Yes it seems you understand where I'm coming from quite well.If I think I understand you — MysticMonist
Is that God/Universal Mind/your soul directly communicating with you? — MysticMonist
If there are others that have experienced dejavu I'm very interested in your theories for what is happening here. — Another
Do you ever get a sense of something that you just know you know, but you’re not sure how? — MysticMonist
Always a good idea to shave with Ockham's Razor. — Bitter Crank
The trick is discernment. — MysticMonist
Not really, I was just being cute, one of my specialties. I don't experience deja vu, I get jamais vu -- it's the feeling you get when you realize that those that are closest to you have been replaced by exact doubles by the FBI, or aliens... not sure, I'll tell you how the interrogation goes. — Wosret
So yeah I’m on the verge of falling into complete absurdity. You’ll often find this type of stuff online. People who make a big deal out of seeing 3s on their call list, on the clock (every 10 mins too!!) and make it into being spiritually significant. Any numbers of likely coincidences or self induced feelings become deeply significant. That’s the realm of self absorbed spiritual immaturity or worse delusion and maybe even schizophrenia. — MysticMonist
How our brains/minds process, reprocess, shuffle, reappraise... takes place at a level we can't get down to. There are way too many neurons, way too many connections, way too many processes, way too much opaque organization in the brain that just isn't observable. — Bitter Crank
So, one day you happen to remember sitting in English class, and the teacher was talking about... oh, let's say Emily Dickinson's poem, A narrow Fellow in the Grass. — Bitter Crank
Just like these theories with Dejavu, I see that they make sense and I think it would be arrogant of me to rule out as BC said the endured and tireless efforts people have put into studying this subject and the theories their efforts have led the to.
I still find however that these theories don't satisfy my curiosity, — Another
Maybe I wasn't clear. Epilepsy and drugs are not at all necessary to experience Déjà vu. But... IF one is epileptic, OR if one uses certain drugs, THEN one might experience Déjà vu as a result. But experiencing Déjà vu is no indication whatsoever that one is either epileptic or uses certain drugs. — Bitter Crank
You can to a degree, people like to call it the Mandela effect sometimes. Go to a place you were years ago, watch a movie you saw years ago, or read a book or something, you will find that both detailed recollection, and whole picture apprehension to be distinctly different now than you remember. I've sure you've experienced that. — Wosret
No one remembers a little drawing of a dinosaur in there though, or remembers the monopoly man being a red neck, or indian chief. — Wosret
I guess this would just support a case where it is that our memories are fallible and cannot be relied on as fact. — Another
At the risk again of sounding crazy, When there is a situation where I have two conflicting memories of the same event. Both memories being my own, and I seem unable to decifer which one is correct to what would I attribute this? And if one was a correction of the other why has my mind not overwritten the first memory with the corrected one, But instead left traces of both despite their contradiction. — Another
I guess this would just support a case where it is that our memories are fallible and cannot be relied on as fact. — Another
I don't risk sounding crazy, I strive for it. — Wosret
When I start a statement with 'at the risk of sounding crazy' it because I envision a percentage of people writing off what I say as nonsense, I accept that and I wish to make the statement despite this.
I don't take offense to anyone thinking I'm crazy, in honesty I question my own sanity at time's.
This is not something I'm embarrassed of. — Another
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