That awkward feeling after waking up from a weird dream?
I get it nearly everyday. I always have dreams that involve places I've been, and people I've met. They're always really weird dreams about nothing, usually nothing significant happens though. For instance, I just woke up from a dream (and then google searched "weird feeling after dream" and got to this question) about being in high school, and I was in a classroom. Some of my old friends from high school were there, and then kids I never hung out with but I can name, were there - why, I don't know. We were all sitting on couches, I got bored, stood up and turned around - I was outside in a parking lot near a beach. I picked up a skateboard and placed it down. I walked down to the beach and it turned into a snowy hill that led back up to my school. I tried climbing up the hill, slipped. So I walked around to a rock that I could climb up and a police officer gave me a ticket for doing so. Then all of a sudden, I was the police officer, driving out of his garage the next morning, in a golf cart. His neighbor pulled out of his garage, and half of his head was missing. It wasn't gory or anything, just the backside of his head was missing, but his eyes were still there. Kind of freaky looking. Then I woke up, about 20 minutes ago. This is usually how my dreams are, and they leave me with this exact odd feeling, it feels like you were displaced in another time or something. It is a rather uncomfortable feeling. I get it often, and when I do, it seems like depending on how strange the dream was, that determines how long it lasts, for me. Try a hot shower, that may help.
Dream deja vu makes me feel sick?
Sometimes i will experience deja vu from my dreams, some of them are dreams i didnt know i had and some are dreams that i had a long time ago. Its like something small triggers it, it could be a sound or something i saw that immediately reminds me of a dream i had at the exact moment of seeing/hearing the trigger. I get a flashback of my dream and then an overwhelming feeling i cant explain but it feels like a wave. It starts out low then its intensity increases and makes me nauseated then the feeling dissipates and i feel lightheaded after. This happens to me maybe 3 times a month. I really dont like this feeling. Once i get the flashback i always say "oh no oh no" in my head because i know im going to get the nauseating feeling too. What do you think causes this, does anyone experience the same thing?
Feeling of strange dejavu followed by confusion and fainting?
Hello, For the last couple of years I have been having these strange spells. Sometimes they happen quickly after the first warning, others times it takes a couple of minutes to happen. First I get this sense of de javu or some type of memory that I remember but I cant remember when it actually happened to me or if it even did, but it feel like a forgotten memory. Once the "memory" pops into my head I start getting very confused and dizzy, I get warm, and nauseous. Sometimes I don't throw up, other times I do, but I almost always pass out. It happened to me yesterday and I woke up on the floor in the bathroom at work after having vomited. I always feel very confused like my brain isn't working right for a long while after, sometimes following into the next day, though the closer to the event the more confused I tend to feel. I'm unsure what is causing this, it only happens about once or twice every 6 months. Anyone have any idea?
I had a weird deja vu experience (see details)...any explanation?
Scientists have since determined that the medial temporal lobe is involved in our conscious memory. Within the medial temporal lobe are the parahippocampal gyrus, the rhinal cortex and the amygdala. John D.E. Gabrieli at Stanford University found in 1997 that the hippocampus enables us to consciously recall events. He also found that the parahippocampal gyrus enables us to determine what's familiar and what isn't (and without actually retrieving a specific memory to do it). While about 60 percent of people say they have experienced deja vu, the rates are highest among people between the ages of 15 and 25. The upper age varies among researchers, but most agree that deja vu experiences decrease with age. There have also been higher reported occurrences among those with higher incomes, those who tend to travel more and those with higher education levels. Active imaginations and the ability to recall dreams has also been a commonality among people who report deja vu experiences. Some researchers also report that the more tired or stressed you are, the more likely you are to experience deja vu. Other researchers, however, have seen just the opposite. They report that the more refreshed and relaxed you are, the more likely you are to experience deja vu. Obviously, the jury is still out about a lot of things related to deja vu. One reported finding is that the more open-minded or politically liberal a person is, the more likely they are to experience d fast vu. However, this may also mean that the more open-minded you are, the more likely you are to talk about something potentially seen as "weird," like deja vu. So, that hamster thing that you think is a weird recollection of maybe a past life or something of yours, think again? Maybe you have dreamed something of same exact thing and was able to retain it in your mind. Either way, it is weird though. Well goodluck buddy!
I keep on experiencing unexplained deja-vu? Please help!?
