what is a deja-vu?

[cacian]

could one define it as part of a subconcious like a dream but that comes through life/reality as we see it.

and do you get deja-vus?

[MystyrMystyry]

It's a memory skip.

In your head you have three main memory banks: millisecond, short term, and long term. The first is for taking in information (and that you don't forget the next word), the second so that you can process the information (and don't forget the next sentence), and the last is to store all the information (and you remember what you're talking about).

Now imagine all the trillions of cells and neurons soaking in a chemical lubricant, all sparking electrically away to make up one one cohesive thought, and you go to open the front gate - suddenly you're transported hundreds of years back in time, opening the Gates of Rome to Theodoric!

Or not.

See the short term memory has allowed a minor thought process to skip a stage and fly straight into the long term memory - where while you may be doing something now, it seems like you did it in the past, a past life, or a distant dream.


That's the scientific explanation anyway.

[BienvenuJDC]

I feel that I've discussed this in another time and place.

[cacian]

I feel that I've discussed this in another time and place.

do you mean this is a recurrance?

[BienvenuJDC]

do you mean this is a recurrance?

I'm sorry...I hope that you know that I was trying to be funny. Maybe you do and you are playing along as well.

[Paulclem]

It's a memory skip.

In your head you have three main memory banks: millisecond, short term, and long term. The first is for taking in information (and that you don't forget the next word), the second so that you can process the information (and don't forget the next sentence), and the last is to store all the information (and you remember what you're talking about).

Now imagine all the trillions of cells and neurons soaking in a chemical lubricant, all sparking electrically away to make up one one cohesive thought, and you go to open the front gate - suddenly you're transported hundreds of years back in time, opening the Gates of Rome to Theodoric!

Or not.

See the short term memory has allowed a minor thought process to skip a stage and fly straight into the long term memory - where while you may be doing something now, it seems like you did it in the past, a past life, or a distant dream.


That's the scientific explanation anyway.


This is speculation based upon a scientific worldview. :devil:

I have no alternative suggestion though.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

In the event that the OP was just asking what deja vu is and not how it occurs, deja vu is a feeling that one gets when it seems as if what you're doing has already happened, but you know it's impossible. It's a bizarre feeling, and I don't know if everyone gets it. It happens to me a few times a year, and it's a good thing it's a feeling that only lasts for a few seconds, because if it lasted for any extended amount of time I think it could drive one mad.

[Calidore]

It's also the focus of a great Michael Palin sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2eUopy9sd8

[Helga]

haha, love the Monty Python!

but I hate getting a deja vu.

[cacian]

I'm sorry...I hope that you know that I was trying to be funny. Maybe you do and you are playing along as well.

Hi Bien

Yes I do and I am just playing along.:biggrin5:

[cacian]

In the event that the OP was just asking what deja vu is and not how it occurs, deja vu is a feeling that one gets when it seems as if what you're doing has already happened, but you know it's impossible. It's a bizarre feeling, and I don't know if everyone gets it. It happens to me a few times a year, and it's a good thing it's a feeling that only lasts for a few seconds, because if it lasted for any extended amount of time I think it could drive one mad.

what kind of deja-vus do you get?

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Just little ones, like when having a conversation or watching tv. They can happen any time, really.

Cacian, I've been meaning to ask you, and don't take this the wring way, but is Enflish your first language?

[BienvenuJDC]

I feel that I've discussed this in another time and place.

[JuniperWoolf]

Deja vu makes me happy, I always pretend I'm in the Matrix.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Just once I want to have deja-vu while looking at a cat. That would be awesome.

[cacian]

Just little ones, like when having a conversation or watching tv. They can happen any time, really.

Cacian, I've been meaning to ask you, and don't take this the wring way, but is Enflish your first language?

No it is not. I am a French speaker.
Is is that apparent? LOL

[cacian]

Just once I want to have deja-vu while looking at a cat. That would be awesome.

LOL
why a cat in particular?
How about a giraffe? LOL

[cacian]

I feel that I've discussed this in another time and place.

Humm...I have got a feeling I have read this before..LOL

[BienvenuJDC]

LOL:rofl:
why a cat in particular?
How about a giraffe? LOL

View this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_KmNZNT5xw

[cacian]

View this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_KmNZNT5xw

Haha...thank Bien.
I do not remember that scene.:smile5:

[BienvenuJDC]

Haha...thank Bien.
I do not remember that scene.:smile5:

My memory is filled with plenty of useless things...

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

No it is not. I am a French speaker.
Is is that apparent? LOL
Well, it's a bit apparent on this forum, at least. Other forums that aren't filled with grammar sticklers it wouldn't be. I wouldn't worry about it, I was just curious.

My memory is filled with plenty of useless things...

Ditto.

[cacian]

My memory is filled with plenty of useless things...

Haha.... I would not say that.
The devil is in the details and so it is always good to remember things n order to point them out such as in this case. It needed pointing out.

[Bluehound]

The scientific outline above seems very reasonable and is probably correct, but it is also possible that deja-vu is the first step on an evolutionary path towards being able to predict the future, you never know.

I get it quite alot and find it a bit unsettling, I wonder if there is anyone in the world who is stuck in a permanent deja-vu state ?

[Delta40]

deja vu has also been linked to epilepsy. In states where the brain repeatedly receives the same message twice, the brain eventually shuts down and the person has a seizure. Alternately, the same happens where the brain repeatedly doesn't receive the message.

[cacian]

The scientific outline above seems very reasonable and is probably correct, but it is also possible that deja-vu is the first step on an evolutionary path towards being able to predict the future, you never know.
Do you mean time travelling?


I get it quite alot and find it a bit unsettling, I wonder if there is anyone in the world who is stuck in a permanent deja-vu state ?

are your deja-vu based on seeing and knowing that something/somebody but not remembering where you have seen it before?
And no the last question because for one to have a deja-vu one need to step back to normality for it to happen again otherwise one would not be able to tell the difference between the now and a deja-vu.