It is human nature to experience different feelings, joy or indignation. In addition to the usual emotions, unexpected and unclear ones may arise - a feeling of reality lived in the past; it is usually called a specific phenomenon. Even scientists have not exactly figured out what deja vu is and how “falsely experienced” information enters our minds.
Deja vu - what does it mean?
The term deja vu is of French origin “déjà vu” translated as “already seen”, this is a short-term state of the human psyche when he perceives the current situation as previously seen - a state of omen for specific events in the future. There is no logical explanation for the déjà vu effect, but psychologists recognize this phenomenon as really existing and inherent in the human mind.
The reason for the occurrence of déjà vu has not been revealed; ongoing research identifies several versions that provoke this state in the subconscious. A person may perceive déjà vu as a previously seen dream, or an abnormal state of mind - a complex game of the brain that is not customary to talk about out loud.
Why does the deja vu effect occur?
Many specialists are studying the reasons why deja vu occurs: psychologists, parapsychologists, biologists and physiologists and those who practice occult science. Modern Scientific research interpret the occurrence of “false memories” - déjà vu, in the temporal part of the brain called the hippocamus, which simultaneously records and analyzes the perceived information in the brain.
Disturbances in the functioning of the hippocam, for a few seconds, lead to the entry of information into the memory center without preliminary analysis, but the failure after a short period of time - a fraction of a second - is restored, and the received information is processed again, perceived as “previously seen” - false memories are formed. A person may feel a loss of reality; current events may seem unnatural and unreal.
Deja vu - scientific explanation
It is difficult to name specific causes of déjà vu and characterize this state as a positive or negative mental state. One of the hypotheses describes the formation of such a state in moments of complete relaxation, detachment from anxious and negative thoughts, evoking on a subconscious level pictures that shape future events and experiences. Psychologists note several factors that can cause deja vu:
- depletion of the body's physical strength;
- pathological conditions psyche;
- nervous disorders– stress;
- sharp changes atmospheric pressure;
- high level of intelligence;
- innate tendency towards extrasensory abilities;
- presence of genetic memory;
- deeply developed intuition;
- coincidence of dream visions with real events.
Finding yourself in an unknown situation, in order to prevent a stressful state, the human brain begins to actively analyze known facts, look for suitable images and spontaneously invent new elements of information. This condition often occurs in completely mentally healthy people, but epileptics and people with previous injuries to the temporal part of the head are more susceptible frequent occurrence"faulty memory".
Deja vu in psychology
Sigmund Freud expressed his hypothesis about déjà vu; he believed that this phenomenon is a real memory, long hidden (sometimes on purpose) in the subconscious. Concealment of such information may be provoked by painful experiences of specific circumstances, or negative public opinion, or religious prohibition. Detailed examples about déjà vu, based on real examples, he described in his works “The Psychopathology of Everyday Life”.
Types of deja vu
Psychologists, describing the phenomenon of déjà vu, identify 6 of the most common types that can occur in Everyday life each person. It is generally accepted that such abilities do not arise in children under 18 years of age; they are inherent in emotional active people, acutely reacting to events, prone to detailed analysis of circumstances that have a huge life experience. Different facets of deja vu:
- Deja century- the feeling that a person is familiar with a circumstance in finer details hidden in the present time, accompanied by knowledge of sounds and smells and prediction of future events.
- Deja visit– clear orientation in an unknown place, knowledge of the route in a place where a person has never been.
- Deja senti- a false memory of experienced feelings, arises from a sound or voice, reading an episode of a book.
- Presque Vu- an annoying feeling that a person is about to see an epiphany and unravel a fact hidden from others, a search in memory for associative details, if such appear, then an acute feeling of moral satisfaction arises.
- Jamet vu– a known situation becomes unrecognizable, unusual.
- Ladder mind– later correct solution to specific circumstances, a successful retort or a tactful move that is now useless.
Deja vu and jamevu
Scientists have studied the state of déjà vu on the contrary, as a result it was proven that déjà vu occurs from temporary overload of the brain - a protective reflex that protects the mind from fatigue during periods of intense work. A person finding himself in a familiar environment with familiar people may temporarily lose his sense of reality - not understand why he is here. This condition is often characterized as mental disorder– symptom, schizophrenia, paramnesia.
