What is Déjà Vu?

Haight · 09-20-2008, 02:39 PM

If you've seen this thread before, I apologize.

Please explain what you think déjà vu is, exactly. In other words, from a logically point of view, where does it come from? What is it? How can you see something in your mind's eye before it happens?

Obviously, I have a theory (and yes, I just thought about this after a déjà vu episode about an hour ago):

Déjà vu about intuitive connections that you make while sleeping. Then, on occasion, when you make the same connection while awake AND that foresight actually happens . . . you receive a flash that we call déjà vu.

Or I could be completely wrong, yet I believe that my theory is correct at this moment.

Peguy · 09-20-2008, 02:49 PM

This should help answer all your questions. LOL

+ "Déjà Vu - Monty Python" via YouTube

colmena · 09-20-2008, 03:01 PM

I recon you do something in your dreams, and then you're unconsciously driven to revisit the scenario whilst you're awake.

Kyrielle · 09-20-2008, 03:10 PM

From what I understand, déjà vu is a phenomenon where you are remembering the event as it is happening, which is why you get the impression that it's happened before or you predicted everything down to the last detail.

As for why it happens, I haven't a clue. I've read that it might be loosely related to seizures.

But I like to think of it as the neurons in your brain telling the other neurons in your brain, "No, no, you idiot! That one goes there, this one here! What? Stop! Stop! Cut the memory sequence! This is the present not the bloody past." while the rest of the neurons sort of look on and laugh quietly to themselves.

Haphazard · 09-20-2008, 03:40 PM

From what I've read, déjà vu is brain misfiring when one side of the brain perceives something slightly before the other side of the brain, giving the impression that the whole thing has been 'perceived before,' even though it hasn't. And yes, it does have some connection with seizures, which are also about brain misfirings.

Jack Flak · 09-20-2008, 03:47 PM

Haphazard beat me to it. Brain has to reprocess sensory data, but there are traces left over.

Haight · 09-20-2008, 05:09 PM

Yeah, except for the fact that there is no "impression."

When this happens to me, nine times out of ten, I can recall the dream and the events that took place prior to and after the déjà vu scenario - maybe this has to do with my ability to recall my dreams. So as I suspected, maybe this is an Ni thing in that maybe different types experience different types of déjà vu and for different reasons.

Jack Flak · 09-20-2008, 05:13 PM

The question is, how do you know you could recall it before the deja vu experience? Once deja vu occurs, the memory of your memory is untrustworthy. I tend to feel like I've been familiar with the memory for years.

Jeffster · 09-20-2008, 07:13 PM

My question is, how do you make those accent marks over the letters on a keyboard?

Jack Flak · 09-20-2008, 07:15 PM

The only way I know is to hold ALT and type number codes. I only know a few, try google. üä!

09-20-2008, 02:39 PM	#1 (permalink)
Haight Doesn't Read Your Posts Join Date: Apr 2007 Type: INTj Location: Baltimore Posts: 3,547	What is Déjà Vu? If you've seen this thread before, I apologize. Please explain what you think déjà vu is, exactly. In other words, from a logically point of view, where does it come from? What is it? How can you see something in your mind's eye before it happens? Obviously, I have a theory (and yes, I just thought about this after a déjà vu episode about an hour ago): Déjà vu about intuitive connections that you make while sleeping. Then, on occasion, when you make the same connection while awake AND that foresight actually happens . . . you receive a flash that we call déjà vu. Or I could be completely wrong, yet I believe that my theory is correct at this moment. __________________ "The only time I'm wrong is when I'm questioning myself." Dr. Haight

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colmena señor member Join Date: Apr 2008 Type: INXP Location: UK Posts: 1,576	impromptu thought I recon you do something in your dreams, and then you're unconsciously driven to revisit the scenario whilst you're awake. __________________ http://badges.mypersonality.info/badge/0/6/68764.png colmena's recent film rankings Ti Ne Fi Ni -How beautiful, this pale Endymion hour. -What are you talking about? -Endymion, my dear. A beautiful youth possessed by the moon. -Well, forget about him and get to bed. -Yes, my dear.

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Kyrielle Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Type: INFJ Location: Marietta/Savannah, GA Posts: 1,094	From what I understand, déjà vu is a phenomenon where you are remembering the event as it is happening, which is why you get the impression that it's happened before or you predicted everything down to the last detail. As for why it happens, I haven't a clue. I've read that it might be loosely related to seizures. But I like to think of it as the neurons in your brain telling the other neurons in your brain, "No, no, you idiot! That one goes there, this one here! What? Stop! Stop! Cut the memory sequence! This is the present not the bloody past." while the rest of the neurons sort of look on and laugh quietly to themselves. __________________ "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able, and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God." -Epicurus.

09-20-2008, 03:40 PM	#5 (permalink)
Haphazard Funny how that works... Join Date: Apr 2008 Type: BOOM Posts: 3,047	From what I've read, déjà vu is brain misfiring when one side of the brain perceives something slightly before the other side of the brain, giving the impression that the whole thing has been 'perceived before,' even though it hasn't. And yes, it does have some connection with seizures, which are also about brain misfirings. __________________ Be good and you will be lonesome. -Mark Twain The difference between a J and a P is not capacity for procrastination but rather pride in it.

09-20-2008, 05:09 PM	#7 (permalink)
Haight Doesn't Read Your Posts Join Date: Apr 2007 Type: INTj Location: Baltimore Posts: 3,547	Yeah, except for the fact that there is no "impression." When this happens to me, nine times out of ten, I can recall the dream and the events that took place prior to and after the déjà vu scenario - maybe this has to do with my ability to recall my dreams. So as I suspected, maybe this is an Ni thing in that maybe different types experience different types of déjà vu and for different reasons. __________________ "The only time I'm wrong is when I'm questioning myself." Dr. Haight

09-20-2008, 03:47 PM	#6 (permalink)
Jack Flak Banned Join Date: Jul 2008 Type: INTP Location: The Everlasting Sky Posts: 9,359	Haphazard beat me to it. Brain has to reprocess sensory data, but there are traces left over.

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Jack Flak Banned Join Date: Jul 2008 Type: INTP Location: The Everlasting Sky Posts: 9,359	The question is, how do you know you could recall it before the deja vu experience? Once deja vu occurs, the memory of your memory is untrustworthy. I tend to feel like I've been familiar with the memory for years.

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Jeffster RIP Join Date: Jun 2008 Type: isFp Location: College Station, Texas Posts: 4,523	My question is, how do you make those accent marks over the letters on a keyboard? __________________ Jeffster Illustrates the Artisan Temperament <---- click here "You are a wise man, O Jeffster of the Innerwebz." -- Pink Piranha

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Jack Flak Banned Join Date: Jul 2008 Type: INTP Location: The Everlasting Sky Posts: 9,359	The only way I know is to hold ALT and type number codes. I only know a few, try google. üä!

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