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[Polarlight]

Hey there. I'm new here and my name is michelle. I'm in anxiety right now ambut still able to control it. Just wanna know, sometimes i got the feeling like i've already felt the feeling i was feeling. Maybe this sound complicated but i hope anyone can understand me. Is that even normal? Is that one of the symptom for people having anxiety problem? Sorry for bad grammar. :)

[gypsylee]

Hi Michelle :)

I think I know what you mean. I can't explain it either but it's a weird feeling and not very nice. It probably is caused by anxiety because that does all kinds of strange things!

Anyway welcome to the forum.
Gypsy

[Polarlight]

Thanks gipsy. :) Really appreciate it.:D

[gypsylee]

You're welcome :)

I hope you like it here. It's very helpful to read other people's experiences because anxiety likes to make you think you're alone. There are so many people who have it though!

Bye for now.

[Ryker]

It's that déjà vu, all over again...

It's a really common feeling. About 60% of people get it. As a rule it decreases in frequency with age.

You can google for some fascinating reading on it.

From memory the most common explanation is your brain doing two jobs in parallel and them becoming out of sync generating a false memory. You have to know that virtually everything you perceive is assembled for you by your brain in order to help that new conscious bit on top make sense of things.

If there's just one thing to learn in life it's the fact that you can't trust your senses or your perception.

Here's a quick example: hit a tennis ball with a tennis racquet and the sensations of vibration in your hand, the sound of ball on racquet and sight of ball hitting the strings all 'line up', even though the sensations hit your brain at different times.

Your brain also calculates things at different rates. Our ancestors' lives would have depended on very quickly deciding whether someone you meet is friend or foe. This comes out as good feeling vs bad feeling.

You also have to decide how to greet this person, what to say etc. the 'feeling' was calculated so long ago in brain terms it becomes both a memory, and an observation. We call it déjà vu - that sensation of having been there before, experienced that before , etc.

It's fun and interesting, but nothing to worry about.

R.

[Rube Goldberg]

Is that even normal?

It's totally normal. I experience it when I'm really "deep" into an anxiety episode. I think it's a deja vu...just as Ryker was saying. My brain recognizes that I'm feeling the same way that I was feeling however long ago and decides that I'm experiencing a living a memory of one of the previous episodes. Feels awful.

Feel better, Michelle!

[zexton]

I just became a member and it already is helpful to me :)

[Polarlight]

It's totally normal. I experience it when I'm really "deep" into an anxiety episode. I think it's a deja vu...just as Ryker was saying. My brain recognizes that I'm feeling the same way that I was feeling however long ago and decides that I'm experiencing a living a memory of one of the previous episodes. Feels awful.

Feel better, Michelle!

Thank you for your support! :')

[Polarlight]

I just became a member and it already is helpful to me :)

Same here!