Déjà vu and free will

[Anatta11:11]

i’ve often had flashes of insight about future moments in my life, snapshots and short “videos” of events to occur. during those visions i often find that in the future i remember that i had seen this happening before. what’s lacking in these experiences is any choice, it seems once i enter this state of recall, the unfolding of events is predestined. i can’t change what happens even though i know what’s coming next. it’s almost like i’m standing outside of my experience of these moments viewing them from a place of unquestioned memory (instead of the unfolding and unpredictable present).

it’s almost like i jump into a part of me that’s already experienced all this, and is just remembering what’s already happened. like my life is one long memory, but most of the time i’m lost in the memory so deeply that i forget it’s already occurred and my free will (although real at one time) has already been decided.

has anyone else experienced this sensation, or have any thoughts?

[kilork]

i have experienced similar 'memories/deja vu'. it was as you describe for most of my life. i have recently learned to use these moments to radically alter the results of a given situation and am now finding that there is sometimes an ability to meditate on an event and 'watch' he possible outcomes unfold. it has been interesting to play with, much insight is gained.

[Anatta11:11]

i have experienced similar 'memories/deja vu'. it was as you describe for most of my life. i have recently learned to use these moments to radically alter the results of a given situation and am now finding that there is sometimes an ability to meditate on an event and 'watch' he possible outcomes unfold. it has been interesting to play with, much insight is gained.

when you say meditate on an event,what is the object of your focus? do you picture the event, tell the story of the event? eyes open, closed? any breath / energy focus?

[dazcox]

for me it's helpful to remember that time only really exists for us in this physical manifestation.

i am convinced that there is a life after this one and since that life is not material it wouldn't be subject to linear time so the idea of a 'future self' looking out for you like david talks about makes total sense to me.

i think that deja-vu is a connection between the meat you and the spirit you that exists outside of time and when it happens it's a certain point that means something.

free will allows you to make a choice but the key is to make a choice then, so if you've been putting a decision off and then get deja-vu perhaps that is the time to get off the fence.