How to cause deja vu?
It is impossible to artificially provoke a feeling of déjà vu. It is considered a surge at a subconscious level, not amenable to conscious occurrence. The feeling of the reality of circumstances and feelings experienced in the past arises suddenly, and just as suddenly disappears, at the very beginning of its occurrence, déjà vu may seem like a temporary illusion or uncontrollable psychic ability– a look into a parallel reality.
How to get rid of the feeling of déjà vu?
Many scientists associate the occurrence of déjà vu with brain fatigue; based on this hypothesis, the treatment for this phenomenon is formed - a change in the usual schedule. Actionable advice how to get rid of deja vu - devote maximum time to good sleep; engage in physically active recreation in nature; listen to silence and sounds of nature; practice achieving complete relaxation; temporarily eliminate stress on the brain.
Is deja vu good or bad?
The first description interpreting the malfunction of the brain, and the explanation that déjà vu is bad, was compiled by Aristotle. It arises in a person on the basis of serious mental trauma, or hidden complexes, events hidden in the past. In order to get rid of deja vu, you need to mentally conduct detailed analysis experienced alarming situations, compare the past with present opportunities that give a choice of action in specific circumstances. It is impossible to change the past; it is important to learn a lesson from it, and “deliberately dispose of” the negative.
Deja vu and schizophrenia
Psychoanalysts characterize the occurrence of the déjà vu effect as epilepsy; it can last from a couple of seconds to 5 minutes. If such a condition occurs frequently and is repeated several times, and also has a pronounced pronounced signs hallucinations, you need to contact a specialist; he will determine the degree of the condition as normal or pathology requiring complex treatment.
How often, when we find ourselves in an unusual environment, do we feel comfortable and calm? Hardly. Strangers and new circumstances deprive even the most liberated and courageous people of self-confidence. But what if the situation in which a person finds himself for the first time by all indicators seems painfully familiar? “Deja vu,” we tell ourselves. But can we give precise definition what is deja vu?
You are sure that you have never been in this apartment and have never seen this person, but your memory says otherwise. You are definitely familiar with this crack on the wall, this disgusting striped wallpaper, and you have already heard these words in exactly the same sequence and in exactly the same circumstances. And now the phone will ring...
At the same time, you experience a feeling of unreality or artificiality of what is happening: it seems to you that all this is not really happening to you.
Most people experience similar sensations at least once in their lives (recent studies suggest that up to 96% of people know about déjà vu firsthand). What are the reasons for this phenomenon?
“It was, I felt, I came,” or types of deja vu
In science, there are several classifications of this phenomenon. The most popular of them was proposed by the Swiss parapsychologist A. Fankhauser. He identified three types of phenomenon:
- déjà vecu – “already lived”, when the very situation in which a person finds himself seems familiar;
- deja senti (déjà senti) – “already experienced”: it is not the circumstances themselves that seem familiar, but those feelings (usually extraordinary) that a person experiences;
- déjà visit – “already visited.”
When an unfamiliar area seems vaguely familiar, and in a house where you have never been before, you easily find a hiding place hidden behind the door, we can talk about the phenomenon of deja visit.
It is this type of déjà vu that is usually described by supporters of mystical explanations of this phenomenon, who are inclined to see in it a confirmation of the theory of the transmigration of souls.
Causes and mechanisms of development of déjà vu
It is believed that the term déjà vu (literally “already seen”) was first used by the French philosopher and parapsychologist E. Boirac in the book “Psychology of the Future,” written by him at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries.
The first scientific description of this phenomenon appeared a little later. It was made by one of the founders of modern neurology, the English psychiatrist J. H. Jackson. While studying and treating temporal lobe epilepsy, he noticed that patients often experience déjà vu before seizures.
A similar case, by the way, was described by F. M. Dostoevsky in the novel “The Idiot”, main character who, like the writer himself, suffered from seizures.
Who is to blame: physiological aspects of déjà vu
Studying déjà vu is not an easy task. Firstly, this phenomenon does not have any external (including behavioral) manifestations. Researchers must rely either on their own experience or on others' descriptions of that experience.
Secondly, déjà vu is almost impossible to cause. However, modern equipment and research methods have allowed neurophysiologists to develop several theories of the origin of the phenomenon.
