What Is Deja Vu?

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What is déjà vu? Where does it come from? These questions have been studied and experiments have been done to try and come up with the best possible answers for them. There are many factors dealing with déjà vu that can allow someone to believe that they know a certain event is about to occur before it even does. Associations, different memory elements and distortions, the brain itself, Presque and Jamais vu, and past experiences are all some of these factors that play key roles in déjà vu experiences. It’s said that history repeats itself and this could be why sometimes settings and situations feel familiar and one may associate that as déjà vu. How people register information in their brains is another reason déjà vu feels so real, mainly because when an event is taking place people tend to remember what was going on instead of how, when, where, and who is there at that time. So when something similar happens one can only recall what was going on and seem to forget who, when, where, and how it happened leading them to believe it hasn’t happened before and they know exactly what’s about to happen. This is where many are confused about what déjà vu really is. Déjà vu is not recognizing that something is about to happen before it happens, but is a familiarity of prior experiences leaving one to believe that it has already happened. We see things through our eyes and our eyes then send signals to the back of our brains where the occipital lobes take those signals and tell us what it is that we’re seeing. Our brains then store these experiences and we can retrieve them anytime, but sometimes our brain can only retrieve parts of an experience leaving us to believe that it hasn’t happened before and we are left with a sense of familiarity. This feeling is what we call déjà vu. The big question is, how does our brain only remember parts of an experience? Restricted par

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