Does anyone know what causes Deja Vu?

Answer 1

Does anyone know what causes Deja Vu?

Answer 2

Deja Vu is basically a catch-all bin for a variety of experiences that seemingly follow a similar pattern. However, like a headache, the causes of it aren't always so easily understood. Physical contributors, like a temporary visual delay, can create the feeling, but the experience is usually very brief and only startling to the person because the 'aura' of having a deja vu experience is so hyped. A 'paranormal' deja vu experience, on the other hand, has two distinct interpretations, and each is experienced quite differently. The first, and most common understanding, is the previous-life re-encounter. Since each physical location has its own 'memories', being back in the location can make one spiritually receptive to the memories that lie dormant there. The window of remembering, however, is usually brief but very intense, and the level of detail remembered can vary greatly. Another cause of deja vu, one less well-known, is what I call signpost deja vu. This phenomenon is different than previous-life deja vu because it occurs within the specific event of the person's lifetime. Throwing a certain stick to a certain dog on a certain day cannot be related to a past life, since such an event is too personal and topical to be historical, but it can act as, what I call, a 'signpost'. Although everyone can know the details (to various degrees) of the life they are going to live on Earth, some people desire to be made more aware. Consequently, they give themselves 'reminders' to mentally mark moments that act as evaluators of their life, the way signposts on a highway let the driver know their relation to their destination. Again, the experience is usually very brief, and the feeling is similar to a past-life encounter, but the difference lies within the emphasis: past life deja vu creates a connection to the past, signpost deja vu marks a moment of reflection within the present lifetime. I experienced many kinds of deja vu, even false ones (gone into a room, gone back out with my mind still thinking of something, and gone back into the room feeling I hadn't been in it before) and from my personal experience, the distinctions were very definite, or maybe I was just more perceptive of the differences.

Answer 3

I think at night in our dreams our guardian angels sends us messages about things that are going to happen or things where we should pay more atten. When the time comes where we should pay more attentino to the situation we get the deja vu. How does that sound?
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We all have lived this life before and we are trying to make ourselves go in a different direction and when we have a deaja vu we stop for a second and thru that stop we change our own future. Do like that?

What about people who write books or tv series, why do they write about things that happen later? Are they deja vuing into the future and dont know it.

Answer 4

"Peter M" above has answered this correctly. You can prove his answer to yourself this way: The next time you experience a deja vu, attempt to tell yourself what will happen next. If you've "lived it before" that shouldn't be a problem, right? But you will find it impossible to do because, like "Peter M" said, your mind is comparing the event to itself and what follows hasn't happened yet! Trust me....this is what "deja vu" is. There are no "past lives". Just trust what the Bible says about that! "It is appointed for man once to die and after that the judgement."

Answer 5

The term déjà vu is French and means, literally, "already seen." Those who have experienced the feeling describe it as an overwhelming sense of familiarity with something that shouldn't be familiar at all. Say, for example, you are traveling to England for the first time. You are touring a cathedral, and suddenly it seems as if you have been in that very spot before. Or maybe you are having dinner with a group of friends, discussing some current political topic, and you have the feeling that you've already experienced this very thing -- same friends, same dinner, same topic.
Related terms

Paramnesia - a disorder of memory: a) condition in which the proper meaning of words cannot be remembered; b) the illusion of remembering scenes and events when experienced for the first time -- called also déjà vu
Jamais vu - a disorder of memory characterized by the illusion that the familiar is being encountered for the first time

Source: Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary


The phenomenon is rather complex, and there are many different theories as to why déjà vu happens. Swiss scholar Arthur Funkhouser suggests that there are several "déjà experiences" and asserts that in order to better study the phenomenon, the nuances between the experiences need to be noted. In the examples mentioned above, Funkhouser would describe the first incidence as déjà visité ("already visited") and the second as déjà vecu ("already experienced or lived through").

As much as 70 percent of the population reports having experienced some form of déjà vu. A higher number of incidents occurs in people 15 to 25 years old than in any other age group.

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 6

What causes memory? Deja vu is memory of future occurrences. Future selves are having experiences as we speak. To them, they are living in their "present".To them you would seem to be a "past" self. Since you are connected to all of yourselves, past and future, you may become conscious of information about experiences that you haven't "experienced yet". This information sometimes appears as deja vu to the ego, but the deeper portions of the self are aware of all the experiences and connections. This is a somewhat sloppy way to explain it,but, I would have to familiarize you with many new words and concepts, in order to help you understand what I am speaking of. The nature of probabilities also enters in here. I like to call it "sideways time", some call it alternate histories or alternate presents. Some individuals may perceive glimpses of these other realities and call it deja vu.

Answer 7

I have heard a good theary and just yesterday I had an intense feeling of Deja vue.
Now try and follow cause its hard for me to follow.

We receive images and sense they go to the brain as experiance.
At the same time we have memories experiance we have already experiaced they are constanly combining.
So when the images come in and istead of going into the storage part. they Loop back and are experinced through the memory
we know what a memory is and we know what real time is
when it goes through the wrong pipe we experiance real time as if it were memory. so what we see is being experianced as a memory. Its a loop instead of going into storage its going into storage and at the same time being played back at once.
I hope i helped
I hope i helped

Answer 8

An excellen question. My answer which I am still debating; is that each human is created with a certain super-sense (when I say super I mean extra-natural, psychic or spiritual) foresight given through dreams, or alternate subconscious realtities. This is a tough subject to explain; and very hard to describe. I don't think it will ever be fully answered.

Answer 9

Current thinking is that it is caused by a delay in the post synapse signal for the visual cortex. Which means that the signal from what you see is very slightly delayed and your brain has a delay in interpreting the message. So although you see the image with you eyes your brain translates the image milli seconds later, so you get the sensation that you have seen this before, which in fact you have but only milli seconds before.

Answer 10

This is something I firmly believe concerning Deja Vu.

We were created as spiritual beings and our spirits walked through our entire lives before we ever became fleshly beings birthed into this earth.

Whenever you come across a situation that you feel like you've been in before, it is simply your fleshly being catching up to where your spirit being has already been. Your spirit recognizes the moment and that recognition is transmitted to your body through your brain. That's why you think, "i think i've been here before", or "i know what's going to happen next", etc.

To me, deja vu moments are comforting, because they are like an assurance that I'm on the path that was ordained for me- kind of like check points along the path of my life. I appreciate them.