How often do you get deja vu?

[koolsax]

Well, in this sense deja is translated to already. So it's already seen. But you don't count you're from BC, you're supposed to know French.

 

[Tazio]

Didn't you already ask me that?

One of my best friends told me something that I thought was pretty cool about deja vu. He said that he uses them like a road sign. When he experiences a deja vu, he takes it as a good sign that he is living his life exactly like he is meant to. Like a sign that tells him he is going the right way. Some people get freaked out by having a deja vu. Now, I feel pretty at ease when it happens to me.

On the other hand, I haven't had this happen to me in quite a while.

 

[milefile]

That sounds like a bunch of mystical BS to me.

 

[Tazio]

Probably, but it sounds nice.

 

[Acidman]

I've been getting Deja Vu so often nowadays it's starting to scare me.

 

[milefile]

Stop repeating yourself.

 

[Acidman]

I'll do what i want.

 

[Mr. Snowtire]

Originally posted by koolsax
I think that one fell on deaf ears. I don't think many people on her speak french. I bet half of them dont even know that deja vu is french let alone jamais vu.

Merci koolsax. You are smart and cool
jamais vu :The French phrase, meaning literally"never seen," refers to a disorder of recognition-the perception of a familiar object accompanied by the feeling that one has never before encountered it. Jamais vu is the opposite of Deja vu. Example: saying a word over and over until it loses it's meaning. For a short period, the word fails to evoke the meaning and registers in the mind as a meaningless grouping of syllables. This also happens with your own name. You don't hear it all the time, so it loses its meaning to you, and you fail to register it. This always happens when someone calls you or worse, when you are asked your name.

 

[Solid Lifters]

Deja Vu is a popular strip club here in LA.

I get deja vu once or twice a year, but I always try to analyze it when it happens. I try to figure out what is going to happen next. My deja vu's always seem to have multiple images, not just one thing happening.

One time it happened when I was in Las Vegas. My buddy was at a slot machine getting rid of some quarters, and he was palying only one at a time. Then I got deja vu that involved a buddy winning a lot of money at a slot machine. I grabbed his arm and ordered him to put in the maximum number of quarters in the slot. He won a jackpot amount of $500. If he only had one quarter, he would have only won $50. He gave me the weirdest look I ever got from someone and he said "Holly ****, how did you do that?" A few minutes later we were asked to leave.

 

[Klostrophobic]

Does anyone else live in a perpetual state of deja vu like me?

Or am I the only beautiful and unique snowflake?

 

[koolsax]

It might just be you, but I couldn't help posting...
Klos...That av and the little message thing above it are great.

And thanks for the words Mr. Snowtire.

 

[Jpec07]

If you can call dreams that you have at night actually happening (in exact detail) "deja vu" then yes, this does happen to me every 2-3 weeks. And no, I don't mean fantasies, I mean dreams (e.g. meeting an old friend in the mall, walking the dog and tripping over a newspaper, accidentally cutting myself with the razor...). It was realy freaky the first few times it happened, now I just pay no attention to it...

 

[Klostrophobic]

Tell me if you see the Red Sox playing the Rockies in the World Series.

 

[Jpec07]

I said dreams, not fantasies...

 

[Tazio]

Originally posted by Solid Lifters
Deja Vu is a popular strip club here in LA.

It's all over the place. I live in Washington State & we have them on both sides of the state here. I saw one in Honolulu too.

Originally posted by Solid Lifters
I grabbed his arm and ordered him to put in the maximum number of quarters in the slot. He won a jackpot amount of $500. . . . A few minutes later we were asked to leave.

I'd have kicked you out of my casino too. You might've been lucky to make it out with your kneecaps.

 

[TaiLo]

Okay, this is something that I think you all should know. It came from Reader's Digest, so it's not my own theory.

A deja vu is when someone sees something in real-time and perceives it as a memory at the same time, to the minutest detail. I just wanted to say that again for people who believe premonitions are deja vus. Okay, now to the Reader's Digest thing...

A deja vu is triggered when your brain "trips." The hippocampus is located in the temporal lobe (in the back of the brain), and this hippocampus controls memory. Apparently, the hippocampus is located adjacent to the part of your brain that controls sight and sound. When this part of your brain trips, the sights and sounds that you experience in real-time are quickly intercepted partially by the hippocampus (electrical signals are received by all three regions at the same time). In this case, you experience real-time life and memories at the same time; ergo, deja vu. Did you all get that?

I would vote that I don't get a deja vu enough times a year. I love those. It reminds me of the Matrix.

 

[halfracedrift]

So... What Reader's Digest is saying, is that Deja Vu is actually your own brain playing tricks on you?

 

[Tazio]

Originally posted by TaiLo
A deja vu is triggered when your brain "trips." The hippocampus is located in the temporal lobe (in the back of the brain), and this hippocampus controls memory. Apparently, the hippocampus is located adjacent to the part of your brain that controls sight and sound. When this part of your brain trips, the sights and sounds that you experience in real-time are quickly intercepted partially by the hippocampus (electrical signals are received by all three regions at the same time). In this case, you experience real-time life and memories at the same time; ergo, deja vu. Did you all get that?

Ah, you ruined it for everyone. Just kidding. That's pretty interesting though. And it makes total sense. 👍

 

[TaiLo]

It still feels weird whether you know how it works or not. It's just another way of saying that "you're trippin' ".

 

[the_cobbinator]

I get the strangest feeling in school sometimes that I had answered the question before or something. It really freaks me out.

 

[Squid]

Originally posted by the_cobbinator
I get the strangest feeling in school sometimes that I had answered the question before or something. It really freaks me out.

Have you failed any classes? j/k


I love getting deja vu, its suck a weird feeling i get it every once and a while

 

[Jpec07]

Originally posted by the_cobbinator
I get the strangest feeling in school sometimes that I had answered the question before or something. It really freaks me out.

Maybe that's because you have answered them before...

 

[Concept]

I get that deja vu everytime I think I've already done something before and I'm doing it all over again, yeah.

 

[TaiLo]

Well, that's the idea. Haven't had one for a while. Everytime I get one, it feels like I just hit the Refresh button my toolbar; almost like I get to start over and try again, even though that's not really the case. It just feels like that.

Actually, when I get a deja vu, it's probably the only time that I'm ever really focused on what I'm currently doing. It's so clear what I see, smell, hear, etc.

 

[TaiLo]

Well, speak of the devil. I just had a deja vu. Woohoo. Finally, after a long while. I was just playing solitaire while chatting with my friend. She said her parents were leaving for the Philippines, and I asked how long. Exactly how I "remembered" it. It couldn't have been an actual memory because I haven't spoken to her online only until recently. So genuine deja vu. Dang. So refreshed.