DEJA VU
“This is like Déjà vu all over again.” – Yogi Berra
This week’s question comes from Jason – Put me in your top 8 or the puppy dies!
Jason has been experiencing extreme déjà vu, mostly at work, where it seems that he is repeating entire conversations that he has already had. It seems surreal, and he also figures that if it had happened before, the person would tell him that they’ve already discussed this.
What is Déjà vu?
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-According to Sylvia Browne Déjà vu is a checkpoint. She teaches that we plan our life ahead of time in a blueprint. We plan who we are going to marry, who we are going to work out karma with, how many kids we are going to have, what we are coming here to learn. We put certain obstacles and lessons in our path so our soul can evolve. Of course we still have free will, but we basically sketch out certain things we want to come here to accomplish for our own spiritual growth. Déjà vu then is a checkpoint that marks that we are on the right path. It is usually something silly. For example, you reach down to pick up your car keys, and swear you have done it before at exactly this time, exactly this place, exactly this way, which is impossible because you were just in the kitchen. Yet, you still have that feeling. Sylvia Browne says that this is a check point. A moment that you planned ahead of time, that signifies that you are on the correct path, that your soul will remember and recognize when it passes through this point, this moment in time. So basically it’s a sign you are on the correct path.
-Sometimes déjà vu is a psychic moment. You knew this was going to happen. You saw it ahead of time. And now it really is happening. Prophetic dream, premonition, intuition, you remembered the future. You saw this ahead of time, now it’s actually happening.
-It’s a do over. In various spiritual philosophies one of the given spiritual laws is that there is no time. If there is no time this means we can incarnate at ANY point in time. That means that if we choose our next life could very well be in the 1400’s. We don’t have to follow a timeline, because there is no time. So just because its 2007 right now in this dimension, in this plane of reality, in this incarnation… doesn’t mean its 2007 everywhere else, or in the after life. This would also mean that you could choose to repeat this life. Instead of choosing to be a highlander in 1432 for your next life, or a space explorer in 2078, you could decide to come right back to the 1960’s and do this life over. Maybe you want to try repeating this life, but this time you don’t want to get divorced, you decide to go to law school, or maybe you just want to see what this life would have been like if you had moved to Alaska and had six kids. Therefore déjà vu, is you remembering this moment, from the last time you were here doing this.
-We can take this one step further as well. In his latest book, At Home With God, Neale Donald Walsch tells us a bit about dying. He says that when we die, we actually are given the choice to stay dead and go on to heaven, or come back. And when we come back… we get to choose what point we want to come back to. This means we can say, “Hey God, you know I want to go back, but I want to go back to when I was in college in 1983 because I think my life would have gone much better if I had stayed in Med School instead of dropping out and getting married.” AND POOF. You go back to 1983 and this time do things a bit differently. You get to keep exploring the possibilities of this incarnation, but this time with a different twist. So déjà vu is you remembering a moment when you did this before, when you were in this situation before.
- In his book At Home with God, Neale Donald Walsch makes another point as well. He talks about the moment of death, and certainly it could come into play with déjà vu as well. Say you die in a car accident. You get to heaven, and make the choice to come back. But you want to come back to that same moment and just continue on from there. So you just go back a few minutes before.
There you are on the same street corner. Déjà vu. You look around and KNOW you have been here before, but of course, you don’t remember getting hit by a bus. You see the bus, you have an eerie feeling, but in that moment you remember you forgot your wallet in the bookstore and head back to the store… or in that moment a person asks you for directions preventing you from crossing the street and getting in the way of the bus. Events have been changed and this time you didn’t die.
-Just FYI, Déjà vu is also linked with schizophrenia and temporal lobe epilepsy. Turns out that Déjà vu could just be an electrical neurological misfire or a brief epileptic seizure. Which would mean that if we subscribe to what that research suggests, 70% of us are either schizophrenic or have had at least ONE epileptic fit. I think though that we can all agree that the déjà vu we have experienced doesn’t really fit into the “epileptic fit” theory. And schizophrenia is a very serious disorder, with very severe symptoms; I highly doubt that 70% of the population is just undiagnosed schizophrenics. Of course, it would explain some things. (Like those voices I think are talking to me!)
Tell me what kind of déjà vu have you experienced?
Does it happen to you frequently?
What do you think it is?
A memory?
A checkpoint?
A do over?
Something you dreamt?
A premonition?
A glimpse into another dimension?
A glitch in The Matrix?
An epileptic seizure?
An electrical neurological misfire?
A sign of schizophrenia?
A sign you are stuck in your own version of the movie Groundhog’s day?
What’s your theory on Déjà Vu?
August 18, 2008 at 4:08 am
I, too, seem to have déjà vu quit often. I am not for sure what my exact idea of why I experience déjà vu. I think it could possibly be a “memory glitch” when I do something that is very similar to something else I have already done in my life. But, there has been times I have been to a completely new place and talked with people only to experience déjà vu. So, then I am like is this a checkpoint or something to do with another lifetime as a do over. Like today, I just switched positions at work and experienced déjà vu when I got up to grab another box from the cart to be stocked. I have never worked in this area before the past two days and my coworker was only there one of them and was constantly by my side that day so I know this is not a memory glitch from the other day.
Déjà vu is something I want to learn more about and what it really means and why we have it. I don’t think that 70% of us can truly have the same nerve problems or be schizophrenic. I tend to believe more about Sylvia Browne’s checkpoints. I say this because most of the time when I experience déjà vu I am at calm tranquil times in my life.
August 20, 2008 at 2:49 am
I would have to agree with you. All of the times I personally have experienced Deja Vu seem to be checkpoints in my life.
Plus, I have no other explanation for having deja vu when I open up the fridge in the dark at 2AM on a Tuesday.
