The fascinating relationship between déjà vu and premonition | Anne Cleary | TEDxLiverpool

Have you ever had déjà vu, then felt like you knew exactly what was going to happen next? If so, you are not alone. In this talk, Dr. Cleary describes her hunt for the cause of the mysterious link between déjà vu and so-called “precognition.”
Follow Anne on @AnneClearyPhD Professor Anne Cleary is fascinated by how we explain scenarios that defy our definition of normal! She is a Professor of Cognitive Psychology and studies these strange cognitive episodes that many assume to be outside the realm of science. She likes to try to explain the seemingly inexplicable in scientific terms. Along these lines, one of the phenomena that she has studied over the years is déjà vu-that mysterious feeling of having done something before despite knowing otherwise.
She has also studied tip-of-the-tongue experiences (when a word feels right on the verge of being accessed) and Presque vu (the feeling of being on the verge of an epiphany). Most recently, she and her students have discovered a link between feelings of déjà vu and feelings of being able to predict what is going to happen next. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@geraldscott7209]

My deja vu come from dreams then manifest months to years later

[@lexabuzz]

Gerald Scott same

[@RedEyesKing_Yorells3]

Me to

[@Galv140577]

THAT is what it really is, it's nothing to do with the similarity of one thing to another, it's the similarity of the dreamt version of a future event to the present experience of the 100% *exact* same event when you reach what was the future awake. There is no other explanation for the "juxtaposition of novelty and familiarity". When she says "deja vu doesn't lead to precognition, it leads to illusary precognition" the reality of the situation is that *actual premonitions* (precognitive dreams, which people tend to forget) leads to *actual deja vu*.

[@c-za.c7085]

That happened to me once

[@dalender3192]

Any way to find more people with these sort of experiences?

[@bradsmithy4380]

The craziest deja vu is when you have it in a place you have never been before.

[@HippyNinjaSimmy]

I've had this happen when I went overseas for the first time and saw a farm house from the road that I "knew". I described the back of the house and garden and when we went to check it out. It was exactly how I "remembered" it. Down to the clouds making shadows in the same way I remembered.

[@ulyssehenrard7090]

Why do you use ' déjà vu '? It's the french word for already seen

[@nunohs3371]

Already seen ;)

[@ulyssehenrard7090]

@@nunohs3371 yes sorry😂😂.i'm learning english for one year

[@marsbeads]

ulysse henrard - that's the term used to described this phenomenon.

[@zerowaste8643]

So much effort put into debunking and dismissing what we don’t understand rather than being open and trying to understand it

[@opalescentmica]

Yes and she could start by maybe working with patients who endure temporal lobe epilepsy and then perhaps study what activity goes on in their brains during a deja vu seizure (complex partial seizure)

[@KB-jx1xx]

exactly what I thought

[@dlon4539]

I'm repeating similar scenarios, so give me your bank account details if you want to live

[@SkyeMpuremagic]

Exactly. Scientists try to fit everything neat and tidy in a box... There is no box. They need to get over themselves... Not everything can be explained with logic. Experience wins every debate.

[@kidchris9477]

I remember having a convo with somebody and in the middle of it I started feeling a deja vu moment and I finished the rest of what they said. Yea I actually caught the moment, everybody in the room just kinda stopped and starred at me for a second. Pretty crazy

[@dana3610]

I’ve done this also 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@ouishi9447]

I have a friend who reported this as well. He would usually have some deja vu and always felt like he was on the tip of the experience, recalling everything slightly before it happpned, but not quickly enough to call it out. Then one time in the car with his family he managed to finish one persons sentance and the other persons reply (i think?), and their family members reaction was surprised, like how did you know i was going to say that?? Examples like those are harder to force into a materialistic framework unless you wanna argue everyone halucinated everything like with UFOs

[@Null_And_Void]

*When ever I realize I’m in the middle of experiencing deja vu I always change my actions as to “avoid” making it exactly like it was in memory*

[@wocky7124]

Relatable

[@cosimoto8700]

What if by doing so you are completely changing your "path" in life. Kinda like when you time travel and change something, and bc of that it changes EVERYTHING.

[@gabryelmoneymaker5702]

No this is a simulation and everything is prewritten, you see into the prewritten code and being a conscious being you fight actions written for you

[@mobslayer211]

Who Are You? From my experience I typically try to avoid an undesirable outcome (but even when it doesn’t make any sense) it still occurs all the same

[@ellerybrickles2731]

Mobslayer 211 I experience this exact same thing. I feel as though something traumatic is going to happen and I have to change my actions or thoughts to change the situation

[@NJOverclocked]

As a child, I remembered a recurring dream in great detail, which I had 3 times in 1 year. I was standing in a massive open room, full of people, many of whom were waiting in lines. The walls were white, except for big blue stripes close to the ceiling. Men were holding boxes near me. I even told some friends about it. About 2 years after my first time having the dream, I went on a family vacation to Nevis & Anguilla, & sure enough I found myself in the exact room, with the exact surroundings. It was the entry/customs room to the airport. I've had deja vu at least 20 times, but I've never had an experience like that again.

[@TheHighPriestessStudio]

That would be referred to as a premonition and then when it played out it was a recall. ;)

[@mintysingularity]

My experiences are the same, always revealed to me in detailed dreams from weeks to years in advance.

[@mintysingularity]

@@TheHighPriestessStudio no, that is not premonition. A premonition tends to be a vague intuition something is about to occur. This was a precognitive dream about specific experiences at a specific location.

[@afaceinside1210]

Hit me back when you get even more confused later in life and return to a previous recurring dream in lucid dream form and you swear it is not even a dream at all that you were physically there; all senses included full vivid memory.

[@catsphere]

Calm down. You are not a superman.

[@yafavbrujita762]

I really like science.. but the flaw in science is humans.. because what most (not all) scientist try and do when they can’t figure out an explanation for something, or show valid proof.. they try and debunk it. I have precognitive visions and I also experience déjà vu. However since I’ve had my abilities since a young child. I can and have had to understand the two. Idc what this lady’s studIes have shown. I have stopped my mom in the middle of her talking before and finished what she was going to say. I asked her was that what she was going to say, she looked shocked and confused and replied saying “yes I was” I told her I dreamt about this, I dream of many things that later come true. Either days, weeks, months or years later. I never have control of them (I wish I did) but after all these years of self studies on myself I have noticed that after I awake from the dream I will have this sense of knowing it will come true.. then hours later I “forget it” obviously just going into my subconscious. And I will not “remember” the vision until it is happening. DeJa vu is this random sense of I’ve been here. It’s totally different than actual visions.

[@izaiahcampbell629]

Who’s NaeNae right putting people in almost the same situation with the same layout of course they have seen it before because you want them to see it also on my first week at my new school I had deja vu in a class I only been in 5 times with a new seat that day so how is that familiar to anything I felt in my life

[@meateatertoveganish2032]

Agree. If people don't have this they don't understand. I've dreamt abou5 apartments i would move to when i was a child and then years later wwve moved to the place. I told my fiance i dreamt his best friend cut his hair and he's very attached to his hair well yesterday he said guess what my friend cut his hair last night. I said I told u. This happens allll the time.

[@thegreatarkanum3037]

I totally agree with you , De ja vu it's completely different from a true psychic dream or just knowing what's going to happen before it does....

[@SOLOTUYA]

@@meateatertoveganish2032 you manifested this.

