mugenhunt t1_jeamkuc wrote on March 30, 2023 at 5:02 PM

There's a French term for this, deja vu. We don't know exactly why it happens, but many people experience this feeling.

There is one theory that our brains have two settings for events, "this is happening right now" and "this already happened" and that normally, our memories of events go from one category to the other after they conclude. After we're finished with something, our brain stores it in the past category. The idea is that deja vu might be what happens when our brain gets that process mixed up, and we feel that the event is happening right now, and already happened at the same time.

Spongclinx t1_jeanek0 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 5:07 PM

I also experienced a moment where I realized that this particular event already happened and as I try to recall it where and when I remembered that it was from one of my dreams.

frzx1 t1_jeaqvqb wrote on March 30, 2023 at 5:29 PM

That's again very likely a deja vu, your brain just mapped your real world to a memory of a dream.

AdamAThompson t1_jeavbal wrote on March 30, 2023 at 5:57 PM

This is usually my experince with it. Usually I am also experiencing a sort of mental fuge state at the same time.

Folgers37 t1_jecl6bc wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:53 AM

When you see a black cat walk by, the same black cat, it means they changed something.

mavityre t1_jebgj3e wrote on March 30, 2023 at 8:12 PM

This happens a lot on Reddit with reposts.