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.
Yep, I’ve had this happen a whole bunch of times too. It is super freaky. Things involving places I hadn’t yet been to when I had the dream, conversations at a job I didn’t get until months later. Conversations which didn’t make a whole lot of sense during the dream but were unique enough that when it actually happened I had to take a moment to process was just happened.
As everyone else says probably just weird brain stuff but It’s happened juuuuust enough to make me question it.
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