August 20, 2008 at 2:17 pm
I like your website, but I’m wondering why you’re using Sylvia Browne as an example. Personally, I believe in mediumship and psychic abilities. I believe in Deja Vu, though I also have studied psychology and know there is evidence to prove that synapses misfire in the brain, creating the sensation of Deja Vu. With these things, I tend to believe there is something in between–that maybe both the science and the spirit are correct at different moments.
Anyway, back to Sylvia… have you watched her repeatedly on afternoon talk shows? She cold reads entirely. My dad had a reading with her in the 1980s and I’ve listened to the tape of it. I find it horrifying that he paid so much money to her. Check out the website http://www.stopsylviabrowne.com and see what you think.
Again, I am a believer in mediums and other realms and have a very personal spirituality… but Sylvia Browne to me, seems phony and greedy–very opposite of enlightened.
September 22, 2008 at 3:00 am
What’s my theory on Déjà Vu?
I have no clue. It’s hard to think about it sometimes.
Basically, I have almost every kind of dejavu, jamais vu, and presque vu, I’ve ever heard of. I have relative remembrance of something I’m for sure hasn’t happened or even so far as I can predict what will happen. Sometimes I feel as though I remember it from a dream, though I’ve never had a dream like it before.
It is so frequent spontaneous for me. Usually, I have it four to five times a week, but there are times that I will go for weeks without it, or days where I’ll have it fifteen times.
I don’t know if any of you know what ‘lucid dreaming’ is, but it is sometimes associated with it. It’s dreaming while being aware of the fact you’re dreaming, and I have it fairly often. It’s a strange experience, let me tell you.
So basically, I think I’m screwed up in the head.
I’ve read the other comments that have been posted, but I seem to have one difference in my Déjà Vu: It doesn’t happen at any specific time of my life. Never really during a time that’s really important or even unimportant. Just average. I will have it randomly and it can be of something so completely insignificant, like… burning toast.
Hopefully, its not a disorder I have. I’ve researched Schizophrenia and temporal lobe epilepsy some, and sure, me being my paranoid self, get myself worried sometimes. I mean, there are a lot of symptoms that are vague, so I can relate to a lot of them. But, it is said that in both disorders, the person usually doesn’t notice. So that’s the one thing I’ve been banking on. I’m crossing my fingers that I just have a strange brain.
October 7, 2008 at 1:41 am
I’m making an entry here, which isn’t usually my way, but that I had an extreme deja vu event recently, and that I spent a little time looking to gain good answers as to why it happened. As a result of my experience I’m inclined to believe that deja vu is a simple result of the neuro/psycholocical explanations referenced above. The event I experienced was precipitated by excess combinations of abuse with party chems, somewhat severe and hardcore and toxic usage over a period of 5 days. I’ll admit here to anyone reading that the risks I was taking, heavy risks, someone will likely send a “let that be a lesson” in a subsequent entry after reading this. It truly was a lesson in my circumstance. On the last day of my binge and debauchery, being awake for the entire 5 day period, I had an all day continuous deja vu experience that was truly vivid and freaky. While younger, I’d had minor deja vu incidents. But I myself have never experienced anything like what happened this time. I was actually arguing with people that I’d been to this hotel before, or that apartment, seen this t.v. show or saw that wet paint sign at an elevator. All places and events that were revealed to be impossible for me to have been to or seen before. The memory signals were so intensely real and undestinguishable from external reality that my mind was actually constructing timelines in order to make sense of out of vivid memories for being places I’d never been before. So far, the information I’ve gathered to explain what happened to me was similar to an epileptic seizure that didn’t managed to make it to a physically recognizable stage. Items and information that should have only been stored in short term memory were being directly and inappropriately sent to long term memory. Simple as that. When it happens, it happens immediately and at the moment of experience. And if it’s intense enough, there was no time really to work out the logic that I wasn’t actually remembering event correctly. I can’t self-diagnose any tendency toward schizophrenia in my circumstance, but it could be said that some people are more vulnerable to this kind of inappropriate signaling if someone, in this case moi, are pushing the edge on chemical abuse. However, absent intentional chemical adventures, I’m inclined to now think less of deja vu as a psychic, or mystical experience, but more of an electro chemical neuro psychological manifestation that happens in this world, and the time space continuum in which you are reading this.
November 16, 2008 at 2:29 am
nice website …thanx
November 16, 2008 at 2:37 am
i always have deja vu . and then i always have deja vu saying deja vu saying it again that time also …but then again i am also diagnoised with scitzophrenia but when i do have deja vu which i just had about half hour ago in a conversation with my parents about their job i knew it was a checkpoint in my life …it felt exactly like ive been here beforehand .
December 27, 2008 at 3:39 am
Greetings,
I’m probably not going to remember on how to get back to this website and I’m not using my own computer so I can’t bookmark the url. So if you could send me an email response that would be much appreciated.
Anyway, I feel like I am in a continuous ground hog day loop, either that or I keep reincarnating into this life for some odd reason. I’m not sure exactly why but part of me keeps saying to myself that it’s to get things right. For some reason I keep wasting my life each and every time I come back here. The whole reason though that I keep coming back is to not waste my life and then to eventually be with my true love.
That’s the only thing that I can think of. So my question is, how can I stop wasting my life and start living it the next time I come back here.
If you have any ideas please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Thanks again!
January 23, 2009 at 10:39 pm
My name is charlie, im 17 years old and i often have a lot of deja vu’s and it bothers me. I don’t know what is trying to tell me but everytime i have one i panic and i try to calm myself down because its a weird feeling. I tell my friends about it and they look at me and they just laugh, you know, thinking im crazy. I actually think to myself am i going crazy or what. I usually get them everywhere i go. Like right now that im typing, i felt like if i was doing the same thing. i dont know but i need help.