4 of 20

Write now Article Tools

It has happened to all of us sometime in our lives, some experience it more often while others have had limited occurrences of this phenomenon. Nevertheless, "Deja vu" is a very interesting experience that never goes by unnoticed to us.

When someone claims that he or she is experiencing a deja vu, it means that this person feels that a certain moment or period of time in the present has happened before in the past in the exact same way. The bizarre thing is that many times such a thing may seem impossible. For instance, a person enters a room for the first time ever but yet so believes to have been there before, or somebody says something and we believe it has been said before by the same person, at the same time and place, but it hasn't. So what is deja vu? Is it just a false perception of an event? Could it be that our mind is playing tricks on us? Maybe it is something more...

There are many explanations to the deja vu phenomenon. The scientific one claims; after we experience an event, our mind stores it as memory. That way anything we experience, first we see, hear, feel, live it and then it is instantly converted into memory, into a past event. Now, sometimes, that mechanism might get "stuck" and for a short amount of time the mind might receive any newly experienced event as a memory instead of recognizing it as a new event. So, while this is happening, we believe that what is occurring at the moment we have lived it before. That is "deja vu" according to the scientific and therefore logical explanation.

However, there are other, more interesting explanations concerning deja vu.
It is widely known that we are dreaming every time we sleep, despite the fact that we might not always remember our dreams when we wake up. What if a moment we experience is similar to a dream we have had in the past among the ones that we didn't remember? That could explain the strange occurrence of deja vu since our mind might be comparing the present moment to that dream, but since a dream is not a memory, we fail to understand how that present moment seems so familiar.

Moreover, there can be further analysis on this speculation. The dreams we have are created by our mind which uses memories, feelings, phobias, expectations, and fantasy to generate them. But what if sometimes, through an unexplainable and supernatural way, we can see the future through a dream? In that way, a dream may become a vision that is stored in the subconscious part of the brain and emerges in the bizarre

• 1
• 2
• next page >>

Add your voice

Know something about What is deja vu? ?
We want to hear your view. Write now!