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Is there any scientific explanation for Deja Vu?

Is there a scientific explanation for deja vu?

  • If so, what is it? Any intelligent thoughts on the matter?

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    The phenomenon is rather complex, and there are many different theories as to why déjà vu happens. Swiss scholar Arthur Funkhouser suggests that there are several "déjà experiences" and asserts that in order to better study the phenomenon, the nuances between the experiences need to be noted. In the examples mentioned above, Funkhouser would describe the first incidence as déjà visité ("already visited") and the second as déjà vecu ("already experienced or lived through"). As much as 70 percent of the population reports having experienced some form of déjà vu. A higher number of incidents occurs in people 15 to 25 years old than in any other age group. Déjà vu has been firmly associated with temporal-lobe epilepsy. Reportedly, déjà vu can occur just prior to a temporal-lobe epileptic attack. People suffering an epileptic seizure of this kind can experience déjà vu during the actual seizure activity or in the moments between convulsions. Since déjà vu occurs in individuals with and without a medical condition, there is much speculation as to how and why this phenomenon happens. Several psychoanalysts attribute déjà vu to simple fantasy or wish fulfillment, while some psychiatrists ascribe it to a mismatching in the brain that causes the brain to mistake the present for the past. Many parapsychologists believe it is related to a past-life experience. Obviously, there is more investigation to be done.

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I think its memories coming thru from our past lifes.

gigglerider13

Yes I was watching this documentary about the brain but I can't remember which channel The brain may receive the electric impulses corresponding to sensations from sight and ear with a slight lag between the one that comes from the right eye, ear, and the left. So when the second impulse is received the first has already been acknowledged. This gives the impression of deja-vu. (Now where did I see this before?)

Atomin

i think along the lines of the first person that answered you.... recollections from past lives.

pandora2992

i believe our brain misplaces memories in the long term memory instead in our short term or recent memory

liviarpana

Good question!!! im not sure but i pretty much agree with jdk_ang 's answer. Good luck!

Jaqaleen

I have to agree with atomin. I once told a friend that I was having the "deja vu experience." ALL the time, it was frightening. I could be in any given situation and I would stop and think, "Oh man! This already happened!" and I would freak out (mildly). Anywho, my friend told me that my brain was not receiving stimuli from my left and right eyes at the same speed and could not process it at the same speed, giving me that weird-this already happened-feeling. Needless to say, my right eye does have slight correction problems, my left eye does not (i.e. it takes my right eye a split second more to focus on something). I do have 20/20 vision and am not cross-eyed. Not overly scientific but I hope this helps. :)

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