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To ask have you ever had De ja vu?

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SalemShadow · 13/03/2019 21:27

Have you ever had Dejavu?
I was out in a fancy club last night with an old girl mate in a different city for work and we were in the loos and I got totally freaked out. I had really bad Dejavu. Like this exact situation of us being there had happened before. I told her and she was freaking out and saying she doesn't like stuff like that. Have you ever experienced this and what does it mean?

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WonderTweek · 13/03/2019 22:23

I'm also ridiculously remember-y and get déjà vus all the time. They don't bother me.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 13/03/2019 22:33

I'm very woo. However I had a science teacher who explained it as.
Its when your brain shuts down for say a second and switches back on.
If think about it does make sense.

gower4 · 13/03/2019 22:43

I used to get it a lot as a child. I've read it can have quite serious causes, e.g. epilepsy, but gave always assumed it was normal for me.

BlueEyedBengal · 13/03/2019 22:43

I get it now and again nothing exciting maybe a conversation and actions exactly the same as I had dreamt or thought about sometimes weeks before hard to figure out why ?

inashizzle · 13/03/2019 22:45

Huge amount when I was 9/10. Could just explain it like I knew exactly what was going to happen and picture it. Less as teen but still a lot and once in a blue moon now. Had it the other night and reused I hadn't had it in years.

My Dm told me that aroind 6 yrs I used to concern her a bit as I'd announce quite matter of fact my that I'd been in another world . Feck knows what world I thought I was in compared to anyone else- hated sci fi, so I wouldn't have got it from there....

SquigglySquaw · 13/03/2019 22:47

I get them quite a lot. It doesn't bother me at all, just my brain doing funny things😆

fluffypudcats · 13/03/2019 23:11

Yes. I was promptly diagnosed with epilepsy.

Catsandbootsandbootsandcats · 13/03/2019 23:16

I have it very occasionally.

The weirdest one was when I got it really badly in Alicante in Spain when I was 15. I'd never been there before but was just overwhelmed with deja vu. It was the strangest experience.

TheFormidableMrsC · 13/03/2019 23:40

I had a very strong deja vu experience on holiday in France when I was about 9 years old. We were on a day trip. There was a war memorial and I told my dad I'd been there before and I remember feeling overwhelmed with sadness and loss for somebody who I couldn't quite remember. Very odd experience. I am nearly 50 and I still think about it on occasion.

reenon · 14/03/2019 01:05

Yes I do. I have awake mini fits and have horrible deja vu as part of them. Not nice.

Peacocking · 14/03/2019 01:35

Yes, but only once or twice very strongly. Stupidly minor and weird. I was about 13 and had a dream about walking into the local play park. It was grey and a bit windy, clouds were moving fast and a crisp packet blew past me. Woke and promptly forgot the dream, but remembered it very sharply when that moment in my dream happened that same day. Second time was about 25 years later, dreamt I was walking the dogs on the beach and found a tiny little cave in the rocks. My smallest dog explored the cave, came out and fell into a rockpool and nearly drowned. Next day I went to the beach as usual, walked further than normal and there was the cave. I was a bit weirded out. Explored the cave, came out and the tide had come right up. My littlest dog got caught by a wave and nearly carried out to sea, but I grabbed her just before she was into the deeper water.

thaegumathteth · 14/03/2019 03:55

Not so much now but when I was w kid all the time

Myfoolishboatisleaning · 14/03/2019 04:35

Not for ages, now you mention it. (40s) I used to get it very frequently when younger, I loved it, never really freaked me out because I knew what it was.

burntdinner · 14/03/2019 04:53

In my previous house where I had a land line I could preempt when it would ring by about 30 seconds also on many calls would know who the caller was before I answered some how by the ringing ( no set times or indicator on phone just an old basic hand set ) was very strange - not sure if it was da ja vu

TakenForSlanted · 14/03/2019 05:33

Yes, fairly often. As PP have pointed out, there's nothing particularly woo about it. It's just our brains playing tricks on us.

When I met a dead person on a busy London street, greeted them and they greeted back, on the other hand ... it took me two days to figure out I'd mixed them up with someone else and they weren't, in fact, dead at all.

ispepsiok · 14/03/2019 05:45

Yes, but when I experience it it's usually followed by a seizure (epilepsy).

If it's happening often I'd suggest seeing your doctor.

cariadlet · 14/03/2019 05:45

I've had it loads of times. It freaked me out a little bit when I was a kid, but now I know it's just the brain messing up a bit. It's probably to do with the temporal lobe.

The howstuffworks website has an interesting article here. There seem to be a few different types of deja vu and a few different theories trying to explain the mechanics behind it.

Namechangeforthiscancershit · 14/03/2019 05:49

Yes, totally normal and your friend needs to calm right down.

BUT as a few people have said, I actually haven't had it for ages and I used to get it quite frequently. I'm 35. Maybe it is something you go through phases of?

2birds1stone · 14/03/2019 06:02

I get normal de ja vu. I also have vivid dreams which I remember and have had dreams which then replay the next day... whether it's a sixth sense or my brain makes it happen because it's already there.... 🤷‍♀️

Joebloggswazere · 14/03/2019 06:04

I get strong deja vus before I have a seizure.

TheNoodlesIncident · 14/03/2019 07:26

I've had it and it is nothing more than a vague but intense feeling, so I'm not bothered by it.

My mum's partner, on the other hand, told me he'd been at a formal occasion and the deja vu feeling came over him. He told a colleague and they said "Oh yes, I get that too." Mum's DP then said, "X is going to come through that door over there, then come over here and say XYZ and ABC". Colleague was surprised at the depth of information and the next moment, X came through the door, walked over to them and said "XYZ, ABC" I got goosebumps when he told me this. Even what X said was not a predictable kind of thing like Hi guys, how are you all, it was technical jargon...

So odd, never forgotten that

2birds1stone · 14/03/2019 08:05

@thenoodlesincindent... do you think it was set up at all

Guy emails colleague... let's play a Trick at 9.03 walk through the door and tell me this.... I will tell everyone I know what you will say...

recrudescence · 14/03/2019 08:41

The frequency of deja vue experiences declines with age - a pity because I like the sensation when it happens.

TheNoodlesIncident · 14/03/2019 10:26

@2birds1stone - Fair question, but no I don't think it was contrived. My mum's partner just isn't that kind of person. I am very cynical generally and often think "oh yeah" when people relate stories that are a good narrative but this person... nope, not a chance. It could easily have been set up... but he just wouldn't. It's like some people would set up a practical joke for another person yet for other people it wouldn't occur to them to do such a thing ever. I trust him implicitly.

I am not very coherent, sorry, but I hope you understand what I mean.

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