My kids and I frequently experience deja vu, but my husband doesn't even seem to know what we're talking about. Do you think that deja vu is related to psychic ability? Why would some people experience it, and others not? Also, what's happening when we have that deja vu feeling? It doesn't seem to happen surrounding anything particularly important, so I'm wondering if it has any real meaning or significance. Thanks!
- Darlene
Dreamchaser:
I love deja vu! It makes me feel like the theme to The Twilight Zone will start playing at any moment.
There are a few different types deja vu. The first is what some call deja vecu. This translates as already lived through
or already seen.
This is when we get that surreal feeling that we have already done something before, like we've already lived through the exact same experience in the past.
Usually this kind of experience is so powerful that people will remember it for the rest of their lives. The fact that you do this frequently should show you how gifted you and your kids really are.
Deja vecu is not just a mental/visual experience - it's a total being experience. You already know what everyone is going to say and how everyone is going to act.
The second type is called deja visite. This is the least common type of deja vu. It translates as already visited.
This is when you know your way around a place, be it a forest or a mansion or any sort of setting. You know the layout, what the rooms are filled with, and what each closet and cabinet has in it.
It is one of those deja vu experiences that makes me stop, close my eyes and take a deep breath. When I went to Jefferson Davis' home in Biloxi, Mississippi, somehow I just knew my way around. I knew every room and knew what it was used for a long time ago. It was a mindblowing experience.
The third type is deja senti, which translates as already felt.
This is mostly a mental as opposed to physical experience. You have this brief, fleeting thought of I remember this!
and then it's usually gone and you can't recapture it.
In my opinion, this is the most common type of deja vu. Many of us will walk into a situation and have that feeling of familiarity.
A lot of people say that deja vu is related to mental disorders. I guess I should say that you and your kids should check with your doctor to make sure you are completely sane and healthy, but I personally feel that deja vu is a completely natural spiritual experience, and that everyone who is open to it will experience it sometimes.
As I see it, places hold energy, and we feel that energy as it interacts with us on subtle levels. Sometimes we just don't consciously comprehend what is really going on.
Your husband doesn't have to be on board for you to have fun with this. You know he's scared of things he can't understand, so he tries to explain them away with logic.
I wish you and your kids many more spiritual experiences.
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Astrea:
Different people experience deja vu at different levels of intensity. It doesn't have anything to do with psychic ability - it's more about past lives. That feeling that you have been somewhere before or are already familiar with what you're experiencing in some mysterious place deep within you is coming from a past life experience.
Deja vu is an emotional response to something that reminds you of a past life. We never totally forget about where and when we have lived before, and flashes of these memories come to us when our third eyes are open and there is a break or overlap between dimensions.
So whether a person is psychic or not, if they've had a number of former incarnations, they will experience some kind of deja vu.
The reason your husband doesn't experience deja vu is probably due to him being new to your Ka-Tet, or karmic family. He doesn't have any past lives with you all, so he doesn't have deja vu with you.
Also, people who come to Earth as humans for the first time don't have any buried memories of earthly experiences. Some people are only here for one incarnation, so they don't experience deja vu either. This incarnation is the only one that they'll ever have on this plane, so they don't have past or future life experiences here that trigger deja vu.
Another reason some people don't experience that response to certain places and things is that they don't want to remember anything about their past lives at all. They block any knowledge or feeling that might spark buried memories of what happened to them in other lives.
So a person who had an awful life won't experience deja vu as much as someone who was happier in another incarnation. The more enjoyable a person's past lives were for them, the more they will tend to experience deja vu.
Deja vu can also come and go at various ages. Small children who have had many past lives (old souls), experience deja vu so frequently that it is as common for them as hunger or thirst.
As they get older, they notice other people don't talk about this or pay much attention to it, so it sort of drops out of their emotional vocabulary. Depending on whether or not the rest of the family believes in reincarnation, it may then become another repressed response.
It takes some people years to be able to remember their past lives. If you're having deja vu many times a day, it might be good for you to work with someone who is an expert in that field.
Finding out about past lives is usually a fun and rewarding experience, for fewer of us were tortured or burned at the stake than you might think!
Astrea:
Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.
Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!
While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!
I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!
As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.
I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.
You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!
Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.
A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.
You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.