Is déjà vu an epileptic seizure?
The work of J. H. Jackson, who studied the phenomenon of déjà vu in patients with epilepsy, gave scientists reason to assume that the phenomenon and the disease have common points of contact.
Modern neurophysiologists associate the occurrence of déjà vu with the temporal lobe of the brain - in particular, with the work of the hippocampus and amygdala (amygdala).
According to one version, when these organs are stimulated, healthy person an epileptic microseizure occurs. It does not lead to loss of consciousness and does not have catastrophic consequences for brain function, but it does lead to déjà vu.
Moreover, in some people, due to birth or childhood trauma, the hippocampus has increased excitability. This explains the fact that some people experience the phenomenon of déjà vu three times a year, while others are not familiar with this feeling at all.
Brain system software error
One more possible reason The occurrence of déjà vu is considered to be a violation of synchronicity in the work of different areas of the brain responsible for the transmission of sensory (received from the senses) information. An error in the system leads to incorrect results - in this sense human brain not much different from a computer.
Perception combined with memory
The processes of memorization and recall are interconnected. Normally, information first enters the brain, is then processed, and only then is remembered. But sometimes these processes occur almost simultaneously, and to the confused brain it seems that memory precedes memorization.
The resulting information is deciphered simultaneously both as something happening here and now, and as something that has already happened in the past. In itself, such a brain reaction (like the mixing of times) is not something paradoxical.
For example, in everyday speech we often use the present tense to refer to the past and vice versa. How many times have you said, “I’m walking down the street and I see” about an event that happened, say, a few years ago?
Deja vu: the opinion of psychologists
The phenomenon of déjà vu interests psychologists no less than physiologists.
The founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, believed that déjà vu is the realization of a subconscious fantasy. He proposed the following mechanism for the emergence of the phenomenon: a situation experienced by a person in life is transformed in his subconscious, and then reproduced in reality as something that allegedly already happened.
Freud's student (and later rival) Carl Gustav Jung offered a different version of the origins of déjà vu. According to his analytical psychology, human consciousness is based on innate ideas about the world - archetypes. Moreover, archetypes are not so much specific ideas as a given form of these ideas, beyond which a person cannot go.
Déjà vu, therefore, is a concrete implementation of archetypal models embedded in a person’s consciousness from the moment of his birth.
Modern Japanese researcher T. Kusumi connects the emergence of the phenomenon with the actual recall of a certain similar situation. He proposes to distinguish between two types of memory: explicit - conscious - and hidden, when the memorization process occurs unconsciously. And if the situation is not realized, then it is as if it did not exist.
Déjà vu occurs precisely when hidden memory mechanisms are involved. If the brain cannot find anything similar in explicit memory, it decides whether to consider events in latent memory to be identical to what is happening here and now. A positive solution to this issue leads to the emergence of déjà vu.
Another theory relates to the feeling of depersonalization that occurs during déjà vu. So, according to A. A. Kurgan, deja vu effect is connected with the fact that in the process of awareness, for one reason or another, the subject of awareness fades into the background. In the foreground, only a certain stream of consciousness remains, for which any situation is familiar.
Mystical explanations of the condition
Difficulties in studying the phenomenon of déjà vu and the impossibility of its complete explanation strictly scientific methods led to the emergence of many mystical explanations.
Why not? In the end, the same Jung believed that so-called “rational thinking” is only one of the types of thinking that may or may not have a connection with objective reality.
Foresight and higher intelligence
Déjà vu is associated with a person’s ability to foresee the future. Very often we are talking about the intervention in everyday life of the higher mind, which lifts the veil of secrecy before a person, giving him the opportunity to see his destiny through prophetic dreams or momentary insights.
Reincarnation and transmigration of souls
As a teenager, the already mentioned founder of analytical psychology, Carl Gustav Jung, once saw a picture that captured his imagination. Looking at the portrait of a doctor who lived in the 17th century, the boy was amazed to recognize the buckles on his shoes. The déjà vu was so strong that the future scientist allegedly believed until the end of his life that the person depicted in the painting was one of his reincarnations.
There is no need to be surprised by this state of affairs: the fascination with mediums and spiritualistic seances and everything that is now called parapsychology was not just widespread at the beginning of the 20th century. Young women prone to hysteria, artists, writers, and physicists participated in these sessions.
