I became an adult before I understood what deja vu means and it gave me an explanation for many of the things I experienced even when I was a kid. To my best understanding, Deja vu is a situation when you feel like you have experienced what's happening but in the real sense, you haven't.
I had several Deja vu experiences when I was a kid and it disturbed me a lot trying to figure out if I have truly been there or done that thing before. I didn't understand anything and I sometimes feel like a superhero who has seen things even before they happened.
I remembered telling my mom that the voices she was hearing one midnight like that at the back of our window were that of thieves and she didn't believe until she heard them saying they have gotten to the destination.
It was a messy night and in the morning, she asked me how I knew it and I told her, the event looks like it happened before.
In some cases, it was a dream but the playful me barely remembers anything when I wake up so when it's happening, it starts occurring to me like I have seen that thing or been through that situation before.
My family is blessed with the gift of dreaming, we dream a lot. I think we inherited it from my mom because she dreams a lot and among her children, I dream the most; both relevant and irrelevant dreams. Back then I barely remember my dreams and whenever I did, I usually write them down so as not to forget them.
My most recent Deja vu happened at my place and it almost caused a big issue between me and my neighbour.
That day was a Saturday morning, I woke up around 5 am and decided to go to the farm. My mom came out immediately I opened the sitting room door, and she said I should wait till daybreak before going out.
The conversation felt like something that happened before but it definitely didn't. I returned to my room and waited till around 7 am.
Immediately I opened the compound gate later, some men approached me.
As they walked to me, I felt this chill like I was there before. I tried picking up the pieces from where mom warned me not to go out yet to the men outside.
I have seen them but can't tell where or when. They asked if I stayed in the house and I said yes, they requested that I opened the gate and at that point, I started recollecting what seems to be a memory that I don't think belongs to me.
It looks like I had a dream but I can't remember everything clearly. Immediately they told me to open the gate, I remembered resisting in the dream and being shot but in reality they didn't have a gun on them.
I politely asked who they came to see and it turned out to be my neighbor. I told them I wasn't sure if he was at home so they should just call him.
I left for the farm and was glad everything I was remembering didn't happen. I stayed long at the farm and to my surprise, I met these men still waiting in their vehicle outside the compound when I returned. Their approach was different this time, they alighted from the vehicle with guns and my heart started beating so fast.
I usually don't go out with my phone in the morning so there was no how I could reach my family.
They said I should let them in and I immediately asked them to call again, one of them asked what my relationship was with the man because it seems I was trying to protect him. He was already accusing me of things I didn't do so I opened the gate knowing that I was going to regret it.
They spread themselves into the compound and asked me to lead two of them to his flat. I just pointed to the flat and the next I heard was that they were chasing my neighbor who already jumped to the ground through the balcony.
He was apprehended and it was then I realized they were police officers because they weren't in uniform.
One of them said, he would have shown me pepper if my neighbor had escaped and they will come back for me if they get to know that I was his accomplice.
I stood in the center of the drama trying to put the pictures together. It felt like it happened just exactly and the only difference was that they shot my leg before going into the compound. My neighbor was charged with fraud and after the case was settled, he returned home to quarrel with me for allowing armed men into the compound.
If not for the feeling that the event looks familiar, I could have continued to resist them but the fear of getting shot made me scared. It could have been a warning or just another silly case of deja vu but I am glad I wasn't harmed.