What are some theories on Déjà vu?

Question

Of course I’ve had Déjà vu before. Like when I go to do something or go somewhere it’s like I’ve dreamed about what I was going to do, or dreamed about a place I’ve never been before that I end up visiting later on.

I’m not sure if Déjà vu is supost to have those lines above the letters because this is how word pad corrected them in spell check lol.

Answer 1

the Deja vu feeling occurs in some people who are developing a brain disorder which is associated with seizures like epilepsy.

It seems like you see or think something that you've seen before. Could be that the memory of what you've just seen is mis-interpreted incorrectly as a past memory, when in fact the memory has just been created. (Or it could be ESP. I'm not ruling out that) but, if these feelings occur more frequently you should talk to a psychiatrist or you family doctor could refer a good specialist for you. Epilepsy is something to play with.

Answer 2

Hmmmmm.....I have a feeling I have been asked this before....

Answer 3

Deja vu, according to Morpheus, is a sign that the agents have altered the matrix.  As far as our reality is concerned, who knows?

Perhaps it has something to do with the ability to be clairvoyant. (Able to see into the future.)  I have had deja vu experiences that were deja vu in nature.  Ok, let me try to explain this a little better.  I have had an experience where the deja vu is of a deja vu.  Does that make sense?

Answer 4

time is not linear.

Déjà vu is just an artifact of the non linearity.

Answer 5

All the time. I dream about something, and it usually happens. If it doesn't, I've changed something, somewhere, I just can't remember what exactly it was. I had a dream about a particular Biology test, thetn had the test later that week.

Deja vu is also called precognition, which does class as a psychic ability, but as wushuboy pointed out, psychic abilites of any kind haven't been documented by science.

Try meditating to see if you can catch a glimpse of the future. It will also help to focus your thoughts so you can more clearly recall other events of deja vu.

Answer 6

best explanation is that the brain misinterprets an image and sees it twice in a row

so one feels that they've seen this before, but only because the brain processed the image twice

Answer 7

Lots of people have Deja vu but I do not know of anyone actually having any precognition, or dream, or actually being in the place before the fact.

This indicates that it is some kind of trick with the memory. You have two places in your head for memory storage, short term memory and long term memory.

As you witness something, it is being written to short term memory. If your short term memory imediately writes to long term memory, then you would have the sensation that you remember what you are seeing, as you are seeing it.

This would cause a deja vu sensation.

For the record, Levi pointed out a popular urban legend. Humans use 10% of thier brain. Actually Humans use all of thier brain, but the study that the urban legend is based on says that humans only use 10% of thier brain at a time.

This is used to back the psuedo-science to prove psychic abilities. Too bad nobody has ever demonstated psychic abilities to prove them.

Answer 8

Some believe that deja vu is memories from a past life situation.

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Answer 9

That has to be one of the hardest topics to think about. There are so many theories on it, and i'm sure we've all felt it sometime or another. Humans only use about 10% of their brains, so what is the other 90% used for? Deja vu might be evolution in progress. One day, humans may be able to predict danger and better help us survive. It's only theory, but fact leaves no room for possibilities.

Answer 10

Well, I get a lot of that.  I usually see things in dreams and then it happens awhile later.  I believe you are a bit psychic if you have that.

I just have it almost every night, deja vu happens everyday for me.

Answer 11

"Our view is that déjà vu is caused by disruptions to brain functioning in the temporal lobe, the area of the brain behind the ears. We know this area to be important for memory function, and our view is that déjà vu is just a brief memory error. The exciting thing about déjà vu is that it is the results of two opposing evaluations, the knowledge that something hasn't happened before, but the feeling that it has. We believe that one of the functions of the temporal lobe is to produce these feelings of memory. Sometimes, when this area is overactive, or 'tricked' into thinking something is familiar, we get a brief sensation of feeling something is old, but knowing it is new. Our view is largely based on the work we've done on people with chronic déjà vu (actually déjà vecu, or recollective confabulation), a rare memory disorder caused by cell loss in the brain which leads to almost constant déjà vu - especially for novel events. "

Taken from

https://elgg.leeds.ac.uk/psccjam/weblog/...

Answer 12

This has come up before, of course, and I read this article some months ago.  I find it very enlightening.  I would not do it justice to summarize it here.  Right in Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3...

It really is good.  You should read it.  It even has a short summary of the paranormal, or non-scientific ideas.

Lizzie, the sense of feeling you know what is about to happen is very strong.  I have had it a few times.  But a long time ago I resolved that whenever it occurred I would try to predict what is about to happen.  In my three attempts over the last 20 years or so, I have been unable to do it.  I think if someone is brutally honest about this, they would have to admit that all they had was a *feeling* of precognition and afterward the *feeling* that what happened was what you knew would happen.  But if you test it *during* the experience, you will fail.  It only counts if you can state the thing that is about to happen *before* it happens.  The mind plays amazing tricks on us sometimes.