How may of you have been to some place and felt that you were there before,
though in reality, you were there for the very first time ?  I've had this
experience more than once (many times in fact) and it has convinced me that
OBE (out of body experience can transcend the barriers of time (as we
undersand it) Your turn now.

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Nifty... isn't the shrinks term OOB though? No clue... I've had it happen,
though I can't describe the circumstances...

I have occasionally had a similar experience, but not with a location.  At
times, I will listen to a piece of music for the first time, something that
I couldn't possibly have heard before, but it will sound very familiar, like
something I've been waiting to hear for a long time.  Likewise I will
sometimes remember something having happened that couldn't have happened to
me.  My theory is that these are half-remembered dreams, but one never knows,
do one?

Many of us tend to sideline or take things casually.  Fact is we are trained
to accept  only if we understand.  The result : We accept very few things
cause we understand little.  If only our vision were broader ! I've had this
uncanny experience years ago at school !  Once our biology teacher was giving
us a lecture on the phylums.  Strangely i seemed to have heard all of it
before.  I made bold to stand up and tell her that to the chargin of the
entire class.  The best part of it was i could repeat everything  the accent,
the way she spoke and the content.  She was badly shaken up.  the class did'nt
know at all that i was serious - they just thought i was trying to pull her
leg.  so much for being frank.  i have tried hard not to mix up things since
then.  but i must admit that it does not happen all the time or even when i
want or need it the most.  it just happens and i'm still wondering.

I'll remember a dream I had once. Happens quite a lot, deja vu all over the
place so to speak.

Hey!  That's *my* stupid mis-quotation of Yogi Berra, and don't you forget
it!

quid pro quo eh? But eldrich didnt tell us about it. Just stopped short by
mentioning your phrase.  

hmmm.. I know what orin's talking about with the music.. that's happened. 
But it's never really happened with places.  People on the other hand it
sometimes does happen and it's really weird when it does.  You get this
feeling that you know this person even though you've never seen them in your
life.. maybe this goes along with reincarnation.. like you've seen the place
in a past life or something

Kain, It's happened to me. I know its difficult to accept since I myself
accept things based on factual evidence. That should read most things. 
Anyway, the image still lives on in my memory since I was badly shaken up when
I actually had the experience - so much like my teacher.  I seldom dream or
have nightmares but I keep thinking a lot. I dont get any vibes about a past
life or anything like that. So ? I'm still trying to know more...

interesting.. where did this happen.. one more thing: everyone dreams.. just
not everyone remembers their dreams.. sometimes I'll wake up and forget then
remember parts of the dream during biology while I'm falling asleep during
lecture.  I'll only remember part of it but I know there was more.

Happened abount 300 Kms away from where I stay. No way I could have gotten
there. Everything looked pretty much the same. Signboards, Alleys all. It was
uncanny.
As for your experience, many people share the same. Happens to me too ! Rarely
though.

I have experienced this before also. In doing research about the subject, most
of the info I found referred to re-incarnation. It was very compelling,
however, all of these illusions were shattered when I read about several
unversity studies which found that much of this deja vu stuff was caused by the
brains ability to fill in the gaps. They had dream research subjects keep a
dream journal at the facility which the researchers kept. They found that a
majority of the subjects that experienced deja vu had dreams of similar
happenings. The researchers found that the original "dream" memories were
warped by the actual experience, making it seem like the subject had
experienced the exact same thing twice. Before you say "nah, that's B.S." think
about the brains ability to change things without your consent. Have you ever
worn odd colored sunglasses only to find after half an hour, colors once again
apppeared normal? This is not meant to prove that NO one can see the future,
travel out of their body, or that re-incarnation is a farce. This is the most
rational(and ONLY proven) explanation that I have seen.

usually when I have Deja Vu I see an image, or here a few lines f dialog and
I suddenly remember a dream I've had, not in the sense that I say 'Oh, that's
just like the dream I had on the night of Oct 1 1987', I just know on some
level that I've drempt (or day-dreamed) of this scene before. It'll throw me
off balence for a moment, but then I just move on. I don't really think that
my brain is just doing this to confuse me, it doesn't seem to be on that sort
of level of thought

Hmmm... Most of my life seems like that, Bob... Does thjat mean I'm psychic?
or just a freak? (I vote for numebr 2)

number two, definately. "We should all be freaks more often!"

<WEIRD THINGS...keep happening to orinoco>

When I had 11, I traveled with my parents to Quito, Ecuador and it was my
first time there.For any unknown reason I knew everything there, like small
markets.From that time, every time that I'll travel to some new place, I tried
to describe it before and most of the times I mach them.

Here's an experince I was taken aback by...

One night I was lying in bed, (you know how you can doze off and not notice)
my stero with it's green equilizer lights was at the foot of my bed. I was
looking in that direction, and I saw someone move infront of the lights and
pass the stereo, I didn't feel anything at my feet, but I felt that someone
was there, I tried to move, but couldn't, so I turned my eyes towards the door
of my room, willing to get up, then at that point some sort of wave came over
me and moved...   To this day, I don't know if I had woken up or what.

Sorry, I meant to say "came over me and I moved"

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