This is quite interesting, and i dount found any topic about it
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This post has been edited by Lobosque: Dec 22 2006, 03:21 PM

Hey, word of warning, if you copied any of that from anywhere put it into quote tags, [-quote-] text [/-quote-] without the "-".

According to the new film coming out here in the UK deja vu is a government tool r something for going back in time a few days, its all rather confusing! But the government have a tool or something they can use to send agents back in time or let them veiw things back in time and the lead character is an agent who doesnt know about this and finds out and has to go back in time or something to save a boat getting blown up.

I think deja vu could be a few things, like a memory of an event, EG someone saying hello, being badly recalled when someone else says hello and as its badly recalled, sort of corrupt, you don't feel it as a memory just as deja vu.

Or a similar thing but something that happened in a dream/daydream

Or even a sort of premonition that hasn't happened and when it does you get a similar thing to the corrupt memory idea and you feel deja vu.

I don't think we will ever know for sure though.

deja vu is a tool? that's silly. it's not like a time machine or something. clearly that would confuse anyone, and even mislead.

i've experienced a lot of that before. but the events of the future usually happens in my dream. i remember one instance that i was cleaning our backyard, then it felt as if i've seen that exact moment before, i just couldn't remember. but there was one instance that i knew it was really deja vu, and i clearly remember the dream where i saw the same event before. when i was about 10 or 11 years old, i dreamt that i was in a different classroom, sitting beside the wall, i had different classmates and i saw a different teacher. i was still in gradeschool but i know very much how our classroom looked like, and my classmates and my teachers, so that dream was kinda weird for me. a few years later, i was in highschool, i was sitting beside the wall and was listening to our teacher with the lesson for that day. suddenly i had felt woozy, and it gave me a feeling that i've seen that particular event before. that's when i realized that the event was the dream i saw when i was younger.

in psychology, they have a scientific explanation for that. although i can't remember, because i wasn't listening clearly to my psychology professor at that time.

oh, and by the way, that quoted text was taken from wikipedia.

This post has been edited by mbacarra: Dec 22 2006, 05:10 PM

The parapsychologist, Carl Jung, once coined the term synchronocity: a phenomenon characterized by seemingly meaningful coincidences (for example, suddenly calling to mind, out of the blue, memories of a high-school classmate only to receive a call from him later on in the day); deja vu is said to be one of the manifestations of this synchronicity.

I've read the wikipedia entry and I was shocked to find that there are different kinds of deja vu. I had no idea deja vu actually encompasses different phenomena and what I knew to be deja vu was but only one of them.

I think subliminal stimuli, dreams and conscious thought factor into a deja vu in the making.

For example, you could very well be in a classroom listening to the teacher. Your conscious thought is focused on the lecture, effectively overriding other stimuli from leaking into your conscious thoughts. However, it could very well be that you are overhearing talk of something, let's say a hotel lobby. We could very well be unconscious that descriptions of this hotel lobby is secretly being encoded into our memory. Indeed, we'd have no idea of it since our mind is pre-occupied with this lecture.

Now, dream. There is a theory that dreaming is like a survival strategy machine where the mind tries out random possibilities and attempts to predict the outcome. We all know nitroglycerine is highly unstable but ever and anon, we may dream of ourselves, or someone else, shaking nitro and ending up in fine pieces. This is how the mind, through simulation, re-affirms that nitro, indeed, is dangerous.

Sometimes, the dreaming mind might retrieve from our memory something we are not aware we know, like our hotel lobby, for example. From this stealthily encoded data, our mind could very well conjure us a scenario where we'd be in this lobby when the bomb goes off.

Now, let's say you have finally made it to the hotel in question. Entering the lobby, we'd get that strange feeling that we have been here. In reality, we have our suspicion that we have dreamed of this. True enough, we have; what is eerie is the accuracy of that dream owing to a conversation we have unknowingly overheard.

Well, that's just my n cents on deja vu concerning places. I'm not so sure how deja vu for experiences works. As a matter of fact, I have no idea how deja vu really works.

Then again, it could just be the Matrix reprogramming something.

My view of the "after-life" is slightly odd. Basically, my view is that when you die, you are re-born to your same life, but so you can make it better. And you keep being re-born until you have it how you want it. But, the first time you live your life is what other people see. For example, the first time someone famous (Say Hitler) lived their life, he created the holocaust. This is the life that went down in history. But when he died, he re-lived his life and he might not of created it the second time.

Often, your "paths" cross. Say, when you do something you did in one of your previous lifes again. This is what I think Deja Vu is. Something had happened, and you're seeing it happen again. I also feel that in dreams, you can sometimes tell the future, which then ends up being deja vu (I swear it's happened to me )

Weird thinking? Yes. Change my view later on? Yes. But? Meh.

I don't see how deja vu could be a tool. It's just an event seeming familiar.

Actually deja vu is a movie

yes there is a recent movie named deja vu. And what the peps are discussing here is what does the term means..

to sidetrack: the movie deja vu is quite nice thou.. althou i see quite a few loopholes in there.. lol

This post has been edited by styfer: Dec 23 2006, 07:04 AM