Thread: Ideas on Deja Vu

Ever hear of Veja Vu?

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Originally Posted by O'nus

Ever hear of Veja Vu?

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No.

Originally Posted by O'nus

Ever hear of Veja Vu?

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I dont at the moment recall hearing of it, nor can I seem to find any written reference to such.

Oops, I got it wrong. No wonder no one heard of it.

I meant to say Jamais Vu. It's the opposite of deja vu where you are in a very familiar situation but you cannot seem to know or remember what/who it is, etc.

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Originally Posted by O'nus

Oops, I got it wrong. No wonder no one heard of it.

I meant to say Jamais Vu. It's the opposite of deja vu where you are in a very familiar situation but you cannot seem to know or remember what/who it is, etc.

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yes that does make a difference.

I have experienced something along those lines while driving, looking up after thinking about something and knowing I am in familar surroundings on a road I drive all the time, yet for a brief moment its as if nothing is recognized, like you are somewhere you have never been.

What is weird is the regular occurence of coincidence, and what our brain does with that.

I'm saying this because I always get texts just when i happen to be looking at my phone.


Like just then I hadn't had a text for two hours and checked my phone and one turned up. It happens loads.

Sup with that?

Jung used to associate these incidents with what is called synchronicity. I do not want to elaborate too much on his inference (ie. meaninful coincidences, etc.).

Let me try and show it from my understanding (as I do not think there is any significant scientific research on such a difficult phenomena):

- You make an unconscious effort towards something or an incidental decision (ie. open a door for a girl).
- You tend through time and eventually forget about the girl and what she looks like.
- Eventually, somewhere down the line, you may meet her again and actually start talking to her.
- The sense of deja vu comes and you are not sure but it is because you never truly encoded her to memory in the first place but had a residual idea about her.

Also, I think deja vu can also be the result of an inconsequential action with eventual resolution that was not deliberately taken under your own volition. So, you wanted something to happen and made a remote effort, then left it off. Eventually, on its own, it happens and, because you took a small part in its development, you will have deja vu.

I think Jamais vu might be the willful act of forgetting or the willingness to forget. So, if you are in a familiar situation and suddenly forget where you are; I suspect it might be a novel experience that you are unsure whether or not you want to experience it. Perhaps similar to anxiety.

What do you think...?
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Originally Posted by Carôusoul

What is weird is the regular occurence of coincidence, and what our brain does with that.

I'm saying this because I always get texts just when i happen to be looking at my phone.


Like just then I hadn't had a text for two hours and checked my phone and one turned up. It happens loads.

Sup with that?

yeah...."coincidence"...ehem...

Synchronicity.

Originally Posted by Aquanina

yeah...."coincidence"...ehem...

Synchronicity.

How do you approach synchronicity?

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Originally Posted by Carôusoul

What is weird is the regular occurence of coincidence, and what our brain does with that.

I'm saying this because I always get texts just when i happen to be looking at my phone.


Like just then I hadn't had a text for two hours and checked my phone and one turned up. It happens loads.

Sup with that?

How many times have you gotten a text when you weren't looking at your phone? I've always thought it strange when I pick up a phone before it rings, only to find someone on the line, but in reality this has only happened to me a few times in my whole life. Statistically it is a meaningless coincidence but I remember each instance and gave them disproportionate signifigance because they seemed supernatural.

I frequently have been having Deja Vu, since i can remember.

In a different sense though; that I recognize things that have happened in my dreams and they seem to play out in life.
Also doings things in dreams, then waking to find later they didn't happen at all.

Jamais Vu gives me a totally different feeling though.
eg. I wake up in my house and don't recognize it. Also thinking I'm in a different country and finding myself here.

Again, a similar feeling when i wake up in a different position I was just in when I left the dream.

Lucidity is doing strange things to me