Ever Had Deja Vu? This Is Why.

Every time I hear people talk about deja vu, they always say that stuff just FEELS familiar, but for me, deja vu is when I seem to already have a memory of a new moment.

Sometimes I dream future events then feel like deja vu when they happen

It always feels like a fleeting situation unlocks a memory of a dream I had some months earlier. Followed by a slight feeling of impending doom

I have had 4 dreams in my life where I was doing something fairly ordinary but in a place I hadn’t been before, and actually remembered it upon waking and thought it was odd that I had dreamed it. Then a few days to a week later it happened, I can’t begin to explain how utterly unnerving that is

I sometimes get half way through a conversation and realise that everything happening in that second feels like déjà vu, every single sense.

The annoying thing about deja vu is that it usually comes to you while you're talking about or doing the most random shit ever, not normal stuff, so you convince yourself there's no way you're fake-remembering something this oddly specific

Deja Vu is SUCH a strange phenomenon, because it cannot be recorded or shared in any practical societal way, but most of us know exactly how it feels. How do we explain it to the rest? It's like trying to explain "anger" to an android without using the word "angry" (or technically "feel" if it was an android).

I've had partial seizures all my life, though I never knew they were seizures until I was in high school. The auras I experience that warn me a seizure is coming is always a feeling of deja vu. But more like a sensation that I have dreamt the current scenario before. When I would experience these auras when I was growing up I LOVED the sensation so I never complained about it to my parents. It felt like a high, and it still does even today. But now since the goal is for me to stop having seizures I believe I have actually mentally stopped a potential seizure by concentrating and reminding myself that I have never dreamt of this situation. That everything that is happening is completely knew. That it's all in my head. My therapist referred to it as me "grounding myself". It has often worked, but since I enjoy the sensation so much I find myself having trouble trying to ground myself.

Anyone else's deja vu come from their dreams by recognizing it years later while going through life?

Sometimes I get Deja vu, but then I remember my life’s just boring and repetitive as shit

I am beginning to think my deja vu is simply multiple experiences of parallel worlds of timelines we live in.

I recall this one time at college when I was upset about not having anymore deja vu's because I took them as a sign that I was on the right path, so then immediately after sharing this thought with my new friend, I had one, but this time I didn't announce it, I just went with it and it lasted over five minutes, during which, I was conversing with myself about this new friend I was with, and even though I knew everything that was about to happen- I couldn't change it, I was living in a past dream and had no control over my actions. This freaked me out so much I thought I was crazy, and that there was no such thing as free will, we were all just acting our parts in this pre-scripted play, that's why everything seems so automatic sometimes.

Every time I get Deja vu I feel like it’s not the first time I’ve experienced the same deja vu. It’s really strange, it feels like “oh Thus is weird, this is like the 6th time I’ve been in this exact situation” and I never thought it to be just my mind.

When I was 15 we moved to an area we had never been to. After living there a couple of weeks I caught a bus to the next suburb. When the bus turned a corner I was suddenly struck by déjà vu. I knew each house, in detail, the colours of each letter box, I even recognised the people I saw in their front yards, with details as how they were dressed. It was a very weird experience which only lasted for that street, once the bus turned into the next street it was gone.

It seems many have felt deja vu because they dreamt the same situation earlier. It may depend on whether a person can remember their dreams and how vivid the dream is. It could be that when experiencing deja vu, you're getting an affirmation that you are exactly where you need to be🤔

I had this time back in middle school when we were going through a subject in English and I was 100% sure we had just done the subject a few days before, if not the very day before but to my astonishment no one else remembered. That was the strongest sense of deja but I’d ever felt and I was so confident we had just done it I was able to recite what we were talking about… maybe i was making it up and we had covered the same topic in a different English class tho. I think that’s a reasonable solution.

But I've experienced Deja Vu where even the sounds and what people say feels the same. It's like I knew they were going to say that.

when i do feel deja vu, it is in the middle random discussions. feels like i have had this exact conversation before and know what people will say before they say it. when in reality i probably have not had that discussion before and have no idea where it is going. at times i feel deja vu about my deja vu and it feels like a loop.

I often have the "feeling of having seen/done this before," involving a number of variables that makes it difficult to replicate by chance. The fraction of a second processing idea sounds more applicable, since the details are very specific.

The thing about deja vu with me is that I think I have experienced something already, but I know I genuinely did. It is all about how weird it is that I am in that specific of a situation as I was before. It's not really like a thing that has to do anything with routine, It's more like my brain recognises the oddly coincidence of a situation that has already happened. And I'm pretty sure it has, I just can't recall it because my memory isn't that great, and it's nothing too special to remember, but my brain can still connect the dots. Is that even deja vu? I don't even know if I have ever felt the real deja vu. Maybe what I am describing really is the deja vu everyone is talking about...