Deja Vu: What Is It And Why Does It Happen?

 

A feeling that this has happened before is the inclination to have previously survived the current circumstance. This is a French expression that deciphers in a real sense "from now on". Although some decipher the feeling that this has happened before in a paranormal setting, standard logical methodologies reject the clarification of repeating history as "precognition" or "prescience."

 

What is deja vu?

Can we chalk it up to a coincidence? Research has conducted several studies and in 2013, published a book that reviewed many theories and concluded that Deja Vu sensations can indeed be paranormal. As explained in Time magazine, Deja Vu is generally the experience of having experienced something previously, such as the feeling that you had experienced it before. There is no set-up or conditions required for the phenomenon. In other words, one does not need to have been in a particular place, or look at specific objects, or witness specific events in a person's past to have experienced the feeling of deja vu. A simple example of the phenomena can be: A person gets in a car and is driven to a nearby store. The person in the car gets out, goes into the store, and purchases an item.

 

The causes of deja vu

The development of autonomic nervous system was precisely to protect the organism from having to produce a memory, be it past or future, and bring it to consciousness. That is why memory is constantly and ever fading. But sometimes an involuntary connection is made that allows a person to follow events in the past. This event is called "deja vu". It is a neurological phenomenon, not a paranormal one. A recent study conducted by Dr. Catherine Turcer at the University of Rochester Medical Center involved subjects who had experienced deja vu in their lives as well as subjects who had not. Participants were shown four slides simultaneously for 20 seconds.

 

The explanation of deja vu

One of the most frequently used descriptive terms in the scientific community is déjà vu. Psychologists suggest that we do not have the cognitive function that is normally associated with intellectual thinking or reasoning, but we can induce this phenomenon unconsciously by thinking deeply, applying knowledge from our past and without seeing it on our immediate situation. In other words, déjà vu is experienced when we view something and this appears to be identical with an event that was experienced before. This appears paradoxical because we are able to imagine a situation and then, a picture appears in our imagination which resembles the immediate situation. This occurs because we are looking forward and envisioning the likely future.

 

Conclusion

While this study was in consideration of the possibility that "precognition" is a real phenomenon, it was arrived at after having witnessed "precognition" happen in my own life. The discovery that my psychic abilities are influenced by conscious brain activity during the experience of past events is an example of the reason why psychologists have failed to verify the phenomenon. Also, what is commonly known as "auto-suggestion" may be the main cause of the phenomenon of "precognition." One form of auto-suggestion is the very famous technique that Thomas Harris' character Dr. Hannibal Lecter employed to prompt a serial killer to spill the real identity of the character he was after.