Deja Vu

It happened again yesterday. It is not the first time that this road sign has appeared to let me know I am on the right track. 

The first one I remember was nearly 20 years ago while living in Kansas. 

It was a hot summer day and I was on the roof of a house replacing some shingles. I was looking out over the rolling hillsides, the grass was green and the air was thick with humidity. I was wishing I were someplace else and wondering if I had made the right choices that had brought me to this place.

Whoosh ... just like that! I had a feeling sweep over me that was like a distant memory. I was reminded of a dream that had occurred many years ago. I saw this 

scene laid out in my dream, and now, right before my eyes, here it was again in the reality of daylight!

Deja Vu.

Deja Vu  “is the feeling of certainty that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation, even though the exact circumstances of the prior encounter are unclear and were perhaps imagined. The term was coined by a French psychic researcher, Émile Boirac (1851–1917) in his book L'Avenir des sciences psychiques ("The Future of Psychic Sciences"), which expanded upon an essay he wrote while an undergraduate. The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eeriness", "strangeness", "weirdness", or what Sigmund Freud calls "the uncanny". The "previous" experience is most frequently attributed to a dream, although in some cases there is a firm sense that the experience has genuinely happened in the past.”

This quote from Wikipedia gives a good definition.

This experience has happened many times in my life and always at an unanticipated moment.

Maybe to give me a sense of being on the right road, or an attaboy from the universe.

What ever, it got my attention yesterday as I was out in the garden moving tons of dirt from one place to another. There it was, right there in front of me. 

A vision of a dream or memory ... the feeling was unmistakable. That Whoosh that swept over me and then that feeling. That unmistakable feeling that I was in the right place at the right time, getting an attaboy from the universe.

I stopped and gave pause for the connection and then got my wheel borrow and continued on ...