Have you experienced déjà vu? This is the shady feeling you feel when you are familiar with a situation.
A restaurant scene sounds exactly like this when you remember that the world has moved like a ballet that you have choreographed, but this setting cannot be based on past experience because you have never eaten before.
This is the first time you have claimed, what is happening? Unfortunately, there is not a single explanation for Deja Vu. Experience is short and uninformed. Made it almost impossible for scientists to record and study.
Scientists cannot just sit back and wait for this to happen to them. This can take years. It is not about physical manifestations, and in the investigation the subject describes it as a sensation or feeling. Due to this lack of solid evidence, there has been a lot of speculation over the years.
Since Emil Boirac coined déjà vu as a French term that means what we have seen, more than 40 theories have tried to explain this phenomenon. Even recent advances in neuroimaging and cognitive psychology are narrowing the range of perspectives.
Let's go over three of today's most popular theories, each using the same restaurant framework.
First, run the double process. Watch the waiter drop the food tray as the scene unfolds. Your brain is processing the flow of information. The waiter waves-this is a cry for help, the smell of pasta in milliseconds, and this information passes through the pathway and is processed in an instant.
Most of the time everything is recorded synchronously. However, this theory suggests that deja vu occurs when there is a slight delay in information from any of these pathways. The difference in arrival time causes the brain to interpret delayed information as a separate event. When it plays at an already recorded moment, it feels like it happened before because in a sense it is.
Our next theory deals with the turbulence of the past, but not the mistakes of the past. Hologram theory and they use it on a tablecloth to test it as they scan it. It is a square of memory that moves from the depths of your brain.
According to the theory, this is because memories are stored as holograms and in holograms you only need a fragment to see the whole picture. Your brain has identified the tablecloth with a tablecloth from the past, perhaps from your grandmother's house.
However, instead of reminding you that you saw this pattern in your grandmother, your brain summoned the old memory without identifying it.
It leaves you trapped in familiarity, but without memory, even though you have never been to this restaurant. You have seen this tablecloth, but you cannot identify it. Now look at that fork, are you paying attention?
Our final theory is divided, with Deja Vu asserting that it occurs when the brain subliminally captures the environment while being distracted by a particular object. When our attention returns, we feel as if we were here before.
For example, you just focused on the thorn and did not inspect the tablecloth or the falling waiter. Even though your brain is recording everything in your peripheral vision, it is doing it under conscious awareness. When you finally overcome yourself with thorns, you think you came first, because you had, you didn't care.
Now, these three theories share a common feature of déjàvu, and none of them propose to be the definitive cause of this phenomenon. We can study it ourselves until researchers and inventors find a new way to capture this fleeting moment. After all, most deja vu studies are based on direct testimony. So why can't it be yours?
Next time you have a deja vu, take some time to think about it. Are you distracted Is there a familiar? Object somewhere? Is your brain just working slowly or is it something else?
Thank you for reading!
-kraft