DE JA VU

[Lewis.]

Oh My God, I just had a De Ja Vu of a TiBB page. :/ It was really weird. Anyone had any Dejavu's? I get them often! I think it is really weird how you dream about something and it happens months later. How do I know what is going to happen. God, it feels strange! ;)

[Harry!]

Whats a DE JA VO?

EDIT - What happerned

[Firewire]

Originally posted by Harry.
Whats a DE JA VO?

:O

[Lewis.]

When you dream of something, and then you see what happened in your dream in real life.

Eg. I had a dream I was at the beach and I saw a little dog run across, and then it actually happened about 4 years ago, the EXACT thing that happened in my dream, its ears flapped the same way and everything"

[Sam!]

I aint had it in a while, it makes me laugh.

[Harry!]

Originally posted by LewisLeona
When you dream of something, and then you see what happened in your dream in real life.

Eg. I had a dream I was at the beach and I saw a little dog run across, and then it actually happened about 4 years ago, the EXACT thing that happened in my dream, its ears flapped the same way and everything"

What happened on TiBB then, No running dogs?

[Ninastar]

I have de ja vu all the time. My dad had a premonition once!!

[BarbadosSlim]

its not just about dreaming something then have it happened.
more than likely, its something that has happened, or something very similar,
i.e the feeling you have seen something before.
the fact you dreamed something that happened, is just pure coincidence, in fact de ja vu is not related to your dreams.
its when something has happened in you life, and sub consciously you've put that memory away, until one thing sparks it off and then you think its happened already

[Lewis.]

In my dream I was on TiBB and just browsing, and then My Friend logged in as I Clicked on Todays posts

Then, The Exact thing happened just now, the Exact friend, and The Exact thread titles.

Is that a Dejavu or a Premonition?

[BarbadosSlim]

well considering what i just said, probably a premonition.

either that or a massive coincidence.
but unless it happened in real life already it cant be de ja vu

[Lewis.]

In that case I am always having premonitions. I have the same thing happen once a month. It is really weird. I see EXACTLY the same as I saw in my Dream, which could have happened months ago. So Really, I knew housemate names before Big Brother started, if I had taken much notice. Wow, Because Halfwit was in a thread title.

[Harry!]

Originally posted by LewisLeona
In my dream I was on TiBB and just browsing, and then My Friend logged in as I Clicked on Todays posts

Then, The Exact thing happened just now, the Exact friend, and The Exact thread titles.

Is that a Dejavu or a Premonition?

Which friend is it? What threads are the same titles?

[Lewis.]

ALL of them Harry. All of the Thread Titles. It was for about 2-3 seconds, I didn't take much notice in my dream, but I knew it was the same. And My Friend Maddie.

Weird as hell. But it always happens. About once a month. Maybe I am a bit Phsycic?

[Harry!]

Originally posted by LewisLeona
ALL of them Harry. All of the Thread Titles. It was for about 2-3 seconds, I didn't take much notice in my dream, but I knew it was the same. And My Friend Maddie.

Weird as hell. But it always happens. About once a month. Maybe I am a bit Phsycic?

Well I predicted that in a music lesson I would work on my own as my group members kicked me out, Go in a panic and dont know what song to choose, Look at the EXACT music sheets in a book and pick the EXACT song I chose to play.

That is odd.

[BarbadosSlim]

nah your not psychic, sounds abit exaggerated to me.

[Jayson]

De Ja Vu : The illusion of having already experienced something actually being experienced for the first time.

A) 1. An impression of having seen or experienced something before: Old-timers watched the stock-market crash with a distinct sense of déjà vu.

B) 2. Dull familiarity; monotony: the déjà vu of the tabloid headlines.

[hannah.]

would anyone like to know the scientific reason behind it or will it shatter your superstitions?

[Jayson]

Originally posted by hannah.
would anyone like to know the scientific reason behind it or will it shatter your superstitions? I wanna know the scientific reason!

[hannah.]

Originally posted by LewisLeona
When you dream of something, and then you see what happened in your dream in real life.

