"I have been here"

[pirwany]

When I went to Canada in 1975 I felt that I had been there in a previous life. I found myself walking around and finding places without the help of a map. Can someone explain that please?

[sqad617]

Have you had the feeling that you have been on Answerbank before and that nobody answered your post?

[chinadog]

Its possible you lived there in a former life pirwany. Thats if you believe in reincarnation as I do.

[redwellies]

Perhaps the town was well or conventionally set out, the scenery familiar enough for you to feel comfortable, or you'd heard a lot about the place. There are convincing and interesting medical explanations for that been-there-before feeling. Weird feeling though, however reasonable its occurance.

[sn�gs]

''When I went to Canada in 1975''

I look forward to hearing where you went this year...

In 2044 ;-)

[MWB]

You would have looked at maps & pictures of Canada at some stage before going there. Perhaps without remembering doing so.
There's nothing unusual or "otherworldly" about this.

[4getmenot]

Signposts?

[Schutzengel]

The name for the sensation is Deja Vu, but there doesn't appear to be any particular reason for it happening, it just does.

[coccinelle]

That happened to me when I was a kid. I was with the family on a going down memory lane for my grandma's 60th birthday. We went into a town she'd lived in but was well away from where we lived and everybody knew I'd never been there. When we got out of the mini-bus I could tell them where things were. It wasn't from another life cos a lot of the things were modern and my grandmother had lived there years before so couldn't have mentioned these modern things. It's really weird. My Mum couldn't get over it!