What Is Déjà Vu and Why Does It Happen?

What is déjà vu? Why do we sometimes feel like the same moment has happened before? Rupert gives us a hint of what may be taking place in déjà vu through exploring our fundamental belief in time and space.

The first step is to question whether you ever experienced a past or future. We have the concept of time, but time is never actually experienced. That is, we can not visit the past or future. Therefore, could time be different from what we think it is?

Our experience is always now. The now is not moving along a line of time. It is always now. Because in order to experience the line of time we would have to experience a past or future. So the now is not a moment in time – it is eternity. The now is not in time.

Could it be that our model of time is simply our limited mind's point of view of eternity? Could it be that time is what eternity looks like when refracted through the prism of each of our finite minds? Thus, what appears to take place in the horizontal dimension of time, actually takes place in the vertical dimension of being.

If we take the example of a novel – the story of a person's life that takes place over the time period of 100 years. Even though the whole novel is available in its entirety now, you can not access it all in the moment – you have to read it page by page over a period of time. And if each page were slightly transparent, could it be that some of the content from Page 14 in the novel filters through when you are reading Page 73 and you read it again?

Déjà vu is not something you can think about with the mind because the mind imposes its own limit on everything it thinks about. Essentially, there is no past for something to have already happened in.

Timestamps:

00:00 What Is Déjà Vu?
01:15 Does Time Really Exist?
01:53 The Now
02:39 The Vertical Dimension of Being
04:12 Déjà Vu and Intuition
05:38 Eternity and The Eternal Now
06:37 Is Everything In Life Pre-Written?
08:58 The False Belief In Time and Space

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[coachkathifrank]

I was not aware of Rupert as a teacher until I enrolled in another teacher's group. This person is amazing. I have great respect for her. She listed a meditation with Rupert as additional YouTube teachings. I LOVE how he stays with the question...answering as many times as necessary...until the mystery is dissolved. The mystery this session helped me understand the concept of space and time in a way to make sense to me. I am opening myself to myself with every single video I watch. Thanks.

[dennispena]

My experience of deja vu usually has a dream quality to it. When it happens my mental reaction is usually "I dreamed this before and it's happening now." I usually stop what I'm doing and try to recall more of what happened in the dream, and the bits and pieces I can recall I realize has never happened before, and remains a dream.
But I have had the opposite where I remember a dream and can't figure out what it means then it comes true months later.

[kispumel]

I had "dejavu" hundreds of times. And I have 3 or 4 really weird ones, which I cant process or explain: not only I had the exact deep knowing that this exact scenario (while happening I got the experience of knowing) already happened with me, but meanwhile I had the thought: "in 5 second he gonna raise his hand and tell me exactly the line X". Sure enough it happened. Now, whats that?

[MM-uvkb]

Thank you Rupert. You've put words onto how I experience ' time'. Wonderful analogy.

[rviswanathan]

04:32 Very novel analogy to explain Deja Vu. Interesting

[ivanvincent]

Deja vu typically is an experience in the waking state that has previously been experienced in the dream state. It is not the sense of reliving a past event.. it is a sense that in the dream state one can experience the waking states future. That’s the awe that accompanies the experience.

[anandakumarsanthinathan]

Very beautifully explained, Rupert. I tend to think of time as 'linear' and I guess that is one of the fundamental problems of the mind.

[jorgetfreitas]

In the "novel" of my life, I experienced several déjà vu, but the biggest déjà vu I felt was when I heard Rupert for the first time, at that moment I was sure that I already knew his personality and his teachings, and finally I had found what I was looking for all my life.
Thank you friend, brother, master Rupert for pointing out my true nature and for increasing my understanding.

[roxana]

Wow very nice answer. Thank you so much dear Rupert

[AG-yxip]

Rupert’s teachings are so beautiful. His style is flawless.

[susanafernandes]

I am falling in love with this man ! Thank you Rupert 🌷🌷

[electron]

Deja Vu for me is when it occurs all of a sudden unexpectedly, and at that very moment, I want to explain what I'm experiencing to others, but yet it happens so fast that it I don't have enough time to even explain it to anyone around me.

And even if I tried to explain it, it's like no one will understand me either way and they'll simply think I'm crazy. I used have them quite often when I was very young, but it's been more than 10 years since I've had one.

[darkskinwoman]

The best definition of deja vu is still a glitch in the matrix... this made sense too!

[DHTHORNE]

Is this dude watching my live streams? Lol. Seriously though, I've used the novel analogy for years! Well done rupert. I love when other people confirm what I discovered by discovering it themselves independently. Thank you for this video Rupert!

To help with free will. Realize what happens is prewritten but what we see is written by us and our timeline is a result of the divine discovering it like a choose your own adventure. It can see any other story it has written.

It's always divine will. Egos sense of choice and free will is a shadow of true freedom. Which the divine is... free.

[leoniekhoury]

yes, great explanation. It resonates so true!

[ericshaw]

It always amazes how complicated the mind wishes to make things. Be comfortable not knowing, something the ego finds hard to do ?

[itsbilly]

Rupert handling these kids old school, Awesome

[Self-Duality]

Déjà Vu is so interesting and useful when it is both respected and honed 😌💭💖⭐️🎄

[dazlemwithlovelight]

If I may add to Rupert's wonderful novel example. Is it possible that seeming deja vu is a sign of your recognition of your deeper, truer etc (use own label here) self ? As in you being the totality of existence and non existence are experiencing this moment in it's real sense, that deeply that it seems as though you have been here before. Your so familiar with who you are that of course you recognize yourself as this, whatever this is. Thank you for your sharing. Cheers from down under.

[cdcvimf]

It's like my safety switch has flipped - my mind can't quite complete the circuit because I think in terms of time and space. The dualistic logic that my mind is trying to apply during one of these experiences is subverted by the reality of my existence, and my mind, because there is no such thing as time and space. The experience can be very unsettling, especially when it happens frequently, but as always, Rupert's explanation helps to produce calm (and yes, his words are part of one of my so-called dejavu moments. HA HA!).