Thread: Ideas on Deja Vu

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 O'nus

How do you approach synchronicity?

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I don't. It approaches me.

Haven't you guys ever heard that when something like that happens you remember, but when something doesn't happen you disregard it?

Its like...when you do something good no one remembers, when you do something bad, no one ever forgets.

Except chance occurence is something bad, and the thing not happening is somethign good.

Originally Posted by Aquanina

I don't. It approaches me.

Let me re-phrase that; what do you think it is?

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Originally Posted by Aquanina

I don't. It approaches me.

Oh yeah, I understand now!



..wait.. what?

Sometimes I have deja vu where it's more like 'this seems familiar but I don't know why' but there are other times when I remember having that thought, experiencing that event, seeing such and such, etc. in the past, whether in a dream or just some random vision but I can never remember exactly why or when I first had this thought. I KNOW that I've seen that scene at some point before in the past. Almost like a psychic vision.

I think that is more than coincidence, though I regularly experience the phone thing.

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

I find that my dreams always last when I wake up, through the weather. Like I'll have an awesome dream, despite being dark and overcast, and then I will wake later and find that the weather is the same in reality, and that actually sustains the feeling of the dream.

Not Deja Vu, but a Coincidence: I was waiting for a text message for ages, then when I did get it, it was like three seconds after I picked up the phone and exactly the same moment my sister screamed in pain from a bee-sting.

Now that I think of this, I look at the clock and it's exactly my bed-time.

And thus, the law of fives remains absolute and all applicable.

Originally Posted by Xaqaria

And thus, the law of fives remains absolute and all applicable.

What's that?