The weirdest deja vu, or premonition maybe? that I ever experienced, was as a teenager. Sitting at home alone in the living room, drawing. A friend, Ryan, was over earlier, and forgot his hat. His mother's van pulls up in the driveway, Ryan get's out, comes to the door. Tells me he forgot his hat, can he go down stairs and get it. I said sure, let him run down stairs, and sat back down to draw. After a few minutes, I noticed the van was gone, but I didn't see Ryan leave. So I went to the top of the stairs, called down to him. Nothing, no answer. So I go down into the basement. No one there. Okay, figured he left, and I didn't notice. Whatever. So, back to drawing. A few moments later, Ryan's mother's van pulls into the driveway, and Ryan comes to the door. He tells me he forgot his hat, and asked if he could go down stairs and get it. I was a little stunned, and asked if he wasn't just there a not long ago. He tells me no. I let him go get his hat, this time went with him, and tell him about what just happened. What the fuck? That experience is burned in my brain. It was the first time anything like that happened, and nothing like it has happened since.

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” -Nikola Tesla

Trace, I simply refuse to ignore your fabulous face.

Refusal to study something you don't understand is basically openly admitting you are ignorant and do not care about understanding things. We understand so very little of our reality, anyone who tells you otherwise is not doing so based on facts, logic, or reason. It should be our job as humans, scientist, and inhabitants of this universe to specifically seek out that which we do not understand and study it, even if fruitlessly. If we do no study the unknown, how do we expect to discover it?

I don't think we can dismiss deja vu at all. It's quite the amazing experience. I've had Deja Vu where I actually remember the words people are about to say or a topic somebody will bring up. Say I'm talking to a person and suddenly I feel deja vu, in my mind I'm recalling this conversation and in my head I'm predicting what the person is going to say word-for-word perfectly... Lucky guess? Maybe. However this has happened many times. I don't think it could be anything as simple as a misfiring neuron or some mental illness, especially when I'm correctly predicting words/topics. I've even had dreams where I was watching movies that haven't even been released and I find myself predicting the next scene accurately when I finally do watch.

He was right, this channel doesn't answer our question, it just leaves us with more questions

@5:38 "Some argue that it's just called Coachella" LOL THE SHADEEEE

If science wasn't limited by money I'm sure we would already have a long going research on these things...

What about consciousness? Do they really know what it is? how can you build one? how many neurons do you need to create a consiousness?? Does anybody know that?

I think the dancing plague was the discovery of ecstasy, lol.

Life may not be real. We are actually all cats wearing frog hats.

I've always been more interested in jamais vu, when you walk into a place you've been in hundreds of times and yet feel like you've never been there before in your life.

Damn it, I need the scientists to prove ghosts exists, I know I'm not crazy. Well, maybe a little.

Hey Trace, awesome show. Very interesting topics and your unique analysis and wit is really good. New subscriber. Rock on

I seriously love this channel!!

love these videos man

I think deja vu is related to whatever makes someone else start humming a song you were thinking of. Something to do with frequencies we detect and aren't aware of that connect us Or that memory being stored immediately and remembered immediately. or both.

Love how Trace basically translated the scientists "we have no idea what's happening, but here's a cool part of the brain that makes me sound smart"! Trace is awesome!

Anywhere to find that TED talk that was mentioned toward the end? or did it ever go public?

This was pretty interesting. Great episode.

It's absolutely necessary for us to study the paranormal! Over man's entire history, he has been met with things that at first seemed "paranormal" or seemed like "magic". It was only when man put on his "thinking cap", that we began to pick things apart, delving into the realm of the unknown, in a bid to understand all of the incredible processes around him. Can u imagine giving Neanderthals one of our smartphones, or one of those INCREDIBLE massage chairs you'd be willing to refinance your house for? Neanderthals wouldn't have been capable of comprehending what they were looking at, let alone what it did or how to use it. And to us, they're such an integral and interwoven part of our daily lives, that we can't go back now. Point being, our phones would've appeared magical or paranormal to them. A final note, one of my most favorite quotes relating to all things paranormal is: "The absence of evidence, is not evidence of absence"

There is nothing that is undeserving of study.

Its never a true party until someone dies, or at least collapses from exhaustion...

my subscription has become successful, enjoyable video like always!

You are the most logical and open minded person I have ever seen . The way you admit that science cannot understand each and everything and that it requires controlled conditions to work is so considerate of you.

i love you this video is the best top # video out there. chock full of actual informative information!

