Skeptical/scientific side says that I merely have encountered a situation/state of mind matching a state I have experienced before. It is possible to feel the exact same way twice.
Speculative side suggests that I have caught of glimpse of the future/past. Though we generally experience time as a one-way flow, certain situations allow you to observe/experience the bigger picture (or at least a slightly larger fragment of it).
for me, deja vu is almost always that I've dreamed the situation/moment, usually so many years before that it just seemed like a typical dream, not a "prophetic" one.
it's always terribly mundane though, never important/big stuff.
I used to get it very frequently as a child. At the time, I thought it meant I had had a prophetic dream. And then I would try to change it, by doing something unexpected, but it never worked -- I would immediately believe that I had dreamed that too.
But I accept the theory that it's just a mis-timing in my brain -- that seems to explain everything about it, at least the experiences I've had.
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Skeptical/scientific side says that I merely have encountered a situation/state of mind matching a state I have experienced before. It is possible to feel the exact same way twice.
Speculative side suggests that I have caught of glimpse of the future/past. Though we generally experience time as a one-way flow, certain situations allow you to observe/experience the bigger picture (or at least a slightly larger fragment of it).
It is possible that both sides are correct.
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it's always terribly mundane though, never important/big stuff.
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But I accept the theory that it's just a mis-timing in my brain -- that seems to explain everything about it, at least the experiences I've had.
So what prompts the question?
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