[@ragatrix]

I think you are nailing the problem. let's try and figure out a way to make this thing happen where you just THINK it's precognitive and it's really not. this will prove that every time someone has a precognitive experience it MUST be an illusion. uh, no? yes, you can manufacture the feeling. but it doesnt mean that that's what is happening in real life. you can imitate a bird call but every time you hear that bird call doesn't mean that it's really just a person sounding like that bird. Nay, sometimes it's actually a bird calling. I get just as frustrated by their attempts to explain it away as you do. I wish scientist would try to explain it for real instead of what you correctly call attempts of debunking it.

[@jeffbriggs1987]

I've had normal deja vu where u feel like you've lived this moment before, and i've had deja vu where I could see a short distance in the future as if I actually lived it for real and then came back to this moment. Feels so crazy.

[@nunohs3371]

Yup, very often here. More during youth and early-adulthood.

[@jeffbriggs1987]

ya i had it way more when younger

[@wildlifeanimalsyt1960]

yep same experience bro

[@amasulem]

Glitch in the Matrix.

[@bagellord113]

yes. my mind has glitched the matrix multiple times and its scary and cool. :3

[@RedZombieAJ]

Happens when something is changed in the Matrix...

[@stevesjigs]

The comments say much of what intellectuals miss and just cant grasp.Thanks to all that shared their reality experience.

[@kimberlycoleman2071]

There were times I would have deja vu experiences, then feel extremely nauseous immediately afterward. No explanation why.

[@mwamussa]

@jeff jones Wrong. Dejavu and precognition originates in the mass of nerves in the stomach called the celiac plexus. When they are active they produce electric energy and because it is an ability that humans use, it places great strain on surrounding organs such as the stomach, therefore nausea.

[@rysteribs]

@@mwamussa I have the same issue and going to doctors and talking to people I know who experience the exact same thing I found out that it is actually a form of seizure.. a very very mild form of seizure which you shouldn't fear unless it becomes more common and extreme or you pass out like one of my friends did. but jeff isn't wrong.

[@rysteribs]

@Kairel Mcleary Barnes honestly i don't know. still trying to figure out. could also be some childhood trauma in my case. hence the familiarity, also good explanation for the nausea.

[@bosna3879]

Kimberly Coleman yeah it’s like youre thoughts drift away or something

[@opalescentmica]

@@mwamussa No, you are mistaken about jeff jones being "wrong". Deja vu is absolutely a symptom of seizures in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.

[@snowflakeeel]

Totally false conclusion. Deja Vu CAN lead to true precognition. I have experienced it once. I was at a church luncheon and the guy next to me started talking. I had a Deja Vu and saw, just moments before that he would end his statement by slapping the table. I had just enough time to raise my hand to slap the table, knowing that it would happen only a second later and I would not have time to explain using words. I lifted my hand to slap the table and then he ended his sentence and slapped the table, I was sitting there with my hand up over the table, physical proof that I knew what would happen. I didn't know what to do or say, but I told him i knew he was going to slap the table. He just dismissed me as joking, but I told myself, store this memory well, dont ever forget that this really happened, and doubt it when you recall it in the future. It's the most unexplainable thing that has ever happened to me. What a shame there was no security footage! It would have been proof to the entire world that deja vu can lead to true precognition. So, dont listen to the results of failed science experiments like this, that can not explain true examples of precognition that do actually happen.

[@jastaylor7632]

I had this one dream over and over, and it wasn’t like a normal dream. It was like clips and pictures flashing. Then one day, I was experiencing these clips and flashing pictures in real life, but of course with my consciousness fully awake. I was freaking out and didn’t know what was happening. I don’t know if it was déjà vu or a precognition but I experienced something that I vividly remember dreaming about. And to this day, I still think about it (this was a year ago). It’s put me in this realm of weather if we actually have free will, or is everything that we experience meant to happen.

[@EskimoUlu]

The déjà vu I experience only happens from precognitive dreams. The weirdest feeling was in a dream. I'm sitting in a wood shop, that I have known all my life. I stand up and look down. The ground is further away, but I'm not standing on anything. I'm just standing on my own two legs. I look up and the others in the shop look familiar. I know exactly who they are, their names and what they look like. They just looked off to me. I had that dream in the 4th grade. Fast forward to the 10th grade. I'm sitting in the wood shop and I look down. I know I'm going to look down then look up and what faces I'm going to look at, and in which order. As soon as I look down I remember the dream. I then understand that why I felt like I was standing on something, was because I was a kid looking through a teenagers eyes. I was a foot and a half taller. The reason each face seemed familiar was because I grew up with the other kids, I was seeing them as teenagers. While only knowing them as kids, during the dream.

[@destineeslaughter6419]

hi love ! what you are experiencing is called deja reve ! deja vu means for something to feel overly familiar , while Deja Reve on the other hand means to have dreamed of before . Meaning you’ve dreamt of these things and they play out exactly as it happened in your dream but in reality ! pretty strange huh 😄

[@smiledonnice]

Same

[@ShadowGaming-xw8zj]

I’m a very logical person and believe things happen and usually have a very boring explanation but I’ve experienced this kind of thing 20+ times throughout my life and it is probably the strangest phenomenon I’ve ever experienced it can happen days or literally decades later I’ve even had times where I intentionally tell myself to remember this incident and then the incident happens at a later time I have no explanation for this and it is a great mystery to me and I’m sure there’s an explanation for it. I’m inclined to believe there’s something to consciousness we do not understand

[@mrmojo-risin]

@@destineeslaughter6419 If something plays out exactly like you have dreamt that is precognitive dreaming.

[@mrmojo-risin]

If you dream something and then it happens that is precognitive dreaming. If you feel like you've experienced something before that's deja vu and if you feel like you dreamt something before that's deja Reve.

[@toddfarkman2177]

Precognition doesn't come from deja vu, deja vu comes from precognition. Imagine you have a precognitive dream that you've forgotten. Just like any dream, it can be recalled by something that reminds you of it. Despite thinking you've forgotten the dream, it's still there in your memory. It happens with regular dreams, why not precognitive dreams? So deja vu is just remembering a precognitive dream

[@konnektlive]

Well, this lady is a one absolute believer in what she wants/needs to see in the data. The problem with such profound subjective experiences is that they can not be repeated, quantified and can not be probed objectively. I'm a scientist by profession (Theoretical physicist shifted to philosophy of science and consciousness studies) and I have had multiple experiences that not only I KNOW personally/subjectively are true but people around me also realized there should be some truth to them. I will try to briefly describe one here: One morning in Melbourne I was going to a new university for a lecture. I have never ever visited that place before and it was the first time for me to visit that university. On the road there I suddenly had this ineffable/weird (but not unpleasant) feeling that I have been there multiple times, it was a kind of feeling that you can even recall the smells and colours of the place you are going to visit before actually getting there. When I got there, the first thing that surprised me was the smell of the flowers, dirt and the vegetation in the gardens and that was just the beginning! I then visited the offices, theatre and many other locations in the uni and surprised (frankly shocked) to realize that I know the place beyond a shadow of doubt, I knew all the routes, all the buildings like I was working or living there for years! There I was talking about my experience with someone else (the person who invited me) and explained that I have a feeling that the department X will be closed soon and also there will be problems in the uni because of incidents that I was not sure about at that time. I guess it was partly because of my heightened sense of smell that I could not make sense of for some reason. I know it sounds illogical but the experience was like smelling the location and many of its properties and places from the future, while being in the current time, it indeed felt very strange... Then in couple of weeks, that person called me back and with a very shaky sound said that the department X as I said to him is closed because of the funding issues, and also there was a fire incident in one of the big archive offices in the department Y which caused a chaos in the university as many important documents were destroyed now. AND! because of that, everyone could smell the burnt papers in many areas of the university... This incident was not the only experience I had, and I had enough of such experiences with other people and eyewitnesses that leaves no room for more doubts that, it does not matter how we play with words or try to be smart-asses, there is a fundamental reality behind what we define as reality that is way more profound and complex than we could even imagine. And believe me as a scientist I would have been the first person to deny such incidents and easily call them mumbo-jumbo stuff, but just like I can not deny my own subjectivity right now that I'm writing these lines here, I also can not reject or deny what my vividly real experiences either.

