Can you offer any logical explantion of dejavu?

Question

How does it happen? Why? What experiences have you had?

Answer 1

Deja vu is French for "already seen" or "already known". Neurologists see it (not too infrequently but not everyday either) in patients with some brain damage.It might or might not be associated with damage to certain areas of the brain. Classically, it is seen in some types of patients with rare types of seizure disorders.

Now, the above doesn't address every possible situation of deja vu. So I'll address a couple of other situations. Sometimes we've encountered something, say in a dream... or because someone mentioned it to us, and then we experience it ourselves with a sense that we've had all or parts of that experience before, not remembering where it originated. But more strange yet would be a case where someone who doesn't have known neurological problems (or signficant relevant medical probs for that matter), who hasn't dreamt it (if that could be established with certainty, which is hard), and who hasn't been told of a similar experience by someone else gets to have a deja vu experience. The one psychologist with a unique theory that I would 'invoke' (his ideas not his spiritual entity!...tho who knows) is Carl Jung. He posited that we all share a common "colective unconscious." It's what psychically oriented people call the "astral world". It's another realm somewhere between objective consciousness and the imaginary where symbols and "archetypes" (models of universal truths and principles) reside. It's also a realm beyond time and space. In order to benefit maximally from this concept we perhaps need to stop thinking of human mind and consciousness as purely being located in the brain as an organ in the body. Needless to say, it's controversial. I doubt science could study such a concept. But then you have to consider that science lives continually in its dream of having access to and being the 'objective' truth. Scientists complain of religions being dogmatic. Science is as dogmatic as anything else that's believed on flimsy assumptions and interpretations. Take that from someone in the medical science field.

Answer 2

I will paste an answer I gave to a very similar question earlier.

I have a personal theory that this phenomenon is related to the brain's ability to store memory. It has been shown that the brain stores long term and short term memory differently, perhaps deja vu is the sensation that happens when your brain mis-labels some short term memory (what you have literally just seen) as long term memory, giving you the impression that you experienced it a some time ago. I would be very interested to see if anyone has seen anything similar to my personal theory written on this subject.

It's the most logical and least spiritual answer I can think of, since there are many spritual answers to this kind of question.

Answer 3

déjà vu means "already seen." in french.

It is when you feel like you have done this before,

it could be when you actually have done something before, or it could be brain malfunction.


the normal one happens because what you are doing reminds you of a previous situation you were in before, so you feel like you are repeating it all over again.


the brain malfuction one cannot be explained that way, because it can happen even when you are on vacation in a foriegn island with no prior experience.

according to "howstuffworks":

Déjà vu has been firmly associated with temporal-lobe epilepsy. Reportedly, déjà vu can occur just prior to a temporal-lobe epileptic attack. People suffering an epileptic seizure of this kind can experience déjà vu during the actual seizure activity or in the moments between convulsions.

"Since déjà vu occurs in individuals with and without a medical condition, there is much speculation as to how and why this phenomenon happens. Several psychoanalysts attribute déjà vu to simple fantasy or wish fulfillment, while some psychiatrists ascribe it to a mismatching in the brain that causes the brain to mistake the present for the past. Many parapsychologists believe it is related to a past-life experience. Obviously, there is more investigation to be done."

Answer 4

It has to do with memory whether photographic or simply total recall. Small details in a present situation may stir up bits of info stored away in our memory for years or over a short time. This brings on the feeling of something already experienced.

Answer 5

Its a brain " snafoo" when chemicals in the brain cause it.
BUT i do believe in the other Dejavue, and stand back and look at the situation with my intuitive senses.

Answer 6

i@ve had it but then when you try to remember its like trying to remember a dream-its hard to pinpoint. Personally i believe that existence works on a cyclical level involving physical, spiritual and energetic states and even on a cosmological level i agree with the expanding contracting universe theory.
So, in this way repetition of events is sometimes an inevitablility and can manifest itself in the immediacy of our experiences. One particular manifestation i would find is dejavu.
This is my wee explaination to something which is most likely unexplainable.

Answer 7

according to quantum mechanics, all events happen simultaneously, and there is no such thing as past, or future. so, dejavu could just be your brain temporarily accessing it's suppressed perception of the unified field.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I've heard that it is caused by an accidental release of a chemical in your brain. This chemical triggers memory and when it is released when it should not be, you get deja vu.

Answer 10

Yes deja vu is your subconcious mind letting you know you are still on your right path with your blueprint of your life that you made b4 you came here.