De ja vu = something to do with parallel universe ?

Question

I suppose I should ask this under psychology or the mystic section but there are lots of clever people here. I’m asking because I read a theory on parallel universes years ago and it mentioned the phenomena of de-ja-vu in some context.

Could De ja vu have anything to do with parallel universes or is it just some biological involuntary reaction in the human brain?

Answer 1

If you want to read up more on the multiverse, I recommend http://universeguide.com/Multiverse.php

Answer 2

are there multiple universes? i would say yes. but you are telling about 'parallel' universes which i dont think does exists.

there are infinitely many points in time, so there are infinitely many universes. each of these universe share a certain point of time common with infinite number of other universes.(they cannot share more than one point of time in common because if they do, they will coincide) so, this means there are infinite number of universes, but they intersect every each other in a certain point of time. (if you ever heard about wormholes, these intersections are wormholes)

Let us assume that there are parallel universes. if two universes are parallel, they will not intesect. this means that they will not have any point in time common. if they will not have any point in time common, they will not have any similarities but only dissimilarities. this means that these two universes are completely opposite. if we consider our universe as one of the parallel universes, the other universe will be exactly opposite of our universe. using this statement, we can say that if our universe exists, the other parallel universe does not exists. So there arises a contradiction. this contradiction arises because of our wrong assumption that parallel universe exists.

so, i conclude that parallel universes does not exists.

when parallel universe does not exists, there is no point in connecting de ja vu to parallel universes. I do experience de ja vu very often, and once thought what you are thinking. But the answer is NO. its just something involuntary that happen in our minds....

Some people do connect de ja vu with re-incarnation, but i dont believe those things.

Answer 3

I would bet it's just a feeling we get, either from some way of predicting the future in *this* universe, or just a mistaken feeling we sometimes receive....

To "feel" something from another universe seems even more implausable to me than to be clairvoyant...

Just my $.02.  

Answer 4

Well some people say that every decision we make creates another parallel universe, but who knows. Things like this can be very complex and hard to understand. I dont think there are parallel universes but de-ja-vu is weird though.

Answer 5

Nope. Just a mind trick :)

Answer 6

No such thing as a parallel universe - it is a trick of the mind. Certain parts of the brain pass electrical signals over synapses faster than others. So the first signal of an event may be experienced twice because of a time lag of micro seconds of the electrical signal delay passing through two separate synapses. This tricks the mind in thinking it has experienced an event in the past before

Answer 7

Well, while you are right that this belongs more to psychology or perhaps philosophy than science, I think that there is a slight difference between the two.

Déjà-vu is a feeling that something you experience has already been experienced before. The common understanding is that it is the result of a confusion in the brain between memory (the past) and the present moment. But if we suppose that it is something from a parallel universe, it is a contradiction because ... a parallel universe is thought as a different branching in events.

Say, yesterday you drank a cup of coffee. But at the moment of the decision, in a parallel universe, you changed your mind and rather drank a cup of tea.

If then you have a 'transparency' to another 'universe' it can't be exactly the one you've experience otherwise it is not a different but the same universe.

Do I make sense?

Answer 8

Think about it for a second.  Which is more likely, information passing through your brain from another universe for which there is no physical evidence or a minor event in your very complicated brain?

I would not bet on the parallel universe answer.