[@yazansakran3326]

Agreed. Psuedoscience.

[@jonpadrejuan5357]

what you say is way too deep for me...you should also be talking in TED stage!

[@robertebersold3817]

Jon.... he said "science may never fully undetstand it".

[@jonpadrejuan5357]

aaahhh ok...

[@madshorn5826]

Sorry, but the sentence "I had enough of such experiences ... that (it) leaves no room for more doubts ... there is a fundamental reality behind what we define as reality..." shows that if you ever was a scientist, you have stopped being one. The hypothesis might be correct, but stating that there is no doubt is just silly. We humans are experts in fooling ourselves and the core of science is not to try to argue _for_ a hypothesis, but to try and disprove it in every possible way. Please read Feynman's essay on cargo cult science.

[@radiantrenee406]

My eight year old has reported de ja vu and has reported seeing ancestors. She is a fun, out going girl and no understanding of paranormal or psychic abilities. I just listen and document. I want her to make the connection...she told me many things in advance that have come past. She definitely has a gift from the Creator

[@KerilOfficialChannel]

How do you explain devaju when you experience it with people you have never met in your life before or places you have visited for the first time?

[@lovelife7902]

keril victor its remembering of certain experiences that u set forth before incarnating on Earth. Its not what most scientists think 🙏💙

[@KerilOfficialChannel]

LoveLife interesting point

[@user-yy6xt4uk6b]

i get the same thing, like when you feel a place is very familiar but you've never been to it, but you feel like you have. like memories that never happened

[@cocopetit726]

Is it possible that the feeling of deja vu is only because you are desperate (unconsciously or consciously) and your brain recognize things to make you more confortable?

[@lovelife7902]

Coco Petit not based on my experiences 🙏💙

[@THEBATMAN28AHH]

These experiments are flawed in that they are unintentionally priming the participants to give an expected answer. This does not answer the question of precognition in places we have not been yet. Brand new experiences that are not quantifiable or testable. When you have a dream and something happens right down to the finest detail. All of this research is well and fine in recreating brain signals. But sadly we are no where near understanding why we do in fact see the future sometimes.

[@nosajsamaniego4512]

At the 6:00-minute mark, they answer the question of precognition in places we have not been yet; Or rather, a POSSIBLE answer; Still though, a legitimate one, nonethless; Once we create a Dejá Vú Generator that can access past memories, we'll gain a MUCH clearer understanding of this field; But, still, this is a start; Whenever we can

[@THEBATMAN28AHH]

@@nosajsamaniego4512 I love the enthusiasm. I still think a good amount of priming was done here unintentionally. I'll have to rewatch your point. Thanks for sharing.

[@nosajsamaniego4512]

@@THEBATMAN28AHH 🤗

[@karenpruitt2818]

Zucchini

[@THEBATMAN28AHH]

@@karenpruitt2818 fried zucchini

[@HeartOfTheForest]

I've had hundreds of premonitions while awake. One as recent as today. Last night a thought randomly popped into my head about a girl who caught the same school bus as me like 15 yrs ago. We didn't know each other at all and haven't seen each other since. Today a whole unplanned, unexpected series of unfortunate events led me to Coles to buy some yoghurt and I walked straight passed that girl in the store.

[@silverquill101]

When I dream sometimes I am yanked out of the dream I am currently having and I see events or conversation in faded yellow tones. Always faded yellow. Sometimes the events happen the next day or sometimes next month but I did an experiment where I wrote down but I saw and when I thought it would happen I was right about 75% of the time so it wasn't illusory for me

[@bluejacarenda]

I had often when I was younger. One of them was so clear and shocking that I can't forget till today. I was in India with my friend, trying to cross a road. After I reached the other side I noticed my friend wasn't with me. When I looked back she was still crossing the road and I saw a car suddenly speeding up passed by her so close. I was so scared for her and was screaming and I looked at the back of that car. That's exactly when I felt deja vu, I dreamed that exact moment looking at the back of unknown car license plate I didn't know. I didn't even remember my dream when I woke up until that happened later in the afternoon.

[@rahariri4295]

I just clicked the moment i saw the notification of this speech ,its such an interesting subject

[@rahariri4295]

Vivek Kayastha 🙂🙂🌱

[@kundanchhabra]

yes because there are actually 2 kinds of deja vu: past and future...that is, already in it and looking back, like you have experienced this before...and there are a few others who know they are about to enter into deja vu, just before it happens...

[@atsuvii5659]

Kundan Chhabra yeah ikr

[@hello-oh5bk]

I have deja vu all the time and I usually have the dream of it happening months before it actually happens It used to make me stop dead in my tracks too, but now I'm used to it so I'm always just like, oop deja vu I've been here before

[@uhhdess]

Thats deja reve which mean "already dreamt"

[@uhhdess]

Means*

[@marlenedietrich2468]

"this happend to a professor I know" has she never had a deja vu?

[@3DShe]

And perhaps she may never had any "precognition". So why is she even talking about something she never experienced? I record my dreams in my smartphone audio recorder and save them by date and by tag words. It is always amazing when I can prove that I dreamt about a future event. One thing that is common to all my dreams.... I only dream about future events in which I am living them. (I can't dream about what other people will do in their own future).

[@AmandaFrancey]

Obviously she hasn’t. Her explanation doesn’t even come close to explaining what I’ve experienced with déjà vu or precognition.

[@elCONQUEROR81]

RIGHT!!! She isn’t describing it. So she must have never had one. She even called it imaginative and an illusion.

[@graxburg4412]

Because she’s an npc, only players have Deja vu/Precognition

[@MandySilva189]

Good point!

[@cookiecat8140]

My deja vu always stars with a random day dream of something i don’t understand then forgetting it right after, but then months later i will appear in the moment i dreamed of. In my dream i only see the moment then remember my dream making those moments very memorable. Ive had this for as long as i can remember, but to me it just means on the right path.

[@opalescentmica]

If you get deja vu often and it is very intense, it could be Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

[@kaustubha7371]

I have experienced déjà vu many times and in the beginning I didn't expect them coming because those vision occurred in my dream before happening in my reality.Most of the time I was stunned and shocked like how could this be possible and then when I recalled my dream and it matched perfectly. So I decided to memorize my dreams. Most of them were kinda lost as I couldn't recall a dream when I am awake. I decided that the next time I feel a déjà vu I won't let that happen but surprisingly I ended up doing the same thing almost everytime and I noticed it after doing it. This is some weird stuff.

