Déjà Vu - Words of the World

sometimes i get deja vu and i remember the dream when i experienced it before. maybe that is just me telling myself it was a dream. Deja vu is strange lol

sometimes i experience something that iv'e dreamed or thought i've dreamed, wierd

@Danoftouni I get that a lot.

I can say right now that I see things in dreams and a week or two later it happens exactly word for word, explain that mr. science :P

It always amuses me to see the cognitive dissonance quandary western psychology ("study of the soul") has gotten itself into regarding the existence of an animating life force which does not follow the laws of the physical universe. Seems to be rather hypocritical, even perhaps intentionally misleading(?), considering the whole Stanford Research Institute remove-viewing program is based upon stolen materials from the "soul"-revitalizing, upper-level exercises of Scientology, lol.

@exibitions How about we start a club?

@DutchThroat Woo! Sure thing.

@Woshmistro I get the Dream thing aswell. I've actually gone to a meeting and met with a few other people who have the same thing happen to them, I was kind of forced to because my friend did not believe me so i had to prove to her that other people had it to and i wasn't the weirdest person on the planet haha.

An explanation of Déjà Vu I've heard is that sometimes a given experience isn't simultaneously perceived by both hemispheres of the brain at the same time. That ''lag'' makes you feel like you've already lived it... and I guess that would be right since half of your brain lived it milliseconds before. Anybody here who heard the same explanation? Or who as read some serious research about that phenomenon? Cause for all I know the laggy brain explanation could be completely unfounded. Cheers!

@PhoenX19 I heard it's a glitch in the brain, where current experiences are somehow also "transferred" over the "lines" that normally come from long term memory. It feels like you have seen it before, like "it's coming from long term memory, so I must already have experienced it".

maybe it's more likely that you can tell the difference between what you have forgotten or that which you have just been reminded of...

@PBDPBD Oh I will happilly do it, I never knew such a thing existed ,the only possible problem with that would be that it's completely random when it happens, it could be days or even months in between the dreams of that type

i think i've seen this before.......

No mention of "vuja dé" -- that is, the feeling that some situation or experience has never before happened in history... lol

@TheFeltbegone that was Deja vu right in the beginning so that's why it was repeated. It was intentional. very clever lol

In my personal experience, each time I had a Deja Vu it was because the night before I had dreamed that, and the next day it happened. So I usually link my experiences with a type of vision of some sort.

I think DejaVu can tell us something about time or our brain,if our brain is capable of giving us "imagery" of something that is going to happen, then does that mean our brain is waaay more powerful than what we think or that time has niether past or future and it is just one big flat table of events without past or present,or maybe dejavu is just the illusion of you thinking you already experienced something but actually you never experienced the thought off you experiencing something

I agree, I have similar experiences that can't be explained like that. I'd be more inclined to think that it has something to do with recognizing patterns, in this case patterns in experiences.

Was that cat in the preview a Matrix reference? xD

with me sometimes its sequence of events like getting a phone call from someone and the moment i say a certain word a car of a certain color goes by, it's kinda scary

weird*

No, that's actually called "Jamais Vu", or "Never Seen" and is an actual thing like Deja Vu is. The third is "Presque Vu", or "Almost Seen," which is the feeling when something is "on the tip of your tongue".

Its called retroactive memory. Sometimes when you rememver an experience the memory can be stored futher back and equated with a similar experiencem i.e. you THINK you dreamed it, but in fact it's the event you are currently experiencing, simply "stored" further back in time.

I've only had one real experience of Déjà Vu. It was at work and a colleague I seldom had contact with walked in and placed his briefcase on a table. At that moment I knew what he was going to take out of it and the entire conversation that was about to take place. It felt like I was watching a movie I had seen before and being in the movie at the same time. I even knew when it would end. About five minutes later he left and I just sat down and tried to comprehend what had just happened.

sometimes you feel like if you could only remember more clearly you could tell the future

That beginning was actually really funny.

when I was younger, I used to think that Deja Vu was a way that my mind was repeating itself cos I was already dead, and that my subconscious was replaying memories that were significant in my life. Weird I know for a 12 year old! lol

You should do a veto on malapropism.

I see what you did there, at the beginning :)

Why is it so hard for English native speakers to actually say "déjà vu" instead of "deyja voo"?

do blind people experience dejavu?

I assume because they try to speak it as they read it. Just like "Caesar" is pronounced as "see-sar" instead of "kai-sar".

uhhh, maybe because those vowels are inexistent in the English language?

The /y/ is. For the /e/ I'd argue that they are just not making an effort. How hard can it possibly be to just say *half* of /eɪ/?

I'd say it's more like the exact middle of eɪ instead of the first half. eɪ starts off more open than e. It really is quite alien to native English only speakers.

I don't expect anybody to deliver perfect, accent-free renderings of foreign words. Not completely butchering them would be very nice for a start though.

Hehe, I simply noticed it and thought it seemed strange. I did neither get tricked by it nor did I get it was a "joke"... I think I was too concentrated on the content than editing.

When I experience deja vu it's generally more the whole situation that seems "recurring" and something like: "I know he would say that, and that and that would happen." It feels like I could predict what will happen, but it's really just in hindsight I feel that I "knew" what was next. However when it happens (not very often, and more as a child) it's a really "physical" experience, probably with high neuro transmitter release and "tunnel vision".

Hah! a little self reference to deja vu there, Awesome Brady, Awesome Brady

I really loved the embedded deja vus int he video. XD