Ive saw Loch Ness... just never saw any monster :) ... Great channel by the way, loving it :)

Very nice podcast, it's very useful for who is studying english

I actually have a friend who is a university mathematician studying metaphysics and the nature of the existence of things beyond what is generally scientifically accepted. Those fields seem almost unreconcilable to hear them spoken on alongside the other, and yet he feels he can definitively prove that the things about which we spend time debating the very existence of are in fact as real, if not more so, than our very flesh and blood. So it's a very interesting topic to me.

First of all, this is definitely in my top five series you guys have done just because it's so clever, skirting the razor edge of the boundaries of science to peek at what else is out there through a scientific lens. Well done. That being said, I think what's important to remember here is that science is a tool, and while it's an extremely powerful tool, a chainsaw works great as a chainsaw but not so great as a clamp. The objective world -- which is what science focuses on by definition -- is arguably the *primary* aspect of reality, but it's an extreme oversimplification to say that it's the only thing that makes up human experience. For example, what purely objective motivation do we have to do science? Because things will get better? We're just one of an incomprehensible number of tiny dots in a vast expanse of nothingness with no clear purpose. What *is* "better" in an objective sense? Global warming? Nuclear fallout? It doesn't matter if you believe that there isn't anything "else" out there independent of matter and the universe as we know it interacting with us. The "secondary" subjective experiences may or may not be based purely in hard matter, no pun intended but it doesn't *matter* because they're just as important to *us* as the things we can all agree are the same, and in a sense we *make* them real.

My guy gave the best description of bigfoot ever Keep goin dud love ya vids

Buzzfeed Blue does a great segment on unexplained phenomena or "ghost stories" that are pretty persuasive for the paranormal to an extent

1880: We will have flying trains in the future! 2016: Déjá vu

Why is there only one of your podcasts in Google Music's library, though??

I really liked your video and the topics are really interesting... i found myself speeding the video up but that's just me...i would love to see you use the space behind yourself to show some illustrations or pictures of the topics your discussing i'm easily distracted...i genially think if you done that you could land yourself on mainstream TV if you chose to.

is it available on some other audio app?

love the series trace keep it up! can we maybe have a series on our moon?

Can you do a series about the maker movement and DIY and makerspaces and people with hobbies? I'm part of a makerspace called Fubarlabs and I would be glad to help and give information for the series.

Like it, your videos! Maybe some more graf, animation?

I yawned when he mentioned yawning.

love how trace said "aliens" while making the hand gestures XD

I think a deja Vu is just a brain error, where what you see and hear is directly written into memory, so you think this exact thing happened while it just gets written. This is the most logical explanation that I just came up with.

I really love this new layout, but I think it would be cool if there were some pictures

Its true about the placebo effect. Ive stopped smoking a few while back. But whenever i feel stressed or full of anxiety. I close my eyes, breath in a pattern of smoking and i instantly feel calm as what people who smoke feel.

I only remember a few experiences of esp like things. I recall being able to tell if a friend of mine was emotionally stressed, who lived over two thousand miles away. I had gone a few weeks of little contact because she was busy with drama class. I called her and she was ether sick or quite sad. Of course I attribute this to my faith, with the spirit and all that. (I'm one of those Mormon boys) The other time in middle school, was a dream I had of math class, taking down notes. The school i was going to at the time had a block schedule, so odd period classes one day, even on the other. So I come into class, and I realize I had already learned it, with a deja vu feel to it. I was going to ask if we had already learned it yesterday, but I remembered the schedule, and tried to think back to what i had done before first learning it, but I had no memory of even entering the class in that memory.

I feel like many paranormal phenomenon are actually within the realm of science, but at a level that we do not understand yet. I mean have you ever been talking to a friend or family member and you think the same thing or say the same thing. Or have you ever just knew a family member was in trouble? I think all of it is explainable, with the right amount of legitimate research, and the advancement of technology.

On the Voynich Manuscript, check it here: beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/highlights/voynich-manuscript

my four year old nephews thought they could fool us adults by blaming a ghost for pooping on the floor.

Foremost, thank you for the great work you are doing here with these very informative episodes. I wish you all the best! I also want to ask about another part that we can't really explain. It relates to an experiment some Russian scientists did with ants. They found out that the Queen Ant communicated with her colony 200km away in a form of what they called "hyper-communication" - Do you know about this experiment? And what do you think about it? I think this is very critical to understanding the other sense/dimension that we are part of. I would really love your feedback on this. Thank you!