Cyclic rebirth of the Universe
Humanity experiences the same events over and over again with minor variations. The universe is created and destroyed over and over again, wars, disasters and great discoveries are repeated again and again. It’s not surprising that sometimes something seems vaguely familiar to us - after all, we’ve experienced it so many times!
This theory, by the way, is often used in cinema: remember the Wachowski trilogy about the Matrix or the latest film by D. Aronofsky “Mom!”
Many Worlds Theory
Since time, as we know from quantum theory, is the fourth dimension, the existence of several worlds in which events occur asynchronously is quite possible. What is deja vu? This is the point of intersection of these worlds, when the past meets the present and the future for a short moment, and a person has the opportunity to simultaneously exist in several dimensions.
The hypothesis is, of course, fantastic, but much more real than it seems at first glance.
The antipode of deja vu is jamais vu (jamais vu - “never seen”), when a familiar environment seems alien and unrecognizable. In extreme cases, it can be a symptom of a serious mental illness. But this phenomenon also occurs in life. ordinary person. Try, for example, to repeat a word a hundred times - by the seventieth time it will seem like a strange set of sounds, and nothing more.
Presqueue, or “almost seen,” is the temporary existence of the signified without the signifier. When you can't remember the name of the street where your friend lives, or a term you know well from school, you experience resque vu.
Freud believed that the cause of this kind of forgetfulness is the subconscious repression of unwanted information associated with a traumatic experience of one kind or another.
The ladder mind is, unlike the phenomena described above, much less mysterious. This is the name for the lack of resourcefulness when a person finds the right answer to a remark that has confused him (usually ironic or insulting) only after the appropriate moment has passed.
Déjà vu as a mental disorder
Sometimes deja vu is indeed a symptom of psychoneurological diseases: the already mentioned temporal lobe epilepsy, depression, schizophrenia, organic brain disorders, etc.
However, if you experience this sensation a couple of times a year, it is too early to run to a psychiatrist or neurologist. Pathological déjà vu is usually accompanied by other symptoms: dizziness, nausea, headaches, etc.
A sick person often experiences sharply negative emotions and is even afraid of a repetition of this feeling, which becomes much closer to a nightmarish hallucination. In addition, deja vu in this case lasts much longer than usual: from several minutes to several hours.
Conclusion
What is deja vu? So far, humanity has not accumulated much information about this condition. But once upon a time, electricity seemed an absolutely mystical phenomenon, but today we habitually flip the switch several times a day. Who knows, maybe our grandchildren will just as easily turn their brains on and off, and déjà vu will just be a fun intellectual exercise for them?
Hello, I am Nadezhda Plotnikova. Having successfully completed her studies at SUSU as a specialized psychologist, she devoted several years to working with children with developmental problems and consulting parents on issues of raising children. I use the experience gained, among other things, in creating articles of a psychological nature. Of course, I in no way claim to be the ultimate truth, but I hope that my articles will help dear readers deal with any difficulties.
Almost every person at least once in his life has felt a rather strange feeling, ordinary life called "déjà vu". At least, almost every person has heard about this concept and perhaps he has yet to experience it. This is that feeling when it seems that you have already been in a specific place, heard a conversation, perhaps even participated in it, saw certain people, although in fact the action is taking place for the first time and this simply could not have happened before. What causes this? How does this affect our lives, does this feeling have negative consequences on human health, and can we independently experience this feeling if we wish? Let’s try to understand in more detail what deja vu is and why it happens.
What does deja vu mean?
Literally, the term “déjà vu” is translated as something already seen before. The concept was first used in the last century by the French psychologist Emile Boirac in the book “Psychology of the Future.” In the scientist’s work, points were voiced that no one had previously dared to raise, much less try to explain them. Many people have encountered such a phenomenon as deja vu, but no one dared to define it. Before this concept was used by a psychologist, the deja vu effect was called differently - “promnesia”, “paramnesia”, which also meant “already seen before, experienced”.
By and large, this phenomenon is practically unstudied and mysterious. Some people are wary of this feeling, believing that it's all about their disorder. mental state. People hide this feeling from loved ones and themselves, fearing for the consequences. After all, a person perceives everything that lies beyond the explicable with caution.
