The deja vu phenomenon is familiar to each of us. Agree, at least once, once in an unfamiliar place or talking with a stranger, you were sure that such a situation and such a conversation were already in your life. You definitely remember this, but you cannot imagine when exactly, under what circumstances it was.
This is the feeling of deja vu. It confuses, surprises, makes you strain your memory. Some call it false memories, the more suspicious consider it an obsession, but absolutely everyone is interested in why the deja vu effect occurs . What is this phenomenon?
False memories have interested people since ancient times. Today, scientists until the end could not answer why there is a deja vu effect.
However, there is a definition of this phenomenon. Deja vu is called a special mental state. Sometimes the effect is compared with a book read in childhood: you don’t remember at all what will happen next, but as events unfold, you understand that they are repeated. And they repeat it exactly as it was a long time ago.
Scientists have proven that 97% of healthy people on Earth experience this condition. But epileptics and people with mental disorders are in this state much more often.
Do not be afraid of this: deja vu is considered the norm. True, healthy people experience it less often. Perhaps that is why the answer to the question of why the deja vu effect occurs is still not found. Specialists have too little material for research.
However, theories of the origin of this strange and interesting state do exist.
Theory One. Temporary
Some psychiatrists believe that time decoding occurs in the brain during deja vu. For some unknown reason, the brain goes astray, everything that happens begins to register as the present and simultaneously past.
Second theory. Sleepy
Deja Vu researcher Andrei Kurgan is confident that during the occurrence of this effect, events that once dreamed of and caused emotional illnesses are superimposed on what is happening, which causes similar emotions. Differentiation does not occur. Mixing creates deja vu.
Theory Three. Mystical
Answering the question of why there is a deja vu effect, mystics and ministers of different religions respond in their own way. They are sure that the human soul experienced these events in reality a long time ago. Reincarnating, she tries to recall what is happening, but the human consciousness blocks other people's memories. That is why false memories are not tied to a specific moment, but to an abstract past.
Theory Fourth. Physiological
American researchers have found that the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus is responsible for determining the differences between similar images, phenomena and concepts (this is such a part of the brain). When, due to some deviations, this gyrus ceases to perform its functions normally, we do not notice the differences, take different things and phenomena for exactly the same. The causes of this dysfunction can be stress, fatigue, climate change, depression, or atmospheric fluctuations.
It is interesting that children do not experience this effect, and in healthy adults it is more often manifested in the range from 16 to 40 years.