Has this ever happened to you?

You can see the future! I need to win a bet, can you tell me who wins the superbowl?

A kind of deja vu, I guess. Or you could be that guy from the show Early Edition, and you’re really supposed to use your preternatural awareness of (catastrophic) events to save lives.

i remember watching princess dianna and charles getting married live on tv. i even remeber quite a few details. i also remember hearing that bob marley had died.

the strange thing, both happened before i was even born. so i wonder what kind of mind trick i have going on.

it must be some kind of psychological illusion.

How much time do you spend on the internet reading news and such?

@erichw1504 – I don’t do that much news reading, I read Fluther mostly, and random internet websites. I do have Google News as my homepage so I can keep abreast of the headlines, but don’t usually click on stuff unless I find it interesting.

I have no doubt that it is a psychological trick. But to put it to the test, the next few times you sense the onset of one of these episodes, like when you see the headline, stop reading immediately, and then predict in detail what the rest of the article will be like. Then compare. No cheating.

@Jayne – Good idea!

Well, then perhaps you have Cris Johnson’s ability.

@erichw1504 – Ha.. it’s not much help if I can only remember when the story is published. :P

Yeah, this topic happened before, can’t find it though…

@Samurai I see what you did there.

Basically…..there is a theory that we are not just living this one life….we are also living other realities at the same time and occasionally they bleed into this life…or we go into that life. It’s like a window opening and we have a glimpse of an alternate life that we are living on another plane of existence….rather like a divided highway..with one of your lives going one way and your other life unfolding a different way with a different destination.

Someone said once that at every moment we make choices and that from that choice another reality is created. For example, at this moment, I am typing a response to you, but I was going to make some chai. In an alternate reality, I did make that chai and from that it will spin into another story other than this fluther story I am crafting.

How does this relate to your seeing Diana get married when it happened before you were born?

In another reality, you were possibly born earlier and witnessed the wedding in that other existence….that’s just a simple way of explaining a subject that is a bit more complex. All of our realities are happening at the same time and sometimes they intersect in a multi-dimensional awareness that we can see in our present moment.

It’s much a much deeper than my explanation…but what you are experiencing is something that we are going to access more and more as our consciousness expands and we become a bit more familiar with parallel realities.

(For an interesting modern interpretation of these ideas albeit Hollywood….see the movie, “Sliding Doors” with Gywneth Paltrow.)

@DarlingRhadamanthus
Do you have any sort of proof of this extraordinary theory?

@poisonedantidote I’ve read that some amount of the memories we are sure that we have, are actually not ours, but other people’s stories and experiences – or things we read or see on TV – sometimes morphed with things that was actually experienced. In the years that go by, we incorporate them and we remember them as actual memories. IMO it feels likely that this is why you remember Diana’s wedding.

déjà-vu’s? yes, many times.

@DarlingRhadamanthus; that’s not actually a theory, it’s a hypothesis, because there is no evidence to support it over alternative theories, and it is not testable.

This happens to me every time I read about the #2 guy in al Qaeda being captured or killed. I’m pretty sure they use a form for this article that appears every six months or so. All the reporter needs to do is input the name and the city where it happened.

@poisonedantidote Are you a Jedi? :D

That’s why I started bookmarking most of the interesting articles I come across. Mystery solved as far as I’m concerned.

You’ve seen or heard it other places before (such as newspaper racks or heard people talking about it) subconsciously. You read the newspaper later and you get déjà-vu.

OR

One eye sees the article a fraction of a fraction of a second sooner then the other, so your subconscious mind tells your conscious that you’ve seen it before, resulting in déjà-vu.

OR

However unlikely, it’s possible that you have seen it before and have completely forgotten.

OR

Your brain might be releasing an odd combination of the chemicals that make it tick, so that might be making you feel déjà-vu. <——- HIGHLY IMPROBABLE