Indeed, there has still not been a clear answer to what déjà vu is and why it happens. Experts from various fields have been trying to find a logical justification for this phenomenon for several decades now, and no final verdict has been reached. The catch is that effects like déjà vu are associated exclusively with a person’s individual feelings, his sensations, and therefore the reason for everything that happens is in the brain. Based on this, it can be assumed that any experiments and research that require even minor intervention in the human brain can have an extremely negative impact on it. Of course, all this entails unpredictable consequences, and no one can decide on such experiments.
By the way, there is also a reverse deja vu phenomenon - zhemavu, which means “not seen even once.”
The essence of zhemavu is a completely different perception of the situation: a person becomes disoriented in a place that he has visited more than once before, and sometimes he is not able to recognize people he knows. There is nothing in common with amnesia, since the concept of zhemavu is short-term in nature and, according to scientists, manifests itself in a small number of people.
Why does déjà vu happen, according to scientists?
Earlier, back in 1878, in one of the German psychological journals, it was hypothesized that Deja vu is the cause of banal human fatigue. The phenomenon occurs due to the fact that the areas of the brain responsible for the processes of perception and consciousness are not coordinated with each other and fail. And such a failure is expressed in the form of déjà vu. It is difficult to say how true this hypothesis is, but for some time this theory was quite widespread and was considered quite reasonable.
Another hypothesis for the occurrence of the déjà vu effect was the study of the phenomenon by the American physiologist H. Burnham. He believed that the sensation suggesting the recognition of certain objects and actions is associated precisely with the complete relaxation of the body, when a person has thoroughly enjoyed his rest and his brain is not loaded with problems. So, in his opinion, the brain is ready to perceive processes several times faster. The subconscious seems to be already experiencing some moments that can only happen to a person after some time. In turn, this theory was never confirmed among the other theories of his colleagues, but was imprinted in history.
Other scientists believed that Déjà vu is the result of dreams that the person had previously observed. Moreover, it doesn’t matter how long ago these dreams were, the main thing is that the subconscious managed to capture them, thereby preparing a person for his future. But if this is really the case, then why don’t most people do this in this way, thereby protecting themselves from difficulties, etc.?
After all, based on the data obtained, you can not only draw up horoscopes, but also help others. Some correction needs to be made. According to Professor Arthur Allin, déjà vu is the body’s reaction to something previously seen and in fact we do not experience what we have previously seen, but only partially encounter lived moments in dreams. Thus our emotional condition gives us a new image, which we falsely compare with what we saw in a dream.
Freud also took up the study of the déjà vu effect. In his opinion, those emotions and situations that, if we believe, a person has already seen and previously experienced, are the result of the resurrection of spontaneous fantasies that he would like to embody in reality.
Even scientists from the field of physics tried to explain the phenomenon. According to their concept, the past, present and future occur at some point simultaneously. It is impossible to plan and predict this moment. In addition, our brain is only capable of perceiving the present.
Justification for the deja vu effect today
Over time, the opinions of scientists diverged and converged, but the commonality was still present in their judgments - The deja vu effect is somehow connected with the processes occurring in the human brain. How and why we feel previously experienced emotions - there is no clear answer.
Modern scientists are unanimous in the opinion that déjà vu is still the result of malfunctions occurring in certain areas of the brain, i.e. Thus, a person's memory is false, sending imaginary signals, and the person experiences wishful thinking.
Scientists have also identified age periods when the déjà vu effect is most likely. As a rule, these are teenagers from 16 to 18 years old and more mature people: from 35 to 40 years old. Thus, the activity of deja vu in adolescence is explained by their perception of everything that happens to them. As you know, teenagers at this age perceive everything quite sharply, react to many things dramatically, taking everything that happens to heart. This largely depends on the lack of experience and knowledge. According to scientists, in in this case teenagers themselves, without knowing it, turn to false memory for help, thereby provoking the effect of déjà vu.
In the second period of activity (35-40 years), the manifestation of the effect is justified by moments of nostalgia, the desire to return some significant stories in life in order to correct or relive them. This is where deja vu may not manifest itself as it really does. former sensations and moments, but as those that I would only like to make like that. Those. in fact, people themselves invent stories of the past for themselves and they, in fact, are not real, but only supposed. By and large, memories are always slightly idealized, so the manifestation of déjà vu at a given period of age could not be more logical in characterizing the appearance of the effect.
