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Thoughts on de ja vue?

Posted by RobSellen • 9/08/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: fun, robsellen, thoughts

Sheesh, is that spelt right?

Not "sheesh", but "de ja vue" ;o)

Have you been here before? ;o)

Did you get it more as a pre-teen and teen?

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9/08/07

suburbqueen

Yes...happens to me all the time. I think it's because I have the same routine day in and day out with the kids that I just feel like "I've been here before."

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9/08/07

cymrusteve

I could have sworn I've read this post before....

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9/08/07

RobSellen

Ah, I think I should be a little clearer in a sense, just in case. ;o)

I understand what you mean, but I was thinking in a sense where you KNOW its never a real case of "been here before" so becomes an instant of "I knew that was gonna happen"... but real sort of deep freaky cos It's never happened before...if that makes sense.

Or is that what you meant too?

You still get it?

I have not had that for years.... I mean years! ;o)

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1. 9/08/07
  
  suburbqueen
  
  I haven't either...at least not like that.
9/08/07

Norski

The serious research into this suggests that deja vu (déjà vu, if you're persnickety) may be the sensation of information getting routed to parts of memory, and getting processed there, before it reaches other cognitive circuits: so that when the cognitive machinery searches memory, it gets a 'we have that' response.

Or, maybe it's a mis-firing of recognition circuits.

With all the re-wiring that goes on in adolescence, it would be a little surprising if deja vu, and other cognitive oddities, didn't get less frequent after the teen years.

Which, by the way, nobody could pay me enough to go through again.

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1. 9/08/07
  
  RobSellen
  
  Great post. ;o)
  
  I see, and thanks for the spelling. ;o)
  
  My son mentioned it the other day, 14, you know... voice broke, things dropped, slight strange moods set in..hey I been here before! ;o)
  
  I digress, he said it the other day, and I had a giggle, was strange for us both. :o)
  
  Thanks for that, so I wiring situation then. ;o)
9/08/07

Norski

Honestly, deja vu hasn't been part of my experience. I have had 'I've been here before' experiences, but I've been able to determine that I either was at that location, or that it closely resembled a place where I had been before.

So, I can't say, as Yogi Berra said, "it's deja vu all over again."

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1. 9/08/07
  
  RobSellen
  
  What about if when we pass away, we live our lives over again, and we DO really remember.. hang on been here before.. ;o)
  
  A possibilty in reality?
2. 9/08/07
  
  Norski
  
  I'd say not, but then I'm solidly Catholic. I wouldn't call aligning myself with a belief system and organization whose name translates into English as "Universal," but having well defined beliefs does have a limiting effect.
  
  After all, "A" does not equal "not-A."
  
  Getting recycled through this world is a possibility, just as experiencing more than three spatial dimensions is possible. But, according to my beliefs, it is not real.
  
  Reincarnation does make for some marvelous stories, though.
3. 9/08/07
  
  RobSellen
  
  Reincarnation?
  
  In what sense are you meaning that?
  
  It's rebirth...like you the one you HAD, how can you not believe that?
  It happened. ;o)
  
  You are here, just as you was before?
  
  Odd train of thought really but a reality thats possible?
9/08/07

Norski

Sorry. I don't think we're on the same page here.

I was responding to "What about if when we pass away, we live our lives over again..."

Reincarnation is "The belief that one has lived before in another lifetime, and that one will live again after physical death." ( more at www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS177US225&pwst=1&defl=en&q=defin... )

So, reincarnation seemed a reasonable interpretation for the meaning of the quoted phrase.

Reincarnation, as a conceivable model for life, is certainly "possible" - but my belief is that it is a possibility that is not a reality.

Is that helpful, or did I just stir up some mud in the stream of communication?

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1. 9/08/07
  
  RobSellen
  
  Its all good. ;o)
  
  I am meaning like you simply go back to being born again...just as you were when you were, you, still you. ;o)
  
  But as a teen your perceptions, memories, etc or de javu, well are noticed ;o) Remembered.
  
  Each time you live you life again, you live it the same, but you remember different importnat moments that are telling you something on a way deeper level than your mind "as is" thinks. ??
  
  This also brings into equation the thread...
  
  www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/a-universal-truth-a-ridiculous-challenge-...
  
  As this would be the reality of time and space being infinite. ;o)
  
  How can it all the finite when we all live our lives over and over?
  
  Thus time and space is all relative, infinite.
  
  Or have I lost thew plot lol! ? ;o)
9/08/07

Starlily

Rob--Are you talking about a repetition of the exact same life (earth being on some kind of a repeat cycle?), as opposed to reincarnating to a different life?

I actually have nothing to illuminate this conversation except to say you reminded me of the movie 'Groundhog Day'...:)

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1. 9/08/07
  
  RobSellen
  
  Yes the first part..
  
  Groundhog day no. ;o)
9/08/07

RobSellen

Lol.. gone quiet... so I lost the plot? ;o/

;o)

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1. 9/08/07
  
  RobSellen
  
  Hopefully not.
  
  A possible paradigm shift for some maybe? ;o)
  
  I am off to bed, been a long day, had a nice one with sons, and it's 3.20 am.
  
  I will read this later, looking forward to hearibng views on this!!
  
  Interesting thread. :o)
  
  Or the white coated men are on the way? ;o) lol.
9/08/07

Kiwipulse

It happens to me sometimes that I have this impression. It always come from one of my dreams, and when it happens.. I can't do nothing than be surprised. That make me feel like an idiot.

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9/09/07

RobSellen

Well no white coated men came, so I am off the hook there. ;o)

Surprised no-one else had any thoughts on it, but hey it got me thinking ;o)

Had a strange dream last night, can barely remember it now but I know it was odd. ;o)

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9/09/07

Starlily

What about the concept of all of human experience as a sort of 'universal consciousness', so when we experience dejavue we may be inadvertently tapping into that pool, and 'remembering' someone else's experience?

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3/10/08

gerryPlanetEarth

I could have sworn I've read this post before....

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