"Hey, wait have I been here before? Exactly at this same time, this same place and exactly this same moment? Everything seems so familiar and unfamiliar at the same time."
Ever got that eerie feeling? If yes, then you've probably have felt what it's like to have a
Deja vu. It is that weird feling of experiencing something as if it already had happened somewhere in time. How could it be possible?
Is deja vu like a place where past and present converge? Or had I traveled back in time?
Well, the answers may be a bit disappointing and it's not what likely mystics would say. One explanation would be that although that current situation in itself is new or has never hapened before,
certain elements of it like the ambiance, the people you are with or that certain smell, have similarities to an
experience before or a memory that you're not conciously aware of. That curent experience
triggered "unconcious"
memories so that the new experience might just seem to be a replay of the past. When we say of unconcious memories, these are the memories or the events in our lives that we did'nt pay particularly close attention of but which the
brain has unconciously stored. Certain synaptic connections were triggered and so it produces a certain kind of feeling as if the event has already took place before. It's just a matter of memory recall.
And since this brain of ours is far from being a video tape recorder, there might be some discrepancies to this memory consolidations.
But anyway, who knows we might really just have travelled back in time.
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