The Recreational Drug Thread (member, quote, memory, 2005, hands)

[Thrice]

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

Thrice:

I sorta know what you're talking about with the deja vu feeling as I've had that a lot, if we're talking about the same thing. Typically I would get it heavy before all out ego-death, regardless of the trip being good or bad.
I've analyzed it and the most logical conclusion I've come up with that's supported by known effects of psychedelics is that the deja vu feeling is repressed or forgotten memories surfacing or trying to.
Psychedelics tend to do that whether you're aware of it or not, and it's possible that the deja vu feeling is a function of that process. I doubt there's any way to really prove it, but it's the assumption I've made that makes the most sense to me.

I wouldn't think too much into it. Psychedelics have a way of making things seem more important than they really are and I don't think there's anything spiritual or significant about a chemical interacting with synapses and receptors in your brain... but it sure does feel like it at the time.
Best thing is to just enjoy it and not try to out-think it.

Yeah man, I get the deja vu thing alot as well, as well as feeling that something is meant to be. I would say this has happened 3 times of approx. fifty or so trips. The difference between the usual odd happenings, was this seemed to be a series of events of deja vu, as if something would occur, then I would envision myself doing what I was actually going to do next, then when I did it, it was the exact same, then it would happen 30 seconds later for about 2 minutes until a definite ending filled with either a positive or neg outcome. That still did not trigger me to bring up this idea. It was how everything was concluded that truly freaks me out. I felt as if following this certain path that I could foresee, and was leading to certain doom, although I was unaware of the outcome, until it came. This last time, I recognized the ssituation as being similar to times before and went in a different direction and had a much greater outcome. I think I am reading into this too much, and I shall let it rest for now, but the next time it happens, I will stray from the path once again, and hope to find happiness.