Questioning Reality

[FreezeC77]

So most of my life I have experienced a lot of deja vu moments, some of them so borderline clear that I swear I had seen it before(which i know is the definition of it, but some aspects I could predict) I have wondered about maybe temporal loops, seeing the future/reliving the past, is this all one huge near-death experience where my brain just keeps replaying all memories and it sometimes leaks out of order...

But generally I just chalk it up to being a scifi geek my entire life so I am/was viewing it too fantastical.

That stopped today. I woke up used the computer and did a search and the first story looked familiar. About a month ago I had what I thought was just a dream doing normal things and browsing. I saw the date under the articles as dec 20, 2017 and joked I must have time travelled.

Today as I looked at the first article I thought it looked a lot like that dream and then it just clicked. Before scrolling down I knew the articles and blurbs on them from what I saw last month.

So now I am just convinced that there is something beyond normal going on. Just no idea what it is.

 

[Amaris]

So most of my life I have experienced a lot of deja vu moments, some of them so borderline clear that I swear I had seen it before(which i know is the definition of it, but some aspects I could predict) I have wondered about maybe temporal loops, seeing the future/reliving the past, is this all one huge near-death experience where my brain just keeps replaying all memories and it sometimes leaks out of order...

But generally I just chalk it up to being a scifi geek my entire life so I am/was viewing it too fantastical.

That stopped today. I woke up used the computer and did a search and the first story looked familiar. About a month ago I had what I thought was just a dream doing normal things and browsing. I saw the date under the articles as dec 20, 2017 and joked I must have time travelled.

Today as I looked at the first article I thought it looked a lot like that dream and then it just clicked. Before scrolling down I knew the articles and blurbs on them from what I saw last month.

So now I am just convinced that there is something beyond normal going on. Just no idea what it is.

I've had odd things like that happen before. Just yesterday I experienced deja vu. See, last week, I brought a glass into the kitchen to sit it on the counter. I could hear the television, and my mom and dad were discussing something in the living room, thinking nothing of it. Last night, I was bringing an empty glass into the kitchen. I could hear dialogue on the TV, and my mom and dad talking. It was the same exact TV show dialogue and conversation by my parents, word for word from the previous week, right down to me placing a glass on the kitchen counter. It was very surreal.

So I don't know what it could have been.

 

[Pingfah]

It's the year 2078, you are on your death bed, this is all just your life flashing before your eyes.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Like George Carlin, sometimes I have felt a sensation of vuja de. That's the strange feeling that none of this has ever happened before.

 

[1001001]

Misplaced Scene Familiarity

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deja-vu-found-originate-similar-scenes/

 

[cosmic mouse]

I'm with you, FreezeC77... I agree and have had many similar experiences to the one you describe, including recurring "waking visions" that ceased once the "vision" actually occurred in reality. It does make me think of temporal loops and realities other than the one we currently, physically occupy.

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[Amaris]

Misplaced Scene Familiarity

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deja-vu-found-originate-similar-scenes/

Fascinating! To quote Peggy Hill, it gives me the heebiest of jeebies.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Yeah, man, I tell you what, talkin' bout them dang ol' reality, jus' an a priori adjunct of non naturalistic ethics, man.

(If Boomhauer and Hegel had a kid.)

 

[Kor]

I, too, have had vague dreams about reading news headlines online from a future date. Then, around the time when that date arrives, I happen to be reading news headlines online and I have a vague notion that I vaguely dreamed about this before. But nothing too concrete, and definitely no memory of reading those exact headlines before.

Kor

 

[Gary7]

Misplaced Scene Familiarity
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deja-vu-found-originate-similar-scenes/

Excellent!
I've experienced this myself. Familiarity with scenes and scenarios that are similar enough to current ones that the memories can "overlap." It can allow one to conflate the older memory details with new ones. And then something doesn't add up... until you realize what happened.

Deja-vu is just that. "Feeling." Not fact. Easiest way to prove it empirically, is that it's IMPOSSIBLE for someone to recite what someone else is going to say ahead of them. What is really going on is that active memory of something happening in the moment not only goes into short term memory but also gets "tagged" as long term memory. So then the "feeling" is that it happened before, even though it's happening right now. That's the effect. Simultaneously new, yet also familiar.

Sci-fi is wonderful, but it's also a bit tricky... in that it can lead people to believe in something that is not possible. Believe me, if we could sense the future, we'd be able to act on it. And that would happen A LOT... to the point where people would be affecting outcomes in ways they never should have been able to do so.

 

[Jayson1]

I also have had these feelings and I know science has come up with possibilities but then again I sometimes wonder if these scientific explanations are just a means of trying to explain something that can never really be explained. Nobody wants to just say ,I don't know why that happens, so we find away to make it make sense to us in away were most comfortable with. Granted I am more incline to believe the science answer to Deju Vu than the one about non-existence before the creation of the universe. Not sure about a God and really,really not certain about a afterlife but the idea of nothing seems as magical to me as the concept of a God and frankly I don;t know if I would ever trust some evolved primitive ape species like humans to ever figure that one out.

Jason

 

[Lookingglassman]

Something has changed in the Matrix