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Deja vu is literally French for 'seen again'. In western thought, it is associated with a phenomenon whereby the experiencer of 'it' will have the uncanny feeling of remembering an event that is in fact, experienced for the first time. Sometimes (as experienced by myself), I will even know what is going to happen, milliseconds before it actually does! This phenomenon has two branches of thinking: the reductionist view and the idealist view.

Reductionist thinking - based on empiricism - will explain it as experiencing a memory in one's brain as it is shaped during the experience. But this, however, does not explain why on occasion, the experiencer of Deja Vu will 'precognitively' know what will happen in this event before it actually does. I have once experienced such an event while driving in a car behind my parents: my wife said that she was experiencing Deja Vu, and then became upset, as she 'knew' that a car pulling a trailer will swing into my parents' lane - and so it did. How is this explainable?

We could take another approach. What if our concept of space-time was limited or inaccurate? What if 'time' was another dimension, the fourth dimension as many postulate? With our consciousness firmly set in the 3d spacial dimension, we only glimpse fractal fractions of this 4th dimension - the linear all-in-one line from birth to death - experienced as 'time' ticking by as 'seconds' (a man made thing). Now, suppose that on occasion, one's consciousness briefly moves more profoundly into the '4th dimension'; where one could experience a non-local 'all-at-once' glimpse of your own time-line collating with others'? This 'glimpse' is then sensed by the physical 3 dimensional 'brain', and experienced as a 'Deja Vu'.

To put it more practically: it would then be like two people looking at a street scene, with one having a slightly higher view-point than the other. The 'higher' standing one will for instance see a bus approaching another man ignorantly walking over the street, while the lower standing person will not. It is then like most of us being at street level most of the time, while on occasion, some of us will stand at a higher level with a slightly better view of things.

Deja Vu could then be the infancy of precognition or 'remote viewing' in some individuals, by accidentally dipping one's consciousness into a higher plane of multi-dimensional existence.

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