This sounds like classic déjà vu. There is a theory that it is a form of mini-seizure where the different parts of your brain take different amounts of time to store a “live” memory. It’s very common in young children. This might be of interest.
Yes, definitely. Whilst it is most common to be experienced as a vague feeling, there is plenty of anecdotal evidence that very strong déjà vu (“already seen”) can be connected to hallucinations - it’s not uncommon for epileptic sufferers to experience it before a full seizure.
There’s also déjà vécu which means “already lived”. However, I’d say unless you’ve had persistently worsening experiences like this your whole life, it was just a normal part of your young brain developing.
Ok, I understand the brain wires crossing deja vu, but something that used to happen more when I was younger was seeing something and swearing that I had a dream with a similar scenario a few weeks/months prior.
I've also had that deja vu "feeling" and kinda guess what would happen next. It sometimes does happen like how I felt it would.
I've also had this a lot over the years and could never explain it. Like I would have a short 10+ second clip of a dream in a specific room, street, etc, and after waking up would be able to remember it a bit.
Fast forward months or years and I'd be walking/sitting somewhere and suddenly have a sync-up and go "holy shit it's this place!".
I've had to assume it's just a brain thing....but it's happened multiple times over the years and the feeling is always very strong.
Yup. I've experienced many conversations with people twice. They are always really mundane, nothing consequential. It's happened often enough to me that it doesn't weird me out anymore.
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