Has it ever been explained? I'm particularly referring to the ones where you're sleeping, see yourself in a certain situation with certain people and there is verbal conversation. A few weeks later, you're in the exact same spot, and the conversation very much follows the same path, eventually ending with those exact same words you 'heard' in your dream being uttered and you think "What the ****?"

Has this particular phenomenon ever been explained?

This was on the main page of the site a few days ago.


Submitted by Pendekar Timur: The brain cranks out memories near its center, in a looped wishbone of tissue called the hippocampus. But a new study suggests only a small chunk of it, called the dentate gyrus, is responsible for “episodic” memories—information that allows us to tell similar places and situations apart.The finding helps explain where déjà vu originates in the brain, and why it happens more frequently with increasing age and with brain-disease patients, said MIT neuroscientist Susumu Tonegawa. The study is detailed today in the online version of the journal Science.Like a computer logging its programs’ activities, the dentate gyrus notes a situation’s pattern—it’s visual, audio, smell, time and other cues for the body’s future reference. So what happens when its abilities are jammed?When Tonegawa and his team bred mice without a fully-functional dentate gyrus, the rodents struggled to tell the difference between two similar but different situations. “These animals normally have a distinct ability to distinguish between situations,” Tonegawa said, like humans. “But without the dentate gyrus they were very mixed up.”

Déjà vu is a memory problem, Tonegawa explained, occurring when our brains struggle to tell the difference between two extremely similar situations. As people age, Tonegawa said déjà-vu-like confusion happens more often—and it also happens in people suffering from brain diseases like Alzheimer’s. “It’s not surprising,” he said, “when you consider the fact that there’s a loss of or damage to cells in the dentate gyrus.”
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That's all fine and dandy and whatnot, but when you have dreams that later predict something and you have Deja Vu. how does a defect in the memory explain that? I believe there is more to it sometimes, I dunno. Here's a cool little site about it too, check it out , hopefully it'll give you more knowledge of it all.

http://www.jamesmdeem.com/timepage.htm

Hope I did something helpful for you.


Cheers,

Gene

Cheers.

I guess in some ways it does go towards explaining it - the situation I find myself in is not uncommon (e.g., a classroom conversation, out with my friends having a coffee or something), so it is possible that all it basically is is that I'm having trouble differentiating from a very generic dream, but then sometimes the words my friends have uttered are not something I expect to hear daily, and that's usually what spooks me out. The words are often followed by the exact same reaction as I had in the dream.

Crazy.

JJO