How Does Déjà vu Happen? Have you ever come to a place for the first time, and felt familiar with it? In French, the recurrence of such an event is referred to as Deja Vu. But, why did Deja Vu happen? Is our life like a soap opera whose story likes to be repeated? But obviously, a lot of us are going through this.
So get to the point, why did Deja Vu happen?
To date, there are 40 theories, which try to explain why Deja Vu can happen. One theory explains that Deja Vu is related to epilepsy. According to this theory, Deja Vu occurs, because of seizures that occur in the temporal lobe of the human brain, as happens when people are experiencing epilepsy, which then results in a complete loss of concentration, and finally makes people experience Deja Vu.
Then another theory that explains Deja Vu, is the theory of Familiarity Based Recognition. In essence, this theory explains that Deja Vu happens because we do not recognize the object we encounter, comprehensively.
For example, one day we were somewhere, and we saw someone wearing a shirt that caught our eye. Then the next day we go somewhere else, and it turns out we see someone wearing the same clothes. Then suddenly comes our familiarity, with the place, we feel like we’ve been to the place before, even though we’ve only been there for the first time.
According to research, it turns out that Deja Vu is often experienced by people who often go for walks, watch movies, and often dream. That happens because they remember many objects in their experience, so generally, when they encounter a new situation, these objects make them eventually experience Deja Vu.
Let’s take a quick look at the causes of Deja Vu. Man is created with some peculiarities that have not yet been realized by the man himself.
There are some strange phenomena that humans often experience, including:
1. Precognition
This term, often referred to as “vision” is used to describe that a person has “seen or witnessed” an event whether it was through a dream or a daydream, which turns out to correspond to an event that occurred hours or days after.
2. Clairvoyance
This phenomenon is similar to Precognition. The difference is, if in Precognition one “sees” an event ahead of the actual event, then in Clairvoyance one “sees” an event that occurs in a distant place but at the same time as the actual event occurs.
3. Telekinesis
This phenomenon is slightly different from both previous phenomena. The term telekinesis is used to describe the state in which a person can move an object without touching it.
4. Déjà Vu
This phenomenon states that a person experiences an experience that has been experienced before.
5. Combinations
It is a combination of the above phenomena.
Déjà vu is not only typical of the United States because it is experienced by more than 70% of people who live on this earth. Déjà vu is one of the psyches of every nation. Therefore, all nations recognize this word. Déjà vu is a French phrase that means “ever seen”.
That is, someone, experiences an experience that has been experienced before. This phenomenon is also referred to by the term “paramnesia” from the Greek, “para” which means “parallel” and “mnimi” which means “memory”. Paramnesia is also called “promnesia”.
The term “Déjà vu” itself was coined for the first time by a French scientist named Emile Boirac who had studied it from 1851-1917 in his book entitled “L ‘Avenir des sciences Psychiques” which he wrote when he began his education at the University of Chicago.
The experience of déjà vu is usually accompanied by the feeling of “already known” or “already know”. Often déjà vu is a less pleasant experience because humans are forced to watch accidental pieces of life that may be creepy, odd, or even absurd. Typically, this experience is related to dreams even though in some cases it is clearly “never really happened before”.
This déjà vu has several variations, namely:
- Déjà vecu which means to have experienced.
- Déjà senti means thinking about it.
- Déjà visite which means visiting it.
There are also 3 types of déjà vu, namely:
- déjà vu relating to personal life (life déjà vu)
- déjà vu relating to feelings (sense/feeling déjà vu)
- place-related déjà vu (place déjà vu)
The combination of the three déjà vu symptoms, where one feels like one has lived as another in one place at the same time, even feels the same feeling.
From several variations and types of déjà vu above, it can be drawn to some relationship:
- déjà vu relating to personal life (life déjà vu)
- déjà senti relating to feelings (sense/feeling déjà vu)
- Déjà visite is a place-related déjà vu (place déjà vu)
Sometimes déjà vu is also described as the feeling of having seen or experienced something before when the person who experienced it knew when he had done it. But déjà vu is misunderstood as a precognitive experience, the feeling of having experienced something and knowing exactly what will happen next, and it happens.
The important thing about déjà vu is to experience something unprecedented. Whereas an significant thing from precognitive is to show something that will happen in the future, but not something that has been done or seen in the future.
Déjà vu is divided into 2 categories:
1. Associative Déjà Vu
The most common type of déjà vu experienced by normal healthy people is naturally associative in this world. Humans see, hear, smell or experience an event related to a feeling that the human being is related to something that has been seen, heard, smelled, or experienced by the human being. Previous scientists thought that this type of déjà vu was a “basic memory” experience and assumed that the brain’s memory center was responsible for it.
2. Biological Déjà vu
There is also an incidence of déjà vu among people with transient clavicle epilepsy. Just before epilepsy, people with epilepsy often experience or feel déjà vu. With the above classification, it can be confirmed that the brain signals where this type of déjà vu begins. However, for this reason, this type of déjà vu is different from the typical déjà vu itself. People who experience this type of déjà vu will probably believe that they have experienced the same event or circumstance before, disproportionate to the feeling that quickly passes.
So, what does this article make you Deja Vu too? That you feel like you’ve seen this article before?
