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Deja vu
Laura:
--- Quote from: Deckard ---I ve experienced it quite a few times
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Me too. Which makes me wonder if all our so-called "past lives" may not be simply "alternate lives", cycling more or less "side by side," to try to describe it in ordinary terms. And if so, is it possible that there is some "master template" that each of these alternate lives follows - some primal, archetypal gesture - that replays the same dynamics over and over again, though in different "times" and with different costumes, etc.
If so, then perhaps there are lateral "bleed-throughs" now and again? Or maybe, sometimes, the lateral connections aren't exact - like time leaps or lags - and something important might be happening in one of your other lives sooner than it happens in another, and you get a "sensation" of it because it is so intense, while in this life, nothing special is happening?
All kinds of interesting possibilities.
Heimdallr:
What happens to me is I will dream of a situation, but it will be a rather mundane one. Then later, say a few weeks, the very same thing that I was dreaming will occur "in real life". Then, as it is occurring, I will remember that I dreamt of this exact situation recently and the feeling of deja vu will happen.
But what gets me is why did this all happen? Why did I dream of this first before it happened? Like I said, these are completely mundane experiences, so I don't see what the importance of it all could be.
Radagast:
with me deja vu is very often experience connected to awaken state
i.e. very brief segment of reality, conversation or situations seem to be like a replay
but then very seldom there are deja vu experiences where I can surely rember that I dreamt it while ago, and even remeber the feeling and bewilderment when I woke up after such a dream , and very soon forgot it as it didnt make much sense
then when it happens in actual reality it all comes back
the strangest thing is that right now composing this post and thinking about what to write , digesting posts that I have just read - it all feels like a deja vu,
Just now I am trying to stay with a feeling, describe it with words but it is like chasing the rainbow, you can never get close enough to grasp it
"Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream? "
Johnno:
There's several ideas/opinions I've picked up a few along the way which I can remember as follows.
1) Eternal recurrence remembered as in "Groundhog Day". Ouspensky was big on the Eternal recurrence deal and was unable to get an answer from Gurdjieff on the phenomena. If the "film" theory of Mouravieff is correct and we try self-remembering then perhaps we can remember that moment on a replay of the film.
2) A glitch in the system we call reality as in "The Matrix"
3) Remembering the future perhaps? If we can remember the past, why can't we remember the future?
4) Rationalists opinion. A fault in the memory part of the brain.
5) Bridge between realities as per the C's
Nathan:
--- Quote from: beau ---What happens to me is I will dream of a situation, but it will be a rather mundane one. Then later, say a few weeks, the very same thing that I was dreaming will occur "in real life". Then, as it is occurring, I will remember that I dreamt of this exact situation recently and the feeling of deja vu will happen.
But what gets me is why did this all happen? Why did I dream of this first before it happened? Like I said, these are completely mundane experiences, so I don't see what the importance of it all could be.
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I have the same thing! Last week I dreamt I stumbled upon some old friends I hadn't seen in five years, then three days later I did exactly that at a friend's engagement party. Completely mundane, yes. It does strike me as "remembering the future", as John said, while dreaming. This might be a slightly different phenomenon to experiencing deja vu and not knowing exactly why it feels so familiar.
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