RE: Deja Vu
April 24, 2015 at 11:13 pm
(This post was last modified: April 24, 2015 at 11:32 pm by Surulaia.)
OK, so i've done some minor hunting online for stories that correlate to what i've experienced throughout my life. Sadly, every source i've gone to keeps pointing to a higher power, and i'm a hardcore atheist (objectivist).
Though reconciling my experience with Science and objective thought has always been impossible.
Throughout my life i've experienced Deja Vu. It happens frequently (compared to others or at least from what i've read about the frequency at which others experience it, 1-2 times a year, sometimes more frequent). in every single instance i remember the first time I've seen the situation, it's a dream. The feeling of having done something before exists in my memory, but my memory is sharp enough i can recall the approximate time in my life at which i had the dream (i dreamt of my high school girlfriend when i was 10, though had no idea who she was or when i would meet her. i lived in Texas and was moved to Wisconsin when i was 12, and met her when i was 14. So in no way had i seen her previous to us meeting when i was 14. Though i distinctly remember the dream. Subsequently i remember the moment in which the Deja Vu occured and the dream was fulfilled.)
Most recently: I got married when i was 31, when i was 33 I had a strange but normal dream of laying in bed, dressed, having a conversation with a woman who was standing next to the bed, also dressed. No idea who she was at the time. I mentioned this dream to my Wife when i woke up, described the woman to her hoping she might recognize the description (leaving out the part about laying in bed, as I didn't want some strange jealousy from my wife). It was a brief dream, no sex or anything else happened, what i can recall of the dream was maybe 5 seconds of real time. 3 years later i'm going through a divorce and have moved again, 1600 miles. I spent a day helping a friend move (someone i'd met a couple months before and get along with, no sexual connection here, she's from Costa Rica and recently obtained Residency in the US, still working on citizenship. Never met this person ever in my life, have never been to Costa Rica etc.), and when all was said and done i was laying in her bed, and we were talking and Deja Vu occured, immediately bringing to mind the memory of the dream and when i mentioned it to my wife 3 years ago.
What i'm looking for: some help from the atheist community to potentially track down how this is working in my brain. Being an atheist i'm not looking to a higher power for an answer. Some kind of research into temporal mechanics may be necessary, simply wondering how my subconscious could have such a detailed and precise account of something that is going to happen in my near future. This has been the one and only thing in my life that has ever made me question being an atheist.
Drug use: yes i had my hayday in my 20s. Used marijuana, Ecstacy, acid, and few other things just to try them. but was clean before 19 (even alcohol) and have been clean since 25 (including alcohol, though the occasional, once a month, glass of wine with dinner i still do) Haven't been heavily intoxicated since my 28th Birthday. Currently 36. Probably why my marriage failed, she's a pretty hardcore drinker, and i'm simply not interested in intoxicants anymore... Stodgy i guess is how i would describe myself.
Sorry to Necro the thread.
Though reconciling my experience with Science and objective thought has always been impossible.
Throughout my life i've experienced Deja Vu. It happens frequently (compared to others or at least from what i've read about the frequency at which others experience it, 1-2 times a year, sometimes more frequent). in every single instance i remember the first time I've seen the situation, it's a dream. The feeling of having done something before exists in my memory, but my memory is sharp enough i can recall the approximate time in my life at which i had the dream (i dreamt of my high school girlfriend when i was 10, though had no idea who she was or when i would meet her. i lived in Texas and was moved to Wisconsin when i was 12, and met her when i was 14. So in no way had i seen her previous to us meeting when i was 14. Though i distinctly remember the dream. Subsequently i remember the moment in which the Deja Vu occured and the dream was fulfilled.)
Most recently: I got married when i was 31, when i was 33 I had a strange but normal dream of laying in bed, dressed, having a conversation with a woman who was standing next to the bed, also dressed. No idea who she was at the time. I mentioned this dream to my Wife when i woke up, described the woman to her hoping she might recognize the description (leaving out the part about laying in bed, as I didn't want some strange jealousy from my wife). It was a brief dream, no sex or anything else happened, what i can recall of the dream was maybe 5 seconds of real time. 3 years later i'm going through a divorce and have moved again, 1600 miles. I spent a day helping a friend move (someone i'd met a couple months before and get along with, no sexual connection here, she's from Costa Rica and recently obtained Residency in the US, still working on citizenship. Never met this person ever in my life, have never been to Costa Rica etc.), and when all was said and done i was laying in her bed, and we were talking and Deja Vu occured, immediately bringing to mind the memory of the dream and when i mentioned it to my wife 3 years ago.
What i'm looking for: some help from the atheist community to potentially track down how this is working in my brain. Being an atheist i'm not looking to a higher power for an answer. Some kind of research into temporal mechanics may be necessary, simply wondering how my subconscious could have such a detailed and precise account of something that is going to happen in my near future. This has been the one and only thing in my life that has ever made me question being an atheist.
Drug use: yes i had my hayday in my 20s. Used marijuana, Ecstacy, acid, and few other things just to try them. but was clean before 19 (even alcohol) and have been clean since 25 (including alcohol, though the occasional, once a month, glass of wine with dinner i still do) Haven't been heavily intoxicated since my 28th Birthday. Currently 36. Probably why my marriage failed, she's a pretty hardcore drinker, and i'm simply not interested in intoxicants anymore... Stodgy i guess is how i would describe myself.
Sorry to Necro the thread.