Great channel

It's happened to me to think about something, stop thinking about it for some seconds and when I think about it again it feels like deja vu. So I kinda agree with the hypothesis of it being a connection that goes broken (to a memory) and re-established so it feels like the first time the second time you experience but you think you kinda experienced it before (because you just did).

Paranormal, magic, supernatural, means not "strange" or "not understood", but "impossible".

I had Deja vu that I’d end this early and I did wow it is strange!

Hmm.. Every single time I have experienced Deja Vu, I immediately feel an overwhelming nausea in the pit of my stomach, like i'm physically about to be sick. So very interesting to hear the notion of it being linked to the neuronal chemical model for disgust.

It's crazy when you talk about IBS and the placebo pill, I feel IBS is affect by stress and for me it's something that happens overnight and it's the worst in the morning and fades throughout the day. So i'd guess it's deffinetly affecting the subconsious

There is a documentary on the Moai and they reconstructed how they made them and moved them. It would be awesome to think it was some great mystery and such, but they were able to move them by using ropes and rocking them back and forth... thus walking them to their spots. Took a while to do it, but they were able to do it fairly easily. Kinda took the magic out of it, but it's still pretty cool ;)

I did my extended project on the placebo effect! It's so interesting 😄

I've experienced de ja vu many times it used to drive me insane but now when it happens I try to embrace it for i usually go thru de Ja va for multiple hours

I was hoping you would mention Rupert sheldrake. I was very interested in what he had to say

I like the way you talk, didnt at the beginning, but you made me stay all the way to the end, a feat.

do a series on the science of attraction

i think its worth studying all things the pursuit of knowledge is a beautiful thing

Even Von "Hotelier" did concede that they can be walked by humans; the statutes.

It makes sense that ibs could be helped with placebos. The diseases is greatly influenced by emotions and is very inconsistent. Any small comfort can influence it's inconsistent symptoms. I had a job I hated and I would get sick every day before work. After calling in I would feel a little better.

Wi-Fi was made by aliens and Donald Trump is a orange alien.

I would love someone to explain an experience I had 43 years ago. While having a deja vu moment in class, my mind went forward and for a few minutes I clearly saw (as if looking at a re-run), what was about to happen. I told a class mate at the time what the teacher would do and everything occurred exactly as I fore saw. I soooo wish i could enter this state on demand.

The Science dillusion part with the banned ted talk has got me thinking

Déjà vu is a warning for the imminent seizure disorder.

this video feels so familiar

In the PLOS One IBS placebo study, the report says the placebo pills were administered with the description that even though they were placebo, they had been shown to help IBS symptoms in clinical studies. That claim would be enough to trigger the placebo affect. They should have administered the placebo with no indication that it would help. For a fair test, they should have just told them they were getting a placebo, and then defined what a placebo is, not what the placebo has been shown to do. I'll bet if you did the same test but described the placebo as having no measurable effect... they would have gotten a very different result. The power of suggestion is... powerful. Also would have been nice to see a slightly larger test group. The power of the mind should never be underestimated.

what was the name of that book, I'd like to look it up, I'm curious about it.

the irony that I yawned literally right before he said yawning...

I legit always get deja vu. Pretty crazy stuff, people will say or do something and it's like I've seen it before.

Great episode, but I kept getting distracted by the low rumble in the audio. Vibrations traveling through the mic. I guess.

The Easter Island Heads are actually 70 foot tall statues that weigh tons. They are being studied right now but don't know why they were partially buried.

I heard of these egyptian emerald tablets tht defied physics.Is this true?i cant find any info tht says so and there is very little coverage on this.

'Science can't even explain yawning' ... I yawned within seconds after hearing that

Trace, is there any scientific evidence for astral projections, or out of body experiences that people claim to have? Or any evidence that disproves them?

Dancing Plague. There is also an episode of that in Perú back in the 16 hundreds. They called it Taki Onqoy (quechua lenguaje), meaning illness of singing, or sick song, uncertain translation

People with epilepsy sometimes experience deja vu or jamais vu when they have simple partial seizures and right before a generalized seizure. I personally experience Jamais Vu quite frequently and it has been linked to epileptiform activity in my brain.

