What are the different religious takes on déjà vu?
For example, some people believe déjà vu is a sign that you are on your right path…
-Thirst
I just personally love it, it is fun. I have no idea what the differing world religions say about it.
I’ve never heard a religious perspective on deja vu before… I heard it can signal a glitch in the matrix though 
the mormon stance on deja vu has to do with predestination, and how we live out this life in the spiritual plane before being born.
My personal stance on it, now is that it’s either a psychic projection, or a past life interference. Or a mix of the two… my general feeling is that you get deja vu, when you are not following the right path in life, and it’s there to warn you. You can continue not to heed the warnings, and plod ahead…
Scythekain, your perspective is interesting.
I typically receive ‘good vibes’ from these moments.
It doesn’t feel like a warning as much as an embrace.
Does anyone know of the scientific explanation for this phenomenom?
-Thirst
I’d actually like to know about the phenomenon itself. Do you have any articles?
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I personally think it’s a recognition of a clairvoyent thought one has had at some point in time – usually while asleep.
Clairvoyency isn’t some threshold thing, I believe we all engage it in our thought process but it’s a thing we often miss – hence the deja-vu.
I have no scientific or religious information on this whatsoever.
How does your’s happen thirst?
Sudden brilliance, or shifting scenery between mind sight and actual environment?
I genuinely hate deja vu. I have it often, and without fail, spend hours trying to recover from the vertigo whiplash that comes after the instance.
Everything that I have ever tried to read on it has been flaky, hocus pocus that made little to no sense.
Would be interesting to know how science views this subject, if they lend any credence to it whatsoever.
Mas,
Mine is either a shifting scenery or a sudden slowness of time whereby I am ‘aware’ of my surroundings on a different level than normal. It is never physically overwhelming though the sensation from the experience is typically very exciting. I haven’t spent much time researching this phenomenon, but I am very interested.
Why do you think your experience is so involved?
-Thirst
Edit: fix on error.
I just think “Hey, I remember this, or do I?”.
I wish I had even the slightest idea, thirst.
There are times it goes to the point where it could be described as “excruciating”.
I’m as interested as you are, just don’t have any information on the phenomenon, if that’s even the right word.
This is a good way of describing it in my opinion, although somewhere in there I would throw in the word “unsettling.”
I’ve trained myself to be aware of my surroundings on a different level than normal people normally, so when I do get deja vu I feel like I can see everything. It’s really weird. Hence, I hate it (though not as much as Mas.)
there is an opinion I heard at a bar a while ago about this. If I recall right, what is going on is your brain confusing something to do with how things are stored. Your brain interprets the event that is infront of you not in the short term, but more in the long term, and something is screwed up with encoding, where the brain thinks it is retriving information instead of storing it.
However, remember I heard this in a bar in Idaho from a dude who said it was a commonly known science fact, and then he drank another margarita.
Here is what Dr. Wiki says about it,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu
Either way, I haven’t found any clear scientific reserach for this phenomenon.
I personally love deja vu, and I feel strange and good inside when it happens.
I hate deja vu. When it happens to me, I go out of my way to do something dramatic and hopefully unlikely to ‘break it’, like jam myself in the thigh with a pencil, or curse loudly (one does tend to bring about the other, now that I think of it). It seems that it gets harder to break it as I get older.
hmm…
Any particular reason you can point to?
I’m normally very open to things happening on the quantum level or the possibility of time/space warps etc but not with deja vu.
I think it’s just a brain hiccup or, in computer speak, a package drop or electrical surge.
It makes sense to me that the human brain will have electrical hiccups where information is lost or delayed a fraction of a second so that it seems to repeat.
When I experience it, I don’t get the slightest feeling that deja vu is something spiritual, good or bad, or other-dimensional; just unusual (which it is).
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Old_Gobbo
Not really. The best I can do is say that it feels very…intrusive, stifling.