For about the majority of my life I've been a sufferer of Deja Vu, however the thing is though over the past month or so I've been getting more and more frequent Deja Vu's (I'm talking an increase of +8x the usual amount) particularly when going on transit, playing a new game that I've never in my life played before, watching a movie I've never in my life watched, reading books I've never even read, hearing specific details of a conversation I've never heard before, etc etc.. it's come to a point I've starting questioning my sanity.
So then my prompt today is firstly: have you ever experienced a Deja Vu before and what do you think about it?
For me personally as I've stated before I've been experiencing it countless amount of times, it usually dawns upon me that it happened 30-90 minutes after it actually occurs. I personally find it unsettling and wish it would stop or rather instead of having it dawn on me AFTER the event occurs I wish it would dawn on me BEFORE (horse bets anyone?). I recalled hearing from a friend of mine that Deja Vu is merely illustrations of past (and I mean far in the past) dreams coming to light and portrayed into reality. The thing I find unsettling about this is, if that is the case why must our minds ponder about such things? It's truly unsettling.. so yeah about Deja Vu, it's cool and surreal initially if it doesn't occur so goddamn frequently.
Anyways, this prompt is more of a vent of frustration more than anything else but again if you have similar experiences to this feel free to share :)
As a lifelong sufferer of insomnia, I have often had instances of sleep deprivation where I could not remember whether a memory I had was from my waking life or from a dream. My instances of deja vu are much more frequent when I'm stressed or sleep deprived.
It is definitely a very odd sensation, particularly when it's happening often. Are you getting enough sleep? Spending too much time in front of the computer?
Fairly enough, 6-7 hours a day. As for spending time in front of computer.. I use computer on average of 3-4 hours per day, 7 hours at work.
I don't think it has to do with insomnia though, I know of those instances where dreams and waking life seems to cross, it doesn't have the same unsettling feeling as this does. :(
It's like LAG in your brain. The part of your brain that registers memory actually receives the information before the part of your brain that registers the information as what is currently happening. So you "recognize" the information as memory instead of or as well as a current event.
I've had terrible Deja Vu about World War Z. One that made me question the integrity of my mind and the way the universe works. I remember seeing a clip of the World War Z zombie rush chase scene thing (Haven't actually watched the film) on a Tv program called 'Greatest Movie Mistakes' which highlighted continuity errors and plotholes in films. I remember seeing the scene of the main character running through the streets whilst being chased by an absurdly volumetric wave of zombies but not the particular mistake. I remember seeing this scene on Tv in 2010. The film was released last year. I'm almost certain that I had seen that scene before, so when I saw that scene on the trailer I said to my pa, who was also there, "They re-released it, eh?" and he had no clue as to what I was talking about. I told all sorts of people that I had seen it before, but no one believed me. To be honest, it was a pretty incredible story. It really made me mad that my mind would play such a dastardly trick and make everybody think I was crazy. I've had smaller deja vu events in my life, especially from my childhood. They're strange things deja vus.