1 Minute Astrology - Could Brain Chemistry Explain Deja Vu?

15 Responses to “1 Minute Astrology - Could Brain Chemistry Explain Deja Vu?”

1. Molly says on 1/18/08 at 10:30 am:
   

   “i don’t like anything messing with my reality” LOL!

   hey, where’s the AMF’s painting?…you changed your website…maybe i haven’t been here in a while…it looks good.

   deja vu. i don’t get it much, but unlike you, i like it…makes me feel otherworldly.

   ILWYM

2. joana says on 1/18/08 at 10:35 am:
   

   I have plenty of deja-vus but in completely random, domestic, pratical situations. Being at some place doing something while thinking of something is how it usually plays.
   It feels not only like a double take but as an eco…I feel that I’ve lived that many times before, not just one.
   I know my brain chemicals are a little crazy so I accept that explanation.

3. isabelle says on 1/18/08 at 11:41 am:
   

   Thanks for sharing Laura’s insightful perspective. The brain chemistry triggers makes total sense with mercury contacts! but what about d©j  vu when one is not involved with another party (/ies)? either way there seems to be a “jet lag” between the brain’s experience and analysis of what is going on. As if our memory registers the experience faster then or before actually analyzing it. That would be the most rational explanation. I love Joana’s using the word echo. Could also be our memory retrieves a similar emotional energy from the past which collides with the current going on’s.

   But I can see how some of my deja vu have been linked to dreams, or even conscious precognition, which makes me wonder if the dreams were just a coincidence or not. I attribute stress to my most annoying deja vu: the month and year after 911 I had them the most the most often. This was a very heavy time for me and I had all sorts of memories weirdness, especially associated with smell. (It was not until December 2001 that the fires were extinguished completely).

4. dreamsAreality says on 1/18/08 at 2:40 pm:
   

   I get ‘REPEATS’ which I classify a bit differently than what I consider to be dejavu - those feel like Isabella’s saying our memories retrieve a siliar emotional energy from the past which collides.

   Dejavu, to me, has happened when I visit A PLACE and know I’ve been there before. I have two very vivid recollections of those dejavues and it is those two specific incidents that happened years apart that give me any inkling of past lives. I just chalk it up to the fact that I was probably TRULY there before.

5. Charlotte says on 1/18/08 at 2:43 pm:
   

   I read somewhere that when you have deja-vu about something you have dreamed, it is the “brain-loop” thing whereas if you just experience something random that you have never encountered before, that is genuine deja-vu. I used to have it all the time when I was little but not so much anymore. It’s kinda sad, I miss that feeling. I agree with Molly, it makes you feel all psychic and mystical.

6. Avery says on 1/18/08 at 3:04 pm:
   

   That seems a perfectly viable explanation to me. I used to get those sensations all the time… but I was a heavy pot smoker (it wouldn’t happen while I was under the influence, but surely some residual chemicals were coursing through my veins). I quit about ten years ago and stopped having them. Just stopped.

   If you’re only experiencing this with someone you’re really into, I would suspect that dopamine has something to do with the deja vu phenomenon, since THC and hot lurve both trigger its release.

7. elsie says on 1/18/08 at 7:24 pm:
   

   i’ve heard deja vu explained as a 7 second delay — that part of your brain is ‘inputting’ while the more conscious part is tuned out. when your more wide awake part tunes in — well, it feels you’ve been there before. another explanation is one i’ve developed lately — been doing a lot of trance work, revisiting specific times and places. i wonder if somehow these visits, doubling up on myself, are causing my past self to experience deja vu.

8. wyrdling says on 1/21/08 at 7:00 pm:
   

   yes.
   i’m not quite sure why.
   sometimes it feels like i’m experiencing something “deeper.”
   when i play around with the idea of (quantum) parallel realities i sometimes imagine deja vu as something that’s happening in multiple realities simultaneously and that’s why it feels like it’s echoing oddly- as if for a moment you’re crossing paths with parallel selves.

   it can be the most mundane, normal things, sometimes, with me.

9. Ana says on 4/30/08 at 5:33 pm:
   

   how interesting I get deja vu around certain people and places too. It’s just an immediate sense of recognition or something, like finding an old shirt from long ago. Time has passed, yet everything just clicks back into place like we haven’t missed a beat. We just pick up where we left off and everything is familiar. It’s awesome. For a moment, everything is familiar and just like the last time you saw it. hmm

10. Lexie says on 5/15/08 at 8:07 am:
    

    I get it all the time. Most of the time, I know where it comes from, and it’s my dreams. I dream of places I’ve never been, people I’ve never met, conversations I never had…until I do/have I like it.

11. peppermint says on 5/15/08 at 10:18 am:
    

    Same here - I get them all the time, and have learned to go still, read the ‘feeling’ of the deja vu, which almost always turns out to be useful in an immediately pending event. To explain: the ‘deja vu’ happens, a very strong sense that I’ve been there before, with the same people, in that same experience, then I wait for the ‘feel’ (good or bad) of the experience, and act accordingly a few minutes or hours later. Like Lexie, I think I get them from dreams that I’ve had but don’t always recall. They have saved my hide more than a few times, I can tell you. But I don’t think one person triggers them for me more than any other person, like you and the Soldier, Elsa. Great video, great topic, BTW!

12. Pepper says on 5/15/08 at 12:30 pm:
    

    Yep, I get them all the time with places and people. It has been that way since I was a small kid. It just “IS” for me — a knowing. And time warps for me from past to present and future sometimes as well. I learned to just go with the flow, which may be easier for me since Merc and Mars are both RX in my natal chart?

13. Des says on 5/15/08 at 10:01 pm:
    

    deja vu: The experience of having previously experienced somthing actually being encountered for the first time. Disagreeable similarity or sameness… yes this happens to me. why? Beats me. Mercury is Rx i think. I noticed that almost every comment on here is posted by a female. I am wondering if men can get this too?

14. Amethyst says on 5/16/08 at 9:51 am:
    

    That “science” explanation might be true for some people but it’s not for me. Usually when it happens to me I can recall having dreamed about a place before and when I have the best recall I can predict what someone is about to say, or what the next room looks like, etc. Maybe I’m Merlin in “A Once and Future King,” and time runs backwards for me? I don’t know.

    I also started getting the same feeling, but differently when my intuative side started getting stronger. The same because it was disorienting and strange feeling, but different because I couldn’t remember it happening before I just had information that I shouldn’t logically have.

15. Rox says on 5/18/08 at 5:43 pm:
    

    I dont really experience it like that persay.. but I do have a weird habit of seeing places IRL that Ive dreamed of. For example, I walked into a mall in Oklahoma right after we moved there - hadnt ever been in that building in my life, hadnt ever been in Oklahoma before this either. Walked into the main area. Stopped. Looked left, looked right & turned to my husband & said “Ive dreamed of this place”. The kicker was.. it didnt look like your typical mall, so I couldnt blame it on that.
    The weirdest one was a dream about a kitchen in the house of a male friend of mine. Hadnt ever been to his house. So I tell him about it & he doesnt really comment much one way or the other. So fast forward a couple of weeks & we were out & about (me & my male friend) he stops by his house, takes me into the kitchen. I spun around so fast I nearly fell & told him it was the same kitchen from my dream.. only it wasnt the right color.. the kitchen was yellow.. in my dream it was blue. So he stears me into the livingroom & says to his mother “Mom tell rox what color the kitchen used to be” she looked a little strange like she couldnt understand why Id want to know that.. then said “Blue”.

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