Is there anyone who has not experienced Deja Vu? I had a really strong case of that this morning getting ready for work at the new house. So I was just curious who has and who hasn't experienced this and what your theories on what Deja Vous really is? Is it a physical phenomena that occurrs in our brain when certain neurons are stimulated? Or is it a glimpse through the fabric of time?

I will give you the explaination one of my Psy prof's gave to me. Our brains are constantly trying to find connections for new info, so when we are in a situation that is similar to one we have experienced befored our brain says OH LOOK! We've done this before! Hence the experience of Deja Vu. This particular prof was full of cool info like that. The man has a PhD in Psyiological Psychology... He even figured out what this weird vision thing with me was. Non pain causing migraines. Gotta love that. That and he answered all my bizarre questions

I think Deja Vu is your brain remembering something that you actually did before. Our brains are always on record. They remember everything, even the minutest of details. I have these occurances often and sometimes I can actually rememebr when it was I did something before and where I was when it happened. Other times I get frustrated because I "know" that I did this before but I can't pput my finger on it!

I've had the feeling too, I don't ever remember it happening until I had my first born. For the first year with her, it was happening alot, enough to cause me to think I was going nuts! :crazy:
Since then though, it's been something that happens rarely but same as you, it happened in this house once and it was a strong feeling of having done something similar, it was when Tim went down to the freaky crawl space we have under the front of the house... =O

I think Deja Vous can happen in two ways. I think it can be something that we have experienced before in this lifetime. But, I also feel that it can be a deeper memory, from a past lifetime. I have experienced it in both forms, with some of them being things that I could reasonably identify with this life. But, there have been others that definitely were not part of this life. I get frequent senses of deja vous when we camp out, and I cook on a campfire. I never learned much at all about how to cook over a campfire until I was into my 20's.... in this life..... and yet, I feel altogether at home cooking over and tending a campfire, to the point where it is almost eerie, sometimes. I really can't explain it, unless it came from a previous life. I catch little brief glimpses of myself cooking at a campfire in the snow, and I have not cooked over a campfire with the snow that deep in this life. I can't really explain it.... but it is a comforting feeling, and I guess that is why I love sitting by a fire so much, too, Something in that gives me a feeling of being 'HOME' like nothing I have ever experienced.

Mare

My opinion is that what people call deja vous is a variety of experiences caused by a variety of things.
I've had dejavous that I know I saw before and cannot be something that happened before. I remember dreaming about them or having a vision of them. I've had deja-vous where I will be in a conversation and I know what exactly will be said next and what will happen.
Some things called deja-vous I believe can be explained by our brains drawing connections. I've experienced ones that I can classify that way.
In my experience what we call dejavous are actually many different types experiences. Some are works of the brain. Some are may be from previous lives. Some are from dreams. Some are from visions. Some may be from what we plan our life out to be from before this life. And probably several other explanations that I don't remember of have touched on yet.
I've found that most things that have to do with life are not caused or explainable by one thing but are caused and effected by many things.
At least this is what I have come to so far from what I have learned and experienced.

I had a Deja Vu experience one time with my bug man? Is that a hoot or what

Some deja vu can result from dreaming the thing that we feel the deja vu around when it takes place.
I've been here before...yeah I dreamed it.

I always feel reassured when I have deja vu. It's like, yeah sister you are on the right path today.

That's another way of looking at it.. Thanks Kathleen..it usually just weirds me out...maybe now it won't.

I've heard that deja vu is a judder in the brain. something to do with a breif imbalance of chemicals. thats the scientific explanation anyway.
I think that it is a breif glimpse into a past or future life

I have had some pretty intense Deja Vous myself.

I think many of the expilinations posted here already may be accurate.

I for one particurarly go for the past life or just your mind trying to figure things out ones.

Some scientific explanations are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain.

I agree with Nakis and Lefora, I've also heard that it was a quirk in the memory process.
Normaly, first you experience something then you put it in memory.
Sometimes, Dejavu I read, happens when it get's routed thru the memory first then experienced.
Regardless of what and why it is....it's still pretty cool!

Just one of the wonders in life that give it such a rich texture.