[@deanthornby2026]

When I told my wife we was going to have a third child she laughed and said she wasn't having anymore kids , I told her our daughters name would be fluer ......fluer is ten now 😂😂😂😂

[@Nell-r0se]

while on a mild dose of psychedelic mushrooms, i was once able to remember exact parts of the night that were going to happen before they ever did

[@davemitten6137]

I regularly get this in dreams, i dream the exact situation, how it will unfold. Then years later it happens to me. It's saved my life more than once.

[@davemitten6137]

It isn't deja vu, i don't think or feel like i've been there before, i have, in my dream, 5-10 years before.

[@Bornmrpringle]

For me I'll have my deja vu dream where if when I have the dream it feels different. I'll forget the deja vu dream very quickly unlike regular dreams. With deja vu dreams once I'm in the moment in real life the memory of the dream comes back and I'll know how the rest of the scene happens. These moments are never structured the same where I could combine memories in my head on accident. One example is that I was at school and as I started to realize I was in the moment I dreamed about I know what my friend was going to say to me. We weren't talking about anything we have ever talked about before. It was something very personal and it was the first time I ever asked him about it. I never have time to change anything though because I realize it in the middle.

[@opalescentmica]

you may have epilepsy

[@destineeslaughter6419]

@@opalescentmica so does everyone have epilepsy ? IM GENUINELY CONFUSED with that logic 😩. please help me understand 😂🙏🏽 im just lost at this point lol

[@kedandunn]

It always feels like it was from a dream to me. I barely ever remember my dreams though. Sometimes the deja vu feels like I had the dream more than once. One time in the supposed dream it was dark but when it really happened it was light. One time the deja vu was included in the deja vu

[@MsBela4]

Well that was disappointing.

[@yuseiry7097]

how disappointed you are and why?

[@kidchris9477]

😂

[@Ur2ez4me81]

I have had several precognition dreams that played out into reality. Even as a young child I used too play this game within my mind that I called “this is real, is this real?” Deep within my consciousness I would question my own existence & sink deeper into meditative state. It reminds me of peeling layers of a onion & once I got in deep enough I could feel this Deja vu type of sensation come over me. Something blocks me from getting towards the center of it, like it’s not meant too be tapped into but I can feel whatever it is push me away from it.

[@ouishi9447]

Huh, sounds almost a little bit like buddhist neti neti meditation where you say «not this, not that» to everything things you experience and think about in referance to not being the real you, like «im not this, im not that» but there the goal is to reach a non-dual awareness.

[@BunniMonster]

I feel like I've seen this video before. It's all well and good using VR to create some approximation of deja vu but you can also use VR to genuinely feel like you're falling from a great height without ever leaving the couch. Simulation is by definition not real, thus it is not real deja vu. I now only get it about once a year but up until my early thirties I had them multiple times a month, with the vast majority of them being precognitive, highly detailed and completely unchangeable. The example that jumps to mind first: My sister bringing her son (3) to my house for the first time. There is an eight year age gap between me and my sister and we were raised in separate households. I had never seen her son before and the only other kid that had been in my house was my baby cousin, unable to even sit up, about a decade before. I had rearranged some of the furniture in my living room just a couple of months before her visit and she had never been sat in the position she was sat in on that day, which was my usual chair in it's new location meaning I was sat in another chair newly positioned in such a way that I'd never sat there before (Under a window, off to the side and slightly behind the TV). They'd been in the house for about 5 minutes, I'd said my greetings to them both and had started chatting to my sister while her son made his way around the room looking at various ornaments. I glanced over at the back of the TV, my eyes passing over a warning label at the exact time my sister was telling me something about our mother and a TV news reporter delivered their lines, the combination of these three things set off the deja vu feeling and I had a clear memory of experiencing that moment before, sat in that unfamiliar position with somebody I had never met before... Standard deja vu stuff so far, right? One problem: In that moment, I also remembered the little guy swinging a blue toy car onto my sister's head and him running off at her crying out, straight into the edge of the open door and ending up flat on his back. I looked up at my sister and I tried to tell her but was literally unable to say anything (Trying to change things never works), instead I had to sit there and watch as my sister rambled away and about 20 seconds later the lil' tyke put his hand into a bag and pulled out a blue toy car... With two generations now sat there soaking in their freshly acquired headaches, I had yet another example of precognitive deja vu to add to my already huge list. I'm scientifically minded, I do not believe in the supernatural/paranormal but nothing will ever convince me that deja vu has no link to genuine precognition because I have experienced it so many times. This isn't "Oh, that thing that just happened seems familiar", this is "Oh, that thing that just happened seems familiar and now I know exactly what is going to happen for the next minute of my life.." and then watching it play out exactly as I knew it would, well after I have already fully recalled the "Memory" and all of it's details. I've tried to come up with some rational hypotheses for it over the years, invoking the Many Worlds concept, a cyclical Universe, non-linear spacetime, simulation theory etc but none of these are fully satisfactory to me. I guess it'll remain as one of those unexplained mysteries like "How can Dr Cleary, draw any conclusions on deja vu and precognition whatsoever, from a flawed experiment based around repeated reskins of identical video game maps, forcing familiarity in an entirely fabricated and controlled virtual environment?" Anne Cleary: The Electronic Arts of researchers.

[@briangeiger9307]

Deja vu is a distinct unsettling emotion. She was only testing for memory recall, which is not deja vu. Otherwise, every student would be having massive deja vu during final exam. First question she has to answer is does her program simulate the same unsettling sensation that accompany deja vu? If she found a method to create deja vu, and can certify it, that alone would probably win her a Nobel Peace Prize. If she can't answer how valid her method is, not sure what is the use of the rest of the published paper. Sad state of science we are in.

[@riocallix4493]

whenever i get deja vu i always know and verbally predict everything that is going to happen for the next 30 seconds to 1 min. and its always 100% accurate.

[@opalescentmica]

How often do you experience this?

[@riocallix4493]

@@opalescentmica It varies. Sometimes I experience it every day for a week sometimes it'll go on months before I feel that again

[@opalescentmica]

@@riocallix4493 I ask because when it's recurring it can be a symptom of epilepsy

[@riocallix4493]

@@opalescentmica OH JESUS I HOPE NOT YEESH. IMAGINE.

[@opalescentmica]

@@riocallix4493 some people can control it with meds, I do take meds but I still have seizures sometimes because of triggers. The deja vu part is called the "aura" of the seizure, sometimes they progress to grand mal, but it's mostly dreamy deja vu altered awareness that I experience. Let us know if you find anything out, good luck to you

[@tammyreyno5629]

With all due respect to the scientific process, if you fabricate a scene, it immediately changes the perspective and recall of that image. When deja vu happens to people like me, it varies in intensity, emotional response from apathy to fear and very often can be recalled with the previous feeling that was attached to the original deja vu. People who have intense experiences, often have the same one over and over. We also often have reoccurring dreams in cities we've never visited that play like a nocturnal film, precognitions and are hijacked by sensations or an extreme shift in emotion without obvious stimulus.

[@mia4md]

I'm glad to see folks in comments and replies have a better response than a suggestion for her next field of study.

[@jona_KardCiv1]

I’ve had a couple of undeniable precognitive experiences. With actual predictions of things that are unpredictable.

[@jona_KardCiv1]

@Keyboard Warrior How do you think it happens or works?

