Sounds like deja-vu - when something goes straight into the long-term memory bypassing the short-term
giving you the feeling that you've "experienced it before".
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 19 Sep 2012, 16:00, 1 reply)

Could well be. All I know is, i knew what that room would look like as soon as I touched the handle and before I opened it. Even down to it being a small wooden chair.

The only thing I didn't get was the slight floral print on the wallpaper but the general colour was the same.

More a freaked me out story than a ghost one I guess. Mainly because I didn't have time to type out the big ghost story!
(fivetide, Wed 19 Sep 2012, 16:34, closed)

That's the thing with deja vu. Because of how it affects your memory, you remember knowing what the room was like before you touched the handle, because your brain rewrote your memory of waiting to touch the handle after you'd gone into the room.

Edit: it's still super-creepy though and I gave you a clicky.
( Scrumper, Wed 19 Sep 2012, 18:28, closed)

I thought it happened
When they change something.
(Figmaus, Wed 19 Sep 2012, 19:21, closed)