My brother sometimes dreams of what is going to happen the next day and only remembers he dreamed it when it happens

An interesting hypothesis for what the Moai may have meant is that they were chieftains or prominent figures, I can't recall all the details but I think its posited that they were some kind of memorial.

I have kinda chilling story to tell. I my self are somewhat sceptical of visions of the future, but i experienced it the last 2 years way to often. It always goes like this: I'm dreaming, but im not aware of it, because it just feels like normal day. I only realise its a dream like a second before i wake up. When this happens its like the whole world crashes in shards, my brain crushes in shards my very being crashes into shards. Kinda fast then my dorm reconstruct and I'm back in "reallife". And as I progress that day when this happens, I notice everything goes the same way like in my dreams except some really minor changes. So I tried experimenting with it. Everytime somewhat negative or something i didn't like happened I tried implementing some changes for the better outcome of the day, but boy don't mess with fate, like its so often stated 'time wants to happen'. Everythiong i tried to change seemed changed in the moment, but it came back at me everytime, sometimes 1 week later, a couple weeks later or a couple months later. In the End the situation would occur or in some cases even severer. It's like i was giving my self some preparation time, but i never prepared. My hardest experience with this was when i got stabbed in the spleen. 3Months prior to this event I had one of my vivid dreams and i was in that dream out with my friends. Much alcohol was involved and in the dream it was a pretty damn hillarious evening, well untill in my dream i got stabbed and almost died. Strangely enough i could remember almost everything except who stabbed me. The special thing aboput this dream was, that i had experienced my full stay in the hospital, interactions with my room mate and all that stuff, normally these dreams were only for the next day. So when i woke up i decided i did not want to suffer this gruesome fate, but i was a little bit curious wether anything of this dream would happen on that day. So i proceded with my day as planned and everything in my dream happenend, up untill the point where we as a group wanted to go out drinking. At this point i decided, fuck this shit im out, this can't be real. 'Fuck you fate i take the train home" i thought to myself, made up some lame excuse to my friends why i couldn't come with them. I went home and everything was alright, i was relieved beyond your immagination, but little did i know what would happen 3 months from then. In these 3 Months i declared my dreams as nonesense and that i was a fool to believe in some kind of precognition. Then 14. of July, my Bell rang. At this point i wasn't even thinking any more about my Dreams. I took up the telefone system to find out who it was. Well it was a buddy of mine with which i had some beef for a while. Through the system he sounded very reasonable and like he wanted to talk things through. Gullible as i am i just opened the door for him. At this point i should mention at this time there was another buddy of mine with me in my dorm. I live in the 5th floor so naturally it takes longer for someone to get up. I went to the toilett and told my buddy to wait at the door. As i was of the toilett i heard a scream. I immediately jumped up and sprinted to the door. This fucking maniac was tottally hooked on cocaine, and as my buddy had opned the door, he got a full barrage of pepperspray. Then he tried to attack me barehanded, but since im trained in martial arts I had him pinned to the ground very fast. Im an overall very peacefull person and despise violence in almost every way. So when i had him pinned down I was asking "Dude what is wrong with, come the fuck down man" i shook him as i noticed a scrathing on my side. "This pussy really is scratching me?" i was laughing to myself. With all the adrenaline Pumping through my body at this moment i didn't even notice that this wasn't hisnails, but a knive he pulled out without me noticing it. So i shook him a last time "now calm finnally down" and he did. At first i thought, did it i clamed him down. So i stand up from above him and he stand up. I was noticing nothing at the moment. he began "Sorry" with tears in his eyes. I woundered what the hell what is he meaning. Then i could get a glimpse of the knife that he had held in his right hand, from which blood was dripping. He said again "Sorry" and looked at my left side. Well fuck now i noticed it myself, but still didn't feel any pain. Probably because of the adrenaline. So there is stood in my dorm with a punctured spleen. Out of instinct i grabbed a pillow and started putting pressure on the wound, because i saw this all the time in tv. Doesn#t help much when you are bleeding from inside, i can say in retroperspective, but maybe this really saved me. From their on everything went really really fast. My head was in this weird everything is utterly hillarious mode. As i was walking down the staircase to get to the elevator made jokes like "hahaha look this stupid idiot can't even stab me right, i told him for several months he should buy a new knife the blade is too short." Good he didn't listen to my advice back then. It wasn't like i was not aware of the severity of the wound, well in fact i was very aware of that I would probably die on the way to the hospital, due to the waiting time. But i wanted to die with dignity and a smile on my face. It is pretty common when people get stabbed in the spleen that they won't make it long. Iam a very happy one. As i woke up in the hospital, for the first time reallife shattered into shards and i could see right in front of mehow this shards of existence were forming back together, and hence begin the dream that i had 3months prior. I landed on the room as in my dream, with the same guy as in my dream as my roommate. Every conversation we had, i rembered in between that we had this conversation. everyperson that was at this time in the hospitas had also been in my dream. And one of the weirdest things of all was that my roommate was the 2. time in the hospital this year. The first time he was there was in the same exact room, but only with one bed empty. And guess when he was in the hospital the first time. On the exact same date as i had previously dreamed of. Time wants to happen. This kind of "precognition" that i have is no gift. It is more like torture. It gives me the feeling that i have 0 controll about what happens in my life. And this had lead me to qustion life, because this was gioing against everything i believed in. I was never religious, i always believed facts. Not some hokus pokus crap. I was a very pure realist. But now since i have these dreams i don't even know whats real anymore. Atleast i have become very open to fringe-science now. well thats a short story.

