rolleyes: and neuro transmitters firing in your brain or something that made you *think* you were seeing something for the second time.

I dunno. The one's I've had I could tell what the person with me would say next. I don't see how my brain could fire what they were going to say? I'm not sure whether it's the past life (wouldn't you remember old fashioned stuff? LOL! I've had them where I was in the same house, the same thing was on the tv with the same person?) or having seen these things in dreams before they happened. I have felt like I might have dreamed the things previously when they happen.

[russio]

Did you see The Matrix? Deja-vu is when the bad kung fu guys come out and try to fight you.

[Halo Aglow]

Deja vu is also a good way to know that you are on the right path with your life contract with God/dess. For me a lot of the times when I get deja vu it's just a signal and confirmation to let me know that I am doing what I am suppose to be doing in life, that everything (even the smallest thing) is in it's place for me to accomplish what needs to be accomplished with my life's purpose.

[Rawkinlocs]

Deja vu is also a good way to know that you are on the right path with your life contract with God/dess. For me a lot of the times when I get deja vu it's just a signal and confirmation to let me know that I am doing what I am suppose to be doing in life, that everything (even the smallest thing) is in it's place for me to accomplish what needs to be accomplished with my life's purpose.

That's ex-ACTLY what my husband believes!! I'll take that one and apply that particular meaning to our lives as we had always done! Thanks :)

[misslinda]

you guys might think im CRAZY but I saw TWO FLAMING TOWERS FALL DOWN when I was 7 in the park and hiding in a jungle gym while playing hide and seek -when I told my freind hiding next to me she thought I was NUTS -at the time I thought it was "the end of the world or something"- but 9 years later I knew what it was........
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WOW, So what else have you drempt about?

That's how I knew my LMP was the perfect pick--DEJA VU! I think I have alot more dreams that end up in my future--the mroe aware I am the more chronic they are.


Lunawitch, that's a great concept to "be track" in life.

[RawTruth]

Did you see The Matrix? Deja-vu is when the bad kung fu guys come out and try to fight you.

Huh? I'm a Matrix fan, but I'm not sure how you mean that this scene is déjÃ* vu. Can you explain?

By the way, here's a (rather, but not too, long) definition. I found the brain hemisphere theory interesting -- hadn't heard that one before.

DéjÃ* vu

This is a term that designates disorientation in time in which a person feels that he has been to an unknown place before, or has previously experienced a situation, or met a person before. DéjÃ* vu is an unexpected sensation of familiarity that applies to events, experiences, sensory impressions, dreams, thoughts, statements, desires, emotions, dreams, visits, the act of reading, the state of knowing, and, in general, the circumstances of living. The term is French for "already seen," and was first used to give a description to such experiences in 1876 by E. Letter Boirac, who called it "le sensation du déjÃ* vu." In 1896, F. L. Arnaud introduced it to science. There is no adequate English equivalent for the term "déjÃ* vu."

The sensation of déjÃ* vu has been found to be a common psychological experience. According to a poll conducted in 1986 by the National Opinion Research Council of the University of Chicago, 67 percent of Americans reported instances of déjÃ* vu, up from 58 percent in 1973. In other studies the phenomenon has been reported experienced more among women than men, and more among younger people than older people.

There is a wide variance in theories explaining déjÃ* vu. Some psychologists refer to it as "double cerebration." As early as 1884, theories were advanced suggesting that one hemisphere of the brain received information a split second earlier that the other half. In 1895, the English psychical researcher Frederic W. H. Myers theorized that the subconscious mind registered information sooner than the conscious mind. The speculation of a biological process for déjÃ* vu, if there is any, has not been proven.

Those believing in reincarnation theorize that déjÃ* vu is caused by fragments of past-life memories being jarred to the surface of the mind by familiar surroundings or people. Others theorize that the phenomenon is caused by astral projection, or out-of-body experiences (OBEs), where it is possible that individuals have visited places while in their astral bodies during sleep. The sensation may be also connected to the fulfillment of a condition as seen of felt in a premonition. Other possible explanations are clairvoyance and telepathy.

Others say déjÃ* vu is a product of the collective unconscious as theorized by psychiatrist Carl G. Jung. They speculate that déjÃ* vu occurs when one draws on the collective memories of humankind. Jung himself had an intense déjÃ* vu experience during his first trip to Africa. While looking out a train window he felt as if he was returning to the land of his youth of five thousand years earlier. He described it in Memories, Dreams, Reflections (60) as "recognition of immemorially known."

However, many researchers are cautious when dealing with instances of déjÃ* vu because of the chance the person who experienced the sensation may have read or seen something that is now in his unconsciousness that triggers the impression. The most reliable subjects of are young children. A.G.H.

This is from: http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/d/deja_vu.html

[VeganVixen]

VERY interesting

[solarliving]

I love this topic. I am convinced that deja vu's are when we are experiencing a scene that we have dreamt. Apparently we have many dreams a night but only remember a select few, if at all. I remember telling someone about a dream I had where I was working at a Dr.'s office, at that time I was a waitress. A couple years later I found myself in that exact scene working for a Chiropractor. I too believe that they are an indication that we are on the right track. Most of the deja vu's I have are rather ordinary scenes, like brushing ones teeth.

[jenna rose]

I have deja vu a lot. It's been happening more and more over the last couple of years, but has always been present with me.

I've also had dreams about things that later on were the exact same things that happened - time, place, people, what the people were saying/wearing, etc. I had a dream once as a young child that really scared me. It was about this giant rabbit with large fangs and big claws. it was, like, 6ft tall or something and it was scary. And what do you know? A few years ago, archaeologists found the remains of a prehistoric giant rabbit with large fangs and big claws, stood 6ft or higher. I had dreams like that a lot.

I also used to draw a lot when I was younger and drew things that weren't even in my life then or happened then but then years later they did happen. This one family portrait that I drew was of me, my mom and dad, my sister, a dog, two cats, a brother and a rat. The only things that didn't fit into that picture were my brother and a rat. Those hadn't even happened yet. My brother was born when I was 13 and I drew that picture when I was about 5. And my pet rats were even later than that.

With my deja vu, it happens anywhere. At home, school, a friends house, sitting at the computer. Anywhere.

[Dawn39]

Originally Posted by russio
Did you see The Matrix? Deja-vu is when the bad kung fu guys come out and try to fight you.

lol :)

That is what they called a "GLITCH in the MATRIX" where there was a problem in the program.

I really like the "being on the correct path" almost like Enlightenment