[@sprinks06]

I had a dream where one of my friends in school stood up and yelled something and that exact thing happened the day after does that mean i can predict the future :o

[@VasilikiTzalachanihappy]

I was in 1st year of Junior High when i saw a dream of me having a first day of school in another school. Two years later I had my first day in the same school as I had dreamed two years prior! I even knew when and why the principle's mic failed...a wire got loose because she was stepping on it and when I made that suggestion everyone looked at me weirdly since she was on a balcony facing the school yard and i was in the school yard and the mic's wires where in her office on the 1st floor! And I hadn't even stepped into the building yet so I wasn't supposed to know the layout of the school yet! 😲😨 Another dream I had was when I was in my second grade in Senior High school when I dreamed of a hallway and a classroom in a school in Evoia, Greece. Where me and many other students were giving our English, Sketching and Painting Nationwide exams in order to graduate High School and get into a Good Art University. One year later the same students, same school, same class and town! Although I failed the exam because i can't draw to save my life I knew everything that was going on around me! I even told a girl next to me who had a oxygen provider machine to be careful and breath calmly and to go talk to the professor in order not to confiscate her meds and machine because of the noise...she didn't do it and almost got disqualified...her guardians started a huge fight about it and we had to change classes and the topics for the exams were 3 hours late! I knew all of those things and it freaked me out! Those are two memorable incidents I had with dreams coming true....

[@ActionAlligator]

+Vasiliki Tzalachani You don't need dreams and deja vu to correctly guess that a mic is failing because a wire connection is interrupted. Occam's razor is pretty useful here. Same thing with the oxygen-machine and student, anyone could predict that noise in a testing environment could cause some issues. I don't know enough to go much further, but your "same students, same school, same class, same town.." scenario also sounds like it could be guessed, if my assumptions are right. You can elucidate more if you wanna talk about it.

[@jeb5066]

OMG YES I did that too! Summer of sixth grade. A scene in one of my dreams was of a classroom with a teacher and students, none of which i'd seen before. Fast foward a month or so into 7th grade and I notice the scene. The teacher, the desk, the students, the mental camera angle. I'd been in that classroom with those people for a month or so at this point, but it was only those specific circumstances that gave me The Tingles (tm) and I realized it was the dream scene. This is one of hundreds of personal examples of this fascinating ability. It's reasuring in a way that there are more people like us!

[@VasilikiTzalachanihappy]

@@jeb5066 Oh my god! I'm so glad that I'm not the only one! I have had many similar occasions happening to me too! From what I've researched this event, when a dream scene becomes reality and the brain catches up to it, it's called déjà reve. It's the situation where you are not confused if you lived that situation before (aka déjà vu) but you are sure you've seen it before and you know where and when. It's a form of precognition from what I gathered from my research. I suggest you create a Reddit account and search these subreddits; r/precognition and r/psychics and r/dreams. I hope you get some answers and don't feel alone in this.

[@VasilikiTzalachanihappy]

@@ActionAlligator I understand your point of you but I couldn't be able to predict those events when I was so used to moving around and the moments I had those dreams I couldn't possibly know all these students. As for the Pan-Hellenic exams dream I also couldn't have known the students prior to seating the exams or the school because for one I was in a new town I never been before and two the students were from all over the country sent at random in this location. The only thing connecting us was our love for art and the want to go to a good college. From the 200 kids sitting the exams in the same building as me I only knew 1 girl who was from my town and our dads were together in the Army and only saw her after the exams, I didn't even know she was seating for the exams. Did you understand why it freaked me out to see such dreams? I hope you did.

[@jeb5066]

@@VasilikiTzalachanihappy Thanks! Its nice knowing there are more of us

[@arlinegeorge6967]

Interesting n informative talk. Thank you, bless you. All your dreams come true.

[@onewomanslife]

The human brain is so much more amazing than most people realize. Thank you for making our amazing brain more comprehensible. Very similar mental abilities are implicated in the sense of having an encounter with 'aliens' especially in the hypnogogic stage of sleep.

[@apow3rs]

When I lived in Liverpool (1998-2001) I would get Deja Vu all the time, coupled with strange dreams and experiences. On more than one occasion I saw the future, actually relatively often. Sometimes when the actual event would happen, my 'memory' was from the perspective of someone else in the event. Eg. I was in a scene of a movie, only years later when it 'happened' I wasn't the actor, I was just a member of the audience. Weirdly in one case, his surname is the same as my mothers maiden name, so I may share distant ancestry with some of the people concerned. Anyway, my most tangible 'event' was after pitching a film concept at BAFTA in London to the special effects artist behind Scott Pilgrim, now years before then, I had a dream, a friend was wearing a flight suit/jump suit, I soon after told him "I dreamt you were a pilot, you were leaving on your spaceship or something, you had a goatie beard and moustache, we were meeting again years later", this would have been around 2000-2001. So fast forward 10 years after pitching my story The Wormcast at BAFTA, which was finally written in 2005 but based off all those weird experiences (throughout my life), in essence the story is akin to, and describes what is now called The Mandela Effect. Myself and my director friend had decided to stop in a motorway service station on the way home to get some food, and low and behold, my old friend is there wearing the jump suit, and beard. I was wrong about him being an astronaut, he was driving his mother and family around in a regular car. But it was the same exact experience, till I turned my head to see the car. So I not only had precognition about a friend, but that friend was there with me in Liverpool when I had most of the precognitive 'events'. Seeing things, visions, just aren't the same thing as pattern recognition leading to an air of familiarity. It is very interesting research though. Town planning doesn't explain why my flat was broken into and all my notes and designs were stolen that would appear years later as movies either.

[@scribblehideout7504]

Huh, When i have deja vu it kinda feels like I know exactly what movements to make to maintain that feeling of deja vu, like it’s a scene and I’m just acting it out... the feeling just kinda disappears after a while but eh :/

[@TheBetterGamer]

ScribbleHideout same for me! But for me I feel like I'm trapped in the scene, that I can't do anything different or think anything different

[@amiri7392]

I call that feeling a remember the future feeling. I have experienced it several times, but I still think it's a feeling, because I tended to "remember" what was going to happen then forget about it, and then when I thought about it later I probably tricked myself into thinking I was correct.

[@thebigbluebird3501]

Once I was in a call with some friends. One of them lost a frozen burrito they were going to eat. I felt something simular to a memory as If it had is or will happen to me. I asked them "did you check under your pillow?" 30 seconds later they looked and it was indeed under the pillow. Everyone especially me was absolutely astonished. I experienced this with other people who witnessed it, so it's not some internal illusion. It's either a coincidence or something anomalous.

[@djanitatiana]

A couple of times a month my wife, who is very close to her sister, almost like twins, will predict a phone call from her just before she rings. Randomly, not a regular times or circumstances. It's precognition, flat out, but I doesn't happen every time the sister rings. However it's very rare that she has the feeling and the sister _doesn't_ring. it's funny that it's something as mundane as a frozen burrito but you probably had a psychic event of some kind.

[@zee55887]

This always happens to me! What she explains and then after the deja vu... I get a flash of images that shoot through my brain like a memory but like I'm seeing it at the same time, and usually the images happen. Either days or longest a year and a hlaf later

[@8luvh8]

I get that she's trying to come up with an answer to this said relationship between deja vu and premonition but 1. her approach to studying this wasn't the best 2. she didn't say she experiences deja vu or precognition herself. 3. She left out a huge factor; dreams. As a scientist, I know what it's like to want to get your hypothesis right but sometimes you just cannot explain some things.