Perhaps our brain performs operations at the quantum level that has yet to be uncovered.

i really like your use of common sense and not leaving info out whether its good or bad for today standard, tough i would wish you used some pictures at least to illustrate what your are saying but besides that very entertaining anyway!

Would like to say there's been progress on the Voynich Manuscript! I recall seeing that it is related to old Turkish or something of that nature and that they've managed to translate a page or two.

love how you immediately moved on from the cochella joke

I always thought that deja vu was when your brain mistakenly wrote the experience to your long term and short term memory banks at the same time.

Everything is worth studying. It's up to the researcher to keep pushing the boundary of the unknown as far as it can go, and then figure out how to go a little bit further.

do an episode on meditation and effect to the human brain and mind

I'm a devout atheist but I believe ESP is possible this way, emotional ESP, animals know when you're frightened, I live in the woods, they also know when you're not, they seem to also know when you're happy, and possibly whales have visited me because I was eager to see them, a personal accidental study, maybe ten out of thirteen attempts, they came! Best sightings ever!

Moai "heads" actually have bodies. One easy technique to make them move is with ropes, they attached the rope around the shoulders of the statue and by pulling on each sides, at an interval, they could make the statue "walk".

You should do a episode on split personality disorders and how one personality can be diabetic and need insulin but another personality and be fine and without diabetes and loves painting and be an exceptional artist then have another personality that is odc or thinks they're a child and all of those personalities has its own traits and health issues but no personality has overlapping health issues or the same knowledge in different areas kind of like the movie split

Usually when you take in information it goes into your short term memory and your brain considers it something you are experiencing in that moment. If the brain deems it important enough it then sends the information to your long term memory for storage. When you experience deja vu your brain misfires and bypasses short term memory and goes straight into long term memory. Since you process it first from long term memory your brain sees it as a past memory instead of something you are experiencing in that moment. So basically it's your brain working backwards sending information from long term to short term memory instead of the other way around.

It sounds strange but it really is important to understand the vast domain of paranormal dimension. This would open the material mind to realize the existence of the spiritual reality.

Could Deja Vu be the effect of gravitational wave ripples in spacetime?

Can you answer in sometimes, I remember trpile or even quadruple dejavus. Double dejavu means that this happenned before and I thought it was dejavu. This is strange.

There is something to understand a "paranormal" phenomenon: most of the time, it relies on some form of "cheating": guessing something using clues you're not supposed to have, relying on people's reaction to know what they are thinking (cold reading and mentalism), using a clever trick (that's the job of magicians), etc. For example the Loch Ness monster and big foot are human creations: people have admitted creating them, but that did not stop the believers. It is also possible to trace back the story of the UFO's and the guy that made the first "photos" of UFO's using pots and pans. So of course, don't dismiss too quickly claims that contradict your beliefs, but in the explanations, don't forget to consider the social elements: humans fabricate stories and there is business in deceiving other people, or even ourselves.

I have deja vu associated with my partial seizures originating from the temporal lobe... My neurologist said that the most accepted cause is a miscommunication between the hypocampus and temporal lobe, one region recognising something of the situation and the other region not recognising that same thing.

Actually, when I have Deja Vu I just don't find it familiar, I actually REMEMBER it. When I was 6 I had a dream about something. then I started writing about it and telling my parents about it and then 10 minutes later it ACTUALLY happened? Is this Deja Vu?