Is this some sort of de ja vu?

Lots of good threads here on de ja vu. Do a quick search above and you’ll see that it’s pretty common among us jellies.

I’d just like to add. It is distinctly different from regular de ja vu.

Sounds like daytime parahypnagogia:

”...some individuals at times have had the experience of an extremely brief dreamlike episode that apparently interferes with attention and alertness. DPH is more likely to occur when one is tired, bored, suffering from attention fatigue, and/or engaged in a passive activity. One is conscious of having this fleeting experience, but as in a dream, the memory of the content fades quickly as attention becomes refocused on the matters at hand…

“a DPH episode may last from less than a second to a few seconds. It is likely to occur when an individual is engaged in passive activity, such as watching TV, or listening to a boring person or lecture. Typically, one’s eyes are open. If one is actively involved in interacting with people or the environment in some fashion, the phenomenon does not occur. For one who has not experienced DPH, the event is somewhat akin to falling asleep for a moment while watching television, and then quickly re-awakening. However, unlike the lack of awareness that seems to occur in a brief moment of sleep, one is fully conscious of the parahypnagogic state, as well as the thoughts or images that occur during the state. Like many dreams, the memory of the content (relevant or not to what one was ostensibly paying attention to) during this state quickly fades.” (source)

This is a very common experience for me during long meditation retreats.

This is unbelievable, because the very same things happen to me…in fact just the other day in the middle of doing nothing extraordinary at all, a glimpse of a dream I dreamed years ago drifted up from the depths of my mind. It was so strange, because the dream was very potent at the time, but I hadn’t thought about it since the night I dreamed it. It is always very pleasurable when this happens, it almost makes me feel like my dreams are more important than I give them credit for. It’s nice to hear that it happens to someone else.

@thorninmud thanks, I would not have found that w/o ya! I think that sounds right on the money.

Just want to say that it’s “deja vu” – French, meaning already seen.

@janbb sorry! :)

Lord Dunsany described beautiful visions that appeared unbidden in his mind in his short stories. He thought these visions came sheer from ‘fairyland’ though he later realised they were in fact based upon memories, many going back to his childhood. ‘Bricks without straw’ he wrote’ are more easily made than imagination without memories’.

This happens to me when I haven’t been sleeping, as result of my insomnia. It’s quite a trippy feeling.

Yes! I’ve had a similar experience all through my life. There are about 5 or 6 different, very brief scenarios. The “images” are definitely not real places or real situations that occurred and most of them I recall as being a dream that I had (although I almost never remember my dreams, but I do have lots of nightmares that I also forget almost immediately). So I don’t have the same dream over and over, while I’m asleep. These weird images always occur when I’m awake and it kind of freaks me out. It’s like it’s part of my life, but I don’t know where the images are coming from. A few of these images don’t even seem like they came from a dream, but they have a very vivid visual of a place and a feeling that goes along with it and I’m positive that I’ve never been to the place and that it doesn’t exist.

I dream the future all the time. Nothing important really, mostly mundane stuff. But also life is full of repetition, and we have go through familiar situations over and over again. Our brains come with pattern recognition software, and sometimes we recognize these patterns in a de ja vu feeling.

I don’t think time is 100% linear. I’m not sure time is 100% real. Although it seems a valid and functional way to perceive reality.

I have this…