2006-07-13 20:20:06 · 12 answers · asked by nelli 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To keep things brief, we have a short term and a long term memory facility in our brain.
Short term handles things first and decides whether it needs to go into long term (Dogs name, home phone number, the way home etc). Once the memory goes into long term it is erased from short term. The Short term and long term are interconnected, so the memory can travel from short to long when needed. Because of this physical interconnection, we can occasionally get a short circuit with our memories, and information goes into both, Long and Short, at the same time.
When our mind sees the event in both short and long term at the same time, we think "This has happened before". This explains why we cannot predict Deja vu, and we cannot remember what is going to happen next, even when we think we should be able to.
I hope this make sense to you. It was difficult for me to explain
2006-07-13 20:49:39 · answer #1 · answered by D 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The best explanation I've heard is that short-term memory and long-term memory are normally seperate things. New information first enters short-term memory, then is filtered and some of it is 'recorded' in long-term memory.
Yet every now and then, this route 'malfunctions' and new information is processed directly into the long-term memory. Thus, what we are actually experiencing for the first time is, over the course of milliseconds, recorded in long-term memory and then sent back to the conscious mind as 'something that happened once before'. It can be either frightening or just cool depending on how you look at it. Some people experience it much more than others. I have déjà vu quite regularly. I like it because it's an 'altered consciousness' that happens naturally. But I don't take it seriously.
2006-07-13 20:30:15 · answer #2 · answered by XYZ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One theory is that you have two halves to your brain, and normally you could take brainwaves from them and they'd look the same, I.E. when one went up the other would go up, and vice versa. They should be in synch. But people are not machines and for whatever reason, the two halves can get a little out of synch and each halve will experience the other half's perception of reality as a memory. Your verbal left brain will think about the experience one way, and your visual right brain will be experiencing it completely differently. So your whole mind will try to integrate the experience and ends up thinking the whole event has happened before, when in reality it's almost like it's happening twice at the same time!
2006-07-13 20:35:00 · answer #3 · answered by Ryan R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All time goes on at the same time, with your subconscious tapped into that realm. If you have a more developed right brain, it's 'remembers' the event even though it might be in the future, like you've experienced it before, thus the deja vu.
2006-07-14 02:14:32 · answer #4 · answered by American Spirit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people believe that it is you remembering something from a past life. That's kind of a cool thought, but I would attribute it more to subconscious associations. Because even if you've never been to a particular place, things you've heard about it or the impression you get from it when you first see it influence the way your mind interprets it. At least that's why I think. But I'm no psychologist.
2006-07-13 20:24:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well my personal belief is that deja vu occurs when a dream literally comes true. the concept of a dream and why we dream what we do is a whoel nother concept but i think that we remember subconciously memorbable dreams and when even extremly similar occurs no matter how insignificant the brain feels like its been there before because its got this "situation" saved away. just something i thought up...i'd like to believe that deja vu occur because dreams are glimpses of the future but thats a bit hokey
2006-07-13 20:26:59 · answer #6 · answered by Kevin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Odors are the strongest triggers of memory. It's said that deja vu happens when you smell a familiar smell, which makes everything you're looking at or hearing seem familiar.
2006-07-13 20:24:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm no longer particular if it makes you unique or particular, inspite of the actual undeniable reality that you're both. i comprehend that i'm getting deja vu extra many times at the same time as i'm drained and it regularly occurs persistently in a unmarried day and then no longer at in touch about awhile. in accordance to three medical sorts it has to do with 2 aspects of your mind perceiving issues. often times those 2 aspects at the prompt are not in sync and hence you experience like you've experienced it two times. possibly both aspects of your mind merely refuse to get co-ordinated.
2016-11-06 08:53:43 · answer #8 · answered by jannelle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Say, you have never, ever been to India. One day you visit India, walk into an old building there and BOOM! you are absolutely sure you have been there before but cannot explain how that could be.
That "been here before (or have seen or experienced this before) even though I know I have never been here before" feeling is called deja vu....
2006-07-13 20:26:42 · answer #9 · answered by R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
deja vu is a feeling you get that you have been somewhere before or talked to someone before even if you have never met them.
its like experiencing something for the second time, even tho it is the first time your brain remembers doing it.
lily
2006-07-13 20:26:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