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Deja vu fascinates me. When it happens to me, it is the uncanny and absolute reality that the experience I'm having has happened before. No doubt. Not just similar. Exact.

I'm posting this because I had deja vu just a little while ago. But while it was happening, I remembered something that a friend told me. Deja vu, according to him, doesn't necessarily mean you're seeing into the past, but rather the future. It's a bit mind-blowing to me, because the implication is that the reason you're having deja vu is because, at some point in the past, you saw the present.

Generally I think time is an illusion, and so everything I've said might be irrelevant. Still, it's a cool experience

I've had some show stopping experiences with it too.

I don't get Deja Vu very often, but when I do it is very intense and kind of ruins me mentally for a while. As if my brain is still trying to process why this is happening again.

I have heard from a coworker once (so no, I can't back it up) that Deja Vu could be a result of part of our brain registering the external stimuli before others. Then when the other parts catch up our brain has previously processed this information leading to a feeling of that having happened before. I think that's interesting, but again, I have no way to back that up. For all I know my coworker made that up.

Of course it could just be a glitch in the matrix.

All my deja vu experiences are related to dreams.

@Goken, our mind knows what we are going to do before we are even aware of it. It knows, for example, if we intend to raise our hand milliseconds before we even do it. In that case I easily imagine that it registers external stimuli before we're even aware.

All of my DeJa Vu experiences are in the time-span of years. For me they come in forms of dreams, or as some calls it "visions", and may not occur till years later. If they are very rememberable and unique "dreams" I'll remember them and will remember when I had the dream, if not then that is when I get that typical "DeJa Vu" feeling.

I've had some instances of what I call deja vu that I'm not really sure fit the typical conception. Often times I'll have an image of something completely without context and then five or ten years later it'll happen and suddenly it'll make sense with context.

I don't put too much stock in it though because no matter how much I swear I remembered it from a vision I had had as a child or a teenager, I also know that one can have false memories based on suggestion... Also sensory delay can cause us to believe we're seeing something twice.

I also had an "episode" the other day. It was so vivid that I remembered the outcome ended in someone being upset, so I changed what I said to prevent the bad feelings. It ended much better.

It was weird and awesome at the same time.

Happens all the time. Doesn't do much for me. Just kind of neat. Like seeing an eclipse.

One neurological explanation I've heard for deja-vu is that it is an "electrical accident" whereby the information being processed is stored in the memory, but while it's doing that the memory locations of the information being accessed are activated. This causes one to receive the external stimulus and remember it at the same time - causing deja vu. From what I've read the phenomenon is not very well understood.

I've only had it very rarely and the one instance I do remember clearly I thought I had dreamed it before hand. That was many years ago though, and now I'm simply not sure whether I did dream it or not

I've had quite a few of those in recent years. Most of them were somewhat late in the evenings of what had been long days. Curiously, exhaustion is also one of the prime causes of the phenomenon (or so they say) and nobody else seems to be able to verify my memory. And nobody could see the future such that a testable prediction could be made. In fact, nobody actually saw anything remotely remarkable or useful. It's astonishing how something so spiritual and transcendent can so easily disguise itself as something perfectly natural and meaningless.