Interesting. I have experienced deja vu many a times. Most of the times, it had been regarding a conversation with friends at a particular place, and yes it was our first visit to the place.
Your statement about sub-conscious mind could be partly correct. But I still don’t understand how could a completely new place be already recorded.
It’s a mystery just like dreams…in other words a game played by our mystical mind.

I agree to what u say. This has always been kind of haunting me. You can never really explain how and why this happens. I can even understand the feeling of visiting a place before, since that could have registered deep within when we have seen or read something about that place. But the sense that u have been in the same room, with the same people, discussing the same topic, with the same gestures and postures is something to ponder about. I don’t believe in next birth, previous birth or any such thing. So I can only say, somethings just don’t have an explanation.
I am sure if this is a Deja vu. This happened as recently as a week ago. I read about an untouched hill station in south India. I was discussing this with my friend, and we both searched about this on the net and exchanged pictures and information about this place. The next day when we were talking, he says one of our friends brother had visited this place, just two days before and had shared the pictures. This can be called a coincidence. But this has happened to me a lot of times. I will read or know about some thing or some place and immediately I will be meeting some one who had visited there or will come across some one discussing the same. Is this a Deja vu??

Anusha – That’s another one. I don’t think that would fall under ‘deja vu’ because the important factor in deja vu is the ‘familiar feeling’. It is not out of your cognizant knowledge and memory. In that very example when someone talks about a place you’ve not even heard of before, but you think you know that place and might even get a few things right, it would be deja vu. In your example, you have gathered some information about the place which means that info lies in your normal memory from where it’s being looked up.
Anyway, what you mentioned is also an interesting phenomenon. Not sure what it is called though!
Mackeran – Thank you. The right answer to your question is – NOT YET

Every conference is a deja vu experience for me !!

I believe in deja vu & agree with you ! Wow, what a feeling yuh..
I think when God was involved in programming our mind using Java, c++, he coded this loop option

There are alot of things that man cannot explain or even start to begin to understand. We live on a ball floating in space which is orbited by another ball. The universe is emense. For anyone who cannot imagine themselves just disappearing into nothingness when they die, the next question is where do we go. The body is just a physical manifestation in this world. The soul has connections which extend beyond that which can be seen. But the soul is always connected to that which can be felt – and not by the body or anything physical. Deja vu is just another one of those connections which exists between us and what is. The answers come from introspection. Keep asking yourself what was this, how did it make me feel. If you really want to know then you will find the answers- and you dont have to ask anyone. Everything is stored inside. You dont have to be a guru os saint. Man has become to involved in indoctrination and his mind has been blocked by preaching. Just imagine what you would learn if you put what you know aside and just learn from yourself.
My journey started a while ago. Still dont have any answers I can explain to anyone but to myself I know that its there- I feel it, I deja vu it, I dream it, and it makes me happy to know that there is so much more to this than we know.
As a joke between my brother and I, when we deja vu amongst people we laugh and say- “i wonder what we did the last time around”.
For me personally I feel that moments like deja vu is the soul reminding you that you are not just a physical body whichs exists to work eat and sleep. We come from somewhere and someday we will will find out where and why we came here.

Nice one, and i believe it is because of our experiences from the past lives! I believe in karmic connections and rebirths!

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I believe in Past births. However I am not sure whether that is an adequate explanation of all the deja vus that we experience in daily life. I am writing this because the times and technologies rapidly change during each birth(as they progress in time) and I could not have witnessed a laptop for eg, in my previous birth. However I think it has got to do with ‘Vaasanas’ that is the concept behind dreams too according Prashnopanishad. The Upanishad does not degrade dreams as a mental disorder.
We gain knowledge from all our five senses and this imprints itself in the conscious and sub-conscious mind. They can always combine in bizarre ways and give rise to dreams. I think similarly, even during waking state, they can gather suddenly to give us an ‘experience’ or a ‘thought’ of familiarity with respect to the current situation. In cases of places that we have never visited, like a foreign country, the knowledge could very well come from previously seen videos, movies etc.

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