Research into the effect continues to this day. Scientists who conducted experiments organized at one of the universities in Colorado put forward a different theory for the manifestation of the déjà vu effect. The essence of the experiment was as follows: participants were shown:
- photographs of famous people,
- outstanding personalities different areas life,
- various cultural monuments and attractions famous all over the world.
The respondents were asked to name the people and name the places and monuments depicted in the photographs. At this moment, the brain activity of the subjects was measured. It turned out that the hippocampus (the inner region located in temporal lobes brain) even among the people surveyed who did not know the correct answer still came to a state of full activity. After the study, people admitted that when they were unable to give the correct name or title, some associations with what they had previously seen came into their minds. Therefore, some scientists have come to the conclusion that since the human brain can make additional associations of familiar situations with completely unknown ones, it fully explains the phenomenon called déjà vu.
Deja vu: illness or mysticism?
And yet, no matter how many scientists conduct research and think about the phenomenon of déjà vu, no one can give definite answers. There are also assumptions that this phenomenon may be a sign of a mental disorder.
Chris Moulin, a researcher at one of the universities in Leeds, spoke about his personal observation regarding this phenomenon. The fact is that once in one of the clinics he happened to encounter a patient who claimed that this was not the first time he had been in this medical institution, while according to all records the patient’s presence had not previously been recorded. Later, Moulin set out to find people with similar symptoms and, finally, having gathered a group of people, it was decided to study them using hypnosis. A total of 18 volunteers participated in the study. The essence of the experiment was that people were shown a list of 24 words, after reading which people were put into a state of hypnosis. After waking up, they all claimed that they felt as if they had previously seen words circled in red, but where and under what circumstances, as well as what exact words they saw, none of the subjects could say.
Based on the data obtained, scientists came to the conclusion that déjà vu is not a partial memory of a past or parallel life or a dream about the future, but the result of severe stress or depression. According to scientists, deja vu is a kind of psychological illness. But this, if you rely specifically this study. Because the relevant specialists in the field of medicine do not undertake to solve such mental disorders, which means that we are again dealing with another theory.
Let's sum it up
Of course, more than once we will encounter new discoveries in the field of studying such a phenomenon as déjà vu, because everything that has not been fully explored is not easy to leave without a logical explanation. At the same time, if you believe the theory of medical researchers who claim that déjà vu is the result of human psychological disorders, then a completely logical question arises: why are there no known ways to solve this “problem”?
At the same time, if you think about it, many people experience a feeling of déjà vu from time to time, and to be honest, not always during a certain age period. Moreover, the feeling of what has been experienced does not always come after any shocks, bad sleep or vice versa – have a great holiday.
It is impossible to predict the appearance of the next such sensation, just as it is impossible to cause it yourself. This once again proves that this phenomenon is somehow connected with our consciousness and the processes occurring in the brain.
Be that as it may, the phenomenon itself does not pose any danger to humans. We are aware of everything that is happening and many can even explain to themselves certain sensations or situations that they experience as déjà vu. And therefore, there are no serious disturbances in human consciousness, it cannot cause us harm, which means there is no reason for concern.
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The word "déjà vu" comes from French word "deja vu", which can be translated into Russian as "previously seen."
This is the feeling when you feel that you visited this place, saw these people, visited this city. Although in fact you are sure that you have never seen these people or visited this place. Why is this happening, what is the reason for this?
Could this feeling in any way affect your future life? Will there be any negativity, will it affect Deja vu on your health? How to artificially induce this feeling in yourself? You should understand everything thoroughly, let's go!
Deja vu- this is a fairly common phenomenon when your brain begins to perceive the surrounding environment as if you had already seen it before
What does Deja Vu mean?
