Freaked out deja vu?

[Victoriaspongex]

My little girl was just sat with me reading a book with open the flap pictures. When we got to a certain page I froze. I felt like this exact moment had happened before. Right down to my boyfriend sitting with our son looking at a book on the other sofa.

I suddenly had this awful thought. My daughter had a stomach bug that night after reading this book. It honestly felt like I was reliving something. I felt panicky for a few seconds. Now I'm racking my brains to remember if we read the book before she got poorly.

But I feel freaked out. It was so odd.

Has anyone ever had this. I feel abit nuts. Half expecting her to get a sick bug now!

I think Ive lost the plot!

How do you feel generally? Has this happened before? Were you hungry or anything when it happened?

You say you felt sick, was it like a rollercoaster type ride sickness?

Hope you are feeling better now x

Yeah I feel ok thanks. I'm definitely tired! But not hungry. Maybe a memory got mixed in somehow? I've had very occasional dejavu but not like that! X

I have this sometimes and it's quite unsettling. No idea why it happens but I wouldn't worry op. Try and forget about it and shake it off.

@Kittykat93

Must be the first time it's ever been so intense. It was the particular part of the book. So weird!

That’s good to hear. Not to panic you (or anyone else) but a strong deja vu feeling that provokes quite a strong reaction can be a sign of something else, that’s all. If you’ve not had it a lot before and you weren’t ill or anything after, it’s probably just nothing.

It can happen when you are tired. It’s literally a wrong electrical current in the brain putting the ‘present’ in to the memory section of your brain instead.

I have a condition that causes it and if I get deja vu it is a worry, so I was just checking x

@IamPickleRick

Thank you! I appreciate your kind post and advice. That sounds frightening for you. It was honestly so strange! X

Mine is an epilepsy, I posted similar to this on MN at the time years ago before I was diagnosed after I’d had an aura (which is what deja vu is really, it’s the moment before a seizure for my epilepsy type - I stay conscious the whole time) and when I came back to the thread to clear up what had happened and say I had a diagnosis, a poster said they thought it had been TLE when they first read my post.

So if someone else was in the same situation, I’d want to mention it straight off, if you see what I mean