Eg. I had a dream I was at the beach and I saw a little dog run across, and then it actually happened about 4 years ago, the EXACT thing that happened in my dream, its ears flapped the same way and everything"

thats not de ja vu, de ja vu is the feeling you get when you really really feel like somethings happened before, ive had a few dreams like that but much bigger, i'm on the phone atm but i'll tell you them later

[Ninastar]

okay. Please do ahannah.. x

( I will do mine now but I will add it in a min)

edit: Okay well Its my dad but anyway

My dad was sleeping one night (He was like 14) and he had this really realistic dream (The most realistic one he has ever had before). He said he sae his auntie crash on the highway and her car caught fire and she was unconsuious. He said he that then this man came and pulled her out of the car and left her in the field next to the car and then drove off. He then woke up and was really scared. He looked at the time and it was 2:11 (I have no idea why he remembers the time but I think it was just because it was that much of a bad dream). Anyway he went back to sleep and at like 6 in the moringing he answered the phone. It was the hopspital and they wanted to talk to his mum (because his auntie is her sister). When his mum started crying my dad knew what was wrong so he started like crying too (I still find this so cute). Anyway the biggest thing was that the ambulance arrived at the scene at like twenty past 2 in the morning. So maybe at the time she crashed, is when my dad was dreaming???

Anyway thats it basically. I swear on my life this is true. I know my dad isnt lieing because he doesnt lie anyway and he would lie aboust something like this. x

[30stone]

De Ja Vu isn't about dreaming.

Its about looking at something that you think you have seen before, when you really can't have.

Like when i went to France i thought i had already been to the hotel we were staying in, when i had never been to France before.

[Ninastar]

I posted mine. x

[BarbadosSlim]

you cant always believe these stories, people often exagerrate to make there story sound more scary then they get it in there head that, thats what actually happened.

[Zac]

I have them sometimes. The most recent one I had was about a Science class. It's so wierd, most of mine are based on school though, I really don't know why. :|

[max]

I get them all time it's quite freaky.

[Sticks]

Originally posted by Jayson
Originally posted by hannah.
would anyone like to know the scientific reason behind it or will it shatter your superstitions? I wanna know the scientific reason!

Your wish is my command (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5194382.stm)



Scientists believe they have found a way to probe the mysterious phenomenon of feeling you have witnessed something before - deja vu.
Leeds Memory Group researchers say they have gone some way to recreating the sensation in the lab using hypnosis.

New Scientist magazine reports the researchers hope their work will shed light on the fundamental workings of the human memory.

It is estimated that as many as 97% of people have experienced deja vu.

In some severe cases it can be distressing to the point of causing depression and some sufferers have been prescribed anti-psychotic medication.

However, experts suspect that many people who experience the sensation are unwilling to discuss it with their doctor.

Two stage process

Two key processes are thought to occur when someone recognises a familiar object or scene.

First, the brain searches through memory traces to see if the contents of that scene have been observed before.

If they have, a separate part of the brain then identifies the scene or object as being familiar.

In deja vu, this second process may occur by mistake, so that a feeling of familiarity is triggered by a novel object or scene.

The Leeds team set out to create a sense of deja vu among volunteers in a lab.

They used hypnosis to trigger only the second part of the recognition process - hoping to create a sense of familiarity about something a person had not seen before.

The researchers showed volunteers 24 common words, then hypnotised them and told them that when they were next presented with a word in a red frame, they would feel that the word was familiar, although they would not know when they last saw it.

Green frames would make them think that the word belonged to the original list of 24.

Peculiar sensation

After being taken out of hypnosis, the volunteers were presented with a series of words in frames of various colours, including some that were not in the original 24 and which were framed in red or green.

Of the 18 people studied so far, 10 reported a peculiar sensation when they saw new words in red frames and five said it definitely felt like deja vu.

Researcher Akira O'Connor presented the findings to an International Conference on Memory in Sydney, Australia.

He told New Scientist: "This tells us that it is possible to experimentally dissociate these two processes, which is really important in establishing that they are indeed separate."

Some people with temporal lobe epilepsy report frequent deja vu.

And previous work in France has found that electrically stimulating parts of the temporal lobe can trigger a sensation of familiarity with everything a person encounters.

Professor Alan Brown, an expert in deja vu at South Methodist University in Dallas, said: "Using hypnotic suggestion to either stimulate, or simulate, a deja vu experience could potentially be a very fruitful way to explore this phenomenon.

"I don't have a lot of detail about the Leeds project but from what I know it certainly seems to be solid work with an intriguing outcome."





Nothing to do with psychic powers at all

[Z]

A scientific explanation of déja vu! Awesome, thanks Sticks :)!