2018-09-29, 07:47 PM
I'm not someone who's had strong or obvious paranormal experiences like many others here. Whatever has possibly been of that nature has been more run-of-the-mill everyday-life-psi: telephone telepathy, marked synchronicities, that type of thing. Maybe precognitive dreams according to that private group experiment some of us had at the the old forum.
The one thing that I used to get were déjà vu experiences that were very convincing in their intensity and that seemed to differ from what people usually define as déjà vu, which is usually a strong sense of being somewhere they've been before even if they haven't, or that sort of thing.
Mine occurred both in familiar and unfamiliar settings. And in terms of occurrence, I'd say they started pretty early in childhood and at least up and maybe through my thirties, although I'd estimate they started slowing down and/or stopped then (which were years I started taking psychotropic meds, so that may have been a factor). It didn't happen happen often, but at regular invervals - I'd estimate 2 or 3 times a year.
The experience would be: I'd be somewhere, doing whatever, maybe just walking down a particular street, and suddenly I'd have the overwhelming, very vertiginous and convincing impression that, for one thing, I'd lived the exact same moment before. Not just being in this particular place - but at this particular place, at this particular time, with the skies or whatever looking just as they were, everything in the environment exactly as it is, and not only that but including my very same thoughts and emotions I was having just before the impression started - it felt that all were part of a micro ensemble that had previously occurred.
But then the second element, which was part of the vertiginous feeling, was that this hadn't just happened once before, but an infinite amount of times. As if somehow our lives already exist and are stored somewhere, and at that moment I break out and see or experience the matrix itself. Or that I was reliving the same life for a 1000th time and was suddenly getting a glimpse of that. The feeling was like an "eternal return".
And the thing is there was nothing special about those moments. The feelings-impressions would last 15, 20, maybe 30 seconds, I don't know, but not very long, and I'd try to stay with them or "grasp them" but they would then disappear. And afterwards I didn't put too much thought into it, I'd just go back to regular life.
I wonder if anybody here has experienced DV experiences along those lines.
I'm quite open to the fact that these may not be paranormal and have very banal explanations - a mind trick, or even something in the brain where data that is supposed to go through a "recording new information" part goes through instead, by error, through a "memory" part. I have no idea but the impression was extremely convincing and created an ecstatic, transcendent sort of feeling.
If I try to connect that to data about reincarnation, it obviously doesn't fit data suggesting that invididuals reincarnate as other individuals. But then it does fit some NDEs or strange spiritual experiences where people do experience or become aware that their lives are already written or performed in some way and then exist as stories that can be experienced by them again or others (I think of certain NDErs who relate that when they died, they would meet other beings, old soul companions, who would "enter" into their memories of their lives and relive that life vicariously, or similar things in OBE-astral journeying.)
The one thing that I used to get were déjà vu experiences that were very convincing in their intensity and that seemed to differ from what people usually define as déjà vu, which is usually a strong sense of being somewhere they've been before even if they haven't, or that sort of thing.
Mine occurred both in familiar and unfamiliar settings. And in terms of occurrence, I'd say they started pretty early in childhood and at least up and maybe through my thirties, although I'd estimate they started slowing down and/or stopped then (which were years I started taking psychotropic meds, so that may have been a factor). It didn't happen happen often, but at regular invervals - I'd estimate 2 or 3 times a year.
The experience would be: I'd be somewhere, doing whatever, maybe just walking down a particular street, and suddenly I'd have the overwhelming, very vertiginous and convincing impression that, for one thing, I'd lived the exact same moment before. Not just being in this particular place - but at this particular place, at this particular time, with the skies or whatever looking just as they were, everything in the environment exactly as it is, and not only that but including my very same thoughts and emotions I was having just before the impression started - it felt that all were part of a micro ensemble that had previously occurred.
But then the second element, which was part of the vertiginous feeling, was that this hadn't just happened once before, but an infinite amount of times. As if somehow our lives already exist and are stored somewhere, and at that moment I break out and see or experience the matrix itself. Or that I was reliving the same life for a 1000th time and was suddenly getting a glimpse of that. The feeling was like an "eternal return".
And the thing is there was nothing special about those moments. The feelings-impressions would last 15, 20, maybe 30 seconds, I don't know, but not very long, and I'd try to stay with them or "grasp them" but they would then disappear. And afterwards I didn't put too much thought into it, I'd just go back to regular life.
I wonder if anybody here has experienced DV experiences along those lines.
I'm quite open to the fact that these may not be paranormal and have very banal explanations - a mind trick, or even something in the brain where data that is supposed to go through a "recording new information" part goes through instead, by error, through a "memory" part. I have no idea but the impression was extremely convincing and created an ecstatic, transcendent sort of feeling.
If I try to connect that to data about reincarnation, it obviously doesn't fit data suggesting that invididuals reincarnate as other individuals. But then it does fit some NDEs or strange spiritual experiences where people do experience or become aware that their lives are already written or performed in some way and then exist as stories that can be experienced by them again or others (I think of certain NDErs who relate that when they died, they would meet other beings, old soul companions, who would "enter" into their memories of their lives and relive that life vicariously, or similar things in OBE-astral journeying.)
