Deja-vu and visions of the future

[Basman]

I wonder if anyone can relate. Ever since I've been small i have experienced having "visions" of sorts of a situation of some kind for a very short moment usually while I'm half asleep I believe. Within this vision I can distinguish sight and feeling. I can also react to the feeling and the vision itself.

I will then forget about this vision competely until I actually experience it in a waking moment, getting an intense sense of deja vu, months and years later. I will experience a specific sight picture and remember seeing this exact sight picture once before as well as remembering feeling my current emotional state once before as well. I might even remember that I mentally commented on the situation I'm having deja vu about or how I felt. These experiences can be windows into how I change as I suddenly remember my previous attitudes flush my mind. Its a very short moment though and I will always forget the exact situation soon after. I just remember the overall experience.

I used to have these experiences more often as a child but as I've grown older they've become gradually more and more rare. Now I might have one such experience a year if at all. Its a real mystery but I feel like I can't be the only one who've ever had these experiences. It makes it seem like there is more to reality than meets the eye. Its real freaky.

[cetus]

 From the movie Dune, Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam questioning Paul Atreides 

Q: How do you see future events before they happen?

A: I have visions.

Q: Do all your visions come true?

A: No. But I know which ones will. 

* I've never forgotten that scene because it's so accurate.  

[The Crocodile]

13 minutes ago, cetus said:

 From the movie Dune, Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam questioning Paul Atreides 

Q: How do you see future events before they happen?

A: I have visions.

Q: Do all your visions come true?

A: No. But I know which ones will. 

* I've never forgotten that scene because it's so accurate.  

very good quote

I'll remember it from you, not the movie.

[Paradoxed]

I've had many experiences where I know I've read a post before word for word in the past, or have been to the place I am despite rationally knowing I have never been there before, or met someone that feels familiar yet I know I've never met them, etc. I have also had experiences when half asleep or meditating when I am sort of transported to another life and am fully there, living that life, and interacting with another person from that perspective... I don't think I'm seeing a vision of the future necessarily, but it feels like a glimpse into another person's perspective. This feels very different than a dream also. I can never remember specific details about these visions afterwards, and when I realize I am doing it and am jolted back to my "normal" state. It's rare but happens when I'm super relaxed and I let my mind wander freely.

Not sure if this is quite the same thing but I've never been able to figure this out.

[LambdaDelta]

I know exactly what you mean, I have the same thing, prophetic dreams of the future, always short and insignificant, but 100% accurate. These days the frequency has also lowered, dreams are now crazy in other ways. Pretty sure this was God dropping subtle hints, these experiences were an integral part of what eventually led me to spirituality and questioning reality. Now it's completely obvious that time is not at all linear, I've seen past, present, and future as a single stream or a twisted loop, which sort of makes these dreams redundant. But they're a great reassurance mechanism, as long as you keep having them you can at least be certain that whatever you do, there is a future for you to experience. The precise workings of it are still a mystery, some degree of determinism is at play here. Definitely worth investigating further.

[Basman]

22 hours ago, Paradoxed said:

I've had many experiences where I know I've read a post before word for word in the past, or have been to the place I am despite rationally knowing I have never been there before, or met someone that feels familiar yet I know I've never met them, etc. I have also had experiences when half asleep or meditating when I am sort of transported to another life and am fully there, living that life, and interacting with another person from that perspective... I don't think I'm seeing a vision of the future necessarily, but it feels like a glimpse into another person's perspective. This feels very different than a dream also. I can never remember specific details about these visions afterwards, and when I realize I am doing it and am jolted back to my "normal" state. It's rare but happens when I'm super relaxed and I let my mind wander freely.

Not sure if this is quite the same thing but I've never been able to figure this out.

You seem to have experienced something similar but different in how it exactly plays out apparently. Interesting. Perhaps there are different ways of getting visions of the future.

I wonder if everyone have these experiences or if its rare. Though it seems that for those who do have these experiences its a very unconscious experience.

19 hours ago, LambdaDelta said:

I know exactly what you mean, I have the same thing, prophetic dreams of the future, always short and insignificant, but 100% accurate.

Oh yeah, completely useless. Like I'll get deja vu from staring out of a window. Or maybe I just live a boring life. I think its more the short glimpse into your future emotional state that is of more significance.