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This is probably going to sound crazy…
and I’m kind of scared to even post it… but I need.. information, I guess.
I know most people won’t believe it, and some might find it offensive or something, but for a loong time I’ve dreamt of things before they happened. Not usually big dramatic things like in the movies, since nothing big or dramatic really happens to me, but everyday things. The biggest thing ever, was dreaming of my little sister a week before I found out I was going to have one.
But anyway, the help I need is to do with something even crazier… I’ve been experiencing these… flashes, kind of, where no matter what I’m doing, my whole mind suddenly focuses on- it kind of feels like a memory, except it comes so suddenly, and disappears just as fast, and it’s never anything familiar. As I’m ‘remembering’ I don’t even see what’s happening around me, and I try to talk about it, but I can’t hear myself. And then once it’s over, trying to keep it in my brain is like trying to hold water in my hand… it just trickles away, until I can’t remember in the slightest what it was about.
I want to know what I’m seeing! I want to figure out a way to keep it in my head after the intense focus has passed. I’ve tried to say what I’m seeing when someone is with me, but apparantly I only manage to string together a few words. And they never help me remember anything afterwards.
I want to know if anyone in this big wide world has ever experienced the same thing, and if they know of a way I can figure out what I’m ’seeing’.
If you’re going to call me crazy or mentally ill, please, don’t waste my time. I just want information.
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Anonymous#
2 months, 1 week ago (2 minutes after post)
Nope! you are not!
I had the same deja vu feeling too!
This normal!
Sometimes, people get this flashy thing or thing which gonna happen, you may not realize it untill the same situation occurs
i dont think your crazy at all! you could try going to a psychic, or a supernatural specialist. they might be able to take a guess at these visions your experiencing or even help you figure out what they are. its really cool- it seems like you might be seeing the future!
if you do want a clinical approach, it could be that you could be having seizures of some sort, maybe (but there is a VERY small chance) even a brain tumor. but is doesnt mean your crazy either way, and im not saying that its any sort of illness, its just that my father is a neurologist so i know about brain issues. good luck!
Déjà vu (pronounced /ˈdeɪʒɑː ˈvuː/ ( listen); French: [deʒa vy] ( listen), “already seen”; also called paramnesia, from Greek παρα “para,” “near, against, contrary to” + μνήμη “mnēmē,” “memory”) or promnesia, is the experience of feeling sure that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously (an individual feels as though an event has already happened or has happened in the near past), although the exact circumstances of the previous encounter are uncertain. The term was coined by a French psychic researcher, Émile Boirac (1851–1917) in his book L’Avenir des sciences psychiques (”The Future of Psychic Sciences”), which expanded upon an essay he wrote while an undergraduate. The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of “eeriness”, “strangeness”, or “weirdness”. The “previous” experience is most frequently attributed to a dream, although in some cases there is a firm sense that the experience “genuinely happened” in the past.
The experience of déjà vu seems to be quite common among adults and children alike. References to the experience of déjà vu are also found in literature of the past,[1] indicating it is not a new phenomenon. It has been extremely difficult to evoke the déjà vu experience in laboratory settings, therefore making it a subject of few empirical studies. Recently[when?], researchers have found ways to recreate this sensation using hypnosis.[2]
Sounds to me like it is memories or an impression of someone who has passed, if your into that kind of thing but yeah most people will think your crazy.
I have things like that several times in my life, usually just a last message someone wants to leave for their family or something like that but if you can’t keep the focus then it won’t come back again.
Anonymous#
2 months, 1 week ago (5 minutes after post)
It’s called intuition..and yours is working well. I’ve had the dream thing and the ‘remembering’ thing slightly before. You are not alone. Just try to keep an open heart & mind and always give your feelings, dreams episodes your time, love and attention. They should eventually..as long as you don’t push them away or lose faith - get better, easier..more understandable. Give it time.
Anonymous#
2 months, 1 week ago (17 minutes after post)
Most definitely not deja vu. A completely different experience. Deja vu is more of a feeling when you do something, whereas this is… random, and… I’m not sure how to explain it, but definitely not a familiar FEELING. In fact it doesn’t feel familiar in the slightest.
I’ve been trying to find information all over the internet, but it’s near impossible. I don’t know how to explain what happens, and there’s a huge amount of rubbish to sort through.
About the brain tumour approach, I thankfully have had tests done before and am proud to say I’m completely healthy! *dances* Haha
Anonymous#
2 months, 1 week ago (1 hour, 2 minutes after post)
Hey you’re not alone! I also have this deja vu, ever since 2 years ago. I have always been amazed by it. sometimes when I do something, i just feel that I did it before, and in my conciousness, i try to concentrate, and try to “remember” what happens next, however, I will just realise that I am repeating the exact same thing as in my memory (which is me trying to remember what I was going to to).
It also happens in dreams, where the same thing happens, just much more dramatic.
It sometimes comes with weird dreams, for example, I dreamed of white circles in a white background expanding themselves, and I was so scared. When I managed to wake up, I would be in cold sweat and shivering. After my mum calms me, and I try to reflect upon the dream, I did not feel afraid at all (what’s there to be afraid of white circles?).
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Hey you’re not alone! I also have this deja vu, ever since 2 years ago. I have always been amazed by it. sometimes when I do something, i just feel that I did it before, and in my conciousness, i try to concentrate, and try to “remember” what happens next, however, I will just realise that I am repeating the exact same thing as in my memory (which is me trying to remember what I was going to to).
It also happens in dreams, where the same thing happens, just much more dramatic.
It sometimes comes with weird dreams, for example, I dreamed of white circles in a white background expanding themselves, and I was so scared. When I managed to wake up, I would be in cold sweat and shivering. After my mum calms me, and I try to reflect upon the dream, I did not feel afraid at all (what’s there to be afraid of white circles?).
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I think that it is not at all anything to do with supernatural things. As i observed this cycle - it only happens when I am stressed. So i suppose it has got something to do with stress, when I am having exams or someting traumatic happens to me. 2 years ago when I have an important exam, I had some deja vus, today, my end of year exams are coming, and recently i have went through alot of it. As you have described, it is difficult to remember anything from it.
just want to say that you are not alone and there are many out there just like you.
Hey i found an interesting wiki article:
It has been reported that certain drugs increase the chances of déjà vu occurring in the user. Some pharmaceutical drugs, when taken together, have also been implicated in the cause of déjà vu. Taiminen and Jääskeläinen (2001)[6] reported the case of an otherwise healthy male who started experiencing intense and recurrent sensations of déjà vu on taking the drugs amantadine and phenylpropanolamine together to relieve flu symptoms. He found the experience so interesting that he completed the full course of his treatment and reported it to the psychologists to write-up as a case study. Due to the dopaminergic action of the drugs and previous findings from electrode stimulation of the brain (e.g. Bancaud, Brunet-Bourgin, Chauvel, & Halgren, 1994.[7]) Taiminen and Jääskeläinen speculate that déjà vu occurs as a result of hyperdopaminergic action in the mesial temporal areas of the brain. Many scientists[which?] are still working towards the actual link of déjà vu with hypnagogic epilepsy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j…
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