Deja Vu Theories

[Stooge]

Most of us have felt it. In fact, I am feeling it right now (thanks, coffee incident).

I bring this up because this morning when I was closing up, it was almost 5AM, I dropped my key after everything was locked, and as I crossed the street I saw this really tall and thin woman in a long black coat with black sunglasses, holding a bag in both hands, just standing outside of the door to a butcher shop that wasn't opened yet, and BAM, deja vu. I swore this was not the first time the key dropped and I saw this woman waiting motionless.

What possibly causes this? What do you think Deja Vu is?

[Katat0nik]

I like to think its the sign that you're on the right path. If you weren't, you wouldn't have the feeling of having seen it before.

[Fly_Mulder]

Ive always felt that Deja Vu was remembering a premonition from a dream. That sometimes our dreams can grant us glimpses into the future. The problem is, we never know when those dreams occur and they're normally so mundane.

[Stooge]

The thing that makes me nervous is what if I am remembering it because I made a mistake, and I am just making the same again? Is there a reason for it? Is it just a random accident or bleed?

[WiltedRoses]

The question to also ask is when it stops becoming Deja Vu & becomes a loop , I mean how many times have we done the same thing & thought Deja Vu . It feels like things are slipping though the cracks no one notices , I mean what is to say we have not had this convocation before & just don't remember.

[p3nr0s3]

So I get deja vu a lot. And I mean, a LOT. Ever since I was a little kid. For me it's the feeling of, I've seen this before, or I've said that before, or I've been here before. Something like that. But ESPECIALLY stuff I've heard, like on TV or the radio. (I don't know why that's important yet, I just know it is.)

So to answer your questions, I have two theories.

First theory: If it feels like I've heard it before, it's because I have. And NOT in a "duh, there's only so many different ways a guy can talk about the weather" way. I mean like WiltedRoses said. Like we're in a loop we're not supposed to notice and we get deja vu when whatever makes the loop "loop" messes up.

Second theory: If it feels like I've heard it before, it's because a DIFFERENT "me" has. Like, a different version of me in another world that's ALMOST a copy of ours, but not quite. And we get deja vu when you and the "other" you happen to experience the same thing at the same time.

Either way, I don't THINK that a single occurrence of deja vu signifies anything super dangerous or catastrophic. But with that said... do you feel like you've been experiencing MORE of it lately?

[Katat0nik]

This reminds me...

When I was a kid, I heard this song on the radio. I turned to my dad and said "they've been playing this on the radio a lot" and he said "this is the first time they've aired it, it came out today."
I swear I'd heard the song before. And not like, oh, this is just so similar to an existing song that I *thought* it was the same, no. It was this exact song. I knew the words and what would happen next.

[p3nr0s3]

I swear I'd heard the song before. And not like, oh, this is just so similar to an existing song that I *thought* it was the same, no. It was this exact song. I knew the words and what would happen next.

Dude, same, Katat0nik. You gave a perfect example. Seriously guys what is it with the radio???

[MajoNoTakkyubin]

Oh my gosh, I've gotten deja vu so much throughout my life! But you know what's even weirder about it? I know this probably sounds like something I'm making up, but I've always tended to get it around the same time each month. It's usually around the end of the first week or start of the second week each month, and it usually hits super viscerally, as if I can specifically remember the circumstances around the "first" time something happened but they're just barely out of reach...

I'll get it with a scene I'm watching on TV, with a level in a new video game, with a conversation I'm having with a friend or family member, or like you all are saying, with a song on the radio. I've also had quite a few cases where I've remembered something that nobody else did, but I've kind of written that off as people being forgetful.

I've always kind of wondered if my deja vu was caused by reincarnation and it was some past life that lived that moment before me, or if maybe it's from a timeline I never went down, you know what I mean? Something like Groundhog Day (good movie, by the way!), but it's not that my day is repeating, it's just that another version of me is experiencing that same day but slightly differently, and our timelines just haven't diverged enough yet, or something is keeping both timelines connected?

[Mototweed8200]

Ive always felt that Deja Vu was remembering a premonition from a dream. That sometimes our dreams can grant us glimpses into the future. The problem is, we never know when those dreams occur and they're normally so mundane.

Same here, sometimes I have a dream in color, and those are the ones that I remember when a Deja Vu occurrence happens. And yes they tend to be mundane.