Deja vu—do you experience it?

katie01

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I experience deja vu quite often and have since I was a child. My 14 year old was asking me today what it meant since she’d heard if it somewhere, and when I described it she said she’d never experienced it before (and I went into great detail with examples). My 11 year old knew exactly what it was and says it happens to her all the time too, which didn’t surprise me, because I remember her describing deja vu experiences to me when she was very little, before anyone had mentioned to her what it was.

So I was curious if there are others out there who have never experienced it. Or if you have, about how often?
 
I mostly get it when I take a long walk and I have a lot on my mind. It scares me how I do not remember getting from Point A to point B, but then It feels like I have been there before. I almost think it is like you actually fall asleep a few seconds, but your body stays in motion.
 




When I was a kid I did quite often. As an adult maybe every few years.

The weirdest thing that was not deja vu, but was really weird was having a vivid dream about visiting Charleston, SC when I was in my early 20's. I have never been to Charleston, even to this day, but I have the most vivid, specific dream I've ever had that it compelled me to learn a little bit about Charleston. My dream was so spot on it was spooky. I still don't know why or how I had that dream, but I still think about it from time to time.
 
I used to get it all the time as a kid, now it happens less frequently but it definitely still happens. The weirdest one was when a friend and I had deja vu at the exact same time, but it was our first time at that particular place.
 
Yep. Every few months and once I blurted out the phone was going to ring and it did. Freaked everyone out!
 
Yes. I experience it more often than I'd like. It creeps me out. I wish I understood it.
 
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Once in a great while, usually minor stuff. But I do once remember "changing the ending", and I actually got kind of dizzy.
 
Yes. It's so surreal when it happens. I feel like I'm watching a rerun of my favourite show, where I know exactly what people will say and what happens next.
 
There is a scientific explanation for deja vu. It happens when the pathways that send experiences to your short-term memory screw up and send them to your long term memory. So - as you experience situations. your brain tells you that it already happened.

Knowing what is going to happen next isn't deja vu - it's something else.

Ending up somewhere and not remembering getting there isn't deja vu either.
 

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