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How do you react to things you can't explain

#82
Jools4001 said:
A spooky thing happened to me last week. Logically speaking, it's no more than coincidence but still had me shaking my head in disbelief.

A few weeks ago some idiot (me) put a screw through a water pipe while putting down some new flooring in the bathroom. I had to take down a big patch of the kitchen ceiling because the plaster was saturated and so I could get to the leak to fix it.

Fast forward to last week and with everything now dried out I decided to strip back the rest of the ceiling and replace it with new plasterboard.

As often happens when I'm working on the house a tune popped into my head that I couldn't shake, so I was humming and whistling it as I worked. Even as I was humming away I was thinking to myself "wonder why this particular tune popped up, I haven't heard it for years". It was one of the melodies from Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring.

So I'm stripping back the ceiling and I'm staggered at how much debris is in the void between the kitchen ceiling and the bathroom floor, lots of dust and dirt of course but also stuff that makes you wonder how it ever got there. Old disposable razors, empty toothpaste tubes, even an empty shampoo bottle how on earth do these things get there ??? No idea.

Anyway, I pulled down one of the last pieces of old ceiling, getting the usual showering of dust, dirt and debris and in amongst all this an old cassette tape fell to the floor. I went down the stepladder to pick it up and was left wide eyed and open mouthed as I read the Deutsche Gramaphon label...it read "Leonard Bernstein - Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra - Appalachian Spring"
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Very cool story.
 
#84
pmchenry said:
Definitely a weird coincidence. I never understood why people wanted to put a false meaning to stuff like this. To me, understanding that it's just a coincidence makes it's even crazier. Saying "now what are the odds of that..." is so much more interesting than "some invisible paranormal power made it so!"
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Agreed, keep in mind that not everyone who puts those labels to these things believes them to actually be anything but coincidence, it's just difficult sometimes to use better terminology when our entire lives these terms have been repeatedly drilled into our heads, like De javu, Karma, etc.

I myself am an atheist but I constantly say thank God for this or that. It's just verbal habit.
I don't believe at all in Karma, but I've used the term Karma's a beeeatch tons of times.
And if something weird happens that I feel oddly familiar with like it's happened before I call it De Javu. Yet I have absolutely no belief in it as far as paranormal stuff goes.
I believe the mind is incredible and we have a fraction of the answers to what it's capable of and someday things like this will have a logical and scientific explanation.
But still, I'll probably call it de javu.
 
#85
1SHOT1HIT said:
Agreed, keep in mind that not everyone who puts those labels to these things believes them to actually be anything but coincidence, it's just difficult sometimes to use better terminology when our entire lives these terms have been repeatedly drilled into our heads, like De javu, Karma, etc.
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Quite right. I believe someone called me out earlier in the thread for saying "I was lucky" instead of saying "in this particular case, my outcome was not the most probable one..." :D
 
#86
I normally try to rationalise things and come up with a logical explanation, however I accept the fact that I don't know everything and probably never will, that anything is possible and everything I think I know could be wrong. Basically, I try to keep an open mind.
 
#87
MatticusMania said:
Is that definition of Deja Vu commonly accepted? What Ive always called Deja Vu was more or less the result of a premonition-like dream, only I wasnt aware of it after the fact. It was more like if I dream of some ordinary happenstance tonight, say a conversation between you and I for example. When I wake, I dont recall the dream, as I dont recall most of my dreams but for the extraordinairy near waking. Though, weeks or months down the line the conversation actually happens. It isnt until the conversation actually occurs that I realize Ive dreamt this before, and I can recall what will happen next, be it some movement or lines of dialouge before they actually take place. Perhaps its neither Deja Vu nor Premonition and something else entirely. But this is something that happens to me maybe a few times a year.
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Well, it is how I've known Deja Vu and it seems to fit the definition. It's a feeling of familiarity about a situation, not a knowledge of a familiar situation.

If you don't recall the dream at all, until the event happens, how do you know you had that dream in the first place? Could it simply be your mind trying to rationalize the strong feeling of familiarity? Thinking you must have dreamed it before for it to feel so familiar? I sometimes feel that way after experiencing deja vu.

Either that or they changed something...
 
#91
We are surrounded by coincidence, anytime, anywhere. But we tend to notice the weird ones more.

Like what's the probability of having a post ending by "ami" followed by another post starting with "We" ? It's just too banal for us to notice, but it might be staticaly (sp?) just as rare as getting hit by lightning while listening to ac/dc's thunderstruck.
 
#92
Relic said:
Isn't the spelling: "deja vous"?

I...I just have the feeling as though I've mentioned that before...
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I've been wondering the same, I knew I was spelling it wrong, but looked it up on my phone and got more than one spelling.

At that point I just gave up and let my spell correct deal with it. It wants to write it as De Javu so why fight it.

I mean in all actuality, we are all speaking English. So to cram a term in a foreign language into the middle of a sentence written in English is kinda improper in itself. No?

Shouldn't we just say the the actual translation in our own native language? (Already seen)?
I don't know now I'm hurting my head, it's too early still and I haven't had lunch yet. My brain is not running full strength until 5pm.
 

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