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Brainwaves and stuff
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mehastings
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novella said:
Yes, I have. No, it never seems to work for me. I've often had deja vu or seen things in my deams that actually happen (nothing big like 9-11...more like being at a certain place with a cretain person wearing a specific thing when something happens). I'm certain that people have mental powers they don't know how to tap, however, sending mental notes doesn't seem to work for me. The closest I've had work is that people call me all the time when I am thinking of them. I have this friend who I care about a lot that lives in the midwest now. We are so close that we only need to talk every once in a while and things will always be the same. He always seems to call me when I am thinking of him or when I need him.
Jenem
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i've tried this a few times. my husband and i tried it once when we were bored but it didnt work; however, i have had more than one instance where he's been out and i've pushed my thoughts to him to phone me or come home. a few times that has "worked" in a way that i didn't think it was entirely coincidence. i've never tried with my sister, but maybe i should. we ALWAYS say and do the same things at the same time.
i was playing yahtzee with my sister last summer and she was kicking my ass. i pushed a thought hard for a yahtzee roll. the thought was that i would trade 15 mins of my life for a yahtzee roll. i was playing around, not thinking it would work (i had traded like this once before and it worked and i thought it was coincidence). anyway, i rolled a yahtzee. straight off. LOL this sounds so bloody stupid! sounds nuts or silly or whatever you want to think- but it happened. i thought "i will give up 15 mins of my life for a yahtzee roll), i pushed that thought HARD and it happened. it's the second time i've traded minutes like that and it worked both times. i'll be dying 30 mins earlier than i'm "supposed" to.
i was playing yahtzee with my sister last summer and she was kicking my ass. i pushed a thought hard for a yahtzee roll. the thought was that i would trade 15 mins of my life for a yahtzee roll. i was playing around, not thinking it would work (i had traded like this once before and it worked and i thought it was coincidence). anyway, i rolled a yahtzee. straight off. LOL this sounds so bloody stupid! sounds nuts or silly or whatever you want to think- but it happened. i thought "i will give up 15 mins of my life for a yahtzee roll), i pushed that thought HARD and it happened. it's the second time i've traded minutes like that and it worked both times. i'll be dying 30 mins earlier than i'm "supposed" to.
Martin
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Deja Vu doesn't exist. Everybody has those moments when he or she thinks to themselves, 'Hey, I've seen this before, I've been here before.'. That's the brain playing tricks on you.
Some synaps missfires and fools you into believing that whatever you're doing and seeing at that moment is also a memory. Hence, you feel like you've been there before. It's a mistake, nothing more, nothing less.
That, or it's a glitch in the Matrix. Whoa.
And the 'We're only using 20% of our brain'-story is also a myth.
Cheers
Some synaps missfires and fools you into believing that whatever you're doing and seeing at that moment is also a memory. Hence, you feel like you've been there before. It's a mistake, nothing more, nothing less.
That, or it's a glitch in the Matrix. Whoa.
And the 'We're only using 20% of our brain'-story is also a myth.
Cheers
i don't know what i think of brainwaves really. i mean for instance, i was desperately in love with this boy in grade 8, and i sat next to him in science and would concentrate on sending him these passionate, intense vibes. just willing him to know that my very cells were aching for him. nothing. years later we hooked up, and were in love, and i asked if he ever picked up on my vibes. he said no and did i ever pick up on his vibes that he had been sending in grade 10(we were in biology then) and i did not. however in our first year university (when we hooked up) we sat together in acadian studies and well the rest is hist(ory. sadly we broke up 2 years later but remain good friends.
i lost my point somewhere, has anyone seen it?
i lost my point somewhere, has anyone seen it?
RainbowGurl
Active Member
Yes I have tried this. It never works for me and when it does then I just figure its a coinserdence.novella said:
Kookamoor
New Member
Wow! I saw Novella's post the other day and figured I was the only one - I never realised so many people did this! I've never had anyone 'receive' my brain waves to my knowledge. Like mehastings, though, I'm "certain that people have mental powers they don't know how to tap".
I've had some sort of dejavu before - when I've expereinced something and I've dreamt it before. It's usually a small part of a conversation, and I know what someone will say next. It's never anything monumental, but will give me a bit of a stir. This first happened when I was 13 - I remember it distinctly. I think it's probably happened 7 or 8 times since then (am now in mid-twenties). And don't tell me my brain was misfiring, Martin! You'll just spoil my fun!
I've had some sort of dejavu before - when I've expereinced something and I've dreamt it before. It's usually a small part of a conversation, and I know what someone will say next. It's never anything monumental, but will give me a bit of a stir. This first happened when I was 13 - I remember it distinctly. I think it's probably happened 7 or 8 times since then (am now in mid-twenties). And don't tell me my brain was misfiring, Martin! You'll just spoil my fun!
novella
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There is a theory about the deja vu sensation, that it is a misfiring of the synapses in your associate memory, causing you to have the feeling that you are 'reliving' what you are experiencing at that moment.
Then again, there are times when I know fully consciously that I have been in the exact same situation before and thought the same thought. There is no predictive quality to it, just the moment. I think this is commonly experienced as deja vu.
Then again, there are times when I know fully consciously that I have been in the exact same situation before and thought the same thought. There is no predictive quality to it, just the moment. I think this is commonly experienced as deja vu.
Martin
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That's what I said, right?
How can you tell. When your brain tells you you've been in a particular situation before, when in fact you haven't, you won't be able to tell whether it's true or not. Simply because it is your brain which is misfiring. What your brain tells you is reality for you, but not reality in general.
Cheers
novella
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Martin said:
No, you said "deja vu doesn't exist." I said "there is a theory." One is accurate (my statement) and one is inaccurate (yours). There is no evidence that deja vu "doesn't exist." In fact it does exist because people experience it, and it, by definition, is that experience. The cause, however, is open to debate.
There is also a big difference between being in the same room (say a meeting room) sitting around a table with the exact same people every week and periodically experiencing the exact same exchange, e.g., "Let's wrap this up." "But I was making a point." "Send me an e-mail." "Let's go to lunch."
This kind of experience is commonplace if at 4:30 every Thursday you are at that table with those people or if at 7 am every day you are driving your kid to school and listening to the same radio show in the same car, not a trick of the brain.