what causes deja vu? any scientific answers?

Answer 1

The next time you get deja vu, you know, at that moment you realize you've done this before - try to figure out what will happen next! You can't! But if, as most people think, you've lived the experience before, you should have no problem remembering what is to follow. Here's why you can never remember what will follow. When we experience anything, our brain records it and stores it as a memory. Then that memory is "filed" so that when we recall it, we can determine the sequence of the event, i.e. was this recent, or years ago? When the brain "misfiles' a current event as being something in the past, it recognizes that event and we feel we've experienced it before. But actually, our brain is comparing the current event to itself! That's why we can never follow through with what happens next...because it hasn't happened yet! And that, my friend is deja vu!

Answer 2

One of my spiritual advisers said that Deja Vu is when you are exactly where you're supposed to be.

The idea being that you're life is meant to go in a specific direction or that your destined to do something that YOU chose to do before coming to the physical plane. The Sense of Deja Vu is you being consciously aware that you are experiencing life along the path that you intended to live.

Regardless Deja Vu has always been a precognitive event for me - when I experience it, half the time I feel it twice in the same event - "the feeling I'd been there before knowing I was having the feeling I'd been there before."

Answer 3

The amount of information the brain processes at any given time is so much that there is alot of room for errors to happen. But I wouldnt rule out the possiblity that our brains are able to fortell the future to some extent. The human brain is more powerful then any supercomputer on the earth the problem comes with the fact that our ability to retain the information that our brain processes. So honestly we have no clue as to what our brains are truely able to do and that leaves alot of room for speculation on what really goes on. I personaly would like to think that there is more to deja vu then just a simple memory glitch in our brains.

Answer 4

well i've questioned this often myself since I have extremely intense deja vus that I can often remember the exact point of view I've had it from which is often down by the floor looking up, I can remember the past moment...
my opinion although it's not scientific...is that our lives have already ended and there is no such thing as the "future" or "past" (only in one's own perspective/exsistance which well, whos to know if that is real anyways) I believe deja vus are a slight break in this delusion of reality
or they're just memories of dreams you've had and forgotten that have predicted the future
everyone else just says i'm having seizures in my head or i'm schitzo loony boo boo

Answer 5

Persons with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, often report feelings of Deja Vu when experiencing flashbacks. For example a war veteran reliving a traumatic memory of the war when associated with hearing a helicopter.

Answer 6

I'm a skeptical person in general, don't believe in ghosts, spirits, god, out of body travel, astrology or any other wacko stuff... but I have Deja' Vu regularly. Sometimes rather vividly, where I can remember about when I originally had the dream/thought, and what I was thinking at the time.

Freaks me out. I don't believe that today's science has a valid explanation - but perhaps time is not as causal and linear as we believe.

Answer 7

When we sleep we have many dreams. Most are forgotten. The dreams we remember are the ones we had just before waking up. We dream about all kinds of things. Some dreams replay things from your past. Dreams can also show you things to come. Deja vu is the memory of a dream you had about your future.

Answer 8

Deja-vu (lit. 'already seen') - The psychological explanation is that when the brain suffers chemical imbalance due to exhaustion one eye registers images a fraction of a second faster than the other. When the same images arrive from the slower eye the brain finds that those images are already registered as 'seen'. Hope that helps.

Answer 9

yes there is deja vu is caused by episodes of the mind triggering a part of your brain that is were the memory saves things u have seen places u have gone but doesn't mean that it has been in this life its called passed lives we have already been in this world who knows how many times that is why they do hypnotism to figure out who u were in the pass life and what are your fears now have to do lots with your pass the way u died well that is daja vu

Answer 10

All I can say is that it is an experience you had before in another life, which, of course, can be no scientific explanation/proof as it is only a feeling. That does not make it untrue, just unprovable by scientific standards, much like someone who may have indeed murdered someone but the law just does not have enough proof to convict even though most would say that the person most likely did it. So there is the difference between not true and being the truth that is unprovable.