[@toddfarkman2177]

a scientist of what? Do you research precognition?

[@sheridan7475]

Once I told some friends I felt a certain way, using specific words to describe it. Right after arriving at a friends' moments later, that friend woke up saying they had a dream and used the same exact words that I did to describe it.

[@danielt.3152]

My take on all this is that physics tells us space-time consisting of past, present and future all exist. My hypothesis is that as we humans approach a future time slice we are able to experience or see that future time slice. We just need to to understand how that is possible but the future and past is essentially layered right there next to us and from a physics perspective nothing prevents going in either direction mathematically

[@Goodnewsglobal]

Maybe déjà vu proves we have lived our lives before.. when all other explations are ruled out this is what we're left with.. how can anyone explain déjà vu in a place we've never been before?! 🤔

[@RolePlayJay]

This isn’t necessarily true. She says that you don’t actually see the future and you just think you do because of how familiar what’s going on is. I’ll admit that sometimes that happens, but not every time. Sometimes people (including myself) dream of things long before they happen and know for hours, days, weeks, months, or even years, knowing that this very specific thing will happen. If someone dreams of all the kids names in their class at their new school, that really wouldn’t be because they had a feeling that would happen from experience. If someone dreams that a disaster is going to happen and know it will a few days or weeks later when nothing like this has ever happened before there is no way they would just find it familiar right as it was happening. They would know this specific thing that has no similarities with anything they have ever experienced before was going to happen, they really would have seen the future. I’m not sure if I did a very good job explaining that, but a lot of the time people think they saw the future but actually didn’t. However, people do actually see the future a lot, for real. It is definitely a real thing.

[@capjus]

Thanks to that video and experiment i recalled a very special case. I do not play video games, i once dreamed going somewhere and doing somethings and saw the surroundings and i remembered going somewhere down to a subway station. Months later when visiting friend i watched them playing. Suddenly i remembered my dream, then i immediately told them look i dreamed these places, and later there on the right will be an entrance going down to trains. And that was it exactly. Recalling this memory gives me the last piece of fact that i needed whether or not if speaking something out loud would disturb/change the future outcome. So i now know it wouldnt and it doesnt matter. Because on my previous precognitive dreams i kept things for myself and didnt share with others before the events happened. And i had extraordinarily chances, proofs and observations which i could tell exactly of some odd things before they occured

[@candelaarguello6926]

It's relieving to know I'm not the only one who experienced this

[@maximillianrodriguez5631]

This is very similar to the *manifestation techniques that use the law of attraction* Basically you visualise your ideal situation, project urself into the future where and how u wish it to unfold, flood it with intense feelings and then let go, forget about and weirdly enough things manifest pretty accurately*

[@qazafibaloch5860]

How will we explain the true dreams ? It happened to me two times.

[@jam-on-son2670]

i would to hear her explanation of dreaming an event years before the event and having no recollection of it until the dream returned.

[@APSparanormaluk]

Agreed, it sounds like they've managed to mimic some of the feelings but not the phenomena itself. The last time I had one of these dreams I was able to video an explanation of the dream and record it as it happened in reality. There is more to this than meets the eye and I doubt we'll ever have a true explanation.

[@AllTimeOffense]

has happened to me many times. Sometimes it feels more intense than other times. One time i was able to her a fire alarm before it came on and i stood up before everyone else confused as to why they were not also standing, but then as if I faded out I heard the fire alarm again. So hard to explain, but yes this all already happened many times. It is up to us to write the variables in our future. Be careful what you manifest and stay in tune.

[@opalescentmica]

if you experience these deja vu sensations often you may have EPILEPSY

[@pedrosaraiva]

I once read somewhere that dejavu might be your senses sending information twice to your brain which seems to me much more reasonable than this.

[@maryspencer4975]

A doc told me once that it's a glitch that fools you into thinking it's a memory.

[@1800divine]

i experience déjà vu every single day and get different reoccurring dreams every night, i feel like i’ve had all my recents dreams before

[@isabiza]

dude same n it freaks me out so bad

[@opalescentmica]

you may have temporal lobe epilepsy

[@sgtdayam]

I've had precognitive dreams for decades. I can have déjà vu a few times about a dream when what happened in the dream is happening in real life, which sometimes leads to remembering the entire dream in full before it happens. A lot of times in my dreams I'll have conversations with people I've never met, I don't know how that could fit into her explanation.

[@annking1576]

I found out my deja vu was actually precognitive dreams. Had a dream about 2 people I didn't know. Dismissed the dream. 2 weeks later, met bestie's new boyfriend & we all went to his place for a bbq. a neighbor (I'd never met comes in & starts a conversation with the boyfriend "Did I tell you about my Mom?". I whip my head towards them & say "Your Mom is in the hospital & going to have surgery for .......". The 1 guy says to the other "Did you tell her that?" He says " You didn't tell me that!" They both look at me & say "How did you know that?". To which I have a little laugh & replied "Hmmm, this is a 'do do do do, do do do do' Twightlight Zone moment" & proceeded to tell them the dream & how his question just triggered the memory of the entire dream.

[@ulardaddy]

I had Deja Vu 3x's in my life. I know it's happening, but, don't know until it happens. As the day goes along, I felt it says I lived it.

[@carrera63]

I see precognitive dreams sometimes and i try to see more often. I started to write down my dreams and some of them actually happened months after. Dream journal is way to go!

[@Animashaun]

This talk is heavy on cognitive biases, confirmation bias and availabilty errors. This is why we make a lot of bad decisions.

[@originalginger5583]

Yes very well said. In general, there is a severe lack of taking a step back to take both objectively and subjectively viewpoints. Instead, we're predisposition in our own personal opinions and knowledge that limits further intellectual growth. We don't understand well enough the process of how we think and understand (in general on a massive scale I believe).

[@adamhonestyanddecency5054]

For instance?

[@originalginger5583]

@@adamhonestyanddecency5054 In a general sense, where we grow up and our cultural environments dictate an automatic predispostioned mentality. We can't control where we grow up or the environment we grow up in. What we can control is the taking a step back and subjectively (specific) ask questions in an objectively bigger picture manner. Too many of us are either unwilling to do this or just don't know how because they don't understand how they think and process information (which is largely dictated by where and how they grew up). Note: I believe this sums up some of the error types the OP presented, sorry if I jumped yhe gun and you were looking for his explanation/examples.

[@mwamussa]

@@originalginger5583 lol you fools OVERINTELLECTUALIZE THESE THINGS when the reality is that they exist just like that screen you are reading this on exists! I have spontaneous precog visions four times a day. I was born with advanced or highly evolved DNA...that is all I will say. It's ALWAYS the straight men that cannot wrap their heads around these abilities because - too much logic LOL!

[@mwamussa]

Wrong. You cannot use those indices when it comes to PSI because it is spontaneous and cannot be quantified. You have failed poorly even before you've begun lol. I have these experiences about 4 times a day. You poor things - you hold on to science like some kind of religion and you believe your cult has all the answers when some of us live in precognition on a daily basis!!! LOL!