This phenomenon was first described by Emile Boirac, a psychologist from France who lived in the last century in his book “Psychology of the Future.” In this work, Emil raised questions that no one had ever voiced before, much less tried to explain. The fact is that many people have previously encountered a feeling that later became known as Deja Vu. Previously, this sensation was called “paramnesia” or “ promnesia", which had exactly the same meaning as "already previously experienced, seen."Until now, no one can accurately explain this phenomenon logically. Moreover, some citizens, especially girls, are very frightened by this feeling, because they believe that they are beginning to have a mental disorder. Many people simply hide the “Deja Vu” effect from their family and friends, fearing that they will be perceived as crazy. Because a person is designed in such a way that he believes that everything that is beyond the boundaries of science and logic, that cannot be touched with one’s hands, and tasted, is perceived with a certain apprehension.
And in fact, no one can give a definite answer, what is deja vu, and how this effect occurs in the brain. For more than half a century, all major institutes where the human brain is studied have been trying to solve this problem, but a final verdict has not yet been made. If we think strictly logically, then the processes occurring in the brain are very difficult to recognize, and our science is only at the very beginning of the journey. Since, in order to find out what Deja Vu means, you will have to interfere with the functioning of the brain, this can lead to the most unpredictable consequences. And no doctor who doesn’t want to go to jail would dare to experiment on humans.
A person remembers people he does not know, recognizes the furnishings of rooms where he has never been - this is the so-called deja vu effect.
Psychologists describe déjà vu as a phenomenon in which a person experiences the feeling that he has already been in this situation. Some can even tell you what will happen next. In this case, deja vu is usually accompanied by a feeling of unreality of what is happening. And the person himself, who finds himself in the space of déjà vu, becomes confident that he can predict the future.
Exploring déjà vu
More than 120 years have passed since people became seriously interested in the déjà vu effect. The first to turn to its scientific consideration was the French psychologist Emile Boirac.
Sigmund Freud called the state of déjà vu supernatural and miraculous, but explained it by the existence of unconscious desires and fantasies in every person. But Freud's student, Carl Gustav Jung, did not support his teacher. At the age of 12, Karl experienced this effect and from then until the end of his life he believed that he lived in two parallel worlds.
The facts speak for themselves - the theories of the past are limited and poor in their explanations of this phenomenon. But modern scientists are also asking questions to which there are no clear answers yet. The possibility of explaining a phenomenon arises only when research is carried out, and individual facts are not taken into account. But, unfortunately, no one has yet conducted such multifaceted research.
Modern psychiatrists explain déjà vu as a certain mental disorder that manifests itself very often; it can be in the nature of hallucinations. In addition, déjà vu occurs much more often in people suffering from brain diseases than in healthy people. Therefore, doctors call this effect a memory disorder.
Parapsychologists explain this phenomenon by reincarnation, that is, the relocation of a person’s soul after his death into the body of another. But science does not accept this explanation, since it is more a matter of faith rather than facts and evidence.
Whatever versions are put forward regarding the explanation of the déjà vu effect, one thing can be said with certainty. This phenomenon is a certain kind of memory impairment associated with biochemical changes in the human brain. It can be one-time, absolutely not interfering with the person visited, or it can constantly haunt him and even negatively affect his daily activities. After all, almost everything that a person cannot explain scares him.
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Deja vu is one of the most mysterious phenomena of the psyche. It has been studied for a very long time, but neither its causes, nor its meaning, nor its effect on humans are still known.
Déjà vu is a feeling as if what is happening now has already happened before. Moreover, when exactly this happened for the first time is not clear, but the re-experienced memory is so detailed that a person in a state of deja vu learns all the details of the repeating situation. Déjà vu rarely lasts more than 20 seconds. After leaving this state, a person may feel either fatigue or, conversely, a state of lightness.
Some scientists explain déjà vu as a memory error, others call it a “waking dream,” and there are even those who associate the state of déjà vu with the transmigration of souls.
The state of déjà vu can occur in any healthy person who does not suffer from any diseases of the brain or psyche. However, there are observations that in epileptics, déjà vu is much more common and lasts longer.
There are many scientific theories to one degree or another explaining the phenomenon of déjà vu. One of the popular and optimistic versions sounds like this: arriving in a state of déjà vu, a person is in the place where he should be, the soul has entered the path that was originally planned for it. If a feeling of repetition arises, it is recommended to monitor your feelings and listen to your desires.
In general, the phenomenon of déjà vu continues to be an interesting topic for research among psychologists, psychotherapists, and esotericists. There is no single explanation for this condition. The opinions of scientists agree only that negative consequences from being in a state of déjà vu was not detected.
