my own friday question

[elvendoll]

Do you get deja vu?

What does it mean to you?

Comments

[whelpdog.livejournal.com]

Yes, on occasion.

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.

[popetom.livejournal.com]

I could have sworn that you had made a post on this very subject before.

-PT

[kaligrrrl.livejournal.com]

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.

[flipzagging.livejournal.com]

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.

So what prompts the question?