QOTD: Thurs 15 Aug: Déjà vu

[danger_dan]

Has this happened to you before?
Ever experienceDéjà vu? What was the event, memory, or image?
Has this happened to you before?

[i_forget]

I have déjà vu ALL THE TIME. Sometimes it is with people, sometimes it is places, other times it is just me doing something and it feels so familiar.
I always take it as a reassurance that something is right.

My most significant experience was when I was living in Toronto. I was walking up Roncesvalles past a bank and there was a woman trying to get into the bank with a stroller. I felt as if it had happened before and I held open the door for her, so I went over and grabbed the door to help her in.
I started walking back up the street and was walking past a church and a tree limb broke off and fell on the sidewalk in front of me. I will always remember this because it taught me to always follow my instincts. If I had not grabbed that door, I would have been taken out by that limb and probably would have died or something.

[Patty Smyth]

Always and it's really freaky. All my life, sometimes it was years between events sometimes just days. Most of the time it's stuff I have dreamed of and when the feeling hits it's like you are in suspended animation for that moment.

[Natalka]

Well put, Patty - suspended animation - that really describes what I've felt, too.

I've gotten it TONS of times and sometimes it's downright scary.

However, I know in reality that it's a false sense of a memory, basically a hiccup between short- and long-term memory.

[Lynn49]

Infrequently, really.....and not for a long time, now.....

[acosta]

I get it all the time.
When it happens, it makes me feel sick.
Usually it's a memory or experience.

[blueeyetea]

It's happened often enough, but it's always been a really insignificant event, like me standing in front of a store, or driving down a road, and a spark goes in my brain that says "I've been/done this before".

[annedougherty]

I get it all the time but it's usually really random things as well. Like the way things are laid out in a room I'm in etc. Sometimes it's things people say, but again it's usually where i am when those things are said that resonates the most and not the words. Does that make any damn sense? lol

[tasha313]

I get that ALL the time..
It really flabbergasts me .. then I try and remember why/where/how i've seen/done that.. never can manage.. but it's the weirdest feeling.

[abbasgirl]

I used to get it when I was a child, but not in many years. It doesn't make sense because you would think I have a lot more things that I've done before now than when I was a kid.