Everyone gets that. When you sleep it's something to do with the mind and when you do your day to day activity you get like a flash back feeling that's all. You will be okay
I`ve Been Experiencing a Painful kind of Deja Vu, and Don`t know what it means...?
I think is might sound crazy, but I don't really know what to do about this feeling I've been having lately. So for the past few weeks, I've been getting this feeling of "Deja Vu". It will just hit me randomly, and I will feel, not like this has happened before, but like I have dreamed it happening and I can see what is going to happen. It's not like I"m predicting a car accident or anything, I can just see like SECONDS before (and it's usually just a simple thing like me interacting with somebody) somebody makes a movement, i know what they are going to do. And what i'm going to do, though I don't think that is a s significant. Anyway it's driving me crazy, because along with this feeling of "deja Vu" or whatever, i feel kind of sick and it hurts. The only way to describe it is that I feel like the blood in my veins is boiling. That's what's freaking me out. I guess I'm afraid I have a brain tumor or something... I don't want to go to the doctor and tell them that I'm experiencing this because, quite frankly, i know how it sounds. I don't have any idea what's going on with me but i'm worried, and it's been happening more and more lately, and it really does hurt, usually I need to sit down for a while. Please don't comment to tell me I"m crazy or be rude or anything, just If you've ever experienced anything like this or... I don't really know. I'm just going out on a desperate limb here. Maybe it's nothing, maybe it's more common than I think. Thanks...
Does remembering a dream explain deja vu?
Thank you for your invitation asking me to answer.I had my first clear experience of deja vu where I later realised for the first time it was a scene I’d seen in a dream not long before, maybe two nights earlier, when i was in my late teens.It happened a couple more times over the years. On reflection, when i learnt more about dreams and dreaming ( and people!) I realised that it wasn’t so much “prophetic’ or “foresight” (in my case) but rather that the scenes were already similar to what happens in real life, some of the same people and some of the same places, or similar enough places, that when I am in that real situation, it reminds I had a dream. The deja vu feeling was the frisson that this is reminding me of something.I noticed its a similar feeling to when you see someone who reminds you a lot of someone else. That initial frisson of uncertainty, of a troublesome identifying that something/someone is the same but different.That is, the link between deja vu and dreams, in my personal experience, is because we focus is on the similarities when dreaming of realistic situations rather than the differences between the dream and the real. Therefore there’s high probability that we will encounter those same but different moments.Unless it is an extremely unusual dream situation being mirrored later in reality (and the dream only remembered when you are in that reality) I’d list it as a noteworthy curiosity but say there are more important things to be learnt from dreams.
Why does deja vu make me physically feel sick?
This is my personal take.I have been reading Sarah Bakewell’s marvellous book about the existentialists. You may know that Sartre wrote a novel called ‘Nausea’, which is partly about his phenomenological philosophy, but genuinely draws on his personal realisation, that when he focussed on the existence of ‘things’, and really experienced the undifferentiated ‘being-ness’ of them, he would feel sick in the way you report. I think there may be a link between your deja vu and Sartre’s nausea.Our conscious mind is a ‘narrative generator’. Unlike the unconscious mind, our everyday consciousness takes what is presented to it, and tries to make meaningful stories out of it. In fact, without a ‘story’ of some form, we find things ‘meaning-less’. We even do this when asleep, trying to ‘narrate’ the stuff presented to us by the unconscious, so creating the ‘dream’.Most people think a bad dream is different to this, but it is not; a bad dream is still a story; when the conscious mind fails to bind unconscious material into a story or dream, we either wake up or have a nightmare, which is nameless dread - a very different experience to a bad dream.Sartre and the phenomenologists, by trying to experience the ‘thingness’ of the world, by attempting to see through the ‘stories’ our mind invests sensory data with, risked the sort of experiences that we have in a nightmare. I am thinking that Sartre’s ‘nausea’ is the daytime equivalent of the nightmare experience.Deja vu is not a normal conscious sort of remembering; it has a touch of the uncanny about it; something has interfered with the regular mental processing that transforms raw sensory data into meaningful elements, suitable for transformation into narrative. I am suggesting that ‘deja vu’ has some affinity with a waking nightmare, and defies our need for ‘meaning’; at the moment of deja vu we stand on the cliff edge, looking down on a world without meaning, and this is a nauseating experience.