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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Deja Vu; What is it?
Have you ever felt like an event in your life has taken place before? You don't know how or why you feel this way but there is this voice that says "it has happened". It's this surge of feelings that overwhelm you when you feel like a deja vu is taking place. The term deja vu, if you look it up in a dictionary, means "a feeling of having already experienced the present situation." It's funny how you try to recreate a scene that has taken place in your life but it doesn't seem to work. Deja Vu takes place in your life when you don't eve know it. Today, my mother was driving me to the library and we began to talk about school, college, and stuff. As I looked through the window, a man carrying a suitcase caught my attention the moment my mother was talking. All of a sudden I felt a feeling of deja vu. It was very interesting how my mother's words, "it's very difficult for you" and the man with the suitcase seemed so so so so familiar to me. Maybe in my "past life" I have gone through this situation and that's why I remember. This leads me to my second definition of deja vu. Some people say that deja vu takes place in your life because of rebirth. In your past life, you must have experienced a familiar state and this is why a sudden surge of feelings come over you. You feel emotional at that instant moment because you can remember the very moment in your past life again in this life. It's very interesting and I will find some more information about deja vu to write in my next blog.
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A random fact:
Translated literally, deja vu means "seen again".
Just thought I should announce that, for no apparent reason. Whatever, I like random facts, I remember them. But never remember anything useful, naturally.
That Happens To Me All The Time! And I Always Wonder, If That Little Thing Here On Earth, That Somehow I Remember, Will Have Any Significance, Or Had Significance In My Life...Weird..And Deja Vu Really Makes You Think!
Wow this happens to me almost once every week. It's really strange, but I experience things that I swear that I have seen through dreams. I dream a lot when I sleep, and some of them I can guarentee that I will see them later on. It's really weird!
I thought you were supposed to be different people in your past lives? So that would mean in your past life you were at one point riding in a car listening to a woman, when you saw a man with a briefcase walking down the street. But, then if you were experiencing deja vu about mundane things in life couldn't it just be that you actually have been there before?
I think that Danielle's idea of deja vu makes more sense. Sometimes, your dreams are related to experiences in real life, only in your dream, your exposed to all the things in your subconscious as well. You see in your dream state minute details you normally wouldn't notice while awake, allowing your mind to make predictions about the outcome of that event. So it's not so much the power to tell the future, but a heightened sense of perception that has warned you about what might happen. Maybe the experience seems so familiar because you were expecting it the entire time, storing it in the back of your mind.
Albert,
What I meant was that there are two arguments that scientists discuss. One of them is that you have experienced a certain event before in your life; yes maybe in dream. What I meant about that specific event in my life was that I could remember this exact moment somewhere in my life. Also, when I talked about reincarnation, I was referring to how scientists view deja vu. I didn't say that maybe in my past life, this EXACT moment took place. Maybe something about that scene gave me deja vu.
It's not like you are going to tell the future or anything but just that "the experience seems so familiar because you were expecting it the entire time." When you feel deja vu, it's as if somewhere, somehow, in your life (I didn't give any examples) you were expecting this to happen. I think I stated this in my blog. When I saw the man, I immediately knew my mother's next words would be "It's a difficult time for you." I wasn't even listening to her conversation.
I am sorry but I wasn't clear about the different perspectives.
Like phantasmagoria just that it is in a dream xD
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