[@TheBakedTomato]

the one premonition or precognition or whatever you wanna call it that still gets to me to this day was where i was hanging out with some friends in my freshman year of highschool. We were chillin at my old elementary school bc it was a park after school hours. Some time goes by and we're walking through a a completely new addition to the school. Now to back it up for context real quick. At some point in time years before this i had a vivid dream or memory where im walking through this area with a few people and there was this building to my left like a portable school classroom and then a large red shipping container to my right. So me and my friends turned the corner to this new portion of the school and as we were walking i just slowly came to a stop and looked around. I was standing in the same spot in my dream with a friend on either side of me, a school portable to my left and a big red shipping container to my right. I hadnt been on that campus since i left after 5th grade. So it was a solid 4 years of me not even thinking about that school and then i go there with some friends and i have that flashback with things that i couldnt have known would be there bc they didnt even exist when i was there. If anyone has an answer to this or similar stories please let me know. Ive had other more minor cases but this still gets to me. I like to think of myself as a logical and rational person with a strong belief in science and evidence. But situations like these makes the logical/scientific side of me go absolutely crazy.

[@jinalee3733]

as someone who experiences deja vu a thousands of time, this video makes it more interesting

[@Big-Timbo]

what if my de ja vu comes from a similar memory i had from a dream

[@wildlifeanimalsyt1960]

BRO THATS WHAT I HAD EXACTLY ITS CRAZYY

[@Boredombound]

Same here

[@BlazedNDazed]

That’s what I have, and it causes massive anxiety attacks when it happens.

[@opalescentmica]

it could be epilepsy

[@papachoudhary5482]

Thanks

[@connlee3279]

How do you explain dejavu and remembering the scenery (never been to that scenery prior to) from a dream?

[@yxestoh]

Guess we can never explain that cause something that I dreamt while being in India and relived the same moments in Scotland 6 months later.

[@diogenesaquino1316]

I think this is way far from science to be capable to explain. Giving this a name is the first mistake. I've been having many, and not the feeling of experiencing something already known but instead living something i've seen before. Dreaming it then to live It. One day I was on my way to meet a person, and at one particular moment my mind in less than a second brought what was just about to happen, and that would be the scenario, everything around and this person receiving a call to go back home for a reason. That did happen, that was crazy.

[@ActionAlligator]

And yet science is explaining it better than we ever have.

[@hellomate639]

I've had dreams where what happened the next day reflected the dream.

[@bergerworld1025]

So how would you explain dreams you had months, sometimes years before the events they pertained to took place in the real world? I'm forever trying to find someone who can explain what happened to me. And it happened on several occasions in the same way. Strong visually imagery and sometimes sound accompanying it, sometimes not. Almost complete non-comprehension of how or why you are in this place, seeing these things. The dream so strong that it feels like a very real experience and not like an ordinary dream at all. Every time, after awakening, left with an actual physical heightened sense that you have just been through a real trauma that can last for weeks after. You can't forget the events in the dream. Not like an ordinary dream eventually disappears from your mind, these dreams don't. They stay with you like events you actually went though. Then the event ACTUALLY takes place in the real world and you simply cannot believe it. Its the exact same thing you dreamed about all that time ago that never left you. Its happening right now, live on the news and you just can't believe it. Sometimes you don't see it straight away and something very specific will cause you to suddenly remember the dream you had and suddenly both the dream and the corresponding event make complete sense. I once told a friend about a dream I had the night before and two days later it happened in the real world. The fact I had told my friend about it and then it had happened made him the closest I have ever had to a witness. And he was so wierded out by the fact that he had, through my telling him of my dream, prior knowledge of something that then actually happened. He was stunned and completely amazed at the details all being bang on accurate. He was a skeptic before but he believes me now. He can't deny it happened. What is happening here and how it works is a mystery to me. So how would you explain that? The dream and event I describe here was the 2004 Indonesian Tsunami.

[@mercedesreynoso4318]

Most likely you wouldn't like the answer to your question if it was given to you.

[@kennedyviser2435]

Mercedes Reynoso I would like to know the answer because the same thing happens to me and it’s becoming more and more frequent. I will have a regular dream and whether it’s weeks or months or even years later the dream would become reality and it’s not the same dream but it’s the fact that it is random dreams and they come true. I am obviously dreaming of the future.

[@mercedesreynoso4318]

@@kennedyviser2435 the answers are out there, but it's a question of whether or not a person really wants to know the truth. A lot of times we think we do, but we really don't. We are comfortable in deception

[@kennedyviser2435]

Mercedes Reynoso lol I am very open minded and I am also not naive. I know reality is really an illusion and if I am dreaming of the future than that must mean I’ve lived it before or something to that extent. I am a very curious person and I am also doing my research behind this and what I am experiencing. So your explanation would really help a lot.

[@mercedesreynoso4318]

@@kennedyviser2435 my understanding of this phenomenon is that there is a God. He exists outside of time and space. He sees the end from the beginning. He allows and chooses to show people their lives playing out through these dreams. In doing this He shows that He's real and that He knows each person's life intimately. Whatever the outcome, the choice is theirs to make, but He already knows what each person's life will become. Everything is already set in place, we are just living it out watching it unfold by the choices we make.

[@prettyplayz7806]

I had many deja vu in my past and it still occurs. My most notable one happened to me in middle school once. I was attending Art Club when it was about to end for a semester. We had a special activity that was going for the end of the Art Club semester. We made those bead art where you can use iron to heat it together. I made one magnet bead Art where I would then placed in my locker for decor. The next day at school when I was grabbing stuff for my next class, I realized the craft wasn’t inside the locker. I quickly went through my locker with no result. I just proceeded to go throughout my week without bothering to recover it. Next Art Club was the last time for the semester. I was making another Art, but it wasn’t until the end of the session when I realized something. I RECREATED that magnet. The exact amount, exact colors, and etc.. I went pale when I realized that. Crazy thing is that I also lose track of that bead magnet Art. Either I was subconsciously aware of my beaded Art and recreate it to perfection because I longed for it on unconscious level. . . Actually, I think it was that. I think that’s pretty cool experience. Here’s an actual deja vu: for some odd reason, I would get deja vu of my middle school Chromebook background images a lot which would turn out to be true. I also learned that my sister would get precognitive dreams of events that would occur into her future. I wonder if getting these deja vu and precognitive dreams is in my family genes.

[@sparkigniter1132]

What happens with me is that I would be doing something totally ordinary or am in a lecture. And then out of nowhere the precognition/premonition kind of thing happens. And I just know what the teacher is gonna say and how she is gonna point at something or how I'm gonna bend and see something. After that I feel dizzy and am back to normal. How do you explain this? I don't think my mind can ever trick me to know what a person is gonna speak cuz it's not something that happens all the time. A person doesn't speak the same thing again and again.

[@lovelife7902]

People look around, want to know who am I. Some say I'm the body, some say I'm a soul, some say we are the light. What we really are is Formless Awareness or Formless consciousness. We are what's perceiving, this watching presence. Were not the body, or soul, or mind these are all structures, that Awareness (way u are) experiences through. You are the eternal watcher, the looking presence. 🙏💙

[@worldFamousMichael]

LoveLife I like the comment

[@mindbanx]

Does anyone have this experience: several times a week I can describe - in writing if I have to - whats going to happen in the next hour; sometimes through the day. I just can't do this on demand. Sometimes weeks pass and this doesn't work. Then, it happens many times over a few weeks.

[@mwamussa]

I do. I have learned to control it. I will tell you this - watch what you eat.

[@minaloufernandez1217]

Do you dream about it? I dream about it then it may happen or may not happen the next day or the next few days. Does that happen to you as well??

[@StephanieElizabethMann]

I have had a number of experiences where I knew what was going to happen. One of the most striking was before my mother died. I had separated from my wife and gone to live with my mother for a few months. As I was packing my car car in order to move to to where I would be attending uni I knew my Mum was going to die soon. I went back inside, and out of my limited funds I added more so Mum could get her hair done. My Mum died 3 months later. It was a sad time but I know I was not as sad as I could have been because I knew it was going to happen. I have had this knowledge many times even predicting when people I knew would die.

[@MP-qo1zr]

I had a vivid dream. I woke up and spoke about it, even looked up the meaning etc...shortly after I went to the place i was dreaming about. Part of this dream was that a bee buzzed in my face and I stay there. In reality, I ran. But then decided I'd act out the dream. The rest of the dream played itself out in reality with little control.

[@greengunner4749]

I tend to dream things that will happen when I wake up, anybody else get that? It's not all the time it just comes very random

[@bidhanmandal4951]

Me

[@drwoo6090]

I knew she was going to say that! 😉

[@aj402]

I was at a basketball game in a different state ive never been. One of the players accidentally kicked a ball which triggered a deja vu. Next i looked out in the lobby because i knew my dad was talking to a man then i looked at the opposing bench to see number 11 wiping his face. Then i looked straight up and saw gold colored ribbons in the rafters from a previous dance that i knew were there. That ended the djv. It was too detailed to be explained by familiarity theories. I believe our physical, spiritual and magnetic clocks get out of sequence over time and deja vu is simply the universe getting you back in proper time. A cosmic reset.

[@opalescentmica]

love that!

[@TaraBryn]

It would be interesting to see the results of two studies, one where the second tour turn the same direction as the first, and one where the tour turned the opposite to see how much breaking the pattern affects the feeling of precognition afterwards.

[@zolin6840]

Doesn’t the deja vu occur when they change the matrix?

[@michaelhughes5596]

It's a good theory and makes sense, but it doesn't apply to me. Years ago I used to go out with my girlfriend and literally tell her in advance what was about to happen. It didn't even feel familiar, I just knew, it was really weird. Since then, I've barely had any Deja vu moments in years, but weirdly I had one a few hours ago about nothing special and then I saw this Ted Talk.....

[@mahlina1220]

Michael Hughes TedTalks is hit or miss. Half the times it’s jargon meant to control mass opinion.

[@ActionAlligator]

+Michael Hughes _"It's a good theory and makes sense, but it doesn't apply to me."_ lmfao, how convenient. I'm sure you actually do know things are about to happen, and therefore you must have an edge over anyone around you? You must save lives everyday or something....or have an extremely successful life with none of the pitfalls or tragedies that plague others, 'cause the universe gives you the low-down on what's coming. I'm so jealous.

[@michaelhughes5596]

@@ActionAlligator years ago I used to have an amazing life with no major problems and life was only getting better each day. But that was years ago, my life has been really bad for the past 3 years, so as sarcastic as you are being, I wouldn't be jealous, I'm not one of those rich lucky people.

[@danettegregg1834]

we @@ActionAlligator

[@ouishi9447]

Could have been a good theory if she just said this VR experiment seems to produce deja vu, but seems like she concluded with it always being an illusion.

[@hissendaud653]

you are a confident woman of herself

[@eumemo1092]

some theories says that there are different realities happening at the same time and when two or more realities merge, you can know/feel the situation that happened in other reality and is now happening in yours (or something like that)

[@shadowthehedgehog181]

I thought this TEDx was about health, because of the world "Liver" in the thumbnail

[@robertebersold3817]

I would think an easier explanation would be some kind of very small delay between when our senses detect a scene and when our brain processes it. Our senses, especially our eyes, ears, and noses, take in a lot more information than our brains typically use... its just not important. But if there is a delay, our brains might be flooded with an overload of information, and tiny details that would normally be ignored, might caught. For instance in the professor in the parking lot, those feelings are heightened, and other information may be subconsciously used - such as the sound of bicycle tires on the pavement behind him, a reflection in a car window, the smell of her deodorant - he 'knew' the bicyclist was coming. (If she actually did, you didnt say, if she didnt, it might be a memory.) If the brain can detect that the information coming in through the eyes and senses does not match the information it is processing, it might create the deja vu/ precognition feeling. Sort of like watching a movie when the sound and video are not in sync. Of course, this does not explain precognitions of events hours, or longer in tbe future (rare, but they seem to happen), or deja vu that seems very old, as they said, like an old memory from years ago, or even a 'past life'.

[@mwamussa]

Nope. Huge fail. You overintellectualized this phenomena. It is very real, and I experience precog multiple times a day, spontaneously. I can get up to 4 numbers correct in the lottery, 5 after many weeks of trying.

[@llkg9]

I'd say the same if I hadn't experienced it myself. But I've had times I told people what I felt, and they witnessed it later. My daughter and I actually had the same dream one night, then both saw it happen several weeks later.

[@hardywatkins7737]

The most common experience of precognitive dreaming is of recalling your dream upon waking and then literally an hour or two or three later as you go about your morning or day, those events you dreamed of, play out. The events of the dream are held consciously and firmly in mind before the events in the waking state even play out.

[@adamhonestyanddecency5054]

When I have Deja vu, I don't feel that I've done it before, I feel that I knew it was going to happen.

[@aprilaventine8881]

I have had deja vu when the tv is on in the background playing a new episode of a show or the news. On a few of these occasions I have predicted the next line (in each case I wasn't really focused on the show, usually trying to nap). I often wonder how this happens of it it's just an unusual coincidence.

[@mintysingularity]

I'm not doubting your experience, but for myself I often find it pretty easy to predict show dialog and song lyrics without anything supernatural involved.

[@nunohs3371]

I predicted "im pregnant" and "i love you" since I was six years old. Pretty predictable huh?

[@sizzlinsj8135]

I think it happens because many promo or ads or sneek peeks are shown continuously on tv and when seeing actual show we get that feeling.

[@aprilaventine8881]

Definitely possible there were clips or promo before the show, I never really know because it only happens when I’m not paying attention. Sounds plausible!

[@Duspende]

It's a product of your brain writing directly to your memory, as opposed to passing through your cognitive processes first. So you essentially remember it before your experience it.

[@wocky7124]

I predict conversations. My friends gawk at me and I just say I experienced it before. So her explanation is invalid. EXPLAIN THAT.

[@assassingamer9088]

I saw me breaking a funnel in chemistry lab so I left it and some other student go near it and broke it.

[@Er._________YDV24]

Great channel 👍👍

[@jacktheconqueror3670]

Nice, tnx to tedx!

[@jamesshepherd6484]

I've had deja vu and I know it was paranormal not how she explains it.

[@catsphere]

The important thing is... you are NOT superman. Everyone has those kind of experience. You are NOT special. Calm down.

[@ThePamgauti]

syamu先輩 we are all special.

[@realser9]

Gratidão 🙌💖

[@SasukesHott]

This is so interesting, and confusing. I swear I've had dreams, woken up from them, and then had de ja vu in that exact place/situation months or years later - in places and with people I've never been before/met before.

[@lovelife7902]

Deju Vu is remembering of a pattern u set forth before u were born on Earth 🙏💙