Why do we have 'de ja vu's?

Question

no 'glitch in the matrix' answers please.

Answer 1

There are two parts to our thought process. One is concious and the other sub-concious. When we have a relative experience/ our sub-concious is trying to become present in our thought process. It is always obvious when our concius mind is relative. It is not always obvious when our sub-concious is in the forefront. So we cannot find a connection. It comes acrosss as a memory.

Answer 2

No one really knows.

The term déjà vu (French for "already seen", also called paramnesia) describes the experience of feeling that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation previously. The term was created by a French psychic researcher, Émile Boirac (1851–1917) in his book L'Avenir des sciences psychiques (The Future of Psychic Sciences), which expanded upon an essay he wrote while an undergraduate French concentrator at the University of Chicago. The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eerieness," "strangeness," or "weirdness." The "previous" experience is most frequently attributed to a dream, although in some cases there is a firm sense that the experience "genuinely happened" in the past.

The experience of déjà vu seems to be very common; in formal studies 70% or more of the population report having experienced it at least once. References to the experience of déjà vu are also found in literature of the past, indicating it is not a new phenomenon. While it has been extremely difficult to invoke the déjà vu experience in laboratory settings, therefore making it a subject of few empirical studies, recently researchers have found ways to recreate this sensation using hypnosis

Answer 3

some people believe that it is proof of a prior existence, so, if you believe in re-incarnation it means that your mind is recalling an event or action that has occurred in the past, I have had a few de ja vu's in my life. the earliest one i recall was at the dinner table when i was only about 6 or 7 yrs. old...I'm not sure i believe in re-incarnation, but there is definitely something to de ja vu that i wish i could understand..

Answer 4

I think alot of times we have dreams that we don't remember in our conscious mind, but then that dream plays out in life and it's deja vu....if this is happening frequently it may be that you are just very in-tune with your psychic abilities, but just haven't recognized them as such. If that is a possibility you are open to, I would recommend getting some books on the subject. One in particular is "all woman are psychic" by Diane Stein. Best wishes! :)

Answer 5

Perhaps reality is not as newtonian as we are brought up to believe. Perhaps time is not as one way as it seems.

Consider for a moment that an electron has been shown to be capbale of existing in multiple places and multiple times at the same time. Perhaps we dont exist in the now as compleatly as we think.

Answer 6

..... as this is in the music category!!!

..... because so much of today's music is re-hashed versions of older songs, you are bound to have de ja vu moments when hearing the records played on the radio.

Answer 7

im sure ive answered this question b4 wow de ja vu

Answer 8

From what I understand, one eye's information is processed before the other eye's. So, when the "slow" eye's information is processed you already have a memory of the visual information in your brain. Make sense? That's how to explain that creepy "already seen" sensation that we have all come to know and love.

Answer 9

It is a "Brain synapse mis-fire"... that is how it was explained to me in biology class a couple months ago. I have always thought that it was because I had literally dreamed it before, but my teacher said that it was because of our brain doing this *hiccup* that causes us to see something twice as a sort of mini-time travel.

Answer 10

Because they needed some place to put the 30 pretty girls and one ugly one (Michigan people will understand :)