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Intense dejavu episode

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flowngo · 02/10/2023 21:26

Posting for traffic as spooked -

Have spoken to my best friend who's a GP but also posting to see if anyone has experienced similar.

This eve was waiting for my boyfriend to ring me to catch up about some future plans, we had been together with my child earlier this eve, low key dinner and chill time, no alcohol etc.
around 2030 I thought I will just go up to bed (out of character for me at 2030) and he can wake me up to chat later on. As I thought this, I had a phone call from him, except it was like a pocket dial as he sounded a little far away but he was saying things like "...stripper pole and don't give me any bullshit about not drinking, I know you drank in Barcelona" - of course I was immediately thinking is he ok, has he been drinking, who is he talking to, what's going on. I hung up and immediately texted to say call me asap, and googled intense deja vu to see what on earth was happening. The words were consistent with something we would have a bit of a row about a good while back.

He rang me and said he hadn't realised he had pocket dialled me, and was confused about the narrative I had heard.
Of course I was completely spooked by this, my friend said to contact the GP tomorrow morning, I know that Neuro won't see me overnight at ED so unless I have any symptoms of an upcoming seizure I'm not sure what to do!

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flowngo · 02/10/2023 21:28

Should add, I am slightly post viral, but under no more extreme stress than usual. My mum had a brain tumour a few years ago which presented as sudden onset seizures so I am understandably worried.

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truecolour · 02/10/2023 21:31

I’m not sure I understand the post correctly but all I get from it is an uneasy feeling about him. Are you sure he isn’t playing mind games?

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flowngo · 02/10/2023 21:35

Absolutely not mind games

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JoinInBetty · 02/10/2023 21:36

youvget a pocket dialled call and your BF saying what you heard and rather than thinking he was angry at a friend you believe it's deja vu because he said he what.. didn't have a conversation about a stripper??? You know what deja vu is?
You know he called be bullshitting you?

TiredMamOfTwo · 02/10/2023 21:37

Yeah that's not deja by.

Notcookie · 02/10/2023 21:40

That sounds nothing like deja vu.

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flowngo · 02/10/2023 21:40

It's exactly like something he would've said a good while ago, it was a whole 28 seconds of this narrative.

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Notcookie · 02/10/2023 21:43

I think the trauma from your Mum's condition is weighing on you and causing you anxiety. It sounds like you heard a conversation from a pocket dial and are putting 2+2 together and making 10.

This is nothing to do with deja vu.

Monty27 · 02/10/2023 21:44

Why déjà vu? Was it real or not real and hasn't happened before or has it? I'm lost @flowngo

Boomboomboomboom · 02/10/2023 21:44

This isn't deja vu. Deja vu is like a heightened sense of consciousness or unease about something that is happening now which you think has already happened or is so strongly familiar that it must have happened before including thinking you know what is going to happen next

If you have two calls from him on your phone this is no strange phenomenon actually he's just a lying bastard and you aren't going mad.

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flowngo · 02/10/2023 21:44

I know exactly what I heard as I thought he had undergone a complete personality transplant since I left his house a few hours ago!

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flowngo · 02/10/2023 21:45

Absolutely not a lying bastard, I am totally confused as is he. It was like it was part way through a rant at me, but clearly not.

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Peachonthebeach · 02/10/2023 21:46

You probably need to elaborate on what’s happened in the relationship to date and why you would have had an argument like this previously. Sounds pretty toxic.
From where most of us are standing and apologies if I’ve misunderstood, the man sounds like a controlling lunatic or a professional gaslighter. And that your first port of call would be to assume you have a neurological issue is pretty disturbing. Or have I got the wrong end of the stick here, as your post is a little confusing.

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flowngo · 02/10/2023 21:47

This was a very long time ago that we had any sort of heated discussions about the merits of me not drinking with him but drinking on mates holidays etc. very early stage arguments.

Completely and utterly out of character for him now which is why I was so confused

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flowngo · 02/10/2023 21:48

I said deja vu as it was like something he might've said a long time ago but absolutely no reason for him to be going off on one tonight, we don't voice note so it's not like I accidentally pressed that.

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Boomboomboomboom · 02/10/2023 21:50

Either you heard what you heard - which is the most likely answer given he admits he called you and you describe the sound of distance of a pocket dial, or you're delusional.

Unless you're going to drip feed that you were half asleep or on strong medication honestly what's more likely especially if he has form?

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flowngo · 02/10/2023 21:51

He said, oh yes it does say I pocket dialled you, must've been when I was taking the shopping from the Tesco delivery, which is true, it was scheduled for that time. Absolutely no reason for him to be saying that stuff to me.

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flowngo · 02/10/2023 21:52

No medication, not especially stressed. Have been sleeping a bit more than usual but nothing else.

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flowngo · 02/10/2023 21:54

We're completely settled at the moment, making future plans and so forth. Had a cup of tea with his mum earlier whilst my son was looking at the horses at their stables. Nothing out of the ordinary.

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CherrySocks · 02/10/2023 21:55

Could his phone have picked up the conversation of someone else on their phone - the delivery driver or a passerby outsde?

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flowngo · 02/10/2023 21:56

I highly doubt it, the conversation was very similar themes etc to one's we have had in the past. It was his voice. I couldn't stand to listen to it in the end so had to hang up. It was that feeling of uncomfortableness when someone is so very different to how you know them.

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flowngo · 02/10/2023 21:56

Very rural and remote house so no passers by

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Phleghm · 02/10/2023 21:57

Sorry OP but this post has made me a bit scared for you. Not just that you're doubting what you heard, but that you've come up with an elaborate diagnosis as to what caused it. It's far, far more likely for him to be acting out of character than it is for you to be having some neurological episode.

truecolour · 02/10/2023 21:57

If you genuinely heard him saying those things, then he did. He’s not just as confused as you and he knows what he’s doing. People acting confused can be a way to trip you up and make you doubt your own mind, which seems to be what’s happening.

truecolour · 02/10/2023 21:57

Phleghm · 02/10/2023 21:57

Sorry OP but this post has made me a bit scared for you. Not just that you're doubting what you heard, but that you've come up with an elaborate diagnosis as to what caused it. It's far, far more likely for him to be acting out of character than it is for you to be having some neurological episode.

I agree, it’s a bit worrying

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