Does Anyone Have an Answer to Deja-vu?
“What is your theory on why we experience déjà vu – that feeling you’ve been somewhere or met someone before?” asked by Denzel Washington
Many of us have experienced the strange feeling of “déjà vu” – the impression that something we are seeing in the present, we have already seen in the past. This feeling of premonition is made more confusing in that we don’t really remember when we have seen this event before.
The term of déjà vu was first described in 1917 in The Future of Psychic Sciences, by the French psychic researcher Emile Boilac, who believed that type of phenomena could be explained by science.
Since then researchers have been studying the sensation of déjà vu, recently using hypnosis to stimulate the impression of recollection reported by so many people. To scientists, the most likely explanation of this phenomenon is that this is a common memory error, or mental malfunction, that causes the brain to mistake the present for the past, thus creating the impression of déjà vu.
This weird sensation is actually pretty common among us, since more than 70% of the population claim to have experienced it. But despite that statistic and the recent researches, this phenomenon is still often associated with the idea of psychic abilities and a past-life experience.
What if the feelings of Déjà vu were actually warnings sent from the past or clues to the future? This is the theory behind the new Tony Scott movie “déjà vu”. Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington stars as Doug Carlin, an ATF Agent investigating an explosion on a
Denzel Washington and the Answers team are looking forward to your theories on why we experience that déjà vu feeling.
–Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers team
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