Deja Vu-Theories

sounds good in theory

"Terrorist or tyrant, few may come to the Truth that both are poor choice."

heres what I think De ja vus are some people listen to this thoery and start freaking at me because it makes too much sence there what you remeber of your past life when you die you just start you life over again like nothing ever happend. When you come to something you think you have done before its because you have your just getting past the block in your brain of your past life. Sometimes it may be an important part in your life and you see it before it happens I don't know if you can change it or not but if you can everytime you die your life will keep getting better because your fixing all the mistakes that you have made in your past life theres alot more to this but its too much to write

I'm having Deja Vu as i type this now, i remember having deja vu and finding this forum because i wanted to know more.

I just wanted to add as a kid i had Deja Vu in a sense of remembering an exact scene in the exact environment, but it was only seen as a "picture". I would go and tell my mother that i had a dream of me doing something and i just did it. It was a few years before it started happening again (i was maybe 16) but this time i noticed it happened after getting high (weed!).. and i would get Deja Vu but in the aspects of almost watching my life as if i had seen it millions of times. I stopped smoking it

Not until recently i started smoking weed again (I'm 20 ) and I'm having Deja Vu again, its almost as though i can just let my self go and my body and mind already knows what to do such as Driving, Working, Talking and just Living in general.

-maybe a little off topic
I sometimes think there are no true choices in life, If there are such things as Psychic's and Prophet's that can tell the future. I feel It was thought out for you already. Almost like a play

Often times i feel like I'm living a play, and i know whats going to happen. I sit back and just watch my life unfold, knowing every second word for word.

My experience of what I have called Deja Vu is usually preceeded by a tingling, nausea and apprehension of passing out. What occurs in the moment to my mind as thought is, yes, I feel like I have been at this moment as location or environmental constituents before. What next occurs to me is that a question arises. What is it that I did not get or understand before? In other words, it seems to be an opening to the present that offers an opportunity. If the present contains all, i.e. past and future, then to me it seems the real question is how much am I truly present within some total Presence.

""With what may the Devil not joke?""

P.D. Ouspensky, Gurdjieff's most prized pupil, wrote a book called "In Search of the Miraclulous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching" where he introduces the theory of Eternal Recurrence, a theory related to him by Gurdjieff. The theory holds that we are trapped in a specific time-period of existence and, so, when we die we are reborn on the same day, month, and year of birth, in the same house, in the same family, and live our lives all over again (and, supposedly, we have done this an eternity of times). Remember, Gurdjieff's teachings held that we are all "unconscious" 99% of our lives--we think, act, and feel only as a result of external, "mechanical" forces. However, there are moments in our lives when we suddenly become aware of ourselves. In those moments everything brightens, sensations become sharper, and we suddenly realize that most of our life, the memories of it, are recalled in shadowy haziness. But those rare moments of clarity remain with us and, sometimes, we realize we have lived that moment before--and we have, an eternity of times. This is what Ouspensky and Gurdjieff called deja vu.

"Each conscious mind is alone in the universe!"

For me the most logical explanation of deja vu is that it is caused by dreams.

We dream almost every night and most of those dreams are not remembered. And what do we dream about most of the time? The world we live in; our environment, things we want to do, those we love, those we know, those we want to know etc.

So when we do something we have dreamt of before, it is no wonder we sometimes get a small "hint" or sensation of having experienced it before- even though we know we never physically did. It isn't even a strong memory, as in a real life memory. (at least for me) More an impression of similarity. Something vague and dreamlike and part of our subconscious... the same place our dreams come from...

"When I was a child I flew! Then as an adult- I watched others soar."

Just as an example Saturday before last, I had a dream (that i remembered only seconds of) that i seen my legs up and my hands in hand cuffs. I told my cousin Sunday morning i didn't want to go anywhere because of the dream I had, I explained to him that i seen myself in the back of a police car. Well he convinced me it was just a dream and that it wouldn't happen, Sunday night we got stopped by the police, who patted me down for weapons, I felt they took it too far and i said something about it. Next thing i know I'm in cuffs and they sat me in there backseat and asked me questions. The police car had no floor so you had no choice but to put your feet up(just like the dream). While sitting in the back seat obviously I was mad until i realized it happened exactly like that in my dream. Then i was able to calm down as it felt like it was destiny.

Its like i knew what would happen but thats all the power i had, I couldn't change what would eventually happen that night.

Well, I believe everyone has a kind of destiny, that we've all planned before incarnation in order to spiritually progress. Basically we've chosen our "destination", but we're making the route up as we go along(free will). Our higher self/consciousness(spirit) knows all, and has always got our true life path running in the back of it's mind(kinda like a pre-recorded video), no matter what we do, or how much we've veered off-course, which is why we sometimes make spontaneous, life-changing descisions, or get drawn to certain people and situations(our higher self pulling us back on course). Deja vous occurs when our life(thats a bit off-course), gets back on course. At the moment of deja vous, life and fate touch, so we experience both at the same time momentarily, thats when we say "woa, deja vous", and we start thinking, which in turn usually makes our waking mind take over, and our link to our higher self is disconnected(which is why most deja vous only lasts seconds-until realisation!). I believe having a deja vous experience means I am on the right track to fullfill my destiny, and I usually find them quite reassuring, especially just after making a big descision, as then I feel I'm doing the right thing.



it's as if you are walking along the kerb, or a low wall, sometimes one of your feet slip off, but the other one stays on the kerb(imagine the foot on the wall is your fate, and the foot thats slipped is the life you're living). When you bring your other foot back onto the kerb, you momentarily look down to check your footing, thats when you see your two feet, which fleetingly look more or less the same, then you look up again to wherever your headed.

Well it makes sense to me anyway!