You walk into a meeting, you’ve never had this meeting before today, yet you have this eerie feeling that you’ve had a meeting before, you’ve had this meeting before, I don’t know what, you know. Perhaps you are meeting for the first time or having a conversation with an old friend or family member and you feel this before, you have said the same thing before, and another person. You can affirm that, you also ask the other, if you have both had this conversation before in the same place, and you can convince yourself that you have not.
What does it mean, how did you remember being in a place, in a meeting, when you said the same words to another person that hadn’t happened yet? What is this phenomenon that makes you wonder if you are normal, psychic, or crazy?
The term paraenesis or proomnesia is more commonly referred to as déjà vu, a phenomenon that you experience. Besides, you are not alone, déjà vu is quite common. Science has not fully discovered the causes of déjà vu and therefore the submitted material is actively researched. Neurobiologists are trying to make connections between déjà vu and the brain and spinal cord. What can trigger the brain to send messages to your conscious mind that you have seen and heard all this before, with evidence to the contrary?
“Arthur Funkhouser defines three types of déjà vu in an attempt to more clearly delineate between associated but different neurological experiences. Déjà vecu (already experienced), déjà senti (already felt) and déjà visité (already visited).
When you have déjà vu, you remember not only that you have done this before, but also what is going to happen. But the experience will include seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling, smelling, thinking, touching; all that would be present in real life.
In déjà, people felt that they had just recovered a piece of information that had been forgotten, or they remembered that it could have been a dream, which was now happening before their eyes. These neurological sensations are associated with temporal lobe epileptic seizures.
Déjà visité has more to do with knowing the place, the familiar surroundings. When you visit this site for the first time, you feel that you have been to this site before. Déjà visité only involves the actual circumstances and not the whole process, the things presenting themselves and the actions of the parties involved, which occurs in déjà vecu. In general, these phenomena can occur separately or as a combination of senses, as more than one of the three aforementioned forms.
What could have caused these déjà vu experiences in the first place?
Neuroscientists posit that the brain processes bits and pieces of new material from the environment and tries to match it with something similar in the past to create a whole and complete experience. And there is a mismatch, because the experiences of the past are not the same as those that are happening in the present, even though they seem similar. It would therefore be a faulty memory creating this déjà vu phenomenon. But if the experiences that have happened in the past explain well enough, what if it never happened? Where is the adaptation of the sensual input, where is that memory that never happens?
Another theory relates to the brain’s long-term and short memory. Basically new information coming into the brain is taken from our short term memory storage (it just happens) brain circuitry. Unfortunately, mixed signals are sent from the brain and instead interpret this new material in our short memory banks, somehow interpreting this information as something that was already stored in long-term memory (it happened a long time ago). In other words, the memory of banks and the person’s brain tricks into thinking that this event happened before.
This sounds very similar to the first theory that the brain does not seek to combine new information with old information to create a full memory, mixing signals and errors, where this information actually comes from the first place.
Another idea is that the system is faulty for taking in new information (sense). At some point during the normal process of short-term memory (which is only experienced here and now) this state of the message is bypassed and goes directly to long-term memory storage, and therefore the brain interprets this experience as something. is run
Correlation between Déjà vu and psychological disorders
Such findings indicate that there is some kind of anomaly within the electrical impulses that send and receive messages in the brain. We have already mentioned the connection with the temporal electoral lobe. Although older discounted theories attempted to link déjà vu with psychological disorders such as schizophrenia, dissociative-identity-disorder”>dissociative identity disorder< /a> was once known as multiple personality disorder and anxiety, but this belief has not been supported by empirical evidence.
Déjà vu and drugs
A study conducted by Taiminen and Jääskeläinen (2001) suggests a link between déjà vu and the combination of certain drugs such as amantadine and pheynylprolamine for healthy flu treatment. “Taiminen and Jääskeläinen proposed that déjà vu occurs through hyperdopaminergic activity in the mesial temporal areas of the brain.”
Physics and Déjà vu
Tachyons, which are particles that travel in time, are said to be possible. explanation for déjà vu. Although people do not travel in time, they claim that it can be given that messages can be sent to the brain (Davies, 1995, p.235-6), also other theories such as loops and black holes are suggested (Davies, 1995 p.
Parapsychology and Déjà vu
Outside of science, there are various explanations that suggest a link between déjà vu and different paranormal experiences such as ESP (extra-sensory perceptions) a kind of clairvoyance or precognition. People with physical abilities are said to have a high degree of déjà vu experience.
Dreams and Déjà vu
It is proposed that déjà vu occurs when dreams, which are never remembered during our waking hours, are triggered by a stimulus in our environment that brings them to the fore (long memory is stored in dreams).
Astral Travel and Déjà vu
There is a body of work in astral or out of body experiences (OBE), which is the ability. the spirit to leave the body, while in the state of sleep and travel it reaches a different place. According to the teachers at http://www.premnirmal.com/astral-travel-classes.htm beginners know they are astral traveling by experiencing déjà vu. Students will revisit places that go through an experience of déjà vu.
Religion and Déjà vu
Finally, déjà vu is explained by reincarnation. What a person experiences in déjà vu happens to be fragments of memories from a past life.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_vu
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1682
http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id;=422
http://www.premnirmal.com/astral-travel-classes.htm
