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Sixth sense?
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Has anyone had the experience where you have to go somewhere that you've never been before yet without looking at a map or asking directions you know exactly how to get there? What's that all about?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Not had that exactly, but have driven past places and knew that I'd been there before, in a dream. It happened last month when driving down a road I know I've never driven down before (this was in a part of Yorkshire I'd never been to before) when we passed a pub and I knew that I'd dreamt about it about a month before.
Scientists reckon this has no relation to reality, but is simply the electrical impulses in the brain "tripping up" (jumping the synapse) and landing a bit further along the route than they should. This gives the feeling of experiencing something